Incarnations
Incarnation | Nickname | Favored | Divine Role | Source |
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Analysts | Eyes | Exploits | To collect and assess data | DSG 20 |
Destroyer | Swords | Cacophonic | To eliminate deleterious phenomena | DTD 100 |
Guardian | Shields | Instrumental | To shepherd useful assets | DTD 102 |
Messenger | Trumpets | Vocal | To direct and manipulate actors | DTD 104 |
Psychopomps | Wheels | Mundane | To gather and configure resources | DTD 106 |
Agendas
Agenda | Condition | Cover Detonation | Description | Source |
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Inquisitors | Prepared for Anything | Curse of honesty | Insightful paranoiacs seeking security through understanding | DTD 92, Iface 46 |
Integrators | Angel Empathy | Mass of doppelgangers | Believers seeking acceptance to return home on their own terms | DTD 94, Iface 46 |
Saboteurs | An Eye for Disorder | Storm of shrapnel | Ideologues fighting to liberate the world from the God-Machine | DTD 96, Iface 47 |
Tempters | I Know Someone | Compulsion of vice | Aesthetes and opportunists interested in temporal power | DTD 98, Iface 47 |
Uncalled | Uncalled | Plague of locusts | Iconoclasts unencompassed by mainstream demonic thought | DTD 78, Iface 47 |
Embeds (2nd Edition)
Name | Description | Pool | Source | |
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Cacophony | ||||
Apple of Discord | Make an object irresistibly desirable to all humans present. Causes anyone affected to gain the obsessed condition and will actively work to gain the object and prevent anyone else having it. | Manipulation + Expression Vs. Integrity | FoH 93 | |
Anarchism | Causes a target to no longer care about social repercussions for their actions. Causes all appeals to peers, law or authority to be ignored. | Manipulation + Politics - Composure | FoH 94 | |
Breakdown | When the target tries to use a skill selected by the Embed user, they will instead use a different skill from the same category (Social, Physical, Mental). | Wits + Medicine - Resolve | FoH 94 | |
Bystander Effect | Attack someone in plain few without anyone else choosing to intervene. | Manipulation + Intimidation | DtD 125 | |
Cause and Effect | Invoking the Butterfly effect and providing an unrelated stimulus, the Demon causes a small event of nearly any sort to take place in their presence. | Wits + [any Skill] | DtD 125 | |
Combustion | The Demon renders almost any object flammable or prone to explosion. | Wits + Science | DtD 126 | |
Cool Heads Prevail | Prevents or ends a combat immediately, as those involved relax. | Manipulation + Empathy -Composure | DtD 126 | |
Deafen | Literally deafens a select victim. | Manipulation + Medicine - Stamina | DtD 126 | |
Devil's Advocate | Causes a victim to reflexively take the opposite stance to a person's most recently stated position. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Resolve | DtD 126 | |
Fire Drill | Activates alarms or sirens in the nearby area, penalising the perception rolls of anyone who does not know it is a false alarm by the Demon's Primum. | Wits + Science | FoH 94 | |
Fractal Reality | Encodes an action that has previously been performed to happen again under the same circumstances. Requires an exceptional success or a success on a chance die to perform. Repeating that action (performing an action with the same skill) will automatically cause an exceptional success on a single success. All future uses after that are penalised with no 10-again. | Wits + Science | FoH 95 | |
Hesitation | Forces a target to react slowly, potentially penalizing initiative. | Manipulation + Intimidation - Resolve | DtD 127 | |
Hush | Silences a combat, allowing it to take place unheard by those nearby. | Dexterity + Brawl - Defense | DtD 127 | |
Just Bruised | Allows the demon to mitigate the damage taken from almost any source. | Wits + Medicine | DtD 128 | |
Knockout Punch | Knock out a victim with a single blow for a defined period. | Dexterity + Brawl - Defense | DtD 129 | |
Left or Right? | Force the outcome of an event that contains only two possibilities, such as a coin flip. | Manipulation + Science | DtD 129 | |
Lucky Break | The demon achieves a specific desired ends through random chance. | Manipulation + Occult | DtD 129 | |
Merciless Gunman | Enables the demon to casually massacre large numbers of individuals quickly with a firearm. | Dexterity + Firearms | DtD 130 | |
No Quarter | The demon intensifies a fight, causing all those involved to aim to kill or maim their opponents, refusing to back down. | Manipulation + Brawl vs. Resolve | DtD 130 | |
On the Mend | Heals a target, potentially even of aggravated damage. | Wits + Medicine | DtD 131 | |
Password Entropy | When entering a password in a computer or machine, you will enter the correct password. | Wits + Computer | FoH 95 | |
Play Possum | Die for a number of hours equal to Primum, after which time come back to life. Damage taken after 'dying' is restored, but wounds suffered prior remain. | Manipulation + Medicine | FoH 96 | |
Raw Materials | The demon breaks an object, causing a new object of similar size but of the demon's choosing to appear in the location by happenstance not long after. | Manipulation + Crafts | DtD 131 | |
Ripple | Causes a ripple effect with the entire scene suffering misfortune and extra damage. Any damage taken will be suffered again next turn with the same severity and half the total amount of damage from a secondary but related source. | Wits + Science | FoH 96 | |
Sabotage | With a touch, the demon cripples a device such that it will no longer function until repaired. | Dexterity + Crafts | DtD 131 | |
Shatter | Allows the demon to utterly destroy small objects with a touch. | Wits + Crafts | DtD 131 | |
Shifty Eyes | Causes a victim to distrust another chosen individual. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Resolve | DtD 132 | |
Special Someone | Allows the demon to stumble upon an individual matching certain desired criteria, though never a specific person. | Wits + Empathy | DtD 132 | |
Trip | Causes someone to trip over and suffer the "Knocked Down" tilt. | Wits + Athletics - Dexterity | FoH 96 | |
Victory at any Price | Increase the number of successes on the prior roll by one. The result of the "Victory at any Price" roll determines the toll the Demon pays in blood for use of this ability. | Wits + Science | FoH 97 | |
Instrumental | ||||
Ambush | Prepare a perfect ambush for some victims, gaining surprise for the first round of a combat. | Wits + Stealth | DtD 132 | |
Call Out | Weakens the desire of a target's allies to continue fighting. The target's allies will easily suffer the beaten down tilt, run away or surrender after minor damage. | Manipulation + Intimidation vs. Presence + Supernatural Tolerance | FoH 97 | |
Check Backdrop | The demon curses a combat with imprecision and confusion, such that all firearm attacks that do not take at least one turn aiming will automatically miss. | Manipulation + Firearms | DtD 133 | |
Data Retrieval | Become capable of viewing any data that a device has ever recorded or observed, but only at the time point that you specify. | Wits + Computer | FoH 97 | |
Data Wipe | Deletes electronic data more completely, penalises any attempts to recover the data by the Demon's Primum. | Wits + Computer | FoH 98 | |
Download Knowledge | Temporarily grants bonus Skill dots to a Demon. | Wits + Computers | DtD 133 | |
Efficiency | Enables the demon to perform extended actions and tasks with greatly increased speed. | Wits + Academics | DtD 133 | |
Ellipses | Causes a victim to get engrossed in some distracting activity. | Manipulation + Expression | DtD 133 | |
Freeze Assets | Perfectly blocks a victim from being capable of spending or acquiring any form of money for one day. | Manipulation + Academics - Resources | DtD 134 | |
Fulcrum Point | Moves even very large objects a short distance with a simple push. | Wits + Science | DtD 135 | |
Functional Identity | Change the functional purpose of a tool, allowing you to use its bonuses towards a different purpose. | Wits + Crafts | FoH 98 | |
Fungible Knowledge | Swaps the demon's skill ratings for a scene. | Wits + Academics | DtD 135 | |
High of Birth | Retroactively alters a human's fate so that they become wealthy or gifted and gain merits. A week later, the God Machine will send an angel to investigate the individual. | Manipulation + Politics | FoH 98 | |
Knock-Off | Dramatically change the value of an object, or change an equipment bonus. | Dexterity + Larceny | FoH 99 | |
Like I Built It | Grants the demon the ability to perfectly use and understand an object or structure, gaining bonus dice to its use. | Wits + Craft | DtD 135 | |
The Map Is Not The Territory | Inhibits a victim's ability to gain any sort of knowledge or benefit from printed materials. | Manipulation + Academics - Intelligence | DtD 136 | |
Miles Away | Fills the demon's ears with a comforting sound, that grants bonuses to resist distraction or suffering. | Wits + Expression | DtD 136 | |
Momentum | Allows the demon to use any other character's action to springboard their own, granting bonus dice based off that character's roll. | Wits + Science | DtD 136 | |
Open Sesame | Manipulates probability so that the Demon will "discover" that a door, window or other entrance to somewhere is unlocked. | Wits + Larceny - Special Penalties | FoH 99 | |
Read Hostility | Grants the ability to the demon or others to sense hostile intentions of new arrivals to the scene. | Wits + Subterfuge | DtD 137 | |
Right Tools, Right Job | Allows the demon to use virtually any tool for any task. | Wits + Craft | DtD 137 | |
Shift Consequences | Transfer the burden of some baleful effect, such as harm or embarrassment, from a beneficiary to someone or something else. | Manipulation + Occult - Varies | DtD 137 | |
Soup Up | Improves a vehicle's stats to closely resemble that often depicted in Hollywood. | Dexterity + Drive - Special Penalties | FoH 99 | |
Strike First | Moves a demon to the top of the Initiative order, even if they were surprised. | Wits + Brawl | DtD 138 | |
Synthesis | Scans a scene, psychometrically determining the cause of recent changes. | Wits + Investigation | DtD 138 | |
Tag & Release | Marks a person or object, allowing the demon to unerringly be capable of finding it for several days. | Dexterity + Expression | DtD 138 | |
Tools Into Toys | Penalizes the use of tools in a task, possibly even rendering it impossible. | Manipulation + Craft | DtD 139 | |
Trivia | Changes the nature of Trivia in the world so that it becomes truth. | Manipulation + Expression | FoH 100 | |
Turn Blade | Significantly reduces the damage from incoming melee weapons. | Wits + Weaponry | DtD 139 | |
Wasted Time | Makes an action take twice as long to complete, due to hiccups and small issues that go wrong. | Wits + Science | FoH 100 | |
Mundane | ||||
Alibi | Allows the demon to briefly dislocate from her cover, performing actions elsewhere and unsuspected. | Manipulation + Stealth | DtD 139 | |
Associate and Integrate | Change a single fact about the relationship between two people. Can be detected by unseen sense. | Manipulation + Socialise (Vs. Resolve + Composure) | FoH 100 | |
Authorized | Allows the demon to convince anyone that they have the legal right to be where they are doing what they are doing. | Manipulation + Intimidation - Intelligence | DtD 140 | |
Clothes Make the Man | Change total dots in the target skill to three and one speciality OR gain three specialities and one extra dot in the target skill temporarily, but the demon is branded an Impostor. | Wits + Persuasion Vs. Wits + Target Skill | FoH 101 | |
Cuckoo's Egg | Allows the demon to replace an object with another of comparable size, while forcing the owner to fail to notice. | Dexterity + Larceny | DtD 140 | |
Deep Cover | Allows for the Spoof ability to make the user appear as another Supernatural type. Allows the ability to determine the flavour of supernatural after the first time experiencing being observed magically. | Manipulation + Occult | FoH 101 | |
Diversion | Forces some targets to look away from a desired area, and to not look back for some time. | Manipulation + Expression | DtD 140 | |
Don't I Know You? | Causes a target to find the demon a reminder of familiar faces, improving the demon's social standing with the target. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Resolve | DtD 141 | |
Earworm | Infects a victim with a consuming thought, which penalizes perception and focus. | Manipulation + Expression - Composure | DtD 142 | |
Going Native | Temporarily turn yourself into a human. | Wits + Socialise | FoH 102 | |
Homogeneous Memory | Manipulates the memories of participants in a previous scene, forcing all witnesses to believe a cover story to explain its events chosen by the demon. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Resolve | DtD 142 | |
Identity Theft | Forces a victim into a deep sleep for several hours, while the demon usurps their identity. | Manipulation + Subterfuge | DtD 142 | |
Idle Conversation | Prevents listeners from mundanely eavesdropping on the demon's conversations. | Manipulation + Socialize | DtD 143 | |
In My Pocket | Allows the demon to produce a random instance of virtually any desired object from their pocket, provided it has not been established as not being there already. | Dexterity + Larceny | DtD 143 | |
Interference | Jams the ability of angels and the God-Machine to detect demons in an area. | Manipulation + Subterfuge | DtD 144 | |
Last Place You Look | Allows the demon to detect hidden objects in an area and grants bonuses to find them, though it does not inform the demon what those objects might be. | Wits + Larceny | DtD 144 | |
Like the Movies | After having scored an exceptional success or a failure on an action, contrived circumstance allows for a dramatic turnaround, or change in the user's fortunes. The change in fortune results in that action having been performed with a single success, but with a narrative twist. The narrative twist is beneficial if it was an exceptional success, but negative if it was a failure previously. | Wits + Academics | FoH 102 | |
Living Recorder | Allows the demon to specify a target individual to be a "living recorder" for specific duration. The demon can later touch the recorder and experience all that they did during this period. | Manipulation + Investigation | DtD 145 | |
Lost in the Crowd | Enables the demon to remain perfectly undetectable by mundane means so long as they hide in a crowd of at least ten people. | Wits + Stealth | DtD 145 | |
Meaninglessness | Curses a victim such that they lose the ability to comprehend all attempts at communication, in any medium, for a short time. | Manipulation + Academics | DtD 145 | |
Mistaken Identity | Causes the Demon and the target to be mistaken for each other for a number of hours. | Manipulation + Persuasion - Composure | FoH 103 | |
Never Here | Targets of this Embed are forced to forget the demon was even present in a previous scene at all, instead coming up with their own explanations for events she caused there. | Manipulation + Stealth - Resolve | DtD 146 | |
Occam's Razor | Forcing onlookers and the general area to try to rationalize what they witness, the demon gains a bonus to compromise rolls for manifesting obviously supernatural effects like Exploits and Demonic Transformations. | Manipulation + Persuasion | DtD 146 | |
Partitioned Memory | Causes a brief psychic split. The demon can feed fabricated information to a telepathic read, and can multitask a pair of Mental actions. | Wits + Subterfuge | DSG 100 | |
Persistent Legend | Allows a Legend to remain active permanently, instead of disappearing at the end of a scene. | Wits + Academics | FoH 103 | |
Quick Change | Instantly transforms the demon's outfit to meet desired specifications. | Manipulation + Subterfuge | DtD 146 | |
The Voting Dead | Assume the identity of a dead person, which for the period which the Embed is active replaces the real identity of your cover. | Manipulation + Politics | FoH 103 | |
Unperson | For one scene, strips a victim of their ability to identify themselves to anyone, even those intimately familiar with them. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Composure | DtD 147 | |
Wave Function Collapse | Traps a supernatural being in their current form, preventing them from changing. Demon (or non-human supernatural) forms cannot turn into humans, human-forms cannot turn into demon forms temporarily and Demons in cover cannot separate from their cover in any way. | Dexterity + Brawl Vs. Stamina + Supernatural Tolerance | FoH 104 | |
Without a Trace | Vaporizes all physical traces of the demon from a scene. | Manipulation + Investigation | DtD 147 | |
You Can Tell Me | Causes the target to speak nothing but the whole truth about a subject. | Manipulation + Empathy - Composure | FoH 105 | |
Vocal | ||||
Across a Crowded Room | Enables the demon to whisper to any target or targets he can see. | Manipulation + Subterfuge | DtD 148 | |
Animal Communication | Issues a task to an animal. | Manipulation + Animal Ken | DtD 148 | |
Animal Messenger | Tasks an animal with delivering a message to a specific person, who will be able to comprehend the creature's expression. | Manipulation + Animal Ken | DtD 148 | |
Borrowed Expertise | Allows the demon to lend out their skill dots and specialties to other people. | Manipulation + [Granted Skill] | DtD 149 | |
Common Misconception | Causes a target to operate based on faulty information that "everyone knows", penalizing a skill roll. | Manipulation + Science | DtD 149 | |
Eavesdrop | Enables the demon to understand any conversation he can see. | Wits + Empathy | DtD 149 | |
Everybody Knows | Sparks a vile rumor about a victim, which rapidly spreads memetically. | Manipulation + Subterfuge | DtD 150 | |
Find the Leak | Informs the demon of who in a group would most desire to talk about a particular topic, and grants bonuses to encourage them to do so. | Wits + Empathy | DtD 150 | |
Freudian Slip | Forces a mortal to make an honest and heartfelt response to the last thing the demon said. | Manipulation + Empathy (-Composure) | DtD 150 | |
Heart's Desire | Informs the demon of the target's Aspirations, Virtue, and Vice. | Wits + Empathy - Composure | DtD 151 | |
Imagine | Causes a spark of clarity in humans that allows them to see the world free of the God Machine and grants conditions appropriate to such a life-changing event. | Manipulation + Persuasion | FoH 105 | |
The Look | When in eye contact, gives a look that causes total body paralysis while maintained. The victim will slowly die of organ failure or pass out if The Look is maintained for an extended period, but external damage breaks the effect. | Manipulation + Intimidation - Stamina | FoH 105 | |
Loose Lips | Use social activity to cause a target to speak freely about information that they would not otherwise share, removing Doors. The victim passes out with only a hazy memory of the interaction afterwards. | Manipulation + Socialise - Stamina | FoH 106 | |
Marco Polo | The demon whispers a short tune or phrase which anyone present is forced to complete, ruining stealth and ambushes. | Manipulation + Persuasion - Composure | DtD 151 | |
Mercury Retrograde | Forces a miscommunication in a conversation between two targets, which the demon then gets bonuses to exploit. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Wits | DtD 151 | |
Muse | Instills an idea in a target, and grants the demon bonuses to encourage the target to act on it. | Manipulation + Expression - Resolve | DtD 152 | |
The Only Word That Matters | Causes a person to only say what the Demon wants them to say. Can either apply generally to everything the target says, or can be coded for specific trigger events. | Manipulation + Expression - Composure | FoH 106 | |
Recurring Hallucinations | Curses a victim with nightmarish hallucinations that last for days, penalizing all Mental and Social rolls and forcing regular breaking points. | Manipulation + Occult - Resolve | DtD 152 | |
Remote Link-Up | Allows a Demon to create sensory links between another individual or a group of individual that allows them to share their natural senses (e.g. vision or hearing.) | Wits + Socialise | FoH 107 | |
Rhetoric | Causes the target to temporarily support the Demon's argument in a debate, removing a Door and being temporarily sympathetic to the Demon's point of view. | Wits + Subterfuge | FoH 107 | |
Social Dynamics | Grants the demon knowledge of the dynamics and status of all those within a group, granting bonuses to social interactions that exploits this knowledge. | Wits + Socialize | DtD 153 | |
Social Engineering | Manipulates a target into divulging information that they shouldn't under normal circumstances. The information also provides a +1 bonus to a later, related Computer, Investigation or Persuasion roll. | Manipulation + Persuasion | FoH 107 | |
Special Message | Instills a secret message into a medium such as a song or a work of art, intended for a particular recipient, who will understand the message when they are exposed to the media in question. | Manipulation + Expression | DtD 153 | |
Strength Through Adversity | Causes a target to suffer incredible hardship that lasts for several days and escalates over that period. Once the effect ends, the hardship disappears but the target may come out ahead having laboured under conditions that are resolved. | Manipulation + Intimidation - Resolve | FoH 108 | |
Sum of all Fears | Learn a target's fears, breaking points, loved ones, derangements or Conditions that could be exploited to scare them. | Wits + Empathy - Composure | FoH 108 | |
Tower of Babel | Curses all those present on the scene with the inability to communicate with anyone else for a few turns. | Manipulation + Socialize | DtD 154 | |
Trick of the Light | Causes a single target to see a fleeting and vague illusion of the demon's specifications. | Manipulation + Investigation - Wits | DtD 154 | |
Trust No One | Inflicts a victim with crippling paranoia, preventing them from making use of merits that depend on others, or even to interact casually with friends. | Manipulation + Subterfuge - Resolve | DtD 155 | |
Voice of the Machine | Allows the demon to listen in to what the God-Machine is saying in an area, which may inform what angels are up to or other such knowledge. | Wits + Craft | DtD 155 | |
Vox | Change your voice to perfectly imitate any other voice or mimic other sounds previously heard as the Demon sees fit. | Manipulation + Expression | FoH 109 |
Exploits (2nd Edition)
Exploit | Cost | Dice Pool | Description | Source |
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Addictive Presence | ● | Presence + Socialize + Primum | Render a target Addicted to your presence. | DTD 158 |
Affliction | ● | Strength + Medicine + Primum vs (Stamina or Resolve) + Tolerance | Inflict interesting new physical or mental afflictions. | DTD 159 |
Allies into Gold | ● | Intelligence + Socialize + Primum | Shift the context of relationships in the form of Social Merits. | DTD 159 |
Animate | ● | Presence + Crafts + Primum | Animate an object as a servant for a scene. | DTD 161 |
Behind the Curtain | ●● | Intelligence + Computer + Primum | Travel from God-Machine Infrastructure to other Infrastructure anywhere in the world. | DTD 161 |
Break the Dam | ● | Presence + Science + Primum - Stamina | Bursts a container of liquid, causing Environmental Tilts. Can also target a living being for lethal damage. | FoH 110 |
Break to Heal | ● | Strength + Medicine + Primum | Smash an object and transfer its former integrity to another person in the form of healing. | DTD 162 |
Context Matters | ●●/●●●●● | Presence + Persuasion + Primum | Ease compromise risks by providing at least five witnesses with an alibi or explanation. | FoH 111 |
Decoy | ● | Presence + Stealth + Primum | Independently colocate as a material Cover and a demonic form in astral Twilight. | Iface 123 |
Deep Pockets | ● | Strength + Larceny + Primum | Pull a specific handheld item out of your pocket, even if it wasn't there. | DTD 162 |
Demon Car | ●+ | Strength + Drive + Primum | Merge your demonic form with any vehicle. | FoH 111 |
Demon House | ● | Presence + Stealth + Primum | Merge with a building indefinitely. | DTD 162 |
Devour Infrastructure | ● | Strength + Survival + Primum | Break down a small part of infrastructure, siphoning Aether equal to Primum, but suffer regular compromises. | FoH 112 |
Disintegrate | ●(●) | Strength + Brawl + Primum | Disintegrate an object. | DTD 163 |
Echoing Death | ●● | Strength + Brawl + Primum | Strike someone dead and, in so doing, undo their previous actions within the last few minutes. | DTD 163 |
Ephemeral Cover | ● | Strength + Occult + Primum - Defense | Tear a ghost or spirit apart as raw materials to create an ephemeral Cover. | DTD 164 |
Everybody Hates Him | ● | Intelligence + Intimidation + Primum | Render a person into an automatic scapegoat. | DTD 164 |
Extispicy | ● | Intelligence + Occult + Primum | Read the future in butchered entrails. | DTD 165 |
Eye for an Eye | ● (●/attack) | Strength + Medicine + Primum - Damage | Take the wounds out of a target and transfuse them as a brawling or throwing attack. | Iface 97 |
Force Relationship | ● | Presence + Empathy + Primum | Fabricate relationships between people. | DTD 165 |
Four Minutes Ago | ●● | Intelligence + Stealth + Primum | Retroactively leave the scene four minutes ago. | DTD 166 |
