Custom Combination Discipline / Technique

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Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 10XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Auspex 4
Dominate 4
MET Mechanics:

Through prolonged use of Conditioning and Telepathy, the user is able to create a link between their mind and that of a Symbiant created with Biothaumaturgy and Biothaumaturgical Experimentation.  The user may use the body parts of the linked Symbiant as if they were their own as long as it remains in contact. Symbiants must be purchased as Retainers. As semi-living organisms created by House Hypocratius, Symbiants may not be further enhanced or altered by any magic or discipline other than Hermetic magic, any such attempt will kill the symbiant

The Conditioning required takes one month to complete, and must be completed by the user. The symbiant can be transferred to someone else with this Technique, but they must then condition the Symbiant themselves. All Symbiants require 1 blood per month of upkeep.

Activating the link requires the expenditure of Mental and/or Willpower traits which must be listed on the item card representing them. Think link remains active until the Symbiant is removed from the host. Any traits spent to activate the link cannot be regained until it is.

Date of Archival: 16-May-2024
Tremere
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 10XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Auspex 4
Chimerstry 2
Custom Discipline Requirements (Combination): Sympathetic Agony
MET Mechanics:

The Ravnos are known for being able to cause illusions and pain. Some say it adds to their mystery, their danger, or even confusion as to what is and isn’t real. Either way, the end times have brought upon higher threats than swords and spears. This version of Sympathy instead forces the wielder of powers to fear what backlash may return.

 

System: Much like Sympathetic Agony, this power requires the user to be targeted by a power of some sort (not to include physical strikes. Though, carrier attacks that require touch do work). With the expenditure of a blood and a content challenge, using Chim rules (which is a neutral social challenge not influencing, altering, or swaying the target) the wielder may return the power back at its user. All powers and effects also affect them (damage being like Agony; instead causing wound penalties). This follows all the rules of Chim, which means a contested challenge (against the user of this power as the defender) and this power can be disbelieved

Date of Archival: 16-Feb-2025
Ravnos, Ravnos
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 8XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Quietus 2
Potence 3
MET Mechanics:
Taciturn Strike: Quietus 2. Potence 3. 8XP
Using the innate supernatural power of silence from Quietus, and the destructive power of Potence, the user can forcibly drive that silence into his adversaries. This gives him the peace and quiet needed to accomplish any task.
 
Spend 1 blood and engage in a physical challenge against your opponent, declaring a carrier attack. If the attack is successful, even if no damage is dealt, engage in a physical challenge against the targets stamina. Their retest would be Survival. If successful the target is rendered unable to speak or even make noise. Subsequently the victim would find themselves unable to use any powers that would require any kind of verbal component. Example: Melpominee. Voice of madness. Thaumaturgy. Etc. The duration if this effect is of the Aggressors choosing but can be no less than one (1) round and no more than rounds equal to the Aggressors levels of Quietus(1-5 for PC's)
 
Date of Archival: 04-Dec-2017
Assamite
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 16XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Abombwe 5
Auspex 5
Fortitude 4
MET Mechanics:

This power once learned is considered always active. When invoking Level 5 Abombwe, the user must spend a willpower, otherwise it fails to function. The user gains perception relation mental traits of the victim in the same fashion they gain traits normally from invoking level 5 Abombwe.

Date of Archival: 26-Feb-2022
Ventrue, Gangrel
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 10XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Dominate 2
Presence 5
MET Mechanics:

Spend 1 Will power allows user to force those within the room/ scene to attack them where it be verbally or physically depending on the characters motivation at the time. Requires the expenditure of a willpower and a test against the users socially to not be affected. The affected person(s) will continue to attack the user of Taunt until otherwise provoked. In combat this could be something as simple as someone else hitting them or someone in a leadership position making a leadership test to snap them out of it. As for verbal attacks, person or persons will snap out of if otherwise engaged by another character. This can also be broken by the user of the  Combo discipline with the expenditure of an additional will power. 

