Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines/Character creation

Feats

Feats are derived stats from your scores in both attributes and abilities.

Combat

• Unarmed: Modifies damage while fighting unarmed
• Melee: Modifies damage when using melee weapons
• Ranged: Modifies damage done using firearms
• Defense: Improves chance to avoid taking damage from all forms of combat

Covert

• Lockpicking: Improves ability to open locked doors
• Sneaking: Reduces chance to be spotted while hiding
• Hacking: Grants the ability to break passwords on computers
• Inspection: Improves ability to spot hidden objects and passages
• Research: Grants the ability to read tomes to improve stats

Mental

• Haggle: Reduces cost of buying items and improves the amount gained when selling
• Intimidate: Improves ability to force people into agreeing with you
• Persuasion: Improves ability to convince others to agree with you
• Seduction: Improves ability to use your appearance to your advantage

Soak

• Bashing: Reduces damage suffered from blunt damage types
• Lethal: Reduces damage suffered from slashing or piercing weapons
• Aggrevated: Reduces *damage taken from fire, electricity, claws, and fangs

Attributes

Physical

• Strength: Adds +1 to unarmed and melee
• Dexterity: Adds +1 to stealth and lockpicking
• Stamina: Adds +1 to soak bashing

Social

• Charimsa: Adds +1 to persuasion
• Manipulation: Adds +1 to haggle
• Appearance: Adds +1 to seduction

Mental

• Perception: Adds +1 to ranged and inspection
• Intelligence: Adds +1 to research and intimidate
• Wits: Adds +1 to defense and hacking

Abilities

Talents

• Brawl: Adds +1 to unarmed
• Dodge: Adds +1 to defense
• Intimidation: Adds +1 to intimidate
• Subterfuge: Adds +1 to seduction

Skills

• Firearms: Adds +1 to ranged
• Melee: Adds +1 to melee
• Security: Adds +1 to lockpicking
• Stealth: Adds +1 to sneaking

Knowledges

• Computer: Adds +1 to hacking
• Finance: Adds +1 to haggle
• Investigation: Adds +1 to inspection
• Scholarship: Adds +1 to research and persuasion

Disciplines

Each clan has access to only 3 disciplines. They are very powerful and expensive to improve. They all cost blood to activate. Some may break the Masquerade if seen by humans.

Animalism

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Nightwisp Ravens: Summons a pack of ravens to incapacitate the target	1 blood
2	Burrowing Beetle: A bonecrunching beetle invades the target's body inflicting damage	1 blood
3	Spectral Wolf: Summons a phantasmal wolf to attack the target	2 blood
4	Bloodsucker's Communion: Summons a swarm of bats to drain blood from the victim and transfer it to you	3 blood
5	Pestilence: Summons a carrion swarm of insects to devour the target	3 blood

Auspex

Reveals aura of nearby targets

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	+1 to wits	1 blood per 20 seconds
2	+1 to wits and perception	1 blood per 24 seconds
3	+2 to wits and +1 to perception	1 blood per 28 seconds
4	+2 to wits and perception	1 blood per 32 seconds
5	+3 to wits and perception	1 blood per 36 seconds

Celerity

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Gain level 1 speed boost	1 blood per 14 seconds
2	Gain level 2 speed boost	1 blood per 14 seconds
3	Gain level 3 speed boost	1 blood per 14 seconds
4	Gain level 4 speed boost	1 blood per 14 seconds
5	Gain level 5 speed boost	1 blood per 14 seconds

Dementation

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Hysteria: Causes the victim to laugh uncontrolably	1 blood
2	Mass Hallucination: All targets near you suffers -2 to all combat feats	2 blood
3	Visions of Death: Target falls over dead, lesser effect on supernatural creatures	2 blood
4	Berserk: Target randomly attacks all nearby targets before falling over dead, lesser effect on supernatural creatures	3 blood
5	Bedlam: Randomly inflicts one of the four lower ranks on all victims in the target area	4 blood

Dominate

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Trance: Target is temporarily incapacitated	1 blood
2	Brainwipe: All nearby targets ignore you	2 blood for 5 seconds
3	Suicide: Target dies	2 blood
4	Possession: Target defends you with their life before dying from a heart attack	3 blood
5	Mass Suicide: All targets within an area die	4 blood

Fortitude

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	+1 to all soak feats	1 blood per 25 seconds
2	+2 to all soak feats	1 blood per 25 seconds
3	+3 to all soak feats	1 blood per 25 seconds
4	+4 to all soak feats	1 blood per 25 seconds
5	+5 to all soak feats	1 blood per 25 seconds

Obfuscate

Activating Obfuscate activates only your highest level gaining the benefit of lower levels

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Become invisible while motionless, movement will break obfuscate	1 blood per 18 seconds
2	Able to move invisibly while crouched, interacting with the environment or bumping anyone breaks obfuscate	1 blood per 20 seconds
3	Able to perform stealth kills while obfuscated, bumping anyone or interacting with the environment breaks obfuscate. Inflicts +50% damage on melee attacks that break obfuscate	1 blood per 22 seconds
4	Inflicts +100% damage on melee attacks that break obfuscate	1 blood per 24 seconds
5	Able to interact with the environment while obfuscated. Inflicts +200% damage on melee attacks that break obfuscate.	1 blood per 26 seconds

Potence

Extra damage from potence can not be soaked

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Adds 1 damage to melee and unarmed	1 blood per 25 seconds
2	Adds 2 damage to melee and unarmed	1 blood per 25 seconds
3	Adds 3 damage to melee and unarmed	1 blood per 25 seconds
4	Adds 4 damage to melee and unarmed	1 blood per 25 seconds
5	Adds 5 damage to melee and unarmed	1 blood per 25 seconds

Presence

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Victims suffer -1 to strength, wits, perception	1 blood per 16 seconds
2	Victims suffer -2 to strength, wits, perception, and 10% chance to be mesmerized	1 blood per 16 seconds
3	Victims suffer -3 to strength, wits, perception, and 20% chance to be mesmerized	1 blood per 16 seconds
4	Victims suffer -4 to strength, wits, perception, and 20% chance to be mesmerized	1 blood per 16 seconds
5	Victims suffer -5 to strength, wits, perception, and 25% chance to be mesmerized	1 blood per 16 seconds

Protean

Activating Protean activates your highest level and gains the benefit of all the lower levels

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Gleam of the Red Eye: Gain heat vision and +1 wits	1 blood per 25 seconds
2	Feral Claws: Turns hands into claws that inflict aggrevated damage	1 blood per 25 seconds
3	Will of the Wolves: Gain +2 stamina	1 blood per 25 seconds
4	Hunter of the Night: Gain +2 strength and improves claw damage	1 blood per 25 seconds
5	War Form: Assume a hulking monsterous form with even greater claw damage	1 blood per 25 seconds

Thaumaturgy

Rank	Effect	Cost/Duration
1	Blood Strike: Fire a bolt of blood at the target returning with stolen blood if you remain still	1 blood
2	Purge: All nearby victims suffer damage as they vomit blood	2 blood
3	Blood Shield: Surrounds yourself in a casing of blood that absorbs damage	3 blood
4	Blood Salvo: Fires bolts of blood at nearby targets returning with stolen blood if you remain still	3 blood
5	Blood Boil: Causes the victim's blood to boil resulting in a bloody and explosive death	4 blood