Frozen in Time | ● | Intelligence + Science + Primum - Stamina | Lock a target frozen in time. | DTD 166 |
Halo | ●● | Presence + Medicine + Primum | Create a balming, healing, soporific light. | DTD 167 |
Hellfire | ● | Presence + Firearms + Primum | Fire demonic supernatural flame out of a gun. | DTD 167 |
Hellhounds | ●/Size | Intelligence + Animal Ken + Primum | Twist an animal into a cryptid servant that needs Aether to survive longer than a scene. | DTD 167 |
Incendiary | ● (●/turn) | Strength + Science + Primum | Throw fire. Literally throw it. | DTD 168 |
Inflict Stigmata | ● | Presence + Occult + Primum | Transform a human into a stigmatic. | DTD 168 |
Living Installation | ●● | Intelligence + Medicine + Primum | Install a gadget into a living being. | FoH 112 |
Living Shadow | ● | Intelligence + Stealth + Primum | Become a shadow travelling across surfaces and between hosts. | DTD 169 |
Merge | ●/demon | Strength + Occult + Primum | Funnel demonic form abilities into one demon, who becomes an amalgam creature. | DTD 169 |
Murder by Improbability | ● | Intelligence + Academics + Primum vs Presence + Tolerance | Induce catastrophic bad luck, spontaneously killing an ordinary human or cursing supernatural beings in combat. | DTD 170 |
Newton's Nightmares | ●●● | Intelligence + Science + Primum | Amplify, reduce, or redirect the effects of gravity, friction or inertia. | FoH 112 |
Open-and-Shut Case | ● | Presence + Investigation + Primum | Links a crime to a random scapegoat or a scapegoat to a random crime, temporarily railroading prosecution of the suspect. | FoH 114 |
Play on Words | ●● | Presence + Expression + Primum | Actualize a spoken word's double meaning. | DTD 170 |
Possession | ● | Intelligence + Persuasion + Primum - Resolve | Possess a human being, occupying and controlling their body. | DTD 171 |
Rain of Blood | ●●● | Strength + Occult + Primum | Cause a plague of unnatural inclement weather, which may induce stigmatics. | DtD 172 |
Raise Dead | ●/day | Presence + Medicine + Primum | Resurrect a dead human whose soul has not been annihilated or moved on. | DTD 172 |
Raze Infrastructure | ● | Presence + Streetwise + Primum | Destroy Infrastructure, in a very literal and messy way. | DTD 173 |
Reality Enforcement | ●●● | Presence + Academics + Primum | Disconnect beings related to the God-Machine from the occult principles that enable their supernatural powers. | DTD 173 |
Riot | ● | Presence + Persuasion + Primum | Cause a spontaneous, aimless riot. | DTD 174 |
Rip the Gates | ● | Strength + Occult + Primum | Tear open a rift into or out of the Astral Realms, the Hedge, the Shadow or the Underworld. | DTD 174 |
Sermon | ●/speech | Presence + Persuasion + Primum | Dictate the morals and ethics of your audience and elicit their devotion. | DTD 175 |
Show of Power | ● | Presence + Occult + Primum vs Wits + Tolerance | Mimic a supernatural power that you have observed. | FoH 114 |
Solitary Confinement | ● | Strength + Occult + Primum - Resolve + Tolerance | Trap someone in a dimensional oubliette of total sensory deprivation. | DTD 176 |
Soul Brand | ● | Presence + Expression + Primum - Tolerance | Place a mark on a target's soul, visible through the aura. Those around the target subconsciously intuit they are under protection. | FoH 115 |
Stalking Horse | ● | Presence + Expression + Primum vs Composure + Tolerance | Expose someone to others as exemplary of a trait, regardless of whether they actually exhibit it. | DTD 176 |
Stimulus/Response | ● | Intelligence + Empathy + Primum vs Resolve + Tolerance | Induce a reflexive association between the demon's expenditure of Aether and an action the target has performed. | DTD 176 |
Stop | ●● | Intelligence + Science + Primum | Stops time for a moment, creating a space where the demon can move and use Embeds, but nothing else can move or be harmed. | FoH 115 |
Summon | ●/day | Presence + Streetwise + Primum | Initiate circumstances that will bring somebody you know to you. | DTD 177 |
Swarm | ● | Presence + Animal Ken + Primum | Conjure and command a swarm of creepy crawlies. | DTD 177 |
Swift Resolution | ●●● | Intelligence + Academics + Primum | Instantly decide a conflict or sequence of events in favor of the most likely probability. | DTD 178 |
Terrible Avatar | ● | Strength + Occult + Primum | Split your demonic form off as an independent actor. | FoH 116 |
Two Places at Once | ●●● | Presence + Science + Primum | Entangle two separate areas that the demon has visited in the past day into a single disorienting space. | FoH 116 |
Ultimatum | ●● | Intelligence + Science + Primum vs Resolve | Task an individual with a single commandment, on pain of deadly transmutation. | FoH 116 |
Urban Legend | ●/roll | Intelligence + Expression + Primum | Actualizes the cast of an urban legend as flimsy actors who can be used as facades. | FoH 117 |
Visions of Heaven and Hell | ●● | Presence + Intimidation + Primum vs Resolve + Tolerance | Projects a dramatic vision of either divine judgment and triumph or agony and terror. | FoH 118 |
Walls of Jericho | ●●● | Strength + Intimidation + Primum | Briefly strips the benefits of Defense, Armor and concealment from present foes. | FoH 119 |
The Word | ● | Presence + Intimidation + Primum - Resolve | Issue a short, simple command that is obeyed, even if it has nothing to do with voluntary actions. | DTD 179 |
Notation Legend | |
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Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits) | • |
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana) | ● |
Willpower Point | ○ |
Activation Damage | B/L/A |
Special/Other Activation Cost | ※ |
Alternate Costs | ●/●●● |
Costs per Item | ●/item |
Optional Costs | (●) |
Cost Ranges | ● to ●●● ●●+ |
Combined Notation Example | ●(○) ●/item, 1L |
Demonic Forms (2nd Edition)
Modifications
Modification | Appearance | System | Source |
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Advanced Optics | Glass lenses replace eyes. | Spend a turn focusing and gain a +3 equipment bonus on any rolls that would benefit from magnification (Eg, Investigation, Larceny or Science). Blind to anything not in field of view. | FoH 121 |
Armored Plates | Well hinged armored plates. | Armor 3/2, Defense/Speed -1. | DTD 196 |
Blade Hand | An integrated transforming body weapon. | Reflexively summon or dismiss the blade hand. 4L rating weapon, initative penalty -3. | DTD 197 |
Claws and Fangs | Metal or bone claws, needles, etc. | 2L rating weapon, no initiative penalty. Can be used to grapple. | DTD 197 |
Component Indicators | Pale blue rubbery covered with pores and bumps. | Perform comprehensive chemical testing by touching a sample for a minute. Identify things like DNA, molecular components, etc etc. Can interpret the data if necessary with an Intelligence + Science roll. | FoH 122 |
Detachable Limbs | Gaps between joints. Leaks oil when detached. | Detach any individual limb at each joint, including the torso. Each limb is under full control and can act independently. Can spend 1 Aether to instantly regrow a limb (torso counts as two) destroying the originally detached limb. Can reattach the detached limbs as an instant action, as well. | FoH 122 |
Electrical Sight | Staticky pupils. | See electrical signals and currents. Roll Intelligence + Composure to zero in on, interpret and eavesdrop on a given signal. | DTD 197 |
EMP Field | Wires and circuits and a metallic sheen. | Spend an instant action and one Aether to roll Intelligence + Primum. Short out and disable all electrical devices within 5 feet per success. | DTD 197 |
Fast Attack | Red swirling tattoos over hands and arms. | +2 initiative. After successfully striking someone, as long as the demon continues to attack that person she may reset her initiative to act before her target. Initiative reverts when no longer fighting that specific person. | DTD 197 |
Huge Size | Huge size. | +4 size. | DTD 197 |
Inhuman Intelligence | Visible alterations to head and cranium. | +2 to Intelligence rolls. | DTD 197 |
Inhuman Strength | Bulging or unnatural steel muscles. | +2 to Strength rolls. | DTD 198 |
Inhuman Reflexes | Mechanical hinges or actuator pistons. | +2 to Dexterity rolls. | DTD 198 |
Lighting | Torches, LEDs or other sources of light in the body. | Eliminates any penalties from darkness when active. Can blind a target (causing Blindness tilt) as an instant action unless resisted by Wits + Composure - Primum. | FoH 123 |
Limb Retractor | Slight increase in size of withdrawn area. Missing limbs look kinda like lumps, like the navel. | Reflexively draw Arms, Legs or the head into the Abdomen, protecting it from outside harm. Can pull objects of Size 2 or less into the body to be hidden as well. | FoH 123 |
Low Density | Feet look spidery or like a bundle of roots. | Walk on sand, snow or liquids without difficulty. Ignore "Flooded" and "Ice" tilts. May still require Dexterity + Athletics checks in very extreme conditions. | FoH 123 |
Mental Resistance | Faint blue and icy to the touch. | +2 to resist supernatural powers. | DTD 198 |
Nauseating Musk | Blood-coloured sweat droplets all over skin. Odour of garbage within about 10 yards. | As an instant action, inflicts the "Sick" tilt on any creature within 10 yards which have a sense of smell. | FoH 123 |
Night Vision | Pupils fill with green light or fluid. | See in the dark as if broad daylight, and +2 to Perception rolls. | DTD 198 |
Olfactory Enhancements | Instead of a nose, has a wire mesh with flashing olfactory detectors behind it. | +3 bonus to Wits checks that benefit from a sharp sense of smell. "Red herring" scents do not deceive or inconvenience. Can track a scent with a Wits + Survival roll. | FoH 123 |
Radio Suite | A radio-type device is embedded into the skin, as well as aerials with the appearance of veins. | Mastery over radio signals. Tune in and listen to all broadcasts with perfect clarity, interrupt any radio frequency or broadcast either voice or anything the Demon can hear over the frequency. | FoH 124 |
Resistors | Glass and ceramic resistors connected by copper wiring adorn the body. | Ignore the first source of damage suffered. The resistors shatter and are not restored until the Demon's health pool is completely refilled. | FoH 124 |
Rivet Arm | An entire arm becomes a large projectile tool. | Reflexively summon or dismiss the rivet arm. Gun rolls Wits + Firearms to attack, with a 3L damage rating, no initiative penalty, and infinite ammunition and clip size. +2 to relevant building projects. | DTD 198 |
Sense the Angelic | Hair-tendrils like copper wire. | Roll Wits + Investigation to notice the influence of an angelic Numen within the past 24 hours. If the effect has been encountered before, identify it as such. | DTD 198 |
Slippery Body | Oily residue. | +3 to Defense against grapples. +3 to escape a grapple. Can squeeze through tight spaces as if -1 size. | DTD 198 |
Sonic Acuity | Altered or filtered ears. | Hear sounds of all frequencies and volumes without disorientation or pain. Can concentrate to hear sounds through solid walls. +3 to Perception via hearing. Cannot be surprised or Deafened. | DTD 199 |
Spurs | Spurs over the demon's ankles. | Climb vertical surfaces. +3 to climbing. Climb 20 feet instead of 10. 1L rating weapon, no initiative penalty. | DTD 199 |
Steel Frame | Steel rivets stick out of the skin, ringing vital areas and joints. | The Demon's bones cannot be broken unless the source can bend steel (Durability 3, Size 0-2, Structure 3-5). Ignore "Arm Wrack", "Leg Wrack" tilts and wound penalties. Always have access to brass knuckles due to rivets on the fist (0L, ±0 Initiative). | FoH 124 |
Tough as Stone | Skin like stone. | Spend one Aether to downgrade all damage from an attack by one level (aggravated to lethal, lethal to bashing). Cannot stack on one attack, but can be used against multiple attacks in the same round. | DTD 199 |
Unyielding Vice | Pneumatic pumps, hoses and pistons adorn the hand. | The demon's grip is near-unbreakable and can grasp onto anything that would not physically destroy the hand. Gain +5 in grapples as well. | FoH 124 |
Demon Translation Guide Modifications | |||
Casts No Reflection | Body distorts light and is hard to process visually. | Visage is not captured by reflective surfaces or recording media. | DTG 40 |
Conjuration | Pseudo-magnetic mesh on palms of hands. | Apply the benefits of the Quick Draw and Sleight of Hand Merits through teleporting objects short distances. | DTG 40 |
Damage Resistance | Ignore wound penalties. | DTG 40, DTF 211 | |
Dead Reckoning | Translucent HUD eyelids. | Apply the rote quality to Streetwise and Survival actions to self-orient. | DTG 40 |
Enhanced Ability/Attribute | Add Primum to all rolls with chosen skill, or +2 to all rolls with chosen attribute. | DTG 40, DTF 211 | |
Ghost Sight | Extra pair of pupilless eyes. | Perceive ghosts and spirits in Twilight. | DTG 40 |
Immune To Bashing Damage | Immune to attacks that only deal bashing damage. | DTG 40, DTF 188 | |
Immune To Falling Damage | Negate all damage incurred from falls. | DTG 40, DTF 185 | |
Multiple Eyes | Covered in eyes or lenses. | Ignore the Blindness Tilt and Blind Condition except when they represent total lack of visibility in the demon's surroundings. +2 to Perception rolls using vision. | DTG 41 |
Quills | Spiky. | Armor +1/0. Inflict 1L damage when struck by a Brawl or Melee attack that did not roll an exceptional success. | DTG 41 |
Relentless | Geodesic metal torso. | Ignore suffocation, hunger, thirst, tiring and fatigue. | DTG 41 |
Weather Sense | Head-mounted array of microwave domes. | Detect current or future weather within (10×Primum) miles. | DTG 42 |
Technologies
Technology | Appearance | System | Source |
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Abruption Jets | Small vents that glow blue when active. | Can reflexively spend 1 Aether and completely stop moving, regardless of speed, power or direction. The Demon suffers no harm from the rapid change in velocity. | FoH 124 |
Acidic Spit | Corrosive mucus or ichor. | Spit acid up to 10 yards away as a Dexterity + Athletics - Defense attack with a weapon rating of 0A, damaging armor by 2 Durability. Also works while biting! | DTD 199 |
Adhesive | Narrow tubes extend from the Demon's fingers. | Exude an adhesive from the fingers. Can be used as a tool which grants a +3 equipment bonus when appropriate, which includes climbing. Can be used in a grapple as a restraining bond with durability equal to Primum. Any adhesive attached to the Demon's skin can be dissolved as a reflexive action. Can touch an object and dissolve any adhesive, mortar or sealant within 1 yard for the cost of 1 Aether. | FoH 124 |
Aura Sight | Glowy eyes. | Reflexively roll Wits + Investigation to ask a question per success of the Storyteller through interpreting body language and supernatural qualities. | DTD 199 |
Barbed Tail | Poisonous prehensile tail. | Close combat attacks with Dexterity + Athletics - Defense. Success deals no damage but inflicts the Poisoned tilt. | DTD 200 |
Blind Sense | Black or absent eyes. | Sense anything within twenty feet regardless of barriers. Undeterred by invisibility. Roll Wits + Investigation + Primum vs. Dexterity + Stealth to pierce stealth. | DTD 200 |
Clairvoyant Sight | Milky pupils. | Concentrate on a person or place to see the subject across any distance with perfect clarity. If concentration is interrupted, suffer the Captivated condition. | DTD 200 |
Collapsible | Parts of the body exhibit TV static. | Can shrink to as small as Size 1 as an instant action. Gain a +3 bonus to any action that would benefit from the decreased size. Spend 1 Aether to shrink to a mere 9 inches in height. Can return to normal size as an instant action and the size changing provided by this technology does not alter attributes or health. | FoH 125 |
Demonic Horns | They're horns. | Head butt using Strength + Brawl with a damage rating of 1L. Success also inflicts the Stunned tilt. | DTD 201 |
Electric Jolt | Visible electric current. | Discharge electricity as an instant action, to power a device or disable it for 10 minutes. Spend one Aether to concentrate a full electric field as 2/0 armor. Successful touch attacks with the electric field have a 6B damage rating with no initiative penalty. | DTD 201 |
Electrical Resistance | Resistant materials. | Immunity to electrocution. | DTD 201 |
Environmental Resistance | Mutating Teflon. | Immunity to environmental tilts. | DTD 202 |
Essence Drain | Fingers and palms turn black and oily. | Make a touch attack against an angel or demon with Wits + Occult + Primum - Resolve to steal a point of Essence or Aether per success, absorbing it as Aether. Possibly works on other supernatural beings? | DTD 202 |
Fire Resistance | Heat resistant materials. | Immunity to fire and heat-related environmental tilts. | DTD 202 |
Frost Aura | Thin sheet of ice or cloud of frost. | Spend one Aether as an instant action to cause the Extreme Cold tilt across a small house or large room for one hour, lasting on victims until they receive medical attention for hypothermia. | DTD 202 |
Fluid Form | You're the T-1000. | Reduce dice penalties to actions from conditions or tilts by 1. Does not affect demonic conditions. | DTD 202 |
Inhuman Beauty | Otherworldly wonder. | +2 to Social rolls benefitting from looks. Reflexively roll Presence + Intimidation vs. Composure to inflict your choice of Inspired or Swooning on all who see you. | DTD 202 |
Glory and Terror | Otherworldly terror. | +3 to Intimidation rolls. Reflexively roll Presence + Intimidation to inflict the Insensate tilt on a target per success, which can be used as hard leverage. | DTD 203 |
Laser Cutter | A small heavily wired box that makes whirring noises. | When used, ignores 5 Durability or Armour. Does 3 Structure or 3L per turn of use. Against objects, it has a Dexterity + Crafts roll. Against living beings, it requires a Dexterity + Firearms roll, which ignores defence unless the target would gain defence against firearms. Damage is reduced by 1 for each five feet in distance the target is from the demon. | FoH 125 |
Mantle of Fire | Fire as hair and jets of fire shoot out from the shoulders. | Anything that comes into contact with the Demon suffers 2L a turn. Can subdue the effect as a reflexive action. Can also spend 1 Aether to enhance the effect to do one of three things: Create thick smoke covering 30 yards inflicting penalties based on distance, double the flaming intensity to improve damage to 4L or cause the mantle to explode as if it were a 2L explosion. | FoH 125 |
Mind Reading | Coppery sclera. | Reflexively roll Wits + Persuasion + Primum vs. Resolve + Supernatural Tolerance to read surface thoughts as long as concentration holds. Digging for specific knowledge costs one Willpower and requires Wits + Subterfuge - Resolve as an extended action. | DTD 203 |
Mirrored Skin | Mirrored scales. | Invisible while standing still, though detected by non-sight-based senses. Unimpeded by other demonic form abilities. +3 to Stealth rolls and a -1 penalty to rolls to notice the demon while sneaking. | DTD 203 |
Multiversal Antenna | A massive antenna sticking outside of the Demon's head with radar dishes and coils. | Allows a Demon to sense Splinter fractures and similar divergent timelines. Allows you to ask questions about a target (be it place, person or fracture) and how the alternate timeline could be different compared to the current situation. Spend 1 Aether and roll Wits + Occult + Primum. | Iface 28 |
Savant Core | Computer type system embedded in the body. | The core contains a Skill with 5-dots. The demon can access this functionality with an instant action, replacing their current score with that of the Savant Core. | FoH 125 |
Shielded Compartment | Small safe-door embedded in the chest. | A 1-foot cubed pocket dimension exists inside the Demon which can be used to store objects. Objects stored inside cannot be detected by mundane or supernatural means. The door cannot be opened by another unless the Demon is unconscious. Opening the door requires an extended Wits + Larceny with successes exceeding the Demon's Strength + Primum. | FoH 126 |
Demon Translation Guide Technologies | |||
Affirm | Psychoactive crystal forehead light array. | Spend one Aether to restore a point of Willpower or grant Inspired or Steadfast to a subject with no Supernatural Tolerance. | DTG 39 |
Beckon | Pheromonal facial glands. | Roll Presence + Expression - target's Composure to inflict Swooning. | DTG 39 |
Enhanced Ability/Attribute | Spend 1 aether to add Primum to all rolls involving skills of one category (physical, mental, or social) until the end of the scene. | DTG 40, DPG 98 | |
Eyes of Fate | Feathery antennae. | Spend one Aether to intuit an ongoing or imminent event relevant to the demon within his Primum in miles. | DTG 40 |
Frenzy | Spinal injection tubes. | Spend one Aether to invoke Demonic Rage. Take 8-Again on attack rolls for the duration. | DTG 40 |
The Host | Serrated sawblade skin. | When grappling, reflexively bite the opponent with Strength + Brawl, at a 2L weapon rating. | DTG 40 |
Immune To Poisons | Immune to damage and impairment from all toxins and drugs. | DTG 41, DTF 209 | |
Mirage | Body undulates across perceived distances. | Apply Defense against Firearms attacks, even taken unaware. | DTG 41 |
Mist | Smoke vents behind jaw. | Spend one Aether and roll Stamina + Science to obscure a radius of a yard per success with smoke, for up to a scene. | DTG 41 |
Reaper's Breath | Forearm-mounted gas grenade launchers. | Spend one Aether to suffuse an area (Primum) yards in diameter with poisonous gas, to which the demon is immune, for up to a scene. | DTG 41 |
Rend the Soul | Tendrils that conduct existential dread. | Spend one Aether and roll Presence + Science - the target's Resolve. Inflict Stunned on success, and if the target is an ordinary human, also either Beaten Down or, for a day per success, Broken or Madness. | DTG 41 |
Sense the Hidden | Rotating silver rosary collar. | Spend one Aether and roll Wits + Medicine to locate all life of Size 1 or greater within a yard per success, for one scene. | DTG 41 |
Touch of Death | Taser fingers. | Roll Dexterity + Brawl - Defense to inflict Stunned. | DTG 41 |
Toxins | Hollow plastic fingernails. | Spend one Aether as an instant action to secrete a moderate Poisoned or Sick Tilt with Brawl and Weaponry attacks for the scene, or two Aether to inflict a grave Tilt. | DTG 41-42 |
Propulsions
Propulsion | Appearance | System | Source |
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Aquatic | Flippers and aerodynamic shapes for the body. Membranes cover orifices when submerged. | Can swim underwater with a species factor of 10. Can spend 1 Aether to turn into the liquid. In liquid form, the Demon cannot be harmed, even if state changes (e.g. freezing the body of water) would render her unable to act. The demon cannot 'divide' and can only move through full bodies of water that could support the size. Reforming depends on how much liquid is present, but costs 1 Aether. | FoH 126 |
Burrowing | Drills are part of the hands and feet. | Can burrow underground. Move through loose material at speed, Durability 1 at half speed, Durability 2 at one quarter speed. Durability 3 materials can be burrowed through at a speed of 1 and requires 1 Aether a minute. Can be used as a weapon, statistically identical to a Chainsaw (5L, -6Init, Str 4, Sz 3, 9-Again, 2 Handed). | FoH 126 |
Long Limbs | Elongated, graceful spindles. | +2 to Athletics rolls (but not Defense). +5 to Speed. | DTD 204 |
Phasing | A low hum of electricity and faint transparency. | Spend one Aether to become incorporeal and travel through objects at half Speed, reverting to corporeal form after passing through. Cannot carry objects or people with you. Incorporeality confers a -2 penalty to attacks against you. | DTD 204 |
Plasma Drive | Visible plasma veins and tubing. | Don't tire from dodging or athletic feats. No penalties to Defense from multiple attackers in a round. +2 to Defense in single combat. May apply Defense against ranged attacks. May spend one Aether reflexively to run and take an action as normal, without losing Defense. | DTD 204 |
Spatial Distortion | You look two-dimensional. | Warp space as an instant action to achieve the effects of smaller size. Spend one Aether and roll Intelligence + Occult to become nearly invisible through sheer thinness for a number of turns equal to successes. Finding the demon requires contesting this roll with Wits + Investigation. | DTD 204 |
Teleportation | Tracery that reacts when teleporting. | Reflexively spend one Aether to teleport anywhere within line of sight. Cannot bring people or anything of significant size with you. | DTD 204 |
Tether | Grappling appendage. | Make a touch attack with Strength + Athletics to grapple up to 20 yards away and ratchet yourself to the target object at running speed. Can carry up to another person with you. Can pull a target with Strength + Athletics - Defense, rendering the person grappled, and enabling the demon to pull the target closer as a grappling maneuver each turn. May hold or restrain, but not perform other maneuvers. | DTD 204 |
Tread | Legs appear as a cluster of treaded wheels. | Ignores environmental penalties from ground-based obstacles and is not slowed at all when carrying objects up to Strength. Can also perform a car-crash attack, with the tread having a handling of 2, with a Dexterity + Athletics + Handling - Defence roll. Crashing into other vehicles causes half of structure damage as Lethal to the Demon instead. | FoH 127 |
