Paths

House Rule

Path of Blood

Potency of Blood:  Your blood pool fills to your new generation, not requiring you to “tank up”.  However, it does not replace already spent blood traits before using this power, which must be taken into account.

Movement of the Mind

May only be resisted with Potence or Celerity if the Storyteller deems is appropriate to the type of action to resist.

Neptune’s Might

Blood to Water:  Only 5 Traits of Blood may be turned into Water per use of this power.

Spirit Manipulation

Entrap Ehpemera:  Fetish Making
When a vampire obtains Spirit Manipulation 4 he gains the ability to make fetishes. However, the rules and guidelines for this presented by White Wolf are rather vague. The rules below are adapted for fetish making from the books Forged by Dragon‟s Fire and Kindred of the Ebony Kingdom. For more detail on how a fetish is made, please consult Forged by Dragon‟s Fire page 31-39. For purposes of this document, the term Fetish is interchangeable with the term Artifact.

1. Every single Fetish (or Artifact as Kindred call them) has a rating from 1-5. If it is an original Artifact the ST will assign this value, if it is a printed Fetish (aka Artifact) it will have an assigned value. This value must be purchased with experience points for every artifact into the Artifact background. IE, a character creating a level 3 Fetish/Artifact must spend 3xp to purchase the Background Artifact: „X‟ 3.

2. Every Artifact has a Gnosis rating; either determined by the ST or given in printed material.

3. The Static Willpower challenge to see if an Artifact works is instead replaced with a Willpower Challenge versus the Artifact‟s Gnosis rating.

4. Others may use Artifacts who do not possess Spirit Manipulation or another way to deal with spirits as long as they attune the Artifact to themselves. This is done by the user spending one night with the artifact and making a Willpower challenge versus the Artifacts Gnosis rating. Success means the Fetish is attuned to them now and they may use it, failure means they may not try again until they placate the spirit in some manor. They must now purchase the Artifact Background as detailed above.

5. A person who wishes to make an Artifact specific to a certain group (example: Shadowlord Fetishes) must have the appropriate lore to an equal level of the fetish rating to even attempt to do so. This represents them having the knowledge of how to make the fetish and know of its existence.

6. To make an Artifact the vampire needs to have an ability score in Lore: Spirits and/or Crafts: Fetishes equal to the Artifact rating of the item. These two abilities may be combined to gain the appropriate score needed.

7. Instead of Quintessence being used where referenced in Forged by Dragon‟s Fire, use Bloodinstead.

8. To craft a Fetish the vampire must first hunt down the spirit needed for it.  Once tracked down, the vampire must then beat the spirit into submission.  As many spirits will not make deals with a vampire, though a rare few might.  This part is for role play and story purposes, the interactions between the vampire and spirit in question are wide and varied.  If a spirit is willing to enter a fetish, there is no challenge.  If in the majority of cases the spirit is unwilling, the vampire must force the spirit to submit.  This is done by besting it in combat.

9. Incarna and above level spirits may never be bound to a fetish unless they are willing…though that is unlikely to say the least.

10.  Any Fetish that is broken and not repaired results in a loss of the Artifact background associated with Fetish and the experience spent on it are not refunded.

Duality:  You may not put people into the Umbra.  Other vampires may not be moved into the Umbra unless they are in Torpor.

Path of Curses

The Sympathetic Link required to perform the magic is considered to be used up after any attempt at use of this power regardless of success or failure.  Meaning they will be required to gain a new one for each casting.  In addition, the Sympathetic Link must be something of actual value to the target.  Blood or Wedding ring for example will work, a piece of clothing or hair will not.  The Storyteller makes the final ruling on wither or not the item in question will work.  Finally, you must actually curse your victim.  He must hear the curse said aloud or the power has no effect.  He need not understand what you are saying, but he must hear it.

Focused Mind

One Tracked Mind:  This power is not a railroad or loop, the target will continue the Intent of their last action, not the literal last action.

Mastery of the Mortal Shell

Contortion:  The Target may restore limb loss with the cost of a blood trait.

Seizure:  This power’s rules are replaced with the following:  The victim must bid 4 additional traits on all challenges and suffers one level of bashing damage a turn for as long as this power is active.

Gift of Morpheus

Enchanted Slumber: If used on a PC this power lasts one scene or hour

Dreamscape:  This Power requires a Sympathetic Link to the victim

Dream Mastery: This Power requires a Sympathetic Link to the victim

Thaumaturgical Counter Magic

While it may be a free action to counter any blood magic, a user may only do so once per turn.

Way of the Levinbolt

A stunned vampire is down 2 traits in all challenges.  This is the only effect of being stunned.

Way of Warding

Glyph of Enlightenment:  Each Thaumaturgy power a vampire wishes to use through this power costs 1 willpower per use.

Binding the Abyss

This Path is not allowed

Path of Better Self

This Path is not allowed

Way of Spirit

It is possible for a Koldun to extend their senses into other realms with difficultly. In order to extend their senses into the Umbra, Shadowlands, or Astral Realm the Koldun must spent an additional willpower a and make a static Social test vs. 4 traits plus double the level of the power they wish to activate. A failure has no effect apart from wasting willpower. A Koldun may only view 1 additional realm in this manner.

Orisha’s Fortune

Fortune’s Blessing:  This power may be used for Mundane abilities only.  Mundane abilities are any ability listed in Laws of the Night Revised.

Flow of Ashe

Use of this path does not count against your generational blood usage for a turn.

Awakening the Steel

Weapons must be mental to use this power.

Strike the True Flesh:  Only the base damage of the Weapon only.  Magical weapons may not be used with this power.