Date of Archival: 09-Nov-2017
Brujah
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 6XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Anarch Sorcery - Hacktivism 1
Auspex 2
MET Mechanics:

Technomancy 1, Auspex 2, Hacktivism Mentor 5, 6 XP
This power is a digital refinement that combines the principals of Thaumaturgical Sight with Analyze, allowing the Technomancer to project an analysis field and scan their surroundings.

System: The Technomancer performs a static Mental challenge, retest Awareness, to activate this power. Once activated, they may scan a digital area or device to gain an array of information, such as the digital layout, an area or device's inhabitants, and their natures. Hidden data, such as concealed ID codes or Arcane-cloaked icons, may raise the difficulty accordingly.

Date of Archival: 04-May-2020
Tremere, Anarch
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 9XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Fortitude 5
Presence 5
Custom Discipline Requirements (Combination): Hand of the Master Artisan
MET Mechanics:

Additional Reqirements: Must have mastered 15 art forms 

"This combo allows the artisan to temper their creations with their awesomeness"

System: spend one willpower while crafting an object it gains a number of charges equal to its crafts level. Each time that the object would be permanently destroyed instead one of its charges expended and whatever would have destroyed is negated.(damage, magic, ....)

Date of Archival: 03-Jan-2018
Toreador
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 9XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Temporis 3
Potence 3
MET Mechanics:

By using their potence and focusing a small temporal disruption into a weapon or unarmed strike, the wielder causes their strike to pass through the target without causing physical harm, but will instead cause a target to suffer from temporal flux, momentarily blasting the targets being with a shock of compressed time as the past, present, and future all converge and ripple around the victim. The victim of such an attack perceives the effect as a splintering of reality, as multiple time streams chaotically converge and overwhelm their perceptions with near-infinite sensory input. Mechanically, the wielder declares the use of this power and makes a normal attack that will deal no damage with the attack, but if the attack hits it will cause the victim to lose one or more actions on the next round. The wielder may attempt to strike the target's head if they choose, performing two simple tests which if successful, cause the target to be completely unable to act on the next round. In all cases (regardless of simple tests to strike the head), if the attack hits, the victim will lose one action on the next round. If the same target is struck multiple times in a round with this power, the loss of actions will stack. No matter how many times a victim is struck with Temporal Shock, even if multiple called shots are successful, in no case will the effects of this power extend beyond the next round. Lastly, a target who is unable to act is still able to dodge or soak attacks made against them - they simply cannot activate powers or attack.

Date of Archival: 07-Feb-2015
Brujah , Brujah
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 6XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Presence 3
Potence 3
MET Mechanics:

The Brujah are often known as the warriors and front-line fighters of the Camarilla.  While it’s true the Brujah do love to fight; some members of the clan have gone above and beyond to excel in this fact.  By combining their speed of celerity into the might of their fists; the Brujah becomes an unstable rage filled warrior on the battlefield.

System:  The Brujah spends 1 willpower trait to activate this power for the next immediate Physical challenge. During that time the Brujah may add their Celerity/Temporis discipline rating in Bonus Traits to their next Physical challengea. This combination Discipline may only be learned by members of the Brujah Clan.

Date of Archival: 01-Nov-2023
Brujah
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 12XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Presence 5
Auspex 3
Dementation 1
MET Mechanics:
Metadiscipline: Terpsichore's Charm
 
Presence 5 (to allure and strike all of the audience)
Auspex 3 (in order to take into account the emotion the artist wanted to inspire in the moment of their creation)
Dementation 1 (to introduce and enhance the aforementioned emotion in the audience)
 