Urban Fluidity | Moves between objects in a near-imperceptible blur. | As an replacement for a character's standard movement, can move directly in a straight line instantly to a man-made object, standing on it as if gravity were irrelevant. | FoH 127 |
Wings | Wings. | You can fly. Add a species factor of 10 to your Speed while flying. | DTD 205 |
Processes
Process | Appearance | Systems | Source |
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Aegis Protocol | Grow a small shield from your hand. | Reflexively summon or dismiss the aegis. Grants partial concealment and +2 to Defense with no initiative penalty. Can shield bash with a damage rating of 1L. Spend one Aether to reflexively expand the shield into an armored barrier, gaining 2/2 armor that stacks with any other armor. | DTD 205 |
Amorphous | Skin looks like soft, poorly worked putty. | When in full demonic form only, the demon can spend Aether to substitute parts of its demonic form as an instant action. 1 Aether allows the replacement of a technology with another technology or a modification with another modification. 2 Aether allows for replacement of propulsion with another propulsion. Reverting to cover restores all substituted form abilities to their original ones. Spending 1 Aether allows for reversion of one or more changed form abilities to their original form. The Demon can only substitute their original form abilities, they have to revert changed form abilities if they wish to change them to a different form later. | FoH 127 |
Body Modification | Scarification and fissures. | Reflexively reallocate Physical Attribute dots. Must obey Primum restrictions on Attribute maximums, and cannot reduce any Attribute to zero dots. | DTD 205 |
Cavernous Maw | Glasgow smile with unhinging jaws. | Eat anything. Larger objects take 2 Structure damage per bite until destroyed. As a bite attack, weapon rating of 2A. | DTD 205 |
Corruption Aura | Tangible noxious aura. | Spend one Aether and roll Presence + Occult as an instant action to concentrate the aura, dealing one Structure damage to large structures every five minutes, or every other round for smaller objects. The demon's possessions are immune. | DTD 205 |
Dataform | Capacitors, microprocessors and metal gates cover the skin. | As an Instant action, spend 1 Aether to transform into data, with an upkeep of 1 Aether per turn to maintain it. If touching some form of technology that can facilitate data transmission, the Demon can be downloaded or uploaded as fast as the technology allows. When travelling, can only determine location by data identifiers such as IP Addresses, but can interpret the information as geographical with a Wits + Computer roll at a -2 penalty. | FoH 128 |
Eliminator Cannon | Transform one entire arm into a Mortar/Grenade launcher. | Fire a concussion or fragmentation grenade as an action using Dexterity + Firearms. The grenades have 75/150/300 range, blast area of 3, and 3L or 3B damage as determined by the Demon. Alternatively, spend 1 Aether to create a triggered or timed explosive. The explosive has a blast area of 4 and a damage of 3 + Primum. Trigger is performed by spending 1 Aether and has no range limit, provided the Demon is still on the same plane of existence as the explosive. Up to 2 x Primum undetonated explosives can be maintained, if more are created one randomly dissolves. | FoH 128 |
Extra Mechanical Limbs | Extra mechanical limbs. | Can operate the extra limbs independently without penalty. +3 to Strength rolls benefitting from the focused use of all the character's arms. +3 to Defense if at least two hands are free. Extra limbs deal lethal instead of bashing damage with unarmed attacks. | DTD 206 |
Insect Swarm | You are a swarm of creepy crawlies. | Reflexively spend one Aether to discorporate into a mobile swarm; reincorporate into a single mass of demon reflexively at no cost. In swarm form, the demon only dies if every bug is killed. The demon becomes a Swarm environmental tilt. Losing at least half the demon's mass from separation or damage causes the demon to fall unconscious when reincorporated. | DTD 206 |
Magnesium Flare | Illuminate a five feet radius. | Spend one Aether and roll Presence + Intimidation vs. Wits + Athletics as an instant action to focus the magnesium flare against people. Blind those who see you and fail to resist. You can be seen from a distance away. | DTD 206 |
Memory Theft | You've got a USB cord to jack into people's heads. | Control a grapple and jack into the target's brain to incapacitate them without causing damage. Spend one Aether and roll Manipulation + Subterfuge - Composure as an extended action to download an hour's worth of memories. Can attempt to alter memories or induce amnesia. | DTD 207 |
Multiple Images | Hash mark tattoos incorporate into duplicate images of the demon. | Reflexively spend one Aether and roll Manipulation + Intimidation + Primum vs. Composure + Supernatural Tolerance to display a legion of mirage-demons, inducing the Insane tilt and taking partial concealment against anyone who fails to distinguish the real demon from the duplicate images. | DTD 207 |
Nanobot Composition | Active body part breaks down into a cloud of microscopic machines. | Can create simple objects and machines from the body. Cannot change size, but can reconfigure the body's shape into different configurations. Can reflexively spend 1 Aether to disperse a part of the body, ignoring a single attack or direct source of harm. Dispersed body parts can only be hurt with things that attack areas, like fire. | FoH 128 |
Quill Burst | Quills. | Spend one Aether to roll Strength + Athletics as an attack against everyone in a ten foot radius. Each target hit takes 1L damage and suffers from the Poisoned tilt until the quill is removed. Armor prevents damage as normal and in doing so prevents the tilt. Removing the quill requires medical attention. | DTD 207 |
Rain of Fire | Radiate heat. | Spend one Aether to roll Intelligence + Primum as an instant action to call down a rain of flame for (Primum) turns. Direct the flames with Wits + Occult - Defense, causing 3L damage. | DTD 208 |
Voice of the Angel | Your voice is autotuned. | Spend one Aether and roll Presence + Expression + Primum - Composure to shriek, dealing successes in bashing damage to those who can hear you and ignoring armor. Those who take damage are also Deafened. | DTD 208 |
Wound Healing | Riddled with scars or welts. | Heal either 1B or 1L per turn, reflexively. | DTD 208 |
Demon Translation Guide Processes | |||
Aura of Dread | Psychoactive black discs cover the body. | Spend one Aether to inflict Insensate on targets within (Primum) yards, for up to a scene. | DTG 39 |
Aura of Entropy | Nuclear rods project from the shoulders and back. | Deal 1B every 2 rounds to organic targets within Primum yards. | DTG 39 |
Aura of Misfortune | Protruding sonic ring around the crown of the head. | Spend one Aether and roll Presence + Occult as an instant action. Downgrades failures to dramatic failures and exceptional successes to successes within (Primum) yards. | DTG 39 |
Aura of Vitality | Medical ovipositor. | Spend one Aether to heal a target of non-aggravated damage, at a rate of (Primum) points of either bashing damage removed, or lethal reduced to bashing, per turn. | DTG 39 |
Cloak of Shadows | Arcane brands cause viewers to avert their gaze. | Spend one Aether to activate for a scene. While active, take the rote quality on Stealth rolls, and apply the effects of the Blindness Tilt to attacks directed at you. | DTG 40 |
Deathgrip | Body is composed of sandlike granules. | Resurrect when killed a day later with no Aether. If no body is left intact to reform, this also costs a dot of Willpower. | DTG 40 |
Enhanced Ability/Attribute | Choose mental, physical, social, power, finesse, or resistance. Gain +2 to all rolls with that category of attributes. | DTG 40, DPG 98 | |
Extra Actions | Spend 1 Aether as a reflexive action to move to the top of the initiative order, or if already at top of the initiative order instead take an instant action at the end of the current turn. | DTG 40, DTF 178 | |
Fiery Blood | Smoky breath, skin nearly burns to touch. | Projects lava over (Primum) yards from the demon when she suffers lethal or aggravated damage. For each turn of exposure, the lava flow inflicts a point of lethal damage per times the demon has suffered lethal or aggravated wounds this scene. Can be halted reflexively. | DTG 40 |
Nimble Hunter | Elongated snout and backwards-facing knees. | Has the effects of Olfactory Enhancements, plus while in natural surroundings, take the rote quality to Athletics, Stealth and Survival rolls. | DTG 41 |
Sun's Bounty | Solar arrays that unfold like wings. | Activate and deactivate as an instant action. While active, you are Immobilized, but recover a point of Aether per turn of exposure to bright sunlight, or per minute of exposure to typical artificial lighting. Spend one Aether when activating to partially deploy, freeing mobility but reducing rates to by the minute or hour. | DTG 41 |
Merits, Demon (2nd Edition)
Merit | Cost | Requirements | Description | Source |
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Advance Form | • | Have one less Modification or Technology, but one more Propulsion or Process. | FoH 128 | |
Bolthole | • to •••••+ | Your Cover's Infrastructure contains a time-static warded safehole to duck into. See Merits, Locations for more detail. | DtD 120 | |
Consummate Professional (Agenda) | •• | You can resolve an Agenda Condition twice rather than once per session. | DtD 121 | |
Cultists | •• to ••••• | You have a cult loyal to your demonic identity. More dots purchase more dedicated and loyal cultists, or at five dots, supernaturally endowed cultists. | DtD 121 | |
Efficient Dealer | •• | Ignore one level of asset on the Demon's side when creating a pact. | FoH 128 | |
Electromagnetic Linguistics | •• | Can speak and understand machine code. Includes instinctively understanding what computer code does or 'hearing' text messages as they're transmitted. | FoH 128 | |
High Tolerance | • or •• | Can graft one gadget containing a Demon Form ability without losing access to an existing one. One dot allows for Modification or Technology, Two dots allows for Propulsion or Process. | FoH 129 | |
Living the Lie | • | Primum •• | Allows you to give Covers a Virtue and Vice and regain willpower using them or the Demon's own Virtue and Vice. | FoH 129 |
Monkeywrencher | •• | Primum •• | Gain the ability to negate Embeds that match the Demon's Cipher (with known Keys) or Incarnation. Spend an Aether and roll Resolve + Primum, each success subtracting from the Embed user's success. Can also counter Numina from Angels. | FoH 129 |
Multiple Agendas | •• | You have dedicated yourself to two Agendas. | DtD 121 | |
Resonance Aware | • to ••••• | Wits ••• | Add the dots in Resonance Awareness to Primum when determining the range of sensing Aether. | FoH 129 |
Resonance Sensitive | • | Wits •••• | Activating the ability to detect Aether does not cost Aether. The ability to detect Aether can be turn on and off reflexively and you can automatically detect any nearby Aether. | FoH 129 |
Suborned Infrastructure | • to ••• | You have taken over and rigged an instance of God-Machine Infrastructure to produce Aether. Like all Infrastructure, it has a linchpin. | DtD 121 | |
Subsumed Gadget | •• | Primum ••• | Integrate a Gadget into your Demonic form so it can be healed as if a part of their body and can be activated by concentrating. However, it cannot be hidden when Demonic Form is exposed. | FoH 129 |
Sympathetic Stigmatic | •• | True Friend | Have a sympathetic friend who understands the Demon's plight. Gain +2 on all rolls to find a Key if the Sympathetic Stigmatic is present. Additionally, gain 9-again on all rolls to use an Interlock that has been unlocked in that Stigmatic's presence. The Stigmatic bears no obvious Stigmata, but suffers the same injury that the Demon does. Comes with the equivalent Stigmatic merit "Sympathetic Demon". | FoH 129 |
Tattooed Gadget | •• | Can use your own body as hardware for Embedded Gadget creation. Tattooed Gadgets cannot be lost, stolen, destroyed or overclocked and do not need triggers for activation. | FoH 129 | |
Terrible Form (Style) | • to •••• | Body Modification: Your demonic form has an extra Modification. Technological Advancement: Your demonic form has an extra Technology. Jet Propulsion: Your demonic form has an extra Propulsion. Dual Processors: Your demonic form has an extra Process. |
DtD 122 | |
Versatile Transformation | • | When you partially transform, it costs one Aether for every two form abilities manifested. Manifesting extra abilities is optional. | DtD 122 |
Notation Legend | |
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Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits) | • |
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana) | ● |
Willpower Point | ○ |
Activation Damage | B/L/A |
Special/Other Activation Cost | ※ |
Alternate Costs | ●/●●● |
Costs per Item | ●/item |
Optional Costs | (●) |
Cost Ranges | ● to ●●● ●●+ |
Combined Notation Example | ●(○) ●/item, 1L |
Power Stat (2nd Edition)
Major Templates
Acclimation
Possessed by: Deviants
Acclimation is rated from 0 to 5. Its rating is directly added to dice pools, Supernatural Tolerance, and Stability.
Azoth
Possessed by: Prometheans
Azoth | Trait Cap | Pyros | Azothic Radiance | Wasteland Creation | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | Rate | Size | |||
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | Building | Six months | Room |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | City block | Six months | Room |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | Several blocks | Month | Small home |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | Neighborhood | Month | Small home |
5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | Quadrant/borough | Month | Building |
6 | 6 | 20 | 6 | Half a city | Week | Building |
7 | 7 | 30 | 7 | City | Week | City block |
8 | 8 | 40 | 8 | City | Day | Neighborhood |
9 | 9 | 50 | 9 | City | Day | City |
10 | 10 | 100 | 10 | City | Day | Region |
Blood Potency
Possessed by: Vampires, ghouls
Blood Potency | Trait Cap | Vitae | Feeding Requirement | Sunlight Damage | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | ||||
0 | 5 | Stamina | 1 | Animals | None |
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | Animals | Every ten minutes |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | Animals | Every ten minutes |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | Humans | Every minute |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | Humans | Once a turn |
5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | Humans | Once a turn |
6 | 6 | 20 | 6 | Kindred | Twice a turn |
7 | 7 | 25 | 7 | Kindred | Twice a turn |
8 | 8 | 30 | 8 | Kindred | Thrice a turn |
9 | 9 | 50 | 10 | Kindred | Thrice a turn |
10 | 10 | 75 | 15 | Kindred | Five times a turn |
Gnosis
Possessed by: Mages
Gnosis | Trait Cap | Mana | Ritual Interval | Yantras | Paradox | Combined Spells | Obsessions | Arcana Limits | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | Best | Others | |||||||
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | Three hours | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | Three hours | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | Hour | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | Hour | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | Half hour | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
6 | 6 | 20 | 6 | Half hour | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
7 | 7 | 25 | 7 | Ten minutes | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
8 | 8 | 30 | 8 | Ten minutes | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
9 | 9 | 50 | 10 | One minute | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
10 | 10 | 75 | 15 | One minute | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
Lair
Possessed by: Beasts, Insatiable
Lair | Trait Cap | Chambers | Lair Traits | Extended Lifespan | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | /Scene | ||||
1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | None |
2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | None |
3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | None |
4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | None |
5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | None |
6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | +50 years |
7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | +100 years |
8 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 5 | +150 years |
9 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 5 | +200 years |
10 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 6 | +250 years |
Primal Urge
Possessed by: Werewolves
Primal Urge | Trait Cap | Essence | Regeneration | Hard Rage | Feeding Limit | Hunt Interval | Lunacy Penalty | Tracking Bonus | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | ||||||||
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1B | 10 minutes | None | Three months | 0 | 0 |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1B | 10 minutes | Meat | Three months | 0 | 0 |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1B | 15 minutes | Meat | One month | 0 | 0 |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 2B | 20 minutes | Raw meat | One month | -2 | +1 |
5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 2B | 30 minutes | Raw meat | Three weeks | -2 | +1 |
6 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 3B | 1 hour | Carnivores | Three weeks | -2 | +2 |
7 | 7 | 25 | 7 | 3B | 2 hours | Carnivores | One week | -2 | +2 |
8 | 8 | 30 | 8 | 4B | 3 hours | Essence | One week | -3 | +3 |
9 | 9 | 50 | 10 | 5B | 6 hours | Essence | Three days | -4 | +3 |
10 | 10 | 75 | 15 | 6B | 12 hours | Essence | Three days | -5 | +4 |
Primum
Possessed by: Demons
Primum | Trait Cap | Aether | Max Covers | Primum Glitches | Demonic Form Evolution | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | |||||
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Starting form |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | New Modification |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | — |
5 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | — |
6 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | New Technology |
7 | 7 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 1 | — |
8 | 8 | 30 | 8 | 6 | 2 | — |
9 | 9 | 50 | 10 | 6 | 2 | — |
10 | 10 | 100 | 15 | 7 | 3 | New Process |
Sekhem
Possessed by: Mummies, immortals
Sekhem | Trait Cap | Pillars/Turn | Attribute Bonus | Utterances | Descent Rolls | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Before Rolling | Frequency | |||||
1 | 5 | 1 | +1 | • | Chronicle or 160 days | Story or 40 days |
2 | 5 | 2 | +2 | •• | Two stories or 100 days | Two chapters or 20 days |
3 | 5 | 2 | +2 | ••• | Story or 60 days | Chapter or 10 days |
4 | 5 | 2 | +2 | •••• | Three chapters or 40 days | Chapter or 5 days |
5 | 5 | 3 | +3 | ••••• | Two chapters or 20 days | Three scenes or 3 days |
6 | 6 | 3 | +3 | ••••• | Chapter or 10 days | Three scenes or 2 days |
7 | 7 | 4 | +3 | ••••• | Chapter or 5 days | Two scenes or 1 day |
8 | 8 | 4 | +4 | ••••• | Three scenes or 2 days | Two scenes or 1 day |
9 | 9 | 5 | +4 | ••••• | Two scenes or 1 day | Scene or 12 hours |
10 | 10 | 5 | +4 | ••••• | Scene or 12 hours | Scene or 12 hours |
Synergy
Possessed by: Bound
Synergy | Trait Cap | Plasm | Touchstones | Liminal Aura | Relationship | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | |||||
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | Coercive |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 1 | Anchor | Positional |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 2 | Anchor | Positional |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 2 | Anchor | Positional |
5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 2 | Anchor | Sympathetic |
6 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 3 | Open | Sympathetic |
7 | 7 | 30 | 7 | 3 | Open | Sympathetic |
8 | 8 | 40 | 8 | 3 | Open | Empathetic |
9 | 9 | 50 | 9 | 3 | Controlled | Empathetic |
10 | 10 | 100 | 10 | 3 | Controlled | Empathetic |
Wyrd
Possessed by: Changelings, fae-touched
Wyrd | Trait Cap | Glamour | Goblin Fruit | Disease/Fatigue | Frailty Accumulation | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | |||||
0 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | -0 | — |
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 3 | -1 | — |
2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 7 | -1 | New minor |
3 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 7 | -2 | — |
4 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 13 | -2 | New minor |
5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 13 | -2 | — |
6 | 6 | 20 | 6 | 13 | -3 | New major |
7 | 7 | 25 | 7 | 29 | -3 | — |
8 | 8 | 30 | 8 | 29 | -3 | New minor |
9 | 9 | 50 | 10 | 101 | -3 | — |
10 | 10 | 75 | 15 | ∞ | -4 | New major |
Other Templates
Hollow
Possessed by: Tremere
Hollow | Obsessions | Mana | Sustenance | Other Traits | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | Sleeper | Awakened | |||
1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 6 months | 1 year | Soul Sight, Soul Breath, Burn Soul, Devour the Years |
2 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 5 months | 10 months | Secret of the Soul Jar |
3 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 4 months | 9 months | Lesser Soul Grasp, House Attainment |
4 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 3 months | 8 months | Subtle Ruling Arcanum |
5 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 2 months | 6 months | Hollow Vessel |
6 | 4 | 16 | 6 | 1 month | 5 months | Subtle Ruling Arcanum, House Attainment |
7 | 4 | 20 | 7 | 2 weeks | 4 months | Greater Soul Grasp |
8 | 5 | 24 | 8 | 1 week | 3 months | Subtle Ruling Arcanum |
9 | 5 | 40 | 9 | 3 days | 2 months | Grasp the Enemy, House Attainment |
10 | 6 | 60 | 10 | 1 day | 1 month | Subtle Ruling Arcanum |
Magnitude
Possessed by: Alchemists
Magnitude | Trait Cap | Pyros | Distillations | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | +Weekly | |||
1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
3 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
4 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
5 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
Rank
Possessed by: Ephemeral entities, supernal entities, Pangaeans
Rank | Trait Limits | Attribute dots | Maximum Essence/Mana | Numina (if any) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 | 5-8 | 10 | 1-3 |
2 | 7 | 9-14 | 15 | 3-5 |
3 | 9 | 15-25 | 20 | 5-7 |
4 | 12 | 26-35 | 25 | 7-9 |
5 | 15 | 36-45 | 50 | 9-11 |
Rapacity
Possessed by: Ghost eaters
Rapacity | Trait Cap | Plasm | Dread Powers | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pool | /Turn | Stolen | |||
1 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 4 |
2 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 70 | 8 |
3 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 400 | 12 |
4 | 5 | 17 | 4 | 1,000 | 16 |
5 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 10,000 | 20 |
Clarity
Changelings
A changeling's Clarity suffers attacks from disorienting experiences which threaten her ownership over her own perceptions and the stability of her central truths. Severe Clarity attacks can accumulate damage quickly, but the support of a Touchstone can heal that damage more readily than the breaking points of many other Integrity traits. (CTL 2e 107)
Dice | Sample breaking points |
---|---|
1 | Acquaintance rejects your experiences, Glamour exhaustion, having promises broken, a day without human contact |
2 | Respected authority rejects your experiences, psychotropic drugs, breaking promises, significant disorientation, a week without human contact |
3 | Trusted confidant rejects your experiences, losing a Touchstone, having formal oaths broken, disorienting supernatural influence, two weeks without human contact |
4 | Thorough "disproof" of your experiences, homicide, breaking formal oaths, recapitulation of the Durance, a month without human contact |
5 | Systematic psychological torture, premeditated murder, modifying behavior by Glamour, direct confrontation with the True Fae, a year without human contact |
Cover
Demons
Demons can sustain multiple Cover ratings at once, depending on their Primum. A Cover rating, rather than representing mental or spiritual welfare, is a psychic projection of identity, associated with a human body the demon adopts. Demons use the thoroughness and consistency of their human identities to deflect notice by the God-Machine, and risk its degredation through spectacular shows of power or gross breaking of the identity's "character."
A demon's Cover mends and grows slowly over time as they live that identity's life. Demons in need of quicker gains can steal the Cover of a forming angel with reconnaissance and support, but most depend on pacts with human beings, promising them occult benefits in exchange for scraps of their life to take as their own, ranging from shallow work relationships, to dear lifelong friendships, to the human's very existence itself.
