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**Griautis** · 11-12-2013, 07:47 AM

Oh, I'd like to point out that I just helped and commented (and influenced changes by denying or accepting discipline changes) on Cattiveria, Dementation and Obtenebration, so I cannot take the credit for them.

Dementation was done by Vytautas Stankus (he'd probably prefer his nickname used here, so if possible please switch it to "deflaw". So please change Cattiveria and Dementation.
Obtenebration was made by Altern(name from old forums, might need a change once he creates an account on the new forums)

**Leetsepeak** · 11-12-2013, 12:03 PM

Excellent resource! I'm excited to see what comes out of the community, particularly with the revitalizing shot that is Blood & Smoke.

**PenDragon** · 11-12-2013, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by Griautis View Post

Oh, I'd like to point out that I just helped and commented (and influenced changes by denying or accepting discipline changes) on Cattiveria, Dementation and Obtenebration, so I cannot take the credit for them.

Dementation was done by Vytautas Stankus (he'd probably prefer his nickname used here, so if possible please switch it to "deflaw". So please change Cattiveria and Dementation.
Obtenebration was made by Altern(name from old forums, might need a change once he creates an account on the new forums)

Changes notes and made.

If I missed anything else, or any good homebrew needs to be brought over from the old forum please let me know. I can put it in this post and credit the original author.

**Yossarian** · 11-12-2013, 06:39 PM

13 Licks -- The Curses of Caine in Blood &Smoke - Onyx Path Forums

http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/the-new-world-of-darkness/vampire-the-requiem/5268-13-licks-the-curses-of-caine-in-blood-smoke

Update (23/07/2015): Bloodlines are now included in the OP (below). Any changes to them will be here, and I'll try to make a PDF for them eventually. I also got rid

For those of you who like your crossovers.

**Griautis** · 11-13-2013, 01:18 AM

I vote for sticky.

**Leetsepeak** · 11-13-2013, 01:19 AM

I'll second that! If we could continue growing this, it could be a great resource. I was very excited when I saw similar stuff on the old forums.

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 07:29 PM

As we are nearing the forum cut off date, I am going to be scouring the old forums for useful homebrew and posting it in this thread. Anyone else who wants to do the same is welcome and encouraged to do so.

(Though please keep it to one post per homebrew so I can link them effectively in post one. And credit the original author(s).)

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 07:31 PM

Original Thread: [Fan Stuffs] More Blood Sorcery
Original Author(s): LOOK

I was converting a bunch of existing Sorcery-esque disciplines over two the Blood Sorcery archetype (for future games, and a bit of fun) and figured "Hey, might as well share!". So here we are.

The notion I went along was based off the note in Blood Sorcery that, while other Sorceries existed none of them had the full range of Themes that Theban and Cruac possess. So each of the following Sorceries has only three themes, and one unified dice pool between them (because that's easier bookkeeping). However, these themes can generally accomplish a slightly different range of effects. What's more, due to the lesser overall power of these sorceries I tried to make certain that they were more permissive cost-wise.

Other than that they function exactly the same as Cruac and Theban Sorcery when it comes to purchasing them. (Same costs, same rules concerning the free Rituals with each new dot, etc.)

If these go over well I'll probably put up a few more. Oh, and probably best to post my existing house rules on Blood Sorcery:

All Sorcery: Casting time for improvised rituals increases dramatically. Using the following intervals:
1 Minute | -3 dice
10 Minutes | -1 dice
1 hour | +0 dice

(Learned Rituals using the existing casting times as written).

Cruac: Every repeat interval of casting beyond the first costs another point of Vitae. So a three dot ritual rolled 5 times costs 7 vitae.

Theban Sorcery: Every repeat interval beyond the first requires either another sacrament or another point of willpower. The sacraments required get larger and more elaborate the longer a ritual runs.

These solve pretty much every major problem I have with Blood Sorcery, and makes it more ritualistic in general (what with Cruac requiring lots of sacrifices to power the sorcerer, and Theban requiring huge expensive sacraments).

Blood Sympathy

In addition to the normal range modifiers a Vampire must have some level of sympathy to any target he wants to affect remotely, that or know exactly where they are (or blast the whole area I suppose). For locations simple knowledge will suffice, generally a good mental image of the location and layout. But for people, who tend to move about, a greater Sympathy is required.