Whether you dance, paint, sing, or practice any type of art, your work invokes true emotion. When you create art or undertake a performance, you can choose one appropriate emotion or state of thought to be reflected in that endeavour. Anyone viewing the art or observing the performance feels that emotion. If an individual wishes to take an action that runs contrary to the chosen emotion, such as attacking someone in the presence of a painting that invokes calm, she may spend 1 Willpower. If she does so, she ignores all Terpsichore's Charm effects for the next hour.
The effects of Terpsichore's Charm are passive, not aggressive, and encourage observers to feel emotion or enter a certain state of mind. The emotion encouraged by the art is felt by the victim, but Absent Sway does not force the victim to act in any specific manner. You might paint a picture that provokes viewers to feel the emotion “anger.” The manner in which the individual responds to feeling anger is up to the player of that character. However, if the character wishes to act in some manner that is diametrically opposed or contradictory to the emotion encouraged by the Terpsichore's Charm, she must spend 1 Willpower. For example, if she was in the presence of the painting that evoked “anger,” she would not have
to punch the person beside her, but she would be forced to spend a point of Willpower if she wanted to start peace negotiations, or announce she has forgiven her enemies for their past slights.
Terpsichore's Charm cannot affect individuals in combat and has no effect once combat starts, but the power can make it difficult for characters to start combat in the first place. 
A character does not have to spend a point of Willpower to overcome Terpsichore's Charm if acting upon the emotion caused by the art would cause the character harm or prevent the character from acting in self-preservation.
Date of Archival: 14-Jun-2018
Toreador, Malkavian
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 12XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Fortitude 5
Presence 3
MET Mechanics:

Drawing forth from the conviction of one's cause and ones self, the body, mind and spirit become testaments. These manifestations are not visible, but none can deny that when the tough gets going, the tougher one becomes. Seen as being rough upon one's spirit, the bolstering effects of this discipline take their toll, and risk the very soul of those who rely upon it too often. And, because Andyness is close to Godliness, he can't be the victim of something he made. Nor can any that are as Pious as him.

Mechanic : This power can be activated reflexively, and at anytime before the initial challenge of an action is thrown. Expend a Willpower to activate this power. For the next scene or hour, whichever ends first, you are up traits on all challenges that you are the defender. You are up traits equal to the level of your path/road of humanity/heaven. At the end of the scene or hour, the final round that the power is still active, you engage in a path check challenge. The difficult of this challenge is a 4 regardless of what your path/road of humanity/heaven is at. If you fail the challenge you lose a level of your path regardless of that level. Also this challenge will occur if at anytime during the power being active, you path sin and require a check at your current level. After this challenge and result, the power fades. Any levels of your path that are lost to this power can not be gained back by role-play alone. You must achieve approval from your ST as well as spend the experience points to gain the level back. This combo does not give you added bonuses in challenges against people who are at Path/Road of Humanity/Heaven 5.

Date of Archival: 07-Dec-2018
Tremere
Custom Content Category: Combination Discipline / Technique
XP Cost: 12XP
Custom Discipline Requirements:
Discipline Name Discipline Level
Presence 3
Fortitude 5
MET Mechanics:

Testaments of the Cause
Fortitude 5 + Presence 3
12 xp

Drawing forth from the conviction of one's cause and ones self, the body, mind and spirit become testaments.  These manifestations are not visible, but none can deny that when the tough gets going, the tougher one becomes. Seen as being rough upon one's spirit, the bolstering effects of this discipline take their toll, and risk the very soul of those who rely upon it too often.

And, because Andyness is close to Godliness, he can't be the victim of something he made. Nor can any that are as Pious as him.

Mechanic :

This power can be activated reflexively, and at anytime before the initial challenge of an action is thrown.

Expend a Willpower to activate this power. For the next scene or hour, whichever ends first, you are up traits on all challenges that you are the defender. You are up traits equal to the level of your path/road of humanity/heaven.

At the end of the scene or hour, the final round that the power is still active, you engage in a path check challenge. The difficult of this challenge is a 4 regardless of what your path/road of humanity/heaven is at. If you fail the challenge you lose a level of your path regardless of that level. Also this challenge will occur if at anytime during the power being active, you path sin and require a check at your current level.

After this challenge and result, the power fades.

Any levels of your path that are lost to this power can not be gained back by role-play alone. You must achieve approval from your ST as well as spend the experience points to gain the level back.

This combo does not give you added bonuses in challenges against people who are at Path/Road of Humanity/Heaven 5.

Date of Archival: 06-Jun-2019
Brujah

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