Harmony
Werewolves
Harmony shifts when breaking points occur in one of two directions. Breaking towards flesh causes the trait to increase, towards spirit to decrease. Harmony's ideal rating is 5, with drawbacks incurred as the character drifts towards the spiritual extreme of 0 or the fleshly extreme of 10. (WTF 2e 96, 104)
Harmony | Penalty | Breaking Point | Harmony | Penalty | Breaking Point |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Breaking Points Towards Flesh | Breaking Points Towards Spirit | ||||
Any | Defile a locus | Any | Kill a human or wolf | ||
Any | Reject the Sacred Hunt | Any | Stay in the Shadow Realm for a week | ||
Any | Stay out of the Shadow Realm for a week | Any | -2 | Hunt humans or wolves for food | |
Any | Use a silver weapon against a werewolf | Any | -2 | Kill a packmate | |
Any | -3 | Stay out of the Shadow Realm for a month | Any | -3 | Eat human or wolf flesh for Essence |
Any | -2 | Violate the Oath of the Moon | Any | -3 | Stay in the Shadow Realm for a month |
< 4 | Allow a spirit safe passage into the physical world | > 7 | Inflict Lunacy on a loved one | ||
< 4 | Eat processed food | > 7 | Lead the Sacred Hunt | ||
< 4 | Mate with a human | > 7 | Spend more than two days away from your pack | ||
< 4 | Stay out of the Shadow Realm for a day | > 7 | Stay in the Shadow Realm for a day |
Harmony | Death Rage | Shapeshifting | Reaching | Bans | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trigger | Soft Rage | Action | Free | Essence | |||
10 | Passive | 3 seconds | Change | — | Instant | Cannot enter Shadow | — |
9 | Common | 10 seconds | Change | — | Instant | Leave without locus | — |
8 | Common | 30 seconds | Change | Instant | Reflexive | Leave without locus | — |
7 | Narrow | 1 minute | Change | Instant | Reflexive | Reach normally | — |
6 | Narrow | 5 minutes | Change | Reflexive | — | Reach normally | — |
5 | — | 15 minutes | Change | Reflexive | — | Reach normally | — |
4 | Narrow | 5 minutes | Change | Reflexive | — | Reach normally | One |
3 | Narrow | 1 minute | Resist change | Instant | Reflexive | Enter without locus | One |
2 | Common | 30 seconds | Resist change | Instant | Reflexive | Enter without locus | Two |
1 | Common | 10 seconds | Resist change | — | Instant | Enter without locus | Three |
0 | Passive | 3 seconds | Resist change | — | Instant | Cannot leave Shadow | Four |
Humanity
Vampires
Breaking points are experiences that inculcate increasing levels of detachment from the perspective of the living. Risking detachment feeds the vampire's Bestial, Competitive or Wanton instincts, while dramatic failure causes the vampire to become Jaded.
A vampire can inure herself to a particular type of breaking point, removing its risk of detachment at the cost of developing a bane. A vampire can only develop three banes this way (or two for Clan Mekhet), and suffers a die penalty on future detachment rolls for each bane inured. (VTR 2e 107)
Humanity | Social | Sun | Torpor | Dice | Sample breaking points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 | +2 | 1L | One night | 5 | A night without human contact, lies for the Masquerade, spending multiple Vitae in a night |
9 | +2 | 1L | One night | 5 | Witness a meal, superhuman prowess, feeding without consent, supernatural urging, an hour in the sun |
8 | — | 1L | Two nights | 4 | Ghoul, be shunned by the living, ride the wave, force behavior with Disciplines, a day in the sun |
7 | — | 1L | Two nights | 4 | A week without human contact, grave injury, violence over blood |
6 | -1 | 2L | One week | 3 | Torpor, feeding from children, being in the obituaries, immense physical trauma |
5 | -1 | 3L | One month | 3 | Second week without human contact, Blood Potency rises to 3, death in the family, swearing to a covenant |
4 | -2 | 1A | One year | 2 | Learn Cruac, impassioned violence, a year in torpor, a century of unlife, accidental killing |
3 | -3 | 2A | Five years | 2 | A month without human contact, Blood Potency rises to 6, death of a spouse or child, impassioned killing |
2 | -5 | 3A | Ten years | 1 | A year without human contact, fifth century of unlife, causing revenants, the rise of new cultures, premeditated murder |
1 | Chance | 4A | Fifty years | 0 | A decade without human contact, killing a Touchstone, heinous or mass murder |
0 | Chance | 5A | One century | — | You are lost to the Beast. |
Integrity
Mortals, Hunters
Breaking points occur when the character violates his personal moral code or acceptable societal bounds, witnesses something traumatic or terrifying, or is the victim of a supernatural assault or shock. The severity of the situation and the character's current Integrity apply situational modifiers to a roll, and a Condition is incurred. Common breaking points leave a character Guilty, Shaken or Spooked, while dramatic failure can cause the character to suffer Broken, Fugue or Madness. At lower levels of Integrity, a Hunter lives with the Persistent Vigilant or Merciless Condition as they become more absorbed in their Vigil.
Memory
Mummies
Mummies must fight to rebuild their sense of will and identity, clearing up their memory through the weight of ages. Affirming their soul and unearthing the truth of their past earns the Reminisce Beats necessary to build their Memory, while self-denial and submission of will provokes breaking points, and the Rite of Return weighs down their Memory with each new Descent into living history. (MTC 2e 161)
Dice | Sample breaking points |
---|---|
5 | Concealing your identity, obedience to Judges to preserve Sekhem, suppressing the will of your decree |
3 | Destroying evidence of your Iremite past, obstructing another mummy's search for Memory, destroying a vessel without witnessing its memory |
1 | Abandoning a meret to serve the Judges, deliberately shortening the Descent, destroying personal keepsakes of your mortal life |
Memory | Resurrection | Self Identity | Past Recall | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Immortal Lives | Mortal Life | |||
10 | Three hours | Full | Complete | Complete |
9 | Two hours | Full | Post-Rite of Return | Complete |
8 | Two hours | Full | Post-Rite of Return | General Iremite knowledge |
7 | Half hour | Broad | Post-Rite of Return | Basic Iremite knowledge |
6 | 15 minutes | Broad | Two previous Descents | Guild experience |
5 | 10 minutes | Broad | Previous Descent | Moment of death |
4 | Three minutes | Basic | Previous Descent | Loved ones |
3 | Instant | Basic | Sketch of previous Descent | Iremite language |
2 | Instant | Basic | Scattered fragments | Iremite language |
1 | Instant | Simple will | None | Iremite language |
0 | Instant | Automaton | None | None |
Pilgrimage
Prometheans
Prometheans' Morality trait in Second Edition begins at one dot and measures their progress towards grasping the New Dawn. Steps forward on the Pilgrimage only occur on the resolution of milestones to mortality, while steps backward can occur through obviating milestones, causing death intentionally or en masse through supernatural means, or stepping off the Pilgrimage onto the Refinement of Flux.
Satiety
Beasts
Beasts treat their Satiety not like a condition of wellbeing but a resource that ebbs and flows. Beasts under Lair 4 lose a point a week, while Lair 4+ Beasts lose a point every few days, depending on their rating. Beyond that, many of their abilities require or significantly benefit from the expenditure of Satiety, and different levels of Satiety equip them better for different situations. The extremes of Satiety come with dangerous drawbacks, while a rating in the middle opens their vulnerability to adversarial Heroes, meaning the ideal conditions for Satiety lie between the middle and either extreme, either high-ish or low-ish.
Satiety is regained through acts that sate the Beast's Hunger. The amount of Satiety gained is proportional to the extremity, harm or spectacle of the feeding. (BTP 320)
Satiety | Condition | Effects |
---|---|---|
10 | Slumbering | The Beast's Horror retreats from wakefulness, leaving the Beast unable to access its power, becoming as vulnerable as an ordinary human. The Beast can't spend Satiety and doesn't lose it over time, but can end the Horror's slumber through an extreme shock. |
9 | Gorged | The Beast loses Supernatural Tolerance against mental or emotional abilities, but can open Primordial Pathways to a particular Lair Chamber with ease. |
8 | ||
7 | ||
6 | Sated | The Beast is neither well fed nor desperate enough to deflect a Hero's Anathema. |
5 | ||
4 | ||
3 | Starving | The Beast's Primordial Pathways do not open as easily, but she adds her Lair to her Power rating while merged with her Horror. |
2 | ||
1 | ||
0 | Ravenous | The Beast does not naturally heal lethal damage, and suffers a point of it each day she remains Ravenous. She can't use Nightmares, and can't regain Willpower except through actions that would normally grant Satiety. She can't raise her Satiety except through a feat that would normally reap a dramatic gain. |
Stability
Deviants
The Broken degrade over time, the Scars of their transformation aggravated by rebellious Variations and by withdrawing from the obsessions by which they gird their sense of self. Pursuing those obsessions can reverse this gradual breakdown. Deviants who grow too unstable never survive the day, and often, neither do anyone around them.
Synergy
Bound
The changing empathy and relationship between Bound and geist is a measure of both the integrity of these joined souls and a measure of their power. Only when the two grow in understanding of each other can they use the powers of death to their greatest effect.
Wisdom
Mages
A mage's Wisdom is the spiritual quality that contains his Supernal power from overrunning itself, and is threatened by acts of hubris. The loss of Wisdom is accompanied by Megalomaniacal or Rampant impulses.
When a spell courts hubris, a mage can inure himself to that spell. Casting that spell no longer threatens hubris, but it gains a permanent two dice of Paradox risk. A mage can inure himself to up to his Gnosis in spells. (MTA 2e 88)
Wisdom | Tier | Long-Term Nimbus | Dice | Sample acts of hubris |
---|---|---|---|---|
10 | Enlightened | Strong connections | 5 | Petty spellcasting, affecting innocents by your works |
9 | ||||
8 | ||||
7 | Understanding | Medium connections | 3 | Obvious magical displays before Sleepers, spiritual self-mutilation, releasing severe Paradoxes, overwriting or binding the will of a sapient being, calculated murder or maiming |
6 | ||||
5 | ||||
4 | ||||
3 | Falling | Weak connections | 1 | Deals with the Abyss, destroying Awakened souls, allowing a summoned Supernal being to be dissolved by the Fallen World, impulsive or unanticipated murder |
2 | ||||
1 | ||||
0 | Enraptured | Contagious beyond sympathy | — | Your power has blown out all self-control and perspective. |
Merits, Universal (2nd Edition)
Mental Merits
Merit | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
---|---|---|---|---|
Advanced Library | • to ••••• | Library •••, ≤ Safe Place | Your library is vast enough to contain useful, direct information about supernatural topics. Choose a topic per Advanced Library dot. Every story, once per topic, you can take the Informed Condition when you consult your library about that topic. | MTA 2e 105 |
Area of Expertise | • | Resolve •• | Raise one Specialty's die bonus to +2. | CofD 44 |
Common Sense | ••• | Once per chapter, roll Wits + Composure as an instant action to ask the Storyteller a question about risks and choices. | CofD 44 | |
Danger Sense | •• | +2 bonus to detect an ambush. | CofD 44 | |
Direction Sense | • | Keep perfect track of your relative location and direction, and ignore penalties to navigate or find your way. | CofD 44 | |
Eidetic Memory | •• | Ignore rolls for recall or memory. +2 bonus to recall minute facts buried in other information. | CofD 44 | |
Encyclopedic Knowledge | •• | Roll Intelligence + Wits to recall useful trivia relating to a particular field or pursuit. | CofD 44 | |
Eye for the Strange | •• | Resolve ••, Occult • | Roll Intelligence + Composure to identify evidence of supernatural involvement. | CofD 44 |
Fast Reflexes | • to ••• | Wits or Dexterity ••• | Add Fast Reflexes dots to Initiative. | CofD 44 |
Good Time Management | • | Academics or Science •• | Make extended action rolls in half the necessary time. | CofD 44 |
Holistic Awareness | • | Roll Wits + Survival to substitute woodland scavengings for equipment when treating patients with Medicine, unless the patient suffers non-bashing wound penalties. | CofD 44 | |
Human Prey | •• | Your nerves react instinctively to danger. When violence erupts, you may suffer Insane to boost Strength, suffer Beaten Down but gain 8-Again to flee, or suffer Stunned but recover Willpower. | DTR 97 | |
Hypervigilance | • | You're overly cautious of hidden dangers. Take 8-Again to perceive traps or ambushes, but on exceptional success, suffer Spooked. | DTR 97 | |
Indomitable | •• | Resolve ••• | +2 to a contesting dice pool or resistance trait applied against supernatural mental influence. | CofD 45 |
Interdisciplinary Specialty | • | Any Skill ••• | Choose a Specialty in the corresponding Skill. Apply the Specialty's bonus die to relevant rolls of any Skill, except unskilled rolls. | CofD 45 |
Investigative Aide | • | Any Skill ••• | When you roll the selected Skill to uncover clues, achieve exceptional success with only three successes. Add a bonus element to any clues uncovered with this Skill. | CofD 45 |
Investigative Prodigy | • to ••••• | Wits •••, Investigation ••• | When you roll to uncover clues, you uncover a clue per success, capped by your dots in Investigative Prodigy. Clues from extra successes never have more than one element each. | CofD 45 |
Language | • | You can speak, read and write in a chosen language. | CofD 45 | |
Library | • to ••• | You have a cache of information relating to a particular Skill. Add your dots in Library to relevant extended rolls. | CofD 46 | |
Lucid Dreamer | •• | Resolve ••• | You may roll Resolve + Composure while asleep to dream lucidly, and may wake up at will. | CTL 2e 123 |
Meditative Mind | •, ••, or •••• | Ignore environmental and wound penalties on meditation rolls. With two dots, meditation grants +3 to Resolve + Composure rolls for the remainder of the day. With four dots, meditation rolls only need to accumulate one success. | CofD 46 | |
Multilingual | • | You can speak conversationally in two chosen languages. Roll Intelligence + Academics for reading comprehension. | CofD 46 | |
Object Fetishism | • to ••••• | You obsess over a given possession relating to a chosen Specialty. Recover Willpower each session from your obsession, and spending Willpower to roll that Specialty exaggerates both failure and success. | HL 42 | |
Patient | • | Add +2 to your maximum number of allowed rolls on extended actions. | CofD 46 | |
Renowned Artisan | ••• | Crafts ••• with specialty | You've been taught the ways of an ancient Iremite guild. Once per chapter, you may reroll a relevant Crafts action. | MTC 2e 113 |
Scarred | • | Integrity ≤ 5 | Suffer a Persistent Condition which prevents you from recovering Integrity, but inures you from a particular breaking point. | HL 43 |
Tolerance for Biology | • | Resolve ••• | Ignore Resistance rolls from witnessing biological grotesquerie. | CofD 46 |
Trained Observer | • or ••• | Wits or Composure ••• | Take 9-Again, or 8-Again with three dots, on Perception rolls. | CofD 46 |
Vice-Ridden | •• | Vice | Take a second Vice. | CofD 46 |
Virtuous | •• | Virtue | Take a second Virtue. | CofD 46 |
Physical Merits
Merit | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Ambidextrous | ••• | Ignore offhand penalties. Character creation only. | CofD 47 | |
Automotive Genius | • | Crafts •••, Drive •, Science • | Raise maximum modifications to a vehicle to thrice Crafts rating, plus number of relevant Crafts Specialties. | CofD 47 |
Covert Operative | • | Wits •••, Dexterity •••, Stealth •• | When launching an ambush, deny 10-Again to notice it, and take +3 Initiative on the first turn. | HL 53 |
Crack Driver | •• or ••• | Drive ••• | When not taking any non-Drive actions, add your Composure as a bonus to Drive rolls, and penalize attempts to disable your vehicle by your Composure. With three dots, you can take a reflexive Drive action once per turn. | CofD 47 |
Demolisher | • to ••• | Strength or Intelligence ••• | When breaking objects, ignore a point of Durability per dot of Demolisher. | CofD 47 |
Double Jointed | •• | Dexterity ••• | Dislodge joints at will. Escape from mundane bondage automatically. When grappled and not acting aggressively, penalize your attacker's overpowering rolls by your Dexterity. | CofD 47 |
Fleet of Foot | • to ••• | Athletics •• | Add dots in Fleet of Foot to your Speed, and penalize pursuit rolls in a foot chase by your Fleet of Foot dots. | CofD 47 |
Freediving | • | Athletics •• | Add Athletics to Stamina when holding a deep breath, and succeed exceptionally on three successes to fight the gasp reflex. | DTR 99 |
Giant | ••• | +1 Size. Character creation only. | CofD 47 | |
Greyhound | • | Athletics •••, Wits •••, Stamina ••• | Succeed exceptionally on three successes in a chase action. | CofD 48 |
Hardy | • to ••• | Stamina ••• | Add Hardy dots as a bonus to rolls against disease, poison, deprivation, suffocation and unconsciousness. | CofD 47 |
Iron Skin | • to •• | Brawl ••, Stamina ••• | Add general Armor equal to your dots in this Merit against bashing attacks. You can spend a point of Willpower to downgrade lethal damage to bashing equal to your dots in this merit. | BTP 117 |
Iron Stamina | • to ••• | Stamina or Resolve ••• | Ignore penalties from fatigue or wounds up to your rating in Iron Stamina. | CofD 48 |
Punch Drunk | •• | Willpower •••••• | Spend Willpower to preserve your last Health point, upgrading preexisting damage instead. | HL 43 |
Quick Draw | • | Wits ••• | Whenever your Defense is available, you can draw a weapon that falls under a chosen Weaponry or Firearms Specialty as a reflexive action. | CofD 49 |
Relentless | • | Athletics ••, Stamina ••• | Add 2 to the successes needed against you in a chase. | CofD 49 |
Roadkill | ••• | Aggressive Driving •• | When you try to run someone over, Knock Down even if you miss, and double your velocity bonus. | HL 55 |
Seizing the Edge | •• | Wits •••, Composure ••• | You get the Edge in the first turn of a chase, and if your opponent fails a roll as if being ambushed, you can calculate your target successes without their Speed or Initiative. | CofD 49 |
Sleight of Hand | •• | Larceny ••• | You can take a Larceny instant action reflexively once per turn, and victims of your Larceny can't notice your attempts if they aren't specifically looking for them. | CofD 49 |
Small-Framed | •• | -1 Size. Take a +2 bonus to hide, go unnoticed, or otherwise benefit from your size. Character creation only. | CofD 49 | |
Survivalist | • | Survival •••, Iron Stamina ••• | You can resist Extreme Cold and Extreme Heat for hours equal to your Stamina. | HL 43 |
Social Merits
Merit | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Air of Menace | •• | Intimidation •• | You wear a history of violence on your sleeve. +2 to menace others, and less rough characters must spend Willpower to pick a fight, but social maneuvering is harder. | HL 41 |
Allies | • to ••••• | You have influence and goodwill with a chosen group proportional to your dots in this Merit. Each session, you can call on your Allies for favors of a value rated 1 to 5 by the Storyteller, up to your rating in the Merit. Favors in excess require a roll of Manipulation + Persuasion + Allies. | CofD 49 | |
Alternate Identity | • to ••• | You've laid groundwork establishing a false identity: an informal history with one dot, a veneer of documentation with two, or an airtight paper trail with three. +1 to Subterfuge rolls to maintain the false identity, or +2 with three dots. | CofD 50 | |
Anonymity | • to ••••• | No Fame | Penalize attempts to find you by paper trail or living evidence by a die per Anonymity dot. | CofD 50 |
Barfly | •• | Socialize •• | You can get in anywhere socially. Penalize attempts to recognize you as out of place by your Socialize dots. | CofD 50 |
Closed Book | • to ••••• | Manipulation •••, Resolve ••• | Add dots in this Merit to your number of Doors, and as a die bonus to contest Social assessment actions. | CofD 50 |
Cohesive Unit | • to ••• | Presence ••• | Confer +2 to teamwork. With two dots, confer bonus dice each scene. With three dots, confer rerolls. | HL 42 |
Contacts | • to ••••• | Choose a group or field for each dot of Contacts. You can roll Manipulation + (relevant Social Skill) to gather information or dirt from acquaintances in any of these groups or fields. | CofD 50 | |
Defender | • to ••• | Gain bonus Willpower to spend on protecting loved ones, but losing them causes a crisis of grief or retribution. | HL 42 | |
Empath | •• | Empathy •• | Contest Wits + Empathy against Manipulation + Subterfuge for insight into a character's mental state, which can open Doors or ease breaking points. | HL 42 |
Fame | • to ••• | No Anonymity | You're known for something, locally or selectively with one dot, broadly in an area with two dots, or universally with three. Add Fame dots as a die bonus to Social rolls targeting those impressed by your reputation, and to rolls by other characters to find or identify you. | CofD 50 |
Fixer | •• | Contacts ••, Wits ••• | Obtain services as if they were one Availability dot lower. | CofD 51 |
Hobbyist Clique | •• | Any Skill •• | So long as you keep up with your fellow hobbyists, their support provides 9-Again to roll your hobby Skill, and a +2 die bonus to extended actions using that Skill. | CofD 51 |
Inspiring | ••• | Presence ••• | Roll Presence + Expression to confer the Inspired Condition. | CofD 51 |
Iron Will | •• | Resolve •••• | When you spend Willpower to contest or resist Social influence, substitute your Resolve rating for the usual Willpower bonus. If the roll is contested, take 8-Again. | CofD 51 |
Mentor | • to ••••• | You have a guide who expects something from you proportional to his or her influence, as measured by your dots in Mentor. Choose three traits out of the list of Skills plus the Resources Merit. Once per session, your Mentor can provide aid that falls within one of these traits, achieving automatic success. | CofD 51 | |
Peacemaker | •• to ••• | Wits •••, Empathy ••• | You can spend Willpower to attempt to negotiate a nonviolent end to hostilities through Social Maneuvering. With three dots, you can attempt to talk down even supernatural rages. | HL 42 |
Pusher | • | Persuasion •• | When you use soft leverage, improve your impression as if you'd also satisfied the mark's Vice. | CofD 53 |
Resources | • to ••••• | You have disposable income proportional to your dots in this Merit. Once per session, you can securely procure an item or service with an Availability that doesn't exceed your Resources rating, including any reasonable number of items or services whose Availability is exceeded by your Resources by two dots. You can acquire an item or service with an Availability one point above your Resources rating at the cost of reducing your effective Resources by a dot for a month. | CofD 53 | |