Blood Sympathy imposes the following penalties on rolls to affect distant targets, based on how close to their blood the Vampire is.

With out some level of Blood Sympathy a Vampire cannot directly target someone out of their perceptions. The best they can manage is hitting the area they believe the target to be in.

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The Gilded Cage

Catteveria

Merges Sorcery

Ahranite Sorcery

Hekan Seshaw

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 08:14 PM

Original Thread: [Bloodline] True Pals - "You Ride Shotgun"
Original Author: Omicron

Originally posted by Omicron

True Pals
Paladins of the Pick-Up Truck

“Rain on the scarecrow, blood on the plow… You know how the song goes. This lands feeds us. It’s our legacy. You get out of here.”

Vampires like the city, but they are not confined to it. There are rural lords who take after Victorian novels and make small towns their food supply, and farmers whose apparently desolate acres are in truth vast hunting grounds. But the low density of the food supply in these regions means fewer vampires around to help you when you are in need - no coterie, no covenant. When angry lupines want to push you out of their turf, when the local folks decide to burn down your farmstead, when the Cruel and Wicked Ones send a hunting party on your lands - the True Pals are the only friends you got.

They see themselves as modern knights, ensuring the safety of all Kindred in the wild lands beyond the urban sprawl. But they have abandonned all the traditional signs of this status - their swords traded for rifles, their horses for trucks. Outsiders often deride them as rednecks and nomadic bullies, or fear them as vampires hunting their own - who can tell whom they will turn against next? The way they choose whom to protect and whom to destroy seems arbitrary - the Invictus, the Sanctified and the Ventrue, they always defend. Those who lived on the lands before dying on it, too. The rest? The outsiders, the wanderers? Depends on their mood.

Bloodline Disciplines: Animalism, Celerity, Dominate, Resilience.

Nicknames: Pals, Knights, Rednecks

Weakness: The bonds that connect members of a chapter are tight indeed, and they extend to the bloodline as a whole: in addition to the normal Ventrue weakness, all Pals have a second-stage vinculum towards any other member of the bloodline.

History and Culture: The traditional picture of the knight - the man in full plate armor, wielding a sword of steel and riding a war horse - only existed for a brief period of time in history. But the idea of the knight, the aristocratic champion - high-born, well-fed, well-armed, fighting in the front lines and enforcing order on behalf of his ruler - has existed since the charioteers of Archaic Greece, if not further still. We see few of them today.

But the dead are slow to abandon their traditions.

The history of the True Pals comes back to the days of conquest of the Western territories of North America. They have their roots in the tradition of the Auctor - Ventrue who dedicate their Requiems to hunting down those who threaten the clan - as well as those among the clan who take too bloody a path. While the hostility and wilderness of the West are often exaggerated as far as mortals are concerned, vampires had it much worse. Draugr and revenants ravaging the countryside, pagan blood sorcerers defending their own domain, and stranger things haunting countryside, pagan blood sorcerers defending their own domain, and stranger things haunting the untamed wild - the Cruel and Wicked Ones, they called them - were all threats to any party of vampires seeking to establish new domains. An Auctor alone had little chance to survive, and so coteries of like-minded Ventrue gathered to protect their own. In these lands were distances stretched seemingly to infinity, the semi-nomadic Auctors became fully nomadic, and prized the gifts of Animalism greatly as a source of sustenance and greater ease of travel. These were the first “chapters” of those who would become Knights.

This tradition of coteries of Ventrues wandering the countryside to protect fragile vampiric dominions from outside threats never really ceased, but it did evolve. In times, the horses proved more trouble than they were worth, and yet for a clan without knowledge of Protean fast travel was a necessity to avoid sleeping in the sun. They started establishing “safehouses” across patrolled territory, and used motorized vehicles to travel safely and quickly. Passing down advice and teaching new initiates, almost all belonging to the Ventrue, the faction became a true bloodline. No one can really say when they picked up their modern name. The most common theory is that some started derisively calling them “pick-up truck paladins,” due to their habit of modelling themselves along the tales of medieval knights while driving trucks and carrying shotguns. The name stuck, and was abreviated - “Truck Paladins,” “Truck Pals,” until the deformation became the “true pals.” Because friendship is a rare commodity among the dead, and those who can afford it like to advertise it. The True Pals are your friend as long as you don’t cause trouble - but they really are each other’s friend first and foremost.

