Mind's Eye Theatre - Vampire The Requiem.pdf - RoseRed

• Bonuses or penalties to test pools based on circumstance. These lists are not exhaustive,
just a few commonly encountered situations that a character using the Discipline might
experience. As always, the Storyteller is free to modify these circumstances in any additional
ways he sees fi t.
• Other specifi c details that need to be described in game terms.
A character may use only those Discipline powers that are available at her level of mastery of
a given Discipline, and below. Therefore, a character with Dominate 3 can use the Discipline’s
one-, two- and three-dot powers.
Elders speak of mighty powers becoming available once a Kindred’s Blood Potency reaches
a certain degree. The one- through fi ve-dot powers of a given Discipline always produce the
listed effects, but some elders insist that once a vampire’s potential with a Discipline reaches
a certain point, she may break from the static incarnations of a given Discipline and manifest
powers with her own personality invested in them. That is, mystic wisdom suggests that there
is no hard-and-fast six-dot power for Auspex, for example, and that a Kindred who masters
Auspex at such a high level creates her own unique application. Tales of such powers are
unreliable, though. The nature of Blood Potency is fl uid enough that what a Kindred masters
one night can vanish if he sinks into torpor and forgets what he once knew.
Discipline Options
Some Discipline descriptions include sections marked “Discipline Options,” which present
alternate ways of handling a particular power, whether in terms of system mechanics, game
fl avor or some combination of the two. These should be considered optional rules. Therefore,
players should not assume they are in effect unless they receive appropriate confi rmation.
The rationale behind the use for an individual Discipline option is provided in many cases,
in order to help indicate when Storytellers might wish to consider implementing it, as well
as some potential complications.
In many instances, Discipline options are concerned less with mechanics and more with
fl avor, giving players alternatives designed to further customize their concept and help make
their Kindred characters as memorable as possible. While options should be open to any
character who meets the requirements, players should think hard before they decide to use an
optional rule. Do they really want it because it’s what their character would have developed,
or are they after it simply because it’s new and different?
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RECONCILING LIVE-ACTION AND TABLETOP
Troupes familiar with Vampire: The Requiem will notice some differences in
the Disciplines presented here and those in that volume. This is not done to
create dissonance, but simply to take into account the differing realities of play
involved in the two systems. What works very well in a tabletop setting could take
on completely different dimensions in live-action, while a power that functions
well in live-action might prove of very little help in a tabletop environment. For
example, in tabletop play a power that affects everyone in the room isn’t usually
a problem — it only affects perhaps one or two other players, if that. The rest
of the people in the room are created and played entirely by the Storyteller.
However, in live-action play that same power has a much bigger scope, since it can
potentially affect the roleplaying of twenty or more other players in addition to
any Narrator characters present. Since players’ characters are by defi nition rather
exceptional, this could make the power a great deal more potent than it was
originally intended to be, and so a rules adjustment would be made to account
for this sort of difference.
chapter two: character