Retainer | • to ••••• | You have a mook. Your underling's dice pool is twice their Retainer rating for actions within their purview, or equal to their Retainer rating for actions outside it. | CofD 53 | |
Safe Place | • to ••••• | You've secured a place from intrusion. While there, add the Safe Place rating to your Initiative. Penalize rolls to break in by Safe Place. If you have Crafts dots, you can trap it, forcing intruders to roll Dexterity + Larceny - Safe Place to avoid lethal damage up to the Safe Place's rating. Multiple characters can contribute dots to a Safe Place and share the full resulting rating. | CofD 54 | |
Small Unit Tactics | •• | Presence ••• | Once per scene when you coordinate allies, you can spend Willpower as an instant action to confer the die bonus to a number of allies up to your Presence rating. | CofD 54 |
Spin Doctor | • | Manipulation •••, Subterfuge •• | Using Tainted Clues inflicts an additional -1 penalty instead of consuming any successes. | CofD 54 |
Staff | • to ••••• | You have employees corresponding to one Skill per dot of Staff. They can achieve a single automatic success at relevant actions using one of those Skills. | CofD 54 | |
Status | • to ••••• | You have influence as part of a chosen group. You can draw on their facilities and resources, block the use of a relevant Social Merit lower than your Status rating once per session, and apply Status as a die bonus to Social rolls drawing on your influence. | CofD 54 | |
Striking Looks | • to •• | Your appearance is noteworthy and memorable. Add Striking Looks as a die bonus to Social rolls that benefit from your appearance, and to rolls by other characters to notice or remember you. | CofD 54 | |
Support Network | • to ••••• | Appropriate Social Merit | Choose a Social Merit to represent supportive ties. You can spend Willpower to turn to those ties to weather a breaking point, using this Merit as bonus dice. | HL 43 |
Sympathetic | •• | When you engage in Social Maneuvering, you can accept a Condition such as Leveraged or Swooning to immediately open two Doors. | CofD 55 | |
Table Turner | • | Composure •••, Manipulation •••, Wits ••• | When targeted by Social Maneuvering, you can spend Willpower to preemptively respond with a Social action of your own. | CofD 55 |
Takes One to Know One | • | Vice | When you investigate an incident that resonates with your Vice, instead of suffering the normal -2 penalty, your roll gains +2 dice and 9-Again. Succeeding on the roll satisfies your Vice. | CofD 55 |
Taste | • | Crafts •• | Choose a Specialty in Crafts or Expression. You can roll Wits + (Skill in question) to draw information about the nature of a work that falls within the chosen Specialty. | CofD 55 |
True Friend | ••• | You have an unbreakable bond of friendship with a chosen character. Rolls to influence your friend to your detriment suffer a -5 penalty. Once per story, you can recover one Willpower through a meaningful interaction with your friend. | CofD 56 | |
Untouchable | • | Manipulation •••, Subterfuge •• | You're a smooth criminal. Rolls to investigate your deeds must achieve an exceptional success or else turn up Incomplete Clues. | CofD 56 |
Supernatural Merits
Merit | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Esoteric Armory | • to ••••• | You've collected enough esoterica to supply the banes of ephemeral entities with a Rank up to your rating in this Merit. | CofD 139 | |
Relic | • to ••••• | You possess an incorruptible item sorcerously crafted with the world's life force, with unique cursed powers. | MTC 2e 113 | |
Sandglass | •• | Your soul can instinctively roll Wits + Composure to sense ripples in the waters of time like the Arisen, spending Willpower instead of Pillars and Willpower dots instead of Sekhem. | MTC 2e 114 | |
Vestige | • to ••••• | You possess vessels for the world's life force which can be called upon for cursed strength. | MTC 2e 116 |
Fighting Merits
Merit | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Armed Restraint | •• | Staff Fighting ••• | Use a hooking pole when grappling to instantly Hold and penalize your opponent by its weapon rating. | HL 53 |
Body as Weapon | •• | Stamina •••, Brawl •• | Unarmed strikes add one point of bashing damage on a successful hit. | HL 41 |
Boot Party | •• | Brawl •• | Attack a prone target at -3 to deal lethal damage unarmed. | HL 53 |
Cheap Shot | •• | Street Fighting •••, Subterfuge •• | During a fight, you can reflexively contest Dexterity + Subterfuge against Wits + Composure to deny an opponent Defense next turn through dirty tricks and distractions. | CofD 61 |
Choke Hold | •• | Brawl •• | After a successful Hold, add the Choke grapple maneuver: accumulates successes across multiple turns to knock unconscious for a few minutes. | CofD 61 |
Clinch Strike | • | Brawl •• | Use the Damage maneuver instantly in a grapple. | HL 53 |
Defensive Combat | • | Brawl • or Weaponry • | You can substitute the chosen Skill for Athletics when calculating your Defense, as long as you're currently equipped to make attacks with that Skill. | CofD 61 |
Fighting Finesse | •• | Dexterity ••• | You can substitute Dexterity for Strength when making rolls with a chosen Brawl or Weaponry Specialty. | CofD 61 |
Ground and Pound | ••• | Brawl •• | Take the rote quality to strike a prone target with Brawl, falling prone yourself. | HL 54 |
Ground Fighter | ••• | Wits •••, Dexterity •••, Brawl •• | Deny close combat bonuses from being prone, and gain the Stand Up grapple maneuver. | HL 54 |
Gunslinger | •, •••, or ••••• | Wits •••, Firearms •••, Firearms(Revolvers) specialty | At one dot, can perform short bursts with revolvers. At three dots, can make a medium burst with revolvers, but doesn't gain an attack bonus. At five dots, with offhand revolver, medium burst can hit targets not close together, for an additional -2 penalty. | DE2 377 |
Headbutt | • | Brawl •• | Gain the Headbutt grapple maneuver: inflict Stunned. | HL 54 |
Iron Chin | •• or •••• | Resolve •••, Stamina ••• | Don't suffer Beaten Down from bashing damage. With four dots, never suffer Beaten Down. | HL 54 |
Iron Skin | •• or •••• | Martial Arts or Street Fighting ••, Stamina ••• | Confers half your Iron Skin dots in points of general Armor against bashing attacks. When hurt, you can spend Willpower to reduce half your Iron Skin dots in lethal damage to bashing. | CofD 63 |
Killer Instinct | • to ••• | Composure •••, Wits •••, Medicine • | You can take an instant action to size up a target's most vulnerable parts, which also counts as an aiming action. When attacking the target afterward, each dot of this Merit can ignore 1/1 Armor, ignore a point of Defense, or convert a point of bashing to lethal damage. | BTP 117 |
Loaded for Bear | • to •• | Athletics •, Survival • | Gain extra reloads on weapons, including single shot weapons. | HL 143 |
Phalanx Fighter | •• | Weapon and Shield ••, Spear and Bayonet • | Wield a spear with a shield, substituting it in Weapon and Shield maneuvers. | HL 54 |
Retain Weapon | •• | Wits ••, Brawl •• | Reduce successes on a Control Weapon or Disarm maneuver against you by your Brawl. | HL 54 |
Shiv | • or •• | Street Fighting ••, Weaponry • | You can conceal a 0L brawling weapon with one dot, or 1L with two, on your person. Penalize rolls to detect it by your Weaponry. | CofD 64 |
Subduing Strikes | • | Weaponry •• | You can pull blows with a weapon to deal bashing damage without spending Willpower. | DE 247 |
Transfer Maneuver | • to ••• | Intelligence ••, Wits •••, Brawl ••, Weaponry •• | Cross-apply a Brawling maneuver to a Weaponry Style, or vice-versa. | HL 54 |
Trigger Discipline | • | Wits ••, Firearms •• | Increase a firearm's effective capacity, or allow an additional long burst at high capacity. | HL 143 |
Trunk Squeeze | •• | Brawl •• | Gain the Trunk Squeeze grapple maneuver: deal bashing damage and cumulatively penalize the opponent's contesting rolls. | HL 54 |
Notation Legend | |
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Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits) | • |
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana) | ● |
Willpower Point | ○ |
Activation Damage | B/L/A |
Special/Other Activation Cost | ※ |
Alternate Costs | ●/●●● |
Costs per Item | ●/item |
Optional Costs | (●) |
Cost Ranges | ● to ●●● ●●+ |
Combined Notation Example | ●(○) ●/item, 1L |
Mental Styles
Style | Prerequisites | Rating | Maneuver | Description | Book |
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Professional Training | • | Networking | Contacts •• relating to profession. | CofD 46 | |
•• | Continuing Education | Choose two Asset Skills relating to profession. Take 9-Again to roll Asset Skills. | |||
••• | Breadth of Knowledge | Choose a third Asset Skill. Distribute two new Specialties among your Asset Skills. | |||
•••• | On the Job Training | Raise one Asset Skill by one dot. Take a beat when you buy dots in Asset Skills. | |||
••••• | The Routine | Spend one Willpower to apply the rote quality to an Asset Skill roll. | |||
Unintended Applications | Wits •••, Crafts or Science •• | • | Improvised... Weapon? | +2 to Intimidation rolls when you brandish something you claim is a deadly device. | DSG 95 |
•• | Achilles Fuse | You can pinpoint the weak point in a given structure. | |||
••• | Creative Discount | Jury-rig an asset up to two dots higher than your Resources in Availability, for an hour's work per Size. | |||
•••• | Gremlin | You can disable a device without leaving evidence. With equipment, you can disable complicated devices from a distance. | |||
••••• | Jury-Rig | Spend Willpower and roll Wits + Crafts or Science to make anything whose Availability doesn't exceed your successes, right away for objects under Size 6, or in a scene's work otherwise. |
Physical Styles
Style | Prerequisites | Rating | Maneuver | Description | Book |
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Aggressive Driving | Resolve •••, Drive •••, Fast Reflexes ••• | • | Powerslide | Take a hard turn for bonus successes in a contested pursuit by rolling Dexterity + Drive + Handling and taking a point of Structure damage. | HL 55 |
•• | Bump and Run | Roll Dexterity + Drive + Handling - Defense to brush a car's bumper and cause a loss of traction. | |||
••• | J-turn | Once a scene, when caught up to in a car chase, spend Willpower and roll Dexterity + Drive + Handling - 2 to swerve and restart the chase in the opposite direction. | |||
•••• | Swoop and Squat | When you accumulate a lead greater than your pursuer's Wits in successes, you may brake and force the pursuer to roll Resolve + Composure + Handling to brake in time to avoid a crash. | |||
Drone Control | Intelligence •••, Computer •••, Drive •• | • | Remote Immersion | Take 9-Again to perception actions using your remote device. | HL 56 |
•• | Interface | Spend a point of Willpower to perform an additional non-combat action through your device this turn. | |||
••• | Overclock | Inflict a point of Structure damage for a +2 bonus to your device's physical actions this turn. | |||
Falconry | Wits •••, Animal Ken •••, Bonded Condition | These maneuvers reflexively issue commands for a trained raptor to carry out. You may spend Willpower to enhance the raptor's rolls. | HL 48 | ||
• | Predator's Vigil | Your raptor's presence inflicts Shaken on animals its Size or smaller, and lesser predators flee. | |||
•• | Flyby | Your bird contests Presence + Intimidation vs Resolve + Composure to inflict a -3 action penalty. | |||
••• | Retrieve Item | Command your bird to bring you an object. Your bird can make the equivalent of an all-out attack to exceptionally Disarm an opponent. | |||
•••• | Rake the Eyes | Your bird attacks at -1 to blind a target. | |||
K-9 | Wits •••, Animal Ken •••, Bonded Condition | These maneuvers issue commands to a trained dog Size 3 or larger. | HL 49 | ||
• | Detection | Under direction, your dog takes the rote quality to track a chosen type of scent with Wits + Survival. | |||
•• | Targeted Bite | Command your dog to make called shots in combat, reducing the shot penalty by -2. | |||
••• | Tactical Positioning | When you fight one opponent in tandem, choose roles each turn for you and your dog. One takes +1 Defense, the other +2 to attack. Ignore penalties for firing into melee around your dog. | |||
•••• | Takedown Bite | Command your dog to initiate a biting grapple, immediately Holding or Dropping Prone. | |||
Parkour | Dexterity •••, Athletics •• | • | Flow | Subtract Parkour dots from target successes to pursue or evade in a foot chase. Reduce environmental Athletics penalties by Parkour rating. | CofD 48 |
•• | Cat Leap | Add one automatic success when rolling Dexterity + Athletics to land from a fall uninjured, and add Parkour to the maximum damage that can be mitigated. | |||
••• | Wall Run | Your initial climb height, with a running start, increases by five times your Athletics in feet. | |||
•••• | Expert Traceur | Spend one Willpower and sacrifice Defense to make an Athletics roll to run, jump or climb with the rote quality. | |||
••••• | Freeflow | After meditating, you can take an Athletics action reflexively once per turn, and Willpower spent on a foot chase confers successes rather than dice. | |||
Stunt Driver | Dexterity •••, Drive •••, Wits ••• | • | Defensive Driving | Penalize attempts to hit your vehicle in motion by your Drive dots. | CofD 49 |
•• | Speed Demon | When you roll to accelerate, each success accelerates by 10 instead of 5. | |||
••• | Drift | You can turn at high speeds safely without a roll. | |||
•••• | Clipping | Reduce damage to your vehicle when ramming by your Wits. | |||
Social Styles
Style | Prerequisites | Rating | Maneuver | Description | Book |
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Etiquette | Composure •••, Socialize •• | • | Bless His Heart | You can use Socialize to calculate Doors. | VTR 2e 120 |
•• | Losing Your Religion | You can take +2 dice and 8-Again to lash out socially, in exchange for worsening your social impression. | |||
••• | In High Cotton | Add one relevant Fame or Status Merit to your pool to contest a social interaction. | |||
•••• | Half-Cocked | When your impression in Social Maneuvering is good or better, ignore Resolve and Composure on your first roll against the subject. | |||
••••• | Grace Under Fire | When you offer an alternative after your Doors have been opened, the opposing player suggests three Conditions, of which you choose one. | |||
Fast-Talking | Manipulation •••, Subterfuge •• | • | Always Be Closing | Ignore one dot of a mark's Resolve or Composure when contested or resisted. | CofD 50 |
•• | Jargon | Cross-apply one Specialty from another Skill to a given Social roll. | |||
••• | Devil's Advocacy | Once per scene, reroll a Subterfuge failure. | |||
•••• | Salting | When you open a Door through conversation, you can spend Willpower to open another. | |||
••••• | The Nigerian Scam | Roll Manipulation + Subterfuge to capitalize on a present mark satisfying their Vice by opening a Door. | |||
Mystery Cult Initiation | You joined a cult. Decide your cult's guiding purpose, source of power, and cultic doctrine. Example cults are listed here. Also mirrored as Mystery Cult Influence (••• to •••••), with the same benefits but without the responsibilities of an ordinary cult member. | CofD 51 | |||
• | Recruit | A Specialty or one-dot Merit. | |||
•• | Devotee | A one-dot Merit. | |||
••• | Organizer | A Skill dot or two-dot Merit, often supernatural. | |||
•••• | Leader | A three-dot Merit, often supernatural. | |||
••••• | Mastermind | A three-dot Merit, or a major advantage beyond game mechanics. | |||
Scorpion Cult Initiation | You joined a cult in thrall to the Deathless of ancient Irem. | MTC 2e 114 | |||
• | Initiate | Gain a specialty in Academics (Iremite Religion) or Politics (Bureaucracy). | |||
•• | Cultist | Receive Language (Iremic) and immunity to Sybaris. | |||
••• | Priest | Distribute two free dots among Allies, Contacts, Resources, and Retainers. | |||
•••• | Godservant | Receive the Witness Merit. | |||
••••• | Hierophant | Harness relics of your master's guild without suffering their curse. | |||
Supernatural Styles
Fighting Styles
Style | Prerequisites | Rating | Maneuver | Description | Book |
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Armed Defense | Dexterity •••, Weaponry ••, Defensive Combat (Weaponry) | • | Cover the Angles | When Dodging, reduce the Defense penalty from multiple attackers by 1. | CofD 60 |
•• | Weak Spot | Disarm your opponent when you beat their attack by your Defense. | |||
••• | Aggressive Defense | Spend a point of Willpower to inflict lethal damage when you beat an attack by Dodging. Incompatible with Weak Spot and Press the Advantage. | |||
•••• | Iron Guard | Exchange points from your weapon rating for bonus Defense. | |||
••••• | Press the Advantage | Once per turn, when you beat an attack by Dodging, spend Willpower to retaliate with an unarmed attack at -2. | |||
Avoidance | Manipulation •••, Athletics ••, Stealth •• | • | Insignificance | Roll Manipulation + Stealth - Composure to seem too helpless to bother attacking. | HL 46 |
•• | Coattails | When you Dodge and go prone behind an ally, they may intercept attacks against you. | |||
••• | Whack-a-Mole | Contest one attack each turn with Manipulation + Persuasion + Avoidance to confound the attack and inflict Arm Wrack. | |||
•••• | Play Dead | When you suffer lethal damage, contest Manipulation + Subterfuge vs Wits + Composure to seem dead. | |||
Berserker | Strength •••, Iron Stamina ••• | • | The Red Mist | Spend Willpower to rouse the Insane Tilt. | HL 46 |
•• | War Cry | Contest Strength + Intimidation vs Resolve + Composure as an instant action to penalize non-Dodge actions. | |||
••• | Manic Brutality | Unarmed all-out attacks take +1 to call shots. Armed all-out attacks can substitute Durability as a weapon rating at the cost of damaging the weapon. | |||
Bowmanship | Dexterity •••, Firearms ••, Trained Observer • | Bowmanship attacks use bows and roll Dexterity + Firearms. | HL 47 | ||
• | Arcing Fire | Double range. | |||
•• | Bullseye | You may reduce your weapon rating for +1 and 8-Again on a called shot. | |||
••• | Out of Nowhere | When you make an unnoticed ambush shot, roll Dexterity + Stealth to force a Wits + Composure roll, penalized by successes, to avoid being Shaken. | |||
•••• | Death from Above | Fire over unroofed cover to ignore a point of concealment for every 10 yards of added arc distance. | |||
Boxing | Strength ••, Dexterity ••, Stamina ••, Brawl ••, Athletics •• | These maneuvers must be made with brawling attacks. | HL 47 | ||
• | Head Protection | +1 Defense against brawling, and -1 to strike your head. | |||
•• | Defensive Jab | Deal piercing bashing damage when your Defense or Dodging beats a close-combat attack. | |||
••• | Knockout Artist | Stun an opponent as if they had -1 Size, or with a called head shot, -2 Size. | |||
•••• | Combination | Successful strikes add Dexterity as bonus dice. | |||
••••• | Out for the Count | Stunning attacks stun for their damage in turns, and the opponent must spend Willpower to stay conscious. | |||
Brute Force | Strength •••, Brawl ••, Size 5+ | These maneuvers must be made with bare hands or fist weapons. | PTC 2e 112 | ||
• | Falling Pillar | Take 8-Again to an all-out attack. If it causes the target's Stamina in damage, inflict Knocked Down. | |||
•• | Crush and Bite | Add the Crush and Bite grapple maneuver: inflict lethal damage equal to successes, and if the target can bleed, an additional point the next turn. | |||
••• | Juggernaut | A ten-feet running start allows unarmed attacks to Knock Down. | |||
•••• | Bone Cracker | Make a called shot with an all-out attack. If it causes the target's Stamina in damage, add a point of lethal damage and Arm or Leg Wrack. Incompatible with Falling Pillar. | |||
••••• | Colossus | When you make an all-out attack, take 1/2 Armor and immunity to Knocked Down, and penalize attempts to grapple or move you by your Strength. | |||
Chain Weapons | Strength •••, Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Weaponry •• | These maneuvers use chains at least a yard long. | HL 48 | ||
• | Imposing Defense | Sacrifice Defense to inflict weapon rating +1 in bashing damage when struck in close combat. | |||
•• | Bring Down the House | Attack an overhanging object, penalized by its Size, to deal its Structure in bashing damage to targets below. | |||
Close Quarters Combat | Wits •••, Athletics ••, Brawl ••• | • | Firing Lines | You can respond to a ranged attack by seeking cover up to twice your Speed away. | CofD 61 |
•• | Hard Surfaces | You can smash a Damage grappling maneuver into a hard surface, dealing lethal damage and ending the grapple. | |||
••• | Armored Coffin | When you grapple an opponent wearing armor, add their general armor as bonus dice to your roll, and ignore armor when you use the grapple to Damage. Incompatible with Hard Surfaces. | |||
•••• | Prep Work | Take the rote quality to Stealth rolls to launch close combat ambushes. | |||
••••• | Turnabout | When you roll to disarm, treat a failure as a success, a success as an exceptional success, and an exceptional success as is plus your opponent takes two bashing damage. | |||
Combat Archery | Strength •••, Athletics ••, Quick Draw (Bow) | Combat Archery attacks use bows and roll Dexterity + Athletics. | HL 48 | ||
• | Rapid Nock | Ignore bow Initiative penalties. String arrows reflexively. | |||
•• | Reflex Aiming | Ignore penalties for firing into close combat. | |||
••• | Parthian Shot | When you Dodge, inflict threshold successes as attack damage against the first close attack you beat each turn. | |||
•••• | Rain of Arrows | Make medium autofire attacks at triple range penalties. | |||
••••• | Trick Shot | Simultaneously perform a Combat Archery attack and an Athletics action, both at -2. | |||
Disabling Tactics | Strength •••, Weaponry •• | • | Breaking the Breach | -2 to penalties to target arms, hands or legs. | DE 247 |
•• | Cast Like Sand | When you deal damage with your weapon, spend Willpower to inflict Knocked Down. | |||
••• | Strike the Rising Dog | When an opponent tries to rise from prone, spend Willpower to make a reflexive Weaponry attack on them. A successful strike prevents rising. | |||
Firefight | Composure •••, Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Firearms •• | • | Shoot First | Drawing a gun adds Firearms as an Initiative bonus. | CofD 61 |
•• | Suppressive Fire | You can lay Covering Fire with a semi-automatic weapon. When you lay Covering Fire, apply your Defense against Firearms attacks, and deny Aim bonuses. | |||
••• | Secondary Target | You can attack a target with objects bounced by a shot, dealing bashing damage with no weapon rating applied, but ignoring cover. | |||
Grappling | Stamina •••, Strength ••, Athletics ••, Brawl •• | • | Sprawl | Deny a grappling opponent the ability to Drop Prone or Take Cover. | CofD 62, HL 49 |
• | Standing Throw | Gain the Knock Down grapple maneuver. | |||
