Custom Combination Discipline / Technique
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
| Discipline Name | Discipline Level |
|---|---|
| Dementation | 3 |
| Auspex | 5 |
| Animalism | 2 |
At this point, the controller has learned to greatly increase the efficacy of his minions and has learned to grant them a greater depth of talent.
System: Mininos made from XX.3: Madness Minions are now upgraded and receive 5 willpower instead of 3 and they also have the Ability: Investigation x2. In addition to the tasks listed in XX.3: Madness Minions, these creations may now aid their master in astral combat. Should they be so insturcted, they may attack a target that is in the Astral Plane/High Umbra (they may not attack targets in any other realm). They attack using their own traits and, upon a successful hit, they do not cause damage, but instead cause the target to gain the Negative Mental trait Oblivious. Multiple attacks from these mininos do stack up to 5 times.
Alternately, if the storytellers prefer a simpler system, each minion will provide the master with +2 traits in astral combat and one bonus "armor" level of health.
| Discipline Name | Discipline Level |
|---|---|
| Auspex | 5 |
Discipline XX.5: Beyond the Horizon and Sensory Overload
(Custom Content only allowed for one Combo prereq to be added).
Sensory Overload allows a Malkavian to forcibly project their Auspex powers upon another unwilling victim. However, it only makes the target believe they have projected their consciousness into the Astral Realm. This power enhances that talent and actually forces the target into the Astral Realm.
System: The Malkavian spends one willpower and one blood trait to enact this power. He then engages his target in a Social Challenge (retest with Empathy). If successful, the victim's spirit is forced out of their body as though they had activated the power of Psychic Projection (whether they have the power or not). If the victim does not possess Psychic Projection, they are extremely limited in what they can do while in this state. The victim must remain within line of sight of their body, they cannot use other disciplines (even those that are normally allowed while using Psychic Projection), they cannot spend a Willpower to manifest, and they cannot return to their body. If the victim already possesses Psychic Projection, then all of the normal rules of Psychic Projection now apply to the victim of this power, save they are unable to return to their body of their own volition. They remain forced out of their body for the remainder of the scene or an hour, whichever comes first. They may move about the astral realm, use levels of Auspex or do whatever else they would be normally permitted to do while using Psychic Projection. Should their body be attacked and damaged to the point where it would enter torpor or expend Aegis, the victim may choose to immediately return to their body. If they choose not to, and their body is destroyed, they will remain in Astral until the next Sunrise (as per Psychic Projection).
Note: As this power is similar in mechanics to Necromancy: Soul Steal, any house rules typically applied to Soul Steal should similarly be considered to be applied to this power.
| Discipline Name | Discipline Level |
|---|---|
| Dominate | 4 |
| Obtenebration | 5 |
This combination power requires those that possess and utilize it be in whole of the "Blood of the Abyss" (Lasombra, Lasombra Antitribu, Kiasyd, Maeghar, or any other clan or bloodline that has Obtenebration inherit to its blood. This does not include any Caitiff, Pander or Thin-blood that somehow begins with Obtenebration as a in-clan discipline.)
Shroud is often the most sought after gift of the Lasombra and long has it been spread far too long. The abyss recognizes those of the Abyssal clans as the true masters.
System: This power is activated by spending a temporary willpower and is active for the scene or hour. Whenever Shroud is activated in the vicinity of the user you may make a static challenge with generation applying as this is a dominate discipline
This power allows you to either take control of their shroud or disippate it at will.
Note: This power only works against subjects that possess Obtenebration purchased as an out-of-clan discipline.
| Discipline Name | Discipline Level |
|---|---|
| Presence | 3 |
| Obfuscate | 3 |
The Emissaries of the Black Hand are expected and trained to social and political masters of the Sabbat. Their jobs require them to negotiate all black hand deals and any other matters related to the rest of the Sabbat and the chosen. As a result Emissaries of the Black Hand developed this combination discipline to accent their own training and skills making them potent and forceful to others. By calling upon the grace of presence masked with the slyness of Obfuscate the Emissary appears far more charming, clever and charismatic; while at the same time protecting themselves from the manipulations of others.
System: The user spends 1 willpower to activate this combination discipline for the next scene or an hour. During that time the user gains a number of bonus traits to all social challenges equal to their permanent Leadership Ability rating. Additionally they win all ties defending in social challenges to manipulate their emotions.
| Discipline Name | Discipline Level |
|---|---|
| Auspex | 2 |
| Thaumaturgy | 4 |
Requires Path of Technomancy
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System: By paying an additional 1 WP and 1 Blood when accessing a device with a camera or microphone via remote access, the user can apply Heightened Senses to enhance the capabilities of any camera or microphone on that device while they are accessing it. For an additional 1 WP, they may utilize Aura Perception through that device's camera while using Remote access, subject to any requirements for focus from Aura Perception.