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If a Kindred’s rightmost Health box is marked with aggravated damage — having suffered the
harm either directly or by converting damage dealt to the torpid character — she suffers Final
Death. Her body rots, dries and withers in minutes, and crumbles to dust within an hour.
The longer a Kindred has spent undead, the more rapidly the fi nal dissolution occurs.
Countering damage from sunlight and fi re works differently than other sources of aggravated
damage, in that fi re and sunlight infl ict automatic points of damage. The Resilience
Discipline does offer some protection, allowing a character to downgrade this damage (see p.
196). Ultimately, though, even the oldest and toughest vampire has no chance to withstand
extensive exposure to fi re or sunlight. The Kindred have abundant reason to fear these phenomena
more than anything else.
FIRE
Fire presents an even greater danger to vampires than it does to mortals. Fire infl icts aggravated
damage on Kindred. Only Resilience can shield a vampire from the fl ames, and
that to a limited degree.
A fi re’s size and heat determines how much damage a character endures per turn. A small,
very hot fi re can deliver as much damage as a large but cooler fi re. The Storyteller decides
how much damage a particular fi re can infl ict, based on the fi re damage table:
3.3 — FIRE DAMAGE FOR KINDRED
Size of Fire Damage
Small fi re (example: torch) 1 point
Large fi re (example: bonfi re) 2 points
Inferno (example: burning house, blast furnace) 3 or more points
Heat of Fire Damage
Feeble fi re (example: red-hot coals, candle fl ame) No modifi er
Normal combustion (example: wood fi re, red-hot stove) +1 point
Hot fi re (example: gasoline fi re, Bunsen burner) +2 points
Very hot fi re (example: molten metal, welding torch) +3 points
Remember that normal armor can protect Kindred for a few turns, but only specialized
suits of heat-refl ective fabric, such as those used by oil-well fi refi ghters, can shield a vampire
for longer. (See the rules for fi re in the Mind’s Eye Theatre rulebook, p. 246.) Meanwhile,
the character must also withstand the supernatural terror called Rötschreck (see p. 256).
• Clinging Fire: Note that some burning substances stick to a character and continue
burning for quite some time. Napalm is the most notorious example, but burning plastic
is the most common source of clinging fl ames. Burning plastic infl icts damage at the same
rate as a wood fi re.
• Disfi gurement: Characters who are damaged by fi re but who still manage to survive
(through fi rst aid or mystical healing) might suffer a permanent impairment (reduced Physical
Attribute), nerve damage (reduced Mental Attribute) or severe and disfi guring scars (reduced
Presence), at the Storyteller’s discretion. Such impairment can be defi ned as a Flaw (see p.
311 of the Mind’s Eye Theatre rulebook) gained during play.
SUNLIGHT
The Kindred fear sunlight even more than fi re. After all, fi re doesn’t suffuse half the world,
making half of each diurnal cycle deadly for vampires. Even the weakest sunlight presents