•• | Small Joint Manipulation | Take -2 to dislocate fingers as a maneuver, inflicting half bashing damage and debilitating pain. | |||
•• | Takedown | Instead of starting a grapple, you can roll to knock an opponent prone, optionally dealing bashing damage with successes. | |||
••• | Ippon | When you Takedown and follow the opponent prone, stun as if your damage were doubled. | |||
••• | Joint Lock | Add the Joint Lock maneuver to grappling options: adds 1L to overpowering maneuver effects, does bashing damage next turn, and can set up Restrain. | |||
•••• | Dynamic Guard | When you grapple while prone, penalize your grappling opponent by your Dexterity. | |||
•••• | Lock Flow | Take +2 to grappling rolls to set up a Joint Lock. | |||
••••• | Tap or Snap | The turn after a Joint Lock, you may, as a grapple maneuver, force your opponent to choose either surrender or a broken limb and lethal damage. | |||
••••• | Positional Dominance | Grappling maneuvers deal half their successes in bonus bashing damage. | |||
Gunslinger | Wits •••, Firearms •••, Firearms (Revolvers) | Perform trick shots with rapid firing | DE2 p377 | ||
• | Short burst with revolver as if automatic | ||||
••• | Medium burst with revolver only takes three rounds of ammo, no attack bonus but still has penalty for multiple targets | ||||
••••• | If using two revolvers can multiple in short range, at additional -2 penalty | ||||
Heavy Weapons | Stamina •••, Strength •••, Athletics ••, Weaponry •• | These maneuvers require a two-handed weapon. | CofD 62 | ||
• | Sure Strike | Sacrifice three dice to add a point to weapon rating. | |||
•• | Threat Range | Deal a point of lethal damage and a temporary Defense penalty to opponents who enter range when you aren't moving or Dodging. | |||
••• | Bring the Pain | Sacrifice Defense to make an attack that also inflicts a temporary dice penalty equal to its damage. | |||
•••• | Warding Stance | Spend Willpower reflexively to apply your weapon rating as close combat Armor. | |||
••••• | Rending | Spend Willpower to make an attack that deals an additional point of aggravated damage. | |||
Improvised Weaponry | Wits •••, Weaponry • | • | Always Armed | Reflexively roll Wits + Weaponry to draw a simple improvised weapon that doesn't suffer the improvisational penalty. | CofD 62 |
•• | In Harm's Way | Once per turn, apply an Always Armed weapon's Structure as close combat Armor, potentially damaging the weapon. | |||
••• | Breaking Point | When you make an all-out attack with an Always Armed weapon, sacrifice its Structure to temporarily increase its weapon rating. | |||
Kino Mutai | Dexterity ••, Resolve •••, Brawl •• | • | Trained Bite | Inflict +2 damage with the Damage grapple maneuver when biting, or +1 with inhuman bites. | HL 50 |
•• | Ripping | Gain the Ripping grapple maneuver: inflict a point of bashing damage and incapacitating pain. | |||
••• | Trained Gouge | Gain the Gouge grapple maneuver: blind the opponent while held. | |||
•••• | Continuous Bite | Inflict lethal damage with the Damage grapple maneuver when biting. | |||
Light Weapons | Wits ••• or Fighting Finesse, Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Weaponry •• | These maneuvers require a one-handed weapon with a damage rating less than 3. | CofD 63 | ||
• | Rapidity | Sacrifice your weapon rating to add Weaponry as an Initiative bonus. | |||
•• | Thrust | Sacrifice points of Defense for bonus attack dice. | |||
••• | Feint | Make a feinting attack. Instead of dealing damage, its successes apply to an attack next turn as a damage bonus, and successes plus weapon rating apply as a Defense reduction. | |||
•••• | Flurry | Inflict a point of lethal damage per turn to opponents in range when your Defense is available. | |||
••••• | Vital Shot | Sacrifice your Defense to make an attack that deals an additional point of aggravated damage. | |||
Marksmanship | Composure •••, Resolve •••, Firearms •• | These maneuvers require an Aim action and sacrifice your Defense. | CofD 63 | ||
• | Through the Crosshairs | Raise your maximum Aim bonus to Composure + Firearms. | |||
•• | Precision Shot | Exchange points of weapon rating for points of penalty reduction for a called shot. | |||
••• | A Shot Rings Out | Ignore penalties to strike a surrounded target. Missed shots never hit unintended targets. | |||
•••• | Ghost | Penalize rolls to notice your vantage point or investigate for evidence of it by your Firearms. | |||
Martial Arts | Resolve •••, Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Brawl •• | These maneuvers must be made with Brawl attacks. | CofD 63, HL 50 | ||
• | Focused Attack | Reduce called shot penalties by one die, and ignore one point of Armor. | |||
• | Leg Kick | Sacrifice a point of Defense to inflict Leg Wrack with a brawling attack. | |||
•• | Cutting Elbow | Make a called shot at -2 to blind an opponent by drawing blood. | |||
•• | Defensive Strike | Exchange up to two attack pool dice for points of Defense. | |||
••• | Trapping | You may withdraw successes from a successful attack to hold them in reserve for next turn's attack. | |||
••• | Whirlwind Strike | Inflict one point of bashing damage per turn, or two by spending Willpower, to opponents in range when your Defense is available. | |||
•••• | The Hand As Weapon | Inflict lethal damage unarmed. | |||
•••• | Inch Force | Reflexively respond to one grapple attempt each turn with a Brawl attack contesting the opponent's Strength. Success breaks free and damages normally. | |||
••••• | High Momentum Strike | Prepare a counter stance as an instant action. When an opponent first fails to strike you in close combat within the stance, roll a counterattack. Success Knocks Down and deals normal damage plus Brawl damage dice. | |||
••••• | The Touch of Death | Unarmed strikes gain a 2L weapon rating. | |||
Mounted Combat | Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Animal Ken ••• | • | Steady Saddle | +3 to stay mounted during combat. | HL 51 |
•• | Fixed Charge | Sacrifice Defense to combine a charge with an all-out attack. | |||
••• | Skirmishing | Take a -2 attack penalty for +2 Defense and to attack halfway through your mount's movement. | |||
•••• | Rearing Beast | Roll Wits + Animal Ken as teamwork to enhance your mount's attack. | |||
Police Tactics | Brawl ••, Weaponry • | • | Compliance Hold | +2 to Disarm or Immobilize in a grapple. | CofD 64 |
•• | Weapon Retention | Attempts to disarm you or turn your weapon against you must beat your Weaponry rating in successes. | |||
••• | Speed Cuff | You can Restrain an immobilized opponent reflexively. | |||
Powered Projectile | Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Firearms •• | These maneuvers are made with premodern projectile launchers, such as crossbows and slings. | HL 51 | ||
• | Quick Reload | Reload your weapon one turn quicker, down to a reflexive action. | |||
•• | Intercept Shot | When you Aim, you may make called shots against sailing projectiles to deflect their course. | |||
••• | Penetration | Sacrifice Defense to make an attack with +2 armor piercing. | |||
•••• | Skewer | Reduce called shot penalties by two dice, and resulting Tilts persist while the projectile is enlodged. | |||
Relentless Assault | Strength •••, Stamina •••, Brawl •• | • | Drop of a Hat | On the first turn only, if you make an all-out attack, add +3 to Initiative. | BTP 118, WTF 2e 109 |
•• | Eye of the Tiger | Focus on one opponent. You can apply your Defense against that opponent's attacks when you all-out attack. | |||
••• | Dig Deep | You can exchange one attack pool die for a point of weapon damage. | |||
•••• | Grin and Bear It | Add 1/1 Armor when you make an all-out attack. | |||
••••• | The Warpath | When you fill someone's last health box with lethal or aggravated damage, you can spend Willpower to make another close combat attack. Werewolves with this Merit replace the Willpower cost with Hard Rage. | |||
Spear and Bayonet | Strength •••, Dexterity ••, Weaponry •• | • | Firm Footing | All-out attacks and charges into your braced weapon inflict your weapon damage, which can exhaust Armor against a subsequent attack. | HL 51 |
•• | Keep at Bay | Spend Willpower to threaten an opponent with a shorter weapon. They must retreat or dodge, or else lose Defense for a turn. | |||
••• | Strike and Develop | Sacrifice Defense to twist an inflicted wound, causing a turn of lethal damage from bleeding for each attack success. | |||
Staff Fighting | Strength ••, Dexterity •••, Weaponry •• | • | Short Grip | You may exchange your staff's Defense bonus for a bonus attack die. | HL 51 |
•• | Thwack Weapon | Contest Strength + Weaponry vs Strength + Athletics to disarm an opponent. | |||
••• | Vaulting Defense | Spend Willpower to add your Melee dots as a Defense bonus against a single attack in a turn. | |||
•••• | Tornado Strike | Spin your weapon as an effective medium autofire burst against three targets in range. | |||
Street Fighting | Stamina •••, Composure •••, Brawl ••, Streetwise •• | These maneuvers must be made with Brawl attacks. | CofD 65 | ||
• | Duck and Weave | Take a one die penalty this turn to calculate Defense with the higher, not lower, of Dexterity and Wits. | |||
•• | Knocking the Wind Out | Unarmed attacks inflict a temporary -1 penalty. | |||
••• | Kick 'Em While They're Down | Inflict two bashing damage to opponents within range who attempt to rise from prone. Inflict Knocked Down when your attack successes exceed the target's Stamina. | |||
•••• | One-Two Punch | Spend Willpower to inflict two extra bashing damage when you hit. | |||
••••• | Last-Ditch Effort | When you're suffering wound penalties and about to be attacked or overpowered, spend Willpower and sacrifice Defense to interrupt with a preemptive attack. | |||
Strength Performance | Strength •••, Stamina ••, Athletics •• | Strength Performance ••• may justify shedding Small-Framed or gaining Giant mid-play. | HL 52 | ||
• | Strength Tricks | Take +1 to nonviolent feats of strength, +2 when using Expression or Intimidation. | |||
•• | Lifting | Receive the rote quality on Strength + Stamina feats and combat actions to demolish structures. | |||
••• | Push/Pull | Double your effective Strength to shift objects across a plane, or quintuple it with wheels or other friction reductions. | |||
•••• | Stronger Than You | Successful Strength rolls add an additional free success. | |||
Systema | Dexterity •••, Wits ••, Athletics ••• | • | Rolling | Ignore penalties to attack from prone, and roll Dexterity to mitigate bashing damage from impacts. | HL 52 |
•• | Balance | Contest attempts to bring you prone with two free successes. | |||
••• | Combat Posture | Knock Down when you roll a victim's Strength in successes to strike them in melee, or add a point of damage if already Knocking Down. | |||
Thrown Weapons | Dexterity •••, Athletics ••, Quick Draw (Thrown) | These maneuvers throw Size 0-1 edged weapons. | HL 52 | ||
• | Practiced Toss | Add Athletics as an Initiative bonus while wielding these thrown weapons. | |||
•• | Impalement Arts | Sacrifice Defense to inflict the Impaled Tilt on a called shot. | |||
Two Weapon Fighting | Wits •••, Weaponry •••, Fighting Finesse | These maneuvers use complementary weapons up to Size 2, and do not compensate for offhand penalties. | HL 53 | ||
• | Balanced Grip | Don't sum Initiative penalties so long as the off-hand weapon's penalty isn't greater than the main hand weapon's. | |||
•• | Protective Striking | Add your off-hand weapon rating, minimum +1, to your Defense against the first attack in a turn. | |||
••• | Dual Swipe | All-out attacks with both weapons ignore a point of Defense and add the off-hand weapon rating, minimum +1. Incompatible with Double Strike. | |||
•••• | Double Strike | Spend Willpower to strike two targets simultaneously, one with each weapon. Apply the higher Defense, plus one, to both attacks. | |||
Unarmed Defense | Dexterity •••, Brawl ••, Defensive Combat (Brawl) | • | Like a Book | Add half your Brawl as a Defense bonus when not Dodging. | CofD 65 |
•• | Studied Style | Focus on one opponent. Their attacks don't reduce your Defense. Once you've beaten one of their attacks with your Defense, they no longer reroll tens against you. | |||
••• | Redirect | Once per turn, when you beat an attack by Dodging, you can force the attacker to reroll the attack against another opponent in range. | |||
•••• | Joint Strike | Spend Willpower and roll Strength + Brawl instead of Defense against an attack. If you win the contest, inflict bashing damage and Arm or Leg Wrack. | |||
••••• | Like the Breeze | Declare this maneuver at the beginning of a turn when you Dodge. You can Knock Down assailants when you beat their attack. | |||
Weapon and Shield | Strength •••, Stamina •••, Weaponry •• | These maneuvers use a one-handed weapon from behind a carried shield. | HL 53 | ||
• | Shield Bash | Add your shield's Size as bonus dice when dodging. Dodge successes in excess of your opponent's inflict bashing damage. | |||
•• | Boar's Snout | You can make all-out attacks without sacrificing the bonus Defense from your shield, adding +1 Defense to any allies also using this maneuver. | |||
••• | Pin Weapon | Disarm assailants on missed melee attacks. | |||
•••• | Tortoise Shell | Treat your shield as protective cover with Durability equal to its Size, +1 for each adjacent shielded ally. |
Notation Legend | |
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Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits) | • |
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana) | ● |
Willpower Point | ○ |
Activation Damage | B/L/A |
Special/Other Activation Cost | ※ |
Alternate Costs | ●/●●● |
Costs per Item | ●/item |
Optional Costs | (●) |
Cost Ranges | ● to ●●● ●●+ |
Combined Notation Example | ●(○) ●/item, 1L |
Virtue and Vice
Most human characters' sense of selfhood and drive are reinforced by a Virtue and a Vice, or with certain Merits even multiples. A character's Virtue is a higher ideal or heroic drive they must push themselves to extremes to live up to, restoring all lost Willpower. A character's Vice is a quick fix, easy comfort, or instinctive defense to fall back on, but only recovers a single point of Willpower when indulged.
Held by: Mortals, mages, hunters, demons, and various lesser templates and ephemeral entities.
Sample Virtues: Competitive, Generous, Just, Loyal (CofD 27), Ambitious, Courageous, Honest, Hopeful, Loving, Patient, Trustworthy (MTA 2e 212)
Sample Vices: Ambitious, Arrogant, Competitive, Greedy (CofD 28), Addictive, Corrupt, Cruel, Deceitful, Dogmatic, Hasty, Hateful, Pessimistic (MTA 2e 212)
Touchstones
Some people transformed by the supernatural need grounding to remain connected to the things that gird their soul, or what's become of it. They attach to people, places, objects or ideas with personal importance, and these Touchstones provide the perspective to ground their inhuman center. Bonding or expressing their relationship refreshes a point of Willpower, while dramatic lengths taken to preserve a Touchstone restore all lost Willpower.
Touchstones can be lost through a lack of content, severed relationships, the predations of time, or the simple, classic method of murder, leaving a monster unhinged until they form another meaningful connection to take the place of the lost.
Held by: Vampires, werewolves, changelings, bound, hunters, mummies, and deviants
Vampire: Mask and Dirge
To stave off psychic fatigue, vampires construct pretenses, find roles for themselves, and develop facades. They present a Mask to the world, a false place as a relatable member of society, and shape their own Dirge, a place for themselves among monsters and corpses.
Both Mask and Dirge can refresh either a small quantity of Willpower for little incident, or all lost reserves through extreme resorts, by acting to preserve the Mask or play out the Dirge.
Held by: Vampires
Sample Masks and Dirges: Authoritarian, Child, Competitor, Conformist, Conspirator, Courtesan, Cult Leader, Deviant, Follower, Guru, Idealist, Jester, Junkie, Martyr, Masochist, Monster, Nomad, Nurturer, Perfectionist, Penitent, Questioner, Rebel, Scholar, Social Chameleon, Spy, Survivor, Visionary (VTR 2e 84), Collector, Meddler, Provocateur (TY 17)
Sample Humanity Touchstones: Ex, Former Partner, Friend with Benefits, Gravesite, High School Sweetheart, House of Birth, Intrepid Detective, Murderer, One That Got Away, Orphan, Spouse, Terminal Parent, Therapist, Victim's Lover, Witness (VTR 2e 88)
Werewolf: Blood and Bone
Werewolves refresh themselves through their internal dichotomy, between the wolf and the man, the instinctive predator and the rational actor, the feeling of living and the meaning to their life. The Blood keeps the body moving, and the Bone gives it direction. The Bone finds, and the Blood claims.
Both Blood and Bone can refresh either a small amount of Willpower through a small stress or setback, or full reserves through calamity or great costs spent.
Held by: Werewolves
Sample Bloods: Alpha, Challenger, Destroyer, Fox, Monster, Soldier (WTF 2e 86), Berserker (DE 163)
Sample Bones: Community Organizer, Cub, Guru, Hedonist, Lone Wolf, Wallflower (WTF 2e 86)
Sample Flesh Touchstones: Abuser, Ex, Old Gang, Parents, Religion, Sponsor (WTF 2e 87)
Sample Spirit Touchstones: Ambitious Totem, Buddy Spirit, Future Self, Locus, Lune, Prey, Wilds (WTF 2e 87)
Promethean: Elpis and Torment
As the Pilgrimage touches the psychology of the Created, they each push forward through what wonder or yearning fixes their thoughts on the New Dawn, and what half-formed flaw holds them back from grasping it.
Both Elpis and Torment can refresh either a single point or full complement of Willpower. Unlike many Anchors, the Elpis isn't stoked by actions, but experiences. Merely witnessing one of the living recall the Promethean's Elpis restores a point, while having that feeling vibrantly roused oneself refills it all. The Torment Anchor is expressed through the extremity of actions and consequences, but can also risk Torment, the Promethean fit of uncontrollable humours.
Held by: Prometheans
Sample Elpides: Courage, Drive, Empathy, Fear, Fury, Inspiration, Joy, Love, Sorrow, Pain (PTC 2e 106)
Sample Torments: Alienated, Awkward, Dejected, Logical, Merciless, Methodical, Obsessed, Paranoid, Passionate, Naive (PTC 2e 107)
Changeling: Needle and Thread
The identity of a changeling, escaped from Arcadia, is more slippery than that of the mortal human she once was. She finds refuge in the familiar to gird her resolve: familiar actions, roles, labels and rituals to wind herself around, and that shapeless inner color of drive, feeling and association, without which all would be empty. Her good old Needle. Her most plentiful Thread.
Both Needle and Thread can refresh either a point of Willpower, through simple exertion and reinforcement, or the full supply, by putting one's heart on the line.
Held by: Changelings, fetches, and hedge ghosts
Sample Needles: Bon Vivant, Commander, Composer, Counselor, Daredevil, Dynamo, Protector, Provider, Scholar, Storyteller, Teacher, Traditionalist, Visionary (CTL 2e 95)
Sample Threads: Acceptance, Anger, Family, Friendship, Hate, Honor, Joy, Love, Memory, Revenge (CTL 2e 97)
Sample Clarity Touchstones: Best Friend, Family, Fetch, Fling, Lost Love, Occultist, Private Investigator, Therapist, True Love, Your New Home, Your Old Home (CTL 2e 98)
Geist: Root and Bloom
The Bound are dead, and still they live. Their ghostly heart is moved by honoring the death at the Root of their condition as much as by the second life that is the Bloom that rose from their grave soil. Their Root pulls them to face the communities of the dead and remember the Sin-Eaters number among them. Their Bloom asks them to treasure their return to the living world and those who could have lost them.
Both Root and Bloom can refresh either a point of Willpower when either life or death must overshadow the other, or fully restore Willpower when they impel serious risks and passions.
Held by: Bound
Sample Roots and Blooms: Advocate, Antihero, Casual, Cowl, Enabler, Gardener, Pollyanna, Saved, Servant, Surrogate (GTS 2e 82)
Sample Synergy Touchstones: 9 to 5, Albatross, First Friend, House Keys, Inherited Anchor, Murder Weapon, New Neighbor, Our Song, Replacement Love, Roadside Memorial (GTS 2e 84)
Mummy: Balance and Burden
The Arisen trudge endlessly across the expanse of time. Their identity sometimes falls away from their clutches. As they persist, their character shows in how they weather the ages: the Burden, their greatest weight of pain and weakness, and the Balance, the value that justifies the strength to carry that weight.
Both Balance and Burden can refresh a point of Willpower in a moment's affirmation, or restore all Willpower in a triumph of Balance or a steep fall into Burden.
Held by: Mummies and shuankhsen
Sample Balances: Courageous, Devoted, Diligent, Faithful, Generous, Introspective, Just, Noble, Peaceful, Resilient, Righteous, Trustworthy, Truthful (MTC 2e 102)
Sample Burdens: Accusing, Careless, Chaotic, Cruel, Dominant, Forgetful, Fragile, Hysterical, Isolated, Rageful, Resentful, Selfish, Stagnant (MTC 2e 104), Avenger, Destroyer, Zealot (MTC 2e 236)
Sample Memory Touchstones: Budding Historian, Confidante, Court Justice, Doubting Lawrence, Dutiful Clerk, Epitome of Life, Firebrand Cultist, Mirror of the Ages, Shadow of an Old Flame (MTC 2e 163)
Beast: Life and Legend
Beasts split their selfhood into two strengths: the human and the inhuman. Their Life speaks to who they know and care about. It's common sense, modesty and compromise. Their Legend speaks to what they feel gestating deep within, leaking out from within their dreams. It's power, pride, and an abject lack of apology.
Both Life and Legend can refresh either a single point or full supply of Willpower, based on the scale of act and risk involved when cleaving to it.
Held by: Beasts and heroes
Sample Lives: Parental, Shy, Cautious, Loyal, Honest, Selfless (BTP 86)
Sample Legends: Judgmental, Relentless, Unexpected, Seductive, Vicious, Watchful (BTP 86)
Deviant: Loyalty and Conviction
The Broken have lost the ability to define their own independence to the spiritual damage of their Divergence. They can only hang their identity and spiritual endurance on their strongest relationships. They cling to certain friends and loved ones with fierce Loyalty, and pursue hateful vendettas with a Conviction that can only be satisfied by suffering and death.
Renegades refresh a point of Willpower when their pursuit of a Conviction Touchstone progresses, and recover all Willpower when they stand dramatically by a Loyalty Touchstone. Devoted reverse this.
Held by: Deviants
Sample Loyalty Touchstones: Childhood Friend, Co-Worker, Ex-Lover, Frenemy, Mentee, Partner in Crime, Research Assistant, Roommate (DTR 84)
Sample Conviction Touchstones: Company Man, Cultist, Operating Theater, Progenitor, Recruiter, Thief (DTR 85)
Merits, Locations (2nd Edition)
A large dot (●) in the second column denotes a Merit that can be shared by multiple characters, while a hollow dot (○) denotes a Merit that 'must' be shared by multiple characters.
