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

danger. Sunlight fi ltered through a heavy curtain can still burn. Only the Resilience Discipline
can protect a vampire from the daystar’s rays, and then only against dim, faint exposure. Direct
sunlight can sear even the mightiest Kindred to ash.
The amount of damage a Kindred suffers automatically from sunlight per turn depends on
the intensity of the light and how much of the vampire’s body is exposed. The brighter and
more direct the sunlight is, the more quickly a Kindred’s undead fl esh burns. The more of a
vampire’s body that is exposed to sunlight, the more extensive the damage is. For characters,
little practical difference exists between an arm completely burned off in a second and losing
most of one’s skin from diffused exposure. Damage is damage.
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3.4 — DAMAGE FROM SUNLIGHT
Intensity or Exposure Health Points/Turn
Faint, fi ltered sunlight (Example: light through 1 point
heavy, closed drapes; heavy cloud cover; twilight)
Filtered or weak sunlight (Example: light through 2 points
thin drapes; outside on a cloudy day; daylight
through a window; refl ection of sun in a mirror)
Direct sunlight 3 points
Exposure Damage
Small part of body exposed (Example: one hand; +0 points
part of the face; wearing heavy clothes, sunglasses,
gloves and a broad-brimmed hat or balaklava)
Large part of body exposed (Example: a leg; +1 point
an arm; whole head)
Much of body exposed (Example: whole torso; +2 points
wearing thin clothing)
Exposing specifi c body parts to sunlight can cause special, additional harm to a character. A
Kindred who looks directly into sunlight is instantly blinded as the rays burn away her retinas
and boil her eyes. A narrow beam of sunlight burns a Kindred’s arm off, leaving him unable to
do anything that requires two hands. Storytellers must judge such situations for themselves.
It is true that moonlight consists of refl ected sunlight. Fortunately, however, moonlight is
faint enough that it cannot cause damage to the Kindred. At most, a few exceptionally sensitive
Kindred might suffer a mild sunburn from exposure to the light of the full moon.
RECOVERING FROM DAMAGE
Mortals heal wounds through time, rest and medical treatment. The undead heal supernaturally,
using their stolen blood to repair their bodies. Ordinary medical treatment offers
them no benefi ts whatsoever.
Kindred heal bashing damage quite easily. In one turn, a Kindred character can expend one
Vitae to heal two Health points lost to bashing damage. Kindred who are able to spend more
than one Vitae per turn may heal two points of bashing damage per Vitae spent per turn. For
example, a character with Blood Potency 4 can spend two Vitae per turn (see p. 128), so he
could spend two Vitae and heal up to four points of bashing damage in one turn.
Lethal damage heals less easily, since it requires building new tissue to replace and rejoin
parts of the character’s body. In one turn, a vampire can expend one Vitae to heal one
Health point lost to lethal damage. As with bashing damage, vampires who are able to
spend more than one Vitae per turn may heal one point of lethal damage per Vitae spent