Some don’t think the bloodline has a place in this modern world. After all, the Auctors themselves are almost all gone. They don’t see it as a contradiction; the Pals think of themselves as the natural evolution of the Auctoritas in a modern world. Knowing that they are not well known in the cities of the damned, they accept that kind of disbelief or criticism once from any outsider, deflecting it politely. Any insistance is seen as a slight against their honor, and met with retribution. Yet the Pals are not the knights of old who challenge those who insult them to single combat; they prefer to gather their chapter and take out the baseball bats to break a few bones - never kill; that would make them the very threat against which they are supposed to fight.

The nights grow darker. Winged shadows haunt the skies. Farms are abandonned, fields go wild with weeds as no one is left to work the land. Draugr epidemics break out and erase small towns off the map. Strangers with stitches across their face burn the land with cold, unseen fire. There are not many left willing to do the job of a knight. Those who remain fight harder, and often lose. In this struggle their bonds grow tighter. It is their Requiem.

Parent Clan: Ventrue, as the bloodline is descended from the tradition of the Auctoritas. Sometimes a chapter includes a member from another clan who’s proved himself, but they cannot join the bloodline.

Reputation: The Invictus looks at the bloodline with caution - they are useful, but the personal bonds of a chapter of Pals has more weight than their loyalty to a lord, which makes them dangerous. They are often at odds with the Circle of the Crone, though they have no specific policy mandating hostility; it is simply that Acolytes often bear a striking proximity to the monsters they hunt. As a rule, urban vampires do not know or care much about the bloodline.

Organization: There are three main branches of the Knights. The orthodox branch belongs to the Invictus, and makes a formal show of pleading alligeance to a lord - and receive personal domains out of it. This distance has led some to split from the Covenant and take no order other than their own gut feelings on where to go and who to protect. Lastly, there is a tendency for some isolated chapters to blend in the ideals of the Invictus and the Lancea Sanctum and to consider themselves affiliated to both or neither - though in practice, they usually resemble Invicti with a strong religious bend.

Aside from fealty to an Invictus lord, there is no formal organization of the bloodline beyond the individual chapter, which usually number from two to six individuals. Each is usually centered around a common haven, large enough to accomodate everyone; but the bloodline is spread so thin that the territory each chapter covers is beyond what they can safely go to and back from within a night, and so several additional safehouses are usually arranged.

Concepts: Disowned farmer, protective landlord, bitter city exile, countryside doctor, gun nut looking for an excuse.

Devotions:

Sun-Beaten Neck
(Resilience ●●●, Celerity ●)
Cost: One Vitae
Dice Pool: None
Action: Reflexive
Sometimes, your engine gets shot, your house is burned down, you lost your way in the woods - sometimes you have no safe haven and the sun is rising, and you cannot take a nap in the dirt the way others do. So you pump your veins with Vitae and you soldier on, with the sun burning the skin off your back.
This Devotion allows a True Pal to withstand the first rays of the sun while looking for a safe place to sleep. By spending one Vitae upon activation, the user can suffer Resilience x 5 minutes of exposure to sunlight as if they were a single interval, with damage as determined by their Humanity.
This power only works on the kinder rays of dawn, and can only be applied once per day.

Feeding the Engine
(Animalism ●●●, Blood Potency ●●)
Cost: One Vitae, one Willpower
Dice Pool: None
Action: Instant
Cars might be more powerful and reliable than animals, but animals can be fed Vitae and made supernaturally efficient and compliant; there is no such thing as a ghouled car. Yet, some Knights have developed strange applications of their blood, expanding them to their vehicle. By pouring one point of Vitae in the tank of a car, the owner makes the engine burn hotter and answer his vampiric will to a slight extent. The vehicle gains +2 Acceleration, +2 Handling, and its safe and maximum speed increase by 20. This effect lasts one night.

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 08:21 PM

Original Thread: Mystery of the Hunger
Original Author: Starjammer

Originally posted by Starjammer

Since the Coil of Blood was taken out of B&S I thought it might be fun to spitball a replacement. In its place I thought to try the Mystery of the Hunger. I started this in a new thread because I didn't want to jack the other one.