Merit | ○ | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Safe Place | ● | • to ••••• | You've secured a place from intrusion. Apply your Safe Place rating as an Initiative bonus while there, and a penalty to break in. With Crafts you can install traps, forcing intruders to roll Dexterity + Larceny - Safe Place to avoid up to your Safe Place in lethal damage. | CofD 54 | |
Vampire Merits | |||||
Burrow | ● | • to ••••• | Revenant, Safe Place, must be shared | Replaces Haven. You share a hideout with other revenants. Add Burrow as bonus dice to stir from daysleep and stay awake in the daytime. In combat, intruders and unfamiliar guests are Distracted for one turn per dot of Burrow. | HD 80 |
Haven | ● | • to ••••• | Safe Place | You've sunproofed your residence and made it a home. Add Haven as bonus dice to stir from daysleep and stay awake in the daytime, and to use Kindred Senses within your home. | VTR 2e 112 |
Mandragora Garden | • to ••••• | Crúac •, Crone Status, ≤ Safe Place | Your Safe Place grows ghouled plants, which you must feed Vitae equal to your Merit dots each month, but which produce twice that quantity in Vitae's worth of sap and nectar. Their magical sympathy empowers Crúac cast there and receives it from afar, but can rile the Beast when attacked. | SotC 181 | |
Nest Guardian | ● | • to ••••• | Ordo Status | You are the custodian of a Wyrm's Nest, host to a supernatural phenomenon proportional to dots in this Merit. You may purchase additional features separately, listed below. | SotC 197 |
Temple of Damnation | ● | • to ••••• | Lancea Status, ≤ Safe Place | You've secured and consecrated a gathering place to a particular Sanctified virtue. Apply dots in this Merit as a bonus to actions in service of that virtue while within the temple, or after attending rites there. | SotC 194 |
Werewolf Merits | |||||
Dedicated Locus | ● | • to ••••• | Safe Place | You've personally attuned a locus to your pack. The locus has a rating equal to this Merit, and provides the pack the ability to spend a point of Essence above their per-turn cap, a number of times per day equal to this Merit. | WTF 2e 106 |
Lodge Stronghold | •• or •••• | Lodge | As a five-dot Safe Place. With four dots, it boasts lines of supernatural defenses or spirit wards. | Pack 81 | |
Residential Area | • to ••••• | Your pack has integrated into an inhabited territory. Every session, by canvassing for help, you can redistribute your dots in this Merit among effective dots of Allies, Contacts and Retainers. | WTF 2e 107 | ||
Mage Merits | |||||
Demesne | ● | ••• | Sanctum | Your Sanctum has been prepared as a Demesne, providing a +2 Yantra bonus to appropriate spells, and shielding them from the risk of Paradoxes so long as they're not exposed to Sleepers. | MTA 2e 104, 242 |
Hallow | ● | • to ••••• | You've secured a geomantic wellspring of Mana. You can draw out up to your dots in this Merit in points of Mana each day, and the Hallow can store up to three times as many unharvested points as some form of tass. | MTA 2e 101 | |
Sanctum | ● | • to ••••• | Safe Place | Your secure place is secreted away well enough to insulate your sorcery. Increase your spell control when casting there by your dots in this Merit. You can maintain spells cast beyond your normal spell control this way after leaving the Sanctum. | MTA 2e 104 |
Promethean Merits | |||||
Hovel | • to ••••• | Safe Place | You've crafted a space to acclimate it to your Azoth. Time spent in your Hovel doesn't contribute to Wastelands. You can store a dot of Azoth per dot in this Merit in an item aligned with your element in the Hovel, leaving you with reduced Azoth until you retrieve it from the item. | PTC 2e 115 | |
Changeling Merits | |||||
Calming Eidolons | ○ | • to ••• | Shared Bastion | Reduces Composure dice penalty of Subtle Shifts enacted by the Bastion's owners. | Hedge 118 |
Hollow | ● | • to ••••• | You've secured a residence within the Hedge, impregnable to outsiders with lesser Wyrd. While in your Hollow, penalize attempts to investigate, track or pursue you by dots in this Merit. Dots of Hollow are also distributed among features listed below. | CTL 2e 116 | |
Motley Awareness | • or ••• | Shared Bastion | At one dot, gain +1 to social roles with other motley members. At three dots, gain an instinctive knowledge of other motley members' moods and the ability to send messages, but use the highest clarity perception penalty of the group. | Hedge 119 | |
Somnambulation | ○ | ••• to •••• | Shared Bastion | Can use an Eidolon to keep your body from being neglected while you sleep, or slightly more complex tasks with the four-dot version. Require significantly more sleep. | Hedge 119 |
Shared Bastion | ○ | • to ••••• | You or your motley have established a permanent location within dreams, impregnable to outsiders with lesser Wyrd. This merit requires group effort to maintain. While in your Bastion, penalize attempts to investigate, track or pursue you or to manipulate your mind, future, or destiny by dots in this merit. | Hedge 115 | |
Stable Trod | ● | • to ••••• | You've secured a local trod of equal rating. A number of Hollows along the trod up to dots in Stable Trod share an extra one-dot Hollow feature. You may roll Stable Trod as a dice pool once a story to farm extra Glamour goblin fruit from it. | CTL 2e 119 | |
Workshop | ● | • to ••••• | Hollow | Your Hollow contains space and equipment for an appropriate Crafts Specialty for each dot in this Merit. Apply Workshop as bonus dice to relevant Crafts rolls. | CTL 2e 120 |
Hunter Merits | |||||
Safe Place | ● | • to ••••• | Resources • | A secure site for the hunter that provides a bonus to initiative and a number of features (see below) equal to its dots. A hunter cannot be surprised while in their Safe Place. | HTV 2e 94 |
Sin-Eater Merits | |||||
Cenote | ● | • to ••••• | Safe Place | You tend a ghostly place where Plasm accumulates, at your Merit rating in points per chapter. | GTS 2e 85 |
Mummy Merits | |||||
Tomb | ● | •+ | You have drawn Sekhem to a personal sanctum, where you can meditate to replenish Pillars. Dots of Tomb are distributed among features listed below, always starting with a dot of Geometry. | MTC 2e 108 | |
Demon Merits | |||||
Bolthole | • to ••••• | You have a tiny extradimensional realm where time doesn't progress. It's warded against angels, and rolls to find the access point are penalized by its Merit rating. Dots of Bolthole are also distributed among features listed below. | DTD 120 | ||
Beast Merits | |||||
Connected Lair | •• | Characters with the appropriate devices can access internet, tele-phone, television, or radio communications. Any attempt to trace these signals from the outside world will lead to contradictory or nonsensical results. | BPG 100 | ||
Trap Room | •• | When opening a Primordial Pathway into or out of the mundane world your character may choose to spend a point of Satiety in addition to the normal cost of 1 Willpower. If she does so, the duration of the pathway is extended. It stays open until sunrise or sunset on a normal success, or any time up to a week on an exceptional success | BPG 101 | ||
Vast Lair | • to ••• | Uninvited guests require at least 10 minutes per dot in this Merit to traverse a Chamber or Burrow. Further, each dot in this Merit adds five required successes and five minutes to the time increment of any extended action to collapse a Chamber | BPG 101 | ||
Well-Stocked Lair | • to ••••• | ≤ Lair | Each dot in this Merit allows the character to select two dots worth of Merits that represent the material goods and inhabit-ants available in her Lair. Material goods removed from the Lair deteriorate into dust, insects, water, or some other useless substance within a few days. Alternately, one dot of this Merit can be used to make one or more Chambers of a character’s Lair comfortable and livable. | BPG 101 |
Wyrm's Nest Features
Feature | ○ | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Chapterhouse | ● | • to ••••• | Ordo Status ••• | Vampires in the Nest add dots in this Merit as a bonus to resist violence, and as a penalty to lash out with the Predatory Aura. | SotC 199 |
Crucible | ● | ••• | Occult •••• | Vampires may advance study of the Mysteries of the Dragon in the Nest at an experience discount. | SotC 199 |
Feng Shui | ● | • to ••••• | Academics ••, Occult ••• | Choose a Skill. Vampires in the Nest may add dots in this Merit as bonus dice when rolling that Skill. | SotC 199 |
Perilous Nest | ● | • to ••••• | Occult ••• | You've harnessed a hazard native to the Nest to attack certain unwelcome types. It uses a dice pool equal to twice your dots in this Merit. | SotC 199 |
Hollow Features
Feature | ○ | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Easy Access | ● | ••• | The Hollow has no fixed entrance, and is instead entered (and later exited) through any unlocked door with Glamour and a small ritual. | CTL 2e 117 | |
Escape Route | ● | • or •• | The Hollow has a secondary exit into the material realm, which with two dots may be accessed from anywhere in the Hollow. | CTL 2e 116 | |
Hidden Entry | ● | •• | Penalize rolls to find the Hollow's entrance by -2. When all characters sharing the Hollow are within, the entrance disappears. | CTL 2e 117 | |
Hob Alarm | ● | • | Hob Kin | Each story, take one Goblin Debt to preserve a domestic guard of friendly hobs. Ambush in the Hollow does not strip Defense and applies Hollow as bonus dice to actions in the first turn of combat. | CTL 2e 116 |
Home Turf | ● | ••• | Apply Hollow as a bonus to Initiative and Defense against intruders. | CTL 2e 117 | |
Luxury Goods | ● | • | Once a session, roll Hollow as a dice pool and distribute successes among amenities by Availability or Hedgespun items by rating. | CTL 2e 116 | |
Phantom Phone Booth | ● | • | A magical fixture can make outgoing calls to publically listed numbers outside the Hedge. | CTL 2e 116 | |
Route Zero | ● | • | A one-dot trod passes through the Hollow. It may link allied Hollows, or once a day, may be traversed with a Hedge navigation roll to recover Willpower. | CTL 2e 116 | |
Shadow Garden | ● | • | A plot of soil infinitely replenishes copies of goblin fruit without their magical properties, which only temporarily stave off hunger. | CTL 2e 116 | |
Size Matters | ● | • or •• | The Hollow is large enough to sustain up to six residents, or with two dots, the size of a small town. | CTL 2e 116 |
Feature | ○ | Rating | Prerequisites | Description | Book |
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Buttressed Dreaming | ○ | • | Penalize Clash of Wills to force open Bastion by merit rating. | Hedge 115 | |
Fixed Doorway | ○ | ••• | Hollow | Door in the Motley's hollow functions as a Gate of Horn leading to and from the Shared Bastion. | Hedge 118 |
Guardian Eidolon | ○ | • | Spend Willpower to activate the guardian for the scene, gaining immunity to surprise and adding dots in the merit on the first round of an action scene. | Hedge 118 | |
Illusory Armory | ○ | •• | Once per chapter, spend glamour to summon an unimportant prop with rating equal to twice glamour spent (max +5). Spend willpower to summon additional props. | Hedge 118 | |
Permanent Armory | ○ | • | Maintain mundane "real" items in shared bastion, or magic items by spending Willpower each chapter. | Hedge 118 | |
Raised Defenses | ○ | • | Whenever any motley mate is in the Shared Bastion, all members double the bonuses against the attacks or circumstances normally granted by the merit. | Hedge 118 | |
Subtle Speech | ○ | •• | Phantom Eidolons of Motley Members can receive messages, but Changelings with clarity damage might suffer further damage as their sense of reality is befuddled. | Hedge 118 |
Hunter Safe Place Features
Feature | ○ | Description | Book |
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Anathema | ● | The Safe Place is warded against monsters with a specific power, prompting a Wits + Resolve - Safe Place roll on any attempt to break through, becoming Immobilized or Stunned on failure. | HTV 2e 94 |
Arsenal | ● | Rolls to clean, fix, or improvise equipment gain +2. | HTV 2e 94 |
Concealed | ● | Attempts to find the Safe Place through any means are penalised by -2. | HTV 2e 94 |
Escape Hatch | ● | The hunter(s) may roll Dexterity + Athletics or Survival to reach the secret exit without suffering any damage from the environment. | HTV 2e 94 |
Infirmary | ● | Medicine rolls here are improved by +2 for any invested hunter with dots in the skill, and the space may substitute for a hospital for the purposes of injury and recovery. | HTV 2e 95 |
Home Security System | ● | The Safe Place is outfitted with a defense system, penalising attempts to break in by Safe Place dots. | HTV 2e 95 |
Tomb Features
Feature | ○ | Rating | Description | Book |
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Geometry | ● | • to ••••• | Apply this rating as a bonus to meditate upon your Pillars. | MTC 2e 206 |
Perils | ● | •+ | Your tomb resists intruders with traps totalling this rating, and an equal number of curses from released vessels. | MTC 2e 206 |
Provisions | ● | •+ | Your tomb is furnished with equipment or infrastructure totalling this rating. | MTC 2e 206 |
Bolthole Features
Feature | ○ | Rating | Description | Book |
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Arsenal | • to ••••• | Once per session, your bolthole can supply one weapon with a rating equal to your Arsenal dots, two weapons with a rating one less than your Arsenal dots, and any number of weapons with a rating less than that. | DTD 120 | |
Cover-Linked | •• | Choose one Cover identity. The bolthole only exists while you are in that Cover's form. Anything in the bolthole not provided by these features is lost forever when the bolthole stops existing. | DTD 120 | |
Easy Access | ••• | You can reassign the bolthole's entrance by touching a door and spending Aether. Characters still exit the bolthole the way they came in. | DTD 121 | |
No Twilight | • | Ephemeral beings that enter the bolthole manifest physically. | DTD 120 | |
Self-Destruct | • | You can implode your bolthole. Anyone inside takes lethal damage equal to your dots in Bolthole and has one turn to leave before the exit to reality is lost. | DTD 120 | |
Trap Door | •• | The entrance from the physical realm into the bolthole only exists when you're outside it, although those capable can still enter from Twilight. | DTD 121 |
Notation Legend | |
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Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits) | • |
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana) | ● |
Willpower Point | ○ |
Activation Damage | B/L/A |
Special/Other Activation Cost | ※ |
Alternate Costs | ●/●●● |
Costs per Item | ●/item |
Optional Costs | (●) |
Cost Ranges | ● to ●●● ●●+ |
Combined Notation Example | ●(○) ●/item, 1L |
Conditions (2nd Edition)
A solid dot (●) in the second column denotes a Persistent Condition, while an empty dot (○) denotes a Condition which is not always Persistent, but can be under certain circumstances.
Natural Conditions
Mental Conditions | |||
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Addicted | ● | Your character is addicted to something, such as a substance or destructive behavior. | MTA 2e 314 |
Addled | Your memories are jumbled and confused. | GTS 2e 299 | |
Agoraphobic | You avoid open spaces and crowds. | PTC 2e 306 | |
Amnesia | ● | You've lost a large swath of memory. | CofD 288 |
Apprehensive | Your character is convinced something bad is about to happen to them. | MTC 2e 347 | |
Avarice | Your lust for wealth and/or power is insatiable. | MTC 2e 347 | |
Broken | ● | Your will is broken and you back down from everything. | CofD 288 |
Captivated | You're heavily preoccupied with something and can't split your attention. | DTD 211 | |
Competitive | You are driven to assert your dominance and superiority. | VTR 2e 302 | |
Confused | You can't think straight. | VTR 2e 302 | |
Cowed | Someone has weakened you through a display of dominance. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Delusional | ● | Paranoid delusions dominate your behavior. | VTR 2e 302 |
Demoralized | Failure dampens your fighting initiative. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Deprived | ○ | You're weakened by an unfed addiction. | CofD 288 |
Detached | ● | You've run with occult circles for so long you've forgotten how to interact with humans. | HD 123 |
Disoriented | You've lost equilibrium and need an opportunity to recenter. | DTD 211 | |
Dissociation | Surreality plagues you with doubts of your own experiences. | CTL 2e 336 | |
Distracted | You're buffeted from all sides, splitting your attention terribly. | VTR 2e 302 | |
Doubtful | ● | You've lost confidence in all but your most secure actions. | HMR 147 |
Emboldened | An uninhibited atmosphere makes you impulsive and prone to temptation. | HMR 150 | |
Faith | ● | Your trust in the next world can be exploited by angelic forces. | DSG 81 |
First Trimester | ● | You experience flulike symptoms and vivid dreams that are signs of early pregnancy. | HtH 41 |
Second Trimester | ● | You feel more creative, but worry as something grows within you. | HtH 42 |
Third Trimester | ● | Your body and brain prepare for giving birth, enhancing perception but causing distraction. | HtH 42 |
Fixated | You are intently focused on a single thought or command. | HL 150 | |
Frightened | You're terrified and moved to panic and flee. | VTR 2e 304 | |
Fugue | ● | You've shied away from trauma by shutting out the experience. | CofD 289 |
Guilty | Feelings of remorse leave you emotionally vulnerable. | CofD 289 | |
Informed | You're well equipped to tackle a given subject. | CofD 289 | |
Inspired | The spirit moves you to confident action. | CofD 289 | |
Lost | You've lost your sense of place and need to reorient. | CofD 289 | |
Lost Tracker | Frustrations on a hunt leave your tracking skills sloppy and halfhearted. | WTF 2e 308 | |
Madness | ● | Unnatural horror has shattered your ability to process life. | CofD 289 |
Oblivious | You are absent-minded, not paying attention to things going on around you. | HL 150 | |
Obsession | ○ | Something controls your attention and distracts from all else. | CofD 290 |
Paranoid | Supernatural fear diminishes your ability to trust and depend on others. | WTF 2e 309 | |
Reckless | You are incapable of considering the consequences of your actions. | CTL 2e 344 | |
Scarred | You have been left psychologically scarred after being violently bitten by a vampire. | VTR 2e 305 | |
Shaken | You're shocked or deeply rattled, unsteadying your hand. | CofD 290 | |
Sleepwalking | ● | Sleep and wakefulness blur, and you suffer from lost time and poor recollection. | CTL 2e 344 |
Spooked | Otherworldly wonder moves you unwisely. | CofD 291 | |
Steadfast | Your resolve to act is steeled and ready. | CofD 291 | |
Stoic | Distance and emotional guard ease lies, but inhibit perspective and passion. | CTL 2e 345 | |
Strained | You've held back the shock of witnessing supernal sorcery, but the pressure remains. | MTA 2e 318 | |
Swooned | You're charmed or bedazzled by a particular person. | CofD 291 | |
Violent | Violence is second nature to you, causing you to lash out at others. | HTV 2e 300 | |
Wanton | You are easily given to bouts of excessive indulgence. | VTR 2e 307 | |
Withdrawn | Doubt and insecurity drive you inward, sapping the will to action. | CTL 2e 346 | |
Physical Conditions | |||
Agonized | ○ | You suffer extreme pain and are unable to think clearly. | GttN 135 |
Arm Disability | ● | At least one arm is either chronically or permanently nonfunctional. | HL 57 |
Blind | ○ | You've lost or can't exercise your sense of sight. | CofD 288 |
Chronic Agony | ● | You're vulnerable to incapacitating pain spells. | HL 57 |
Chronic Sickness | ● | Sickness or poison lingers in you, aggravated by stress. | HL 57 |
Deaf | ● | Your hearing is severely impaired. | HL 58 |
Disabled | ○ | You can't effectively walk on your own power. | CofD 288 |
Drained | You're weak and woozy from blood loss. | VTR 2e 303 | |
Easy Prey | You've left a strong trail for a hunter to follow and exploit. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Energized | A chemically induced rush. | HD 123 | |
Exhausted | You're run ragged on the edge of unconsciousness. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Fatigued | You've pushed yourself too far, and your fatigue hangs over you constantly. | PTC 2e 309 | |
Fragile | You're using equipment not sturdy enough to endure continued use. | CofD 102 | |
Intoxicated | Your discretion is dulled by altered consciousness. | VTR 2e 304 | |
Invisible Predator | You've skulked on the hunt, leaving nary a trace of your approach. | WTF 2e 308 | |
Leg Disability | ● | At least one leg is either chronically or permanently nonfunctional. | HL 58 |
Lethargic | Fatigue tires you so heavily you cannot muster Willpower. | CTL 2e 342 | |
Mute | ○ | You cannot speak or use your voice. | CofD 290 |
Numb | ● | Detachment from the world dulls the feeling in your body. | CTL 2e 343 |
Sickly | Disease is making its way through your system. | DSG 105 | |
Stumbled | A complication has arisen to interrupt an ongoing project. | WTF 2e 311 | |
Untraceable | You've thoroughly covered any trail a hunter might use to find you. | WTF 2e 311 | |
Volatile | You're using unstable equipment prone to backfiring. | CofD 102 | |
Social Conditions | |||
Bonded | You've established trust with a particular animal. | CofD 288 | |
Connected | ○ | You've made inroads with a particular group of people. | CofD 288 |
Embarrassing Secret | There are skeletons in your closet to exploit. | CofD 289 | |
Flagged | Something has alerted the location's security, and they're on your trail. | MTC 2e 353 | |
Hunted | ● | Dangerous enemies have your trail. | CTL 2e 342 |
Leveraged | A particular character is holding something over your head to compel you. | CofD 289 | |
Notoriety | Odious blame follows you, whether true or not. | CofD 290 | |
Reluctant Aggressor | You don't really want to hurt your victim, but you're going to do it anyway. | HL 150 | |
Surveilled | Someone or something is keeping tabs on you. | HL 150 | |
Tasked | Your duty-bound allies have issued you a serious task you must carry out. | VTR 2e 307 | |
Vendetta | You will stop at nothing to punish those who wronged you. | HTV 2e 300 | |
Watched | ● | Someone is stalking you, suspicious of an unnatural secret you hide. | PTC 2e 312 |
Supernatural Conditions
General Supernatural Conditions | |||
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Accursed Knowledge | You have acquired forbidden knowledge, trading sanity for power. | MTC 2e 346 | |
Dissonant Tuning | Your soul resonates with the Lie, amplifying its effects on Supernal phenomena. | NH-NA 163 | |
Dormant Sovereign | ● | The Mummy watching over your cult has difficulty awakening due to challenges faced in Duat. | MTC 350 |
Emanation | ● | The oppressive presence of one of the Judges of Duat, centered upon a focal vessel. | MTC 2e 352 |
Enervated | ● | You are in the second stage of soul loss, further diminishing your will. | VTR 2e 303 |
Family Ties | ● | You've united your power in concert with a Primordial Beast. | BTP 322 |
Goblin Queen | Your fractured goblin nature has stranded you in the Hedge and attracted followers. | CTL 2e 339 | |
Going Westward | ● | Your nature as an immortal has buckled, and the debility of age encroaches. | MTC 2e 354 |
Hedge Denizen | ● | Dealings with goblins have made you a goblin yourself, with limited ability to leave the Hedge. | CTL 2e 340 |
Identity Crisis | Your identity and memories have become intertwined with those of others, leaving you unsure of who you really are. | MTC 2e 354 | |
Monstrous Servant | You have managed to gain control of a Geryo for a period. | NH-SM 201 | |
Ominous | ● | Your presence is marked by phantasms and ill omens. | MTC 2e 357 |
The Sibyl's Tongue | ● | Supernatural revelations can only be shared in High Speech, or by spending Willpower, through riddles or allegory. | DE 78 |
Soul Shocked | Your sense of self is healing after experiencing death outside the body. | MTA 2e 318 | |
Soulless | ● | Your soul has been stripped from you, gradually sapping your will. | CofD 290 |
Thrall | ● | You have succumbed to the effects of soullessness, a mere shell of who you once were. | MTA 2e 318 |
Unintended Medium | A lingering ghost or spirit is able to subject you to harrowing visions. | DEC 273 | |
Shows of Power | |||
These Conditions are usually imposed by supernatural powers. | |||
Abruption | Your supernatural prowess is severely hobbled by a dominant outside force. | BTP 321 | |
Awestruck | ● | You are cowed by the visage of the figure before you, forcing you to grovel. | WTF 2e 306 |
Berserk | Supernatural influence drives you to unthinking violence. | WTF 2e 306 | |
Bestial | Supernatural urges provoke animalistic fight-or-flight instincts. | VTR 2e 301 | |
Blood Siblings | Your fate has been bound by obligation to aid another, regardless of your will. | HD 43 | |
Charmed | ● | You're temporarily bewitched by vampiric Majesty. | VTR 2e 301 |
Charmed | You benefit from a blessing of luck and turns of fortune. | MTA 2e 315 | |
Coerced | You've been coerced by a Devotion to do a task or suffer damage. | Post/Pastebin | |
Crown | ● | You have become a vessel to focus the will and power of one of the Judges of Duat. | MTC 2e 348 |
Cursed | A supernatural curse dooms your efforts in a given field. | BTP 322 | |
Dead Dreamer | ● | Prophetic and terrifying dreams guide you towards a specific task. | MTC 2e 349 |
Despondent | Dire Wolf's aura causes you to lose hope and fight with minimal effort. | NH-SM 200 | |
Dominated | A vampire has temporarily stolen your will with a given command. | VTR 2e 302 | |
Enslaved | ● | A vampire has your will helplessly in her thrall. | VTR 2e 303 |
Ensorcelled | ○ | You've fallen in thrall to a supernatural being. | HMR 153 |
Enthralled | ● | A vampire has bewitched you with a fanatical devotion to him. | VTR 2e 303 |
Euphoric | Rabid Wolf's aura maddens you into fighting only for the werewolf's sport. | NH-SM 200 | |
