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serk and spends the rest of the scene in frenzy. If the player suffers a failure on a chance draw,
the character stays in frenzy for as long as the Storyteller thinks is appropriate. The character
also gains a derangement related to whatever caused the frenzy (see p. 268).
The greater the provocation to the character, the more successes the player must accumulate.
Five successes suffi ce for most frenzies. Higher numbers represent the most extreme humiliation
or peril to the vampire’s unlife. The Storyteller may also impose bonuses or penalties to
Resolve + Composure test pools to refl ect a trigger that’s especially easy or hard to resist.
The rule doesn’t change any, but it bears repeating: A Willpower point earns a character a
+3 bonus on the draw to resist frenzy, as it does with most other draws.
ANGER FRENZIES
Here are some typical events that can spark an anger frenzy, with sample numbers of successes
needed to resist them, or modifi ers to the Resolve + Composure test pool.
3.6 — ANGER FRENZY TRIGGERS
Trigger Event Successes to Resist
Harassed by a panhandler 2 successes
Idiot scrapes your new car 2 successes
Insulted in public 3 successes
Hours of frustration and delay 3 successes
Reviled by someone you dislike 5 successes
Betrayed by a partner in a deal 5 successes
Shot by a mugger 5 successes
Loved one in danger 5 successes
Betrayed by someone you love 7 successes
Lose everything you own 7 successes
Loved one slain 10 successes
Reviled and humiliated by someone you love 10 successes
Situation Modifi er to Draw
Provocation aligns with your Virtue or Vice ±2
Provocation attacks your Virtue or Vice ±2
Hungry -1
Starving -2
Virtues and Vices can work either way. Someone who gains strength and purpose from
Justice, for instance, might feel extra anger at some crime that she cannot correct, but she could
resist the Beast more effectively when someone takes her to task and she knows that person is
in the right. Someone beset by Pride might have extra trouble dealing with humiliation, but
he could make an extra effort not to embarrass himself in other cases. The Storyteller decides
when a Virtue or Vice can infl uence the diffi culty of the Resolve + Composure draw.
Kindred also fi nd it harder to resist the Beast when hunger adds to rage. A hungry character,
defi ned as one who has no more than four Vitae in her system, suffers a -1 penalty to Resolve
+ Composure draws. A starving character, defi ned as having only one or no Vitae left, suffers
a -2 penalty. These penalties are not cumulative with each other. You do not suffer a -3 penalty
for being both starving and hungry.
HUNGER FRENZIES
Wassail can occur whenever a character feels hungry and encounters blood. Hunger
frenzies are most dangerous when a character actually feeds. Kindred who care about their
vessels adopt various strategies to reduce the danger to their loved ones, such as never letting
themselves become too hungry, or having a favored vessel drain blood into a bowl instead