As a beginning, my first take on the Coil of Hunger. Not sure if I've got things calibrated right or if things should be switched around or tweaked.

Coil of Hunger

Denial of Want ●

The first step to mastering the Mystery of the Hunger is learning to control it in oneself. By spending a point of Willpower and making a successful Resolve + Composure roll, the Dragon can resolve the Wanton condition. Also, if the Dragon ever fails the roll to resist hunger-based Frenzy, spending a Willpower point allows her to re-roll Resolve + Composure.

Mortal Banquet ●●

When the Dragon spends vitae to allow her to eat or drink the effect lasts for a full night. In addition, she no longer has to vomit up the meal afterwards. Instead, her vitae acts to break down the meal and adds it to her own substance, effectively digesting it. Digesting a meal in this fashion will heal one level of bashing or lethal damage, whichever is right-most on the Health track. The meal must be something nominally edible, though the vampire is immune to any mundane form of food poisoning. The vampire may only consume one such meal per three hours.

If the Dragon makes a habit of consuming meals in this fashion at least once per night, she may use this ritual as a Touchstone. Leaving off this ritual for a month or longer while active destroys the Touchstone. Many Dragons find this practice regressive and controversial, seeing it as an attempt to cling to mortality. Others feel that control over one's diet means control over one's nature.

Minimize Subsistance ●●●

As the Dragon masters his Hunger, he learns to taper off his reliance on vitae. For each vitae spent, the Dragon may rise a number of nights equal to his rating in the Coil of Hunger.

Potency of Vitae ●●●●

At this level the Dragon has learned to regulate the concentration of the vitae itself. Treat the Dragon’s Blood Potency as two lower when determining the kind of vitae he must subsist on (animal, human or supernatural). Treat the Dragon’s Blood Potency as two higher for determining the size of his Blood Pool. This does not affect the number of vitae the character may expend in one turn.

The Ascetic’s Diet ●●●●●

At the pinnacle of the Mystery of the Hunger, the Dragon can survive on even the thinnest of blood and resist the lure of even the richest. Regardless of her Blood Potency the Dragon can subsist on any kind of blood, be it animal, human or supernatural. Furthermore, the Dragon need only imbibe half the quantity of animal blood to constitute one vitae. If the Dragon does imbibe kindred vitae, she is at +5 to resist Vitae Addiction; this bonus also applies to resist the effects of drinking the blood of any other supernatural being.

Alternative Coil from the same Thread (by LOOK):

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 08:28 PM

Praestantia
Cost: None or 1 Vitae per active effect
Dice Pool: None
Action: None (for persistent effects) or Reflexive (for active effects)
Duration: Permanent (for persistent effects) or One Turn (for active effects)

Like other physical Disciplines, Praestentia has two kinds of effects: persistent and active. Persistent effects are always on, and have no cost. Active effects are Reflexive and cost one Vitae per effect.

Persistent: Add the vampire’s dots in Praestentia to all Dexterity based skill rolls. Additionally reduce all mundane penalties, save for Defense, to the character's Dexterity based actions by her Praestentia dots. This can remove penalties completely, but will not confer additional dice.

Active: By spending Vitae Praestentia permits moments of incredible insight and stunning grace. For each point of Vitae spent choose one effect from the following list. A vampire may spend additional Vitae to invoke multiple effects simultaneously, but no effect of Praestentia may be used more than once per turn.

• Defend against a single attack as though she had taken a Dodge Action on her last turn.

• Undo a single mundane physical action, allowing her to re-roll it or take an entirely different action instead. This manifests as a brief moment of precognition in which the vampire 'sees' the result of her action. For instance, she might see that an opposing Mekhet is going to use Celerity to dodge, and activate Praestentia to adjust for his new location. Alternatively she might make a dash around a corner, only to discover that there is a line of gunmen waiting to mow her down, and activate Praestentia to instead run the other way. In play only the final action occurs, the retconned action having taken place entirely in the vampire's head.

Both of these functions are exhausting, each may be used no more times in a scene than the user has dots in Praestenia.

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 08:33 PM

Original Thread: Vampire Fighting Style!
Original Author: Jesuncolo

Originally posted by Jesuncolo

Inspiration from Hellsing: the vampire isn't human, so it doesn't need to limit itself and fight like a human.

Beastly Vampire Style
Prerequisite: Resolve 2 Stamina 3, Brawl 2, Resilience or Vigor 1, Humanity 4 or lower.
A vampire can only learn or improve this fighting style at Humanity 4. Benefiting this style at higher Humanity would cause the vampire a breaking point.
• Cruel Stance Being inhuman, the taboo of breaking arms, legs and jaws do not apply anymore. Exposing himself to more punishment, the vampire removes 2 points of penality at called shots, but lowers his Defense by 1.
•• Monstruos Retribution Exploiting the fury of her beast, the vampire can use damage to become more powerful. After recieving at least 3 bashing or 2 lethal, the vampire gains a +1 to all attacks against the target for the next turn.
••• Atrocious Gratification Once per scene, when the vampire makes a coup de grace, he regains a Willpower point.
•••• Cruel Strike Unarmed damage becomes lethal.

EDIT: Modified the third level to work only once per scene.

**PenDragon** · 11-26-2013, 08:38 PM

Original Thread: GMC Armor of Scars
Original Authors: Mendrian & LOOK

Originally posted by Mendrian

Alright:

The closest equivalent we have is Iron Skin (** or ****). Iron Skin has a negligible Stamina requirement; but it does require 2 dots in other Fighting Styles. So it's roughly equivalent to a 4 or 6 dot Merit. Iron Skin (**) grants 1 point of Armor (bashing only) and (****) grants 2 points. Both have the option to downgrade Lethal to Bashing (1 or 2 points, respectively) for the cost of 1 WP.

There's a lot there to digest. If you dropped the benefit of the WP but also removed the restriction on Bashing damage, you'd have 1 point of Armor at ** and 2 points at ****. But that seems too broad; does it refer to Firearms or Melee? You don't want to do both; that seems too complicated.

What I would do is the following:

Armor of Scars (*** or *****)

Requirement: Cannot possess the Striking Looks Merit at any level

Effect: The character permanently gains 2/0 or 3/1 Armor. This does not stack with mundane Armor, though if a character wears Armor with this Merit, grant the higher Armor rating for Melee/Firearms categories as appropriate. It stacks normally with supernatural armors.

Drawback: This character reduces Impressions by one step with any character when making any relevant social roll other than Intimidation. At the storyteller's discretion, this penalty might eventually relax over time or for characters who are particularly inured against the horrific visage (such as characters with the Tolerance for Biology Merit). It does not apply if the target of the social action cannot see the character.

Originally posted by LOOK

Armor of Scars (••• to •••••)
Prerequisites: Resilience •, ••, or •••

Effect: Your character's flesh has begun to calcify, granting her a thick defensive layer of natural armor. She gains [Merit Dots-2]/0 armor, which carries no speed or defense penalties and stacks with other sources of armor. A character cannot have more dots of this merit than her has [Resilience+2] (hence the prerequisite).

Drawback: The process of calcification leaves your character terribly deformed, inflicting a [Merit Dots-2] penalty on all mundane, non-intimidation based Presence and Manipulation rolls where the target can see the Kindred's deformity. With one dot the calcification can generally be hidden under long clothing, two would require a heavy jacket and face mask. With three dots the vampire's physique is twisted to the point that almost nothing can hide the wrongness. Over time, as characters become accustomed to her visage, these penalties may begin to relax. But only on a case by case basis.

**Troller** · 11-28-2013, 10:32 AM

Not sure if this is the place for truly Home Brewed stuff, but here goes. I have a Bloodline I made a while ago who practiced Blood Tenebrous and wanted to revamp them as a sort of up and coming but considered Lost Clan. Anyway I was working on a Clan Ban and was wondering if this was enough of a penalty or does it need more?

The Ephemeral Curse – The dual-world weighs heavily on the Alukah forcing them further from their ties to the material world. As an Alukah’s Humanity falls, their perception of the mundane world fails as well. The Social penalty for low Humanity in addition factors into all Perception and Surprise rolls to perceive non supernatural activity and threats, also treating failures as dramatic failures. This disconnect is described as if the Alukah were seeing the material world through the filter of Twilight. Only creatures and events of supernatural significance seem to resonate with the Alukah, causing them to gain the Jaded Condition whenever they get a dramatic failure on any Mental Skill that does not deal with the supernatural.

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