False Memories | ● | Supernatural forces have overwritten your memories of an event. | VTR 2e 303 |
Frantic | Rabid Wolf's aura panics you into using your energy meaninglessly. | NH-SM 200 | |
Ghost-Marked | ● | Supernatural power has transformed your body with a mark of death. | GTS 2e 300 |
Impassioned Shade | Infusion of a mission which preserves an ephemeral entity in Twilight. | MTC 2e 354 | |
Instinctive | Dire Wolf's aura reduces your thought to its basest instincts. | NH-SM 200 | |
Isolated | The Elodoth aura has drawn you out, away from allies. | WTF 2e 308 | |
Lured | ● | Hunting magic draws you to blindly wander into a likely trap. | WTF 2e 309 |
Manic | Supernatural power has made you focused and obsessive to the point of over-exertion. | Post/Pastebin | |
Melancholic | Supernatural power has made you melancholic. You struggle to do even minor tasks. | Post/Pastebin | |
Mesmerized | You're temporarily vulnerable to a vampire's commands. | VTR 2e 305 | |
Moon Taint | A werewolf's bite brings the change upon you against your will. | WTF 2e 309 | |
Mystified | The Ithaeur aura shies you away from the opposite side of the Gauntlet. | WTF 2e 309 | |
Ravaged | Fae predations have scarred your heart and mind, leaving you a ghost of your former self. | CTL 2e 344 | |
Relentless | ● | Your instincts drive you inexorably in the direction of your quarry. | MTC 2e 357 |
Resigned | The Cahalith aura goads you into facing death recklessly. | WTF 2e 310 | |
Shadow Paranoia | Supernatural fear builds into a violent, irrational panic. | WTF 2e 310 | |
Subservient | ● | A vampire is temporarily pressing down on your will to resist. | VTR 2e 306 |
Surrounded | Silver Wolf's aura deludes others into conspiracy against you. | NH-SM 201 | |
Swaggering | The Rahu aura lulls you into overlooking the need for preparation or aid. | WTF 2e 311 | |
Unaware | The Irraka aura reduces your attention to the world around you. | WTF 2e 311 | |
Vocalization | You've been cursed with harrowing sounds and voices. | HMR 147 | |
Wracked | Silver Wolf's aura afflicts you with unceasing pain. | NH-SM 202 |
Vampire: the Requiem
Kindred Conditions | |||
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Dependent | ● | You're obsessed with a vessel you've fed from, as if suffering a second-stage Vinculum. | VTR 2e 302 |
Ecstatic | Blood sorcery has pleased the Beast's appetites. | VTR 2e 303 | |
Humbled | Your will as a monster shrinks from divine judgment. | VTR 2e 304 | |
Jaded | Your detachment from the concerns of Humanity baits out the Beast. | VTR 2e 304 | |
Languid | The loss of worldly Touchstones has you feeling the weight of ages and the call of torpor. | VTR 2e 304 | |
Oathbreaker | ● | You suffer censure from the Invictus for breaking a blood oath. | SotC 189 |
Primeval Truths | Occult revelations disquiet you until you face them down. | SotC 184 | |
Raptured | Religious fervor makes riding the wave easier. | VTR 2e 305 | |
Sated | The Beast is appeased enough to make frenzy less threatening. | VTR 2e 305 | |
Tainted | A soul consumed through diablerie still struggles from within you. | VTR 2e 306 | |
Tempted | Resisting a frenzy has tested your will to resist the next. | VTR 2e 307 | |
Elder Conditions | |||
Anchored Heart | ● | You are deeply invested in a particular mortal. | TY 135 |
Beast's Bargain | ● | You feed at any available safe opportunity, placating your inner Beast. | TY 135 |
Beloved Enemy | ● | You have a nemesis whom you can't bring yourself to kill. | TY 135 |
Children of the Blood | ● | A revenant of your creation haunt your steps. | TY 135 |
Crushed | The incredible weight of centuries bears down upon you. | TY 135 | |
Curated | ● | You possess a communal ghoul as part of a bargain. | TY 136 |
Forgotten | ● | Your solitude has estranged you from those you know, who now find it difficult and require much effort to remember or even recognize you. | TY 136 |
Immutable Heart | ● | You are fully invested in a particular mortal institute or way of life. | TY 136 |
Imprisoned Echo | Your Ka is temporarily trapped within a mirror. | TY 136 | |
Leveraged | ● | Your ghoul is a dedicated servant, but knows your deepest secrets, and leverages this fact to demand certain favors and concessions. | TY 136 |
Living Legend | ● | You are immortalized in a popular piece of vampire "fiction", to the consternation of your fellow Kindred. | TY 136 |
Lost Lineage | ● | You hail from a clan or bloodline that has long since been lost to the ages. | TY 137 |
Quiet Echo | Your Ka is calmed, able to walk outside its usual confined without drawing attention. | TY 137 | |
Synchronized | You have drunk too deeply from your victim, taking their injuries and conditions upon yourself. | TY 137 | |
Vitae's Resoluteness | ● | Your addiction to vitae lessens the effect of Languid, so long as your addiction is fed. | TY 137 |
Weak Vitae | ● | Your vitae has thinned to the point you can no longer create a new vampire; any attempts only produces a revenant. | TY 137 |
Danse Macabre Conditions | |||
Audience | There are eavesdroppers and witnesses to your exchange. | GttN 119 | |
Crowd Darling | You have charmed the audience to your side. | GttN 120 | |
Danse Macabre | You are being observed by the upper echelons of vampire society. | GttN 119 | |
Disgraced | You have fallen from grace, and face existence as a pariah. | GttN 120 | |
Exposed | Your actions have compromised others within your circle, diminishing your influence. | GttN 120 | |
Repressed | You have suffered defeat at the hands of a rival. | GttN 120 | |
Rising Star | You are the crowd favorite, the audience rallying to your side. | GttN 120 | |
Subdued | A rival has further demonstrated their mastery over you. | GttN 120 | |
The Edge | You have demonstrated superiority over one of your contemporaries, and are riding the high. | GttN 120 | |
Dhampir Conditions | |||
Alienated | ● | Nosferatu blood affliction, manifest as a Vice of self-persecuting isolation. | HD 44 |
Domineering | ● | Ventrue blood affliction, manifest as a Vice of control and superiority. | HD 44 |
Feral | ● | Gangrel blood affliction, manifest as a Vice of violent abuse. | HD 43 |
Malcontent | ● | Daeva blood affliction, manifest as a Vice of lashing out. | HD 43 |
Voyeuristic | ● | Mekhet blood affliction, manifest as a Vice of lurid fascination. | HD 43 |
Ghoul Conditions | |||
Hunger | You feel a violent, desperate need for Vitae. | HD 123 | |
Inbred | ● | Ghoul family lineage emerges as a glaring affliction without Vitae. | HD 123 |
Recovery | ● | You suffer the pain and weakness that comes from weaning yourself off vitae. | HD 123 |
Werewolf: the Forsaken
Uratha Conditions | |||
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Ban | You are compelled to obey one of the taboos of the Shadow. | WTF 2e 306 | |
Essence Overload | The imbalance of your bodily Essence has tied its loss to injury. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Shadowlashed | Errors on a Rite have invited the disdain of the spirit world. | WTF 2e 310 | |
Siskur-Dah | ● | You are empowered by the Sacred Hunt to bring a chosen prey low. | WTF 2e 310 |
Symbolic Focus | The power of a Rite still flows through you, enhancing spirit displays. | WTF 2e 311 | |
Lunacy Conditions | |||
Atavism | The Lunacy stirs you into unreasoning violence. | WTF 2e 306 | |
Delusion | The Lunacy drives you into unthinking retreat. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Enraptured | An abnormal response to Lunacy stirs you to worship. | NH-SM 200 | |
Reception | The Lunacy leaves you unwittingly open to the spirit world. | WTF 2e 310 | |
Renown Conditions | |||
Cunning | Your Cunning waxes in a display that invites response. | WTF 2e 307 | |
Glorious | Your Glory waxes in a display that invites response. | WTF 2e 308 | |
Honorable | Your Honor waxes in a display that invites response. | WTF 2e 308 | |
Pure | Your Purity waxes in a display that invites response. | WTF 2e 309 | |
Wise | Your Wisdom waxes in a display that invites response. | WTF 2e 311 |
Mage: the Awakening
Awakened Conditions | |||
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Defeated | A rival has won magical advantage over you in the Duel Arcane. | MTA 2e 315 | |
Degenerate Mana | ● | You can no longer regenerate mana without performing an Act of Hubris. | NH-NA 163 |
Humbled | Someone stands to you as a valuable reminder of the power of humanity. | MTA 2e 316 | |
Mage Hunter | ● | You are obsessed with hunting and destroying magic in all its forms. | NH-NA 164 |
Megalomaniacal | You are blinded by hubris. | MTA 2e 317 | |
Mystery Commands | ● | You receive the arcane will of the Exarchs. | MTA 2e 317 |
Rampant | Your spellcasting is ruled by a cavalier, reckless attitude. | MTA 2e 317 | |
Supernal Harrowing | ● | Your soul has been contaminated by a Harrowed Banisher. | NH-NA 164 |
Tainted Aspiration | ● | One or more of your Aspirations have been tainted by an Abyssal curse. | NH-NA 164 |
Triumphant | You carry your victory in the Dual Arcane with you in Awakened society. | MTA 2e 319 | |
Paradox Conditions | |||
Abyssal Backlash | A Paradox casts a shadow over you, threatening to break through on the next spell that gives it an opening. | MTA 2e 117 | |
Abyssal Debilitation | You are hampered as a result of exposing your soul to the Abyss. | NH-NA 163 | |
Abyssal Imago | A Paradox intrudes upon the spells you envision, compelling dangerous Reach. | MTA 2e 117 | |
Abyssal Nimbus | A Paradox has leaked across your Nimbus and invites Abyssal manifestations. | MTA 2e 116 | |
Monster | A Paradox has mutated an animal into a miserable, fearsome nemesis. | DE 81 | |
Unclean | A Paradox has turned your magical tools and methods against you. | DE 81 |
Promethean: the Created
Created Conditions | |||
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Branded Throng | ● | Your bond with your throng allows Pyros to flow, and its balance dampens the destructive aspect of your Azoth. | PTC 2e 306 |
Disconnected | Frustration in your Pilgrimage causes you to shrink from human interaction. | PTC 2e 308 | |
Tormented | Pain and suffering have severely imbalanced your alchemical humours. | PTC 2e 312 | |
Disquiet Conditions | |||
Disquieted | A Promethean's presence increasingly distracts and overwhelms you over progressive stages. | PTC 2e 308 | |
Murderous | Pandoran Disquiet taints your instincts with predatory violence. | PTC 2e 311 | |
Stricken | Pandoran Disquiet infects you with horror and fright. | PTC 2e 312 | |
Terrified | Pandoran Disquiet whips you into panicked retreat. | PTC 2e 312 | |
Refinement Conditions | |||
Analyst | ● | The Refinement of Impurity. Exploiting a Vice when Social Maneuvering is twice as effective. | PTC 2e 65 |
Destructive | ● | The Refinement of Flux. Spend Pyros to ignore Durability or Armor equal to your Azoth. | PTC 2e 251 |
Enraged | ● | The Refinement of Torment. Recover Pyros from your Torment Anchor. | PTC 2e 56 |
Intense | ● | The Refinement of Ephemerality. Spend Pyros to open a Door at the cost of Disquiet. | PTC 2e 71 |
Introspective | ● | The Refinement of Source. Suffer bashing damage to squeeze out a point of Pyros as an instant action. | PTC 2e 53 |
Masked | ● | The Refinement of Mortality. Spend Pyros to delay the onset of Disquiet. | PTC 2e 44 |
Patient | ● | The Refinement of Self. Spend Pyros to raise your Azoth in Doors. | PTC 2e 47 |
Resourceful | ● | The Refinement of Pyros. Spend Pyros to increase a tool's equipment bonus temporarily. | PTC 2e 68 |
Sensitive | ● | The Refinement of Mystery. Spend Pyros to identify the supernatural. | PTC 2e 62 |
Tenacious | ● | The Refinement of Corpus. Spend Pyros to increase the number of rolls you can commit to an extended action. | PTC 2e 50 |
Tuned In | ● | The Refinement of Aid. Spend Pyros to sense the way to your throngmates. | PTC 2e 59 |
Transmutation Complications | |||
Alienated | The charge of Deception has distanced you from your fellow Prometheans. | PTC 2e 306 | |
Atavistic | The charge of Metamorphosis has overwhelmed your composure. | PTC 2e 306 | |
Burnout | The charge of Vulcanus has painfully overstoked your inner fire. | PTC 2e 307 | |
Callous | The charge of Mesmerism has sapped your empathy. | PTC 2e 307 | |
Degaussed | The charge of Electrification disrupts local electromagnetics. | PTC 2e 307 | |
Ephemeral Anchor | The charge of Spiritus invites ephemeral activity around you. | PTC 2e 309 | |
Flawed Vessel | The charge of Alchemicus interferes with your ability to channel Pyros. | PTC 2e 309 | |
Fragile | The charge of Contamination has weakened your body. | PTC 2e 309 | |
Greedy Brand | The charge of Benefice draws out and wastes throngmates' Pyros. | PTC 2e 310 | |
Hyperextended | The charge of Vitality overtaxes your body's abilities. | PTC 2e 310 | |
Irritable | The charge of Disquietism saps your self-control. | PTC 2e 310 | |
Kinesthesia | The charge of Corporeum interferes with abstract thought. | PTC 2e 310 | |
Reckless | The charge of Luciferus renders you uncautious and impulsive. | PTC 2e 311 | |
Regressive | The charge of Saturninus dulls your grip on human motives and behavior. | PTC 2e 311 | |
Synesthesia | The charge of Sensorium overwhelms your ability to distinguish sensory input. | PTC 2e 312 |
Changeling: the Lost
Lost Conditions | |||
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Behind Your Eyes | Your clarity disintegration allows Hedge ghosts, Hobgoblins, or the Gentry to use your senses. | Kith 140 | |
Comatose | You've lost all Clarity and subconsciously retreated into an unending dream. | CTL 2e 334 | |
Cursed | ● | A changeling has cursed you, which only resolves when the changeling fails to maintain certain conditions. | Kith 140 |
Deep Kenning | Your enhanced Clarity offers you insight into nearby magic, fading if Clarity drops to 0. | Kith 140 | |
Dream Assailant | Your reckless dreamweaving has roused the dream's violent rebellion. | CTL 2e 336 | |
Dream Infiltrator | Your meddling dreamweaving has raised the suspicion of the dream and its eidolons. | CTL 2e 337 | |
Dream Intruder | Your extensive dreamweaving sets the dream and its eidolons ill at ease. | CTL 2e 338 | |
Egomaniac | Your loss of Clarity leads to egotistical behavior and altered anchors. | Kith 141 | |
Enchanted Obligation | You have enchanted bargain with a mortal, similar to Obliged but includes additional effects. | Kith 141 | |
Glamour Addicted | ● | Your body withers and consumes itself if not regularly sated with enough Glamour. | CTL 2e 339 |
Hexed | You suffer from a changeling's minor curse, resolved through a specified action. | Kith 141 | |
Icon Shard | ● | You broke a vow, infusing your Icon with malicious intent, tormenting you. | Kith 141 |
Indebted | ○ | You owe a debt to a fae being, repayable through accepting damage or a detrimental conditions dealt to them. | Kith 142 |
Kithseeker | ● | Undertaking trials in the Hedge to seek a kith that matches your soul’s calling. | Kith 142 |
Oathbreaker | ● | You've broken an oath, inviting distrust and separating yourself from sealings. | CTL 2e 343 |
Obliged | ● | A bargain of service with a mortal human protects you from the Wild Hunt and can hide you from Wyrd-bound pursuers. | CTL 2e 343 |
Fae-Touched Conditions | |||
Hedge Addiction | ● | The Hedge calls to you and tempts you. | CTL 2e 340 |
Arcadian Dreams | ● | You're harrowed with visions of your promise-bound and their suffering, and can trace them through the Hedge. | CTL 2e 333 |
Geist: the Sin-Eaters
Bound Conditions | |||
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Bonding | Your relationship with your geist benefits from weathering a crisis point. | GTS 2e 299 | |
Dead | Your body lies dead, unleashing your geist. | GTS 2e 299 | |
Defiant | ● | You've broken the Old Laws, and their keeper knows it. | GTS 2e 299 |
Echoes | Your geist's Remembrance Traits jumble in your mind. | GTS 2e 299 | |
Ferry Bound | You may navigate passengers across the Underworld's rivers so long as you collect the proper price. | GTS 2e 299 | |
Flatlining | ● | Your Synergy has been broken, and your geist rebels. | GTS 2e 300 |
Fragmented | Dead waters have washed away your definition and identity. | Mem 27 | |
Indebted | Neglecting a Touchstone has uncentered you spiritually. | GTS 2e 300 | |
Lawbreaker | ● | A Dominion spites and curses you for breaking the Old Laws. | GTS 2e 300 |
Memento Collector | Other Sin-Eaters are impressed! | GTS 2e 301 | |
Memory Bleed | ● | Your identity begins to blur with that of your non-personal Memories. | GTS 2e 301 |
Regalia | A krewe has bestowed you with a special crown blessing. | GTS 2e 301 | |
Theophany | ● | The confidence and celebration of a krewe that has changed the world. | GTS 2e 301 |
Unleashed | The geist materializes, temporarily unmoored from its Bound. | GTS 2e 301 | |
Wavering | You have offended your geist and it demands recompense before it will cooperate. | GTS 2e 301 | |
Weakened Bond | Unleashing your geist has temporarily displaced your power. | GTS 2e 302 | |
Haunt Conditions | |||
Actor | You have been bound to participate in a ghostly recapitulation of events. | GTS 2e 306 | |
Boneyard | The Bound's consciousness haunts the location, seeping awareness into every corner and object. | GTS 2e 306 | |
Caul | You've invited your geist into your flesh to transform your shape. | GTS 2e 306 | |
Curse | A Sin-Eater haunts you with cursed fortune. | GTS 2e 307 | |
Dirge | The song of the Bound moves you and impels you. | GTS 2e 307 | |
Marionette | You are strung by the Plasm of a manipulative Bound. | GTS 2e 307 | |
Maw | You've become an uncontrollable nexus for the Underworld's endless hunger. | Mem 24 | |
Memoria | Memories of death and the dead play out in visions. | GTS 2e 307 | |
Oracle | You have left your body to seek answers as a spectral traveller. | GTS 2e 308 | |
Rage | You wield ghostly malice to smite your foes. | GTS 2e 308 | |
Servant | An engine of Plasm controls your body. | GTS 2e 308 | |
Shroud | Your body interweaves with your geist, ghostly and gauzy. | GTS 2e 309 | |
Tomb | You have molded memories of something lost into a perfect replica. | GTS 2e 309 | |
Void | You have opened the wake of a black and hungry nothingness. | Mem 24 | |
Void Storm | The Underworld's hunger reaches through you to sap energy from the world. | Mem 24 | |
Well | Your self and memories flow like the dead rivers. | Mem 26 |
Hunter: the Vigil
Hunter Conditions | |||
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Merciless | ● | The hunt is now the focal point of your life, and have difficulty focusing on anything else. | HTV 2e 298 |
Vigilant | ● | The hunt is your entire life, and you're ready to do whatever it takes to stop the monsters lurking in the shadows. | HTV 2e 300 |
Mummy: the Curse
Arisen Conditions | |||
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Disembodied | You walk as a ghost through Twilight. | MTC 2e 350 | |
Disinterred | Your tomb has been ransacked or ruined. | MTC 2e 350 | |
Forgotten Skill | ● | Buried expertise waits to be unearthed from within your memory. | MTC 2e 353 |
Memory Bleed | ● | You have fused into the soul of another, and your identities blur together. | MTC 2e 356 |
Cult Conditions | |||
Effortless Effort | Your cult produces greater results in its efforts. | MTC 2e 352 | |
Far-Reaching | Your cult has made successful inroads with important figures. | MTC 2e 353 | |
Haphazard Cultists | Your cult is disorganized, reducing their effectiveness. | MTC 2e 354 | |
Heresy | ● | Your cult has been infiltrated by a contradictory, potentially blasphemous belief. | MTC 2e 354 |
Iron Grasp | Your grip on your cult is absolute. | MTC 2e 355 | |
Isolated | Your cult is insular, even going so far as to reject outside assistance. | MTC 2e 355 | |
Mismanaged | Your cult's effectiveness is stymied by ineffective elements within it. | MTC 2e 357 | |
Shaken Faith | ● | The cult's resolve is shaken, questioning its leadership or doctrines. | MTC 2e 359 |
Zealous | Your cult is more dedicated to its mission than most, operating more effectively. | MTC 2e 361 | |
Sybaris Conditions | |||
Unease Sybaris | Stage one. Dread unsettles you without a supernatural power to turn to. | MTC 2e 359 | |
Terror Sybaris | Stage two. Contact with a mummy seizes you with fear. | MTC 2e 360 | |
Desecration Sybaris | Stage three. Unholy terror invites the will of Duat. | MTC 2e 360 | |
Rewards and Punishments of Duat | |||
Accelerated Descent | Duat pulls more eagerly at your Sekhem. | MTC 2e 346 | |
Auspicious Descent | Your Sekhem weathers the Descent longer. | MTC 2e 347 | |
Blessed Minions | Your cultists are inspired by your accomplishments. | MTC 2e 347 | |
Damaged Pillar | You cannot draw power from one of the Pillars of your soul. | MTC 2e 349 | |
Devouring Urge | Ammut the Devourer speaks to you, and only sacrifice will buy her silence. | MTC 2e 350 | |
Driven | Your surety in your ambition is a great well of strength. | MTC 2e 351 | |
Echoes of Descent | Your clarity and Memory lift up the power of your soul. | MTC 2e 351 | |
Geometric Alignment | Sekhem's flow preserves your tomb from disruption. | MTC 2e 354 | |
Graceful Descent | Your overflowing Sekham staves off your Descent. | MTC 2e 354 | |
Luminous Pillars | Your soul shines strong and resists depletion. | MTC 2e 355 | |
Megalomaniacal | Your failures in the trials of Duat have left you with cold, single-minded focus. | MTC 2e 356 | |
Precipitous Descent | The Descent wears down your Sekhem more quickly. | MTC 2e 357 | |
Repression | Your failures in the trials of Duat have hollowed out portions of your knowledge. | MTC 2e 358 | |
Timeless Conditions | |||
Alternative Current | Time around you is taking a divergent current. | MTC 2e 346 | |
Déjà Vu | You stand where different currents of possiblity converge on a single event. | MTC 2e 349 | |
Eddy | You wade through sluggish waters which can be outpaced. | MTC 2e 352 | |
Mirage | You recognize patterns in the tides which echo past and future events. | MTC 2e 356 | |
Rip | You can take precise stock from your position amid rapid timeflows. | MTC 2e 358 | |
Whirlpool | Caught in a swirl of recurring events, you can grab hold of causal fixtures. | MTC 2e 360 |
Demon: the Descent
Unchained Conditions | |||
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Aetheric Bleed | Exertion in demonic form has you releasing accumulated Aether. | DTD 209 | |
Betrayed | ● | Someone you trusted has sided with the God-Machine against you. | DTD 119 |
Blackballed | The heat you've drawn makes you a liability for nearby demons. | DTD 120 | |
Blown | ● | One of your Covers is useless, and the God-Machine is now actively targeting it. | DTD 119 |
Burn-Coded | You have been infected with malware, compromising your Cover. | DSG 105 | |
Demonic Disconnect | You've failed to maintain human empathy while in your demonic form. | DTD 209 | |
Demonic Rage | Pain and frustration suffered in demonic form provoke frenzied violence. | DTD 210 | |
Flagged | The agents of the God-Machine have their attentions directed your way. | DTD 120 | |
Hunted | ● | Your actions have alerted the God-Machine to your presence. | DTD 119 |
Implanted | ● | You have a weird gadget implanted in your body and this is not normal. | FoH 155 |
Impostor | You've let the lies of Legend pile up. | DTD 119 | |
Memory Hole | Errors in god-hacking have disrupted your access to a particular Skill. | FoH 80 | |
Of the Machine | The demon has god-hacked to disguise her fallen nature within a project. | FoH 78 | |
Overclocked | You've stored more Aether than your body can normally process at once, and must soon vent the excess. | FoH 81 | |
Phantom Pain | ● | Your focus is disrupted by the gnawing feeling of a missing demonic form ability. | FoH 160 |
Plugged In | You've jacked an angel's Cover, and the God-Machine is watching you as if you were that angel. | DTD 118 | |
Surveilled | Agents of the God-Machine are compiling intelligence to identify you. | DTD 120 | |
Agenda Conditions | |||
Angel Empathy | The Integrator Agenda. Resolve to understand and exploit the angelic mindset. | DTD 95 | |
An Eye for Disorder | The Saboteur Agenda. Resolve to intuit the best course of action to upend a system into chaos. | DTD 97 | |
I Know Someone | The Tempter Agenda. Resolve to make the right connections to fit in anywhere. | DTD 99 | |
Prepared for Anything | The Inquisitor Agenda. Resolve to make an instant logical connection or breakthrough. | DTD 93 | |
Uncalled | ● | You are not a member of any Agenda. | DTD 78 |
Demon-Blooded Conditions | |||
Activated | ● | The God-Machine has broken your Cipher. You have four Key Embeds and three Interlocks, but once per session, the God-Machine may act through you. | HtH 35 |
Catalogued | The God-Machine is probing your Cipher. You have two Key Embeds and an Interlock, but the God-Machine is watching your status. | HtH 35 | |
Examined | The God-Machine has accessed your Cipher. You have three Key Embeds and two Interlocks, but you're scrutinized enough to pose demons a risk of compromise through you. | HtH 35 | |
Noted | The God-Machine is looking for your Cipher. You have one Key Embed. | HtH 35 |
Beast: the Primordial
Begotten Conditions | |||
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Gorged | ● | Your Satiety is comfortably sated. You inflict Nightmares easily, but are not resistant to supernatural compulsion. | BTP 320 |
Ravenous | ● | Your hunger consumes you, both mentally and physically, until you find sustenance. | BTP 320 |
Sated | ● | Your Satiety sits in an uncomfortable middle, and you are vulnerable to Anathema. | BTP 320 |
Slumbering | ● | You've feasted too much, and your Horror sleeps to digest, denying you its power. | BTP 321 |
Starving | ● | Your Satiety is low, making you sharp and ready to feed. Your Atavisms wax in power, but your Lair is hazy and distant. | BTP 321 |
Deviant: the Renegades
Remade Conditions | |||
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End Stage | Terminal instability renders Variations at maximum Magnitude uncontrollably potent, and by the end of the chapter, will destroy you, body and soul. | DTR 322 |
Tilts (2nd Edition)
Personal Tilts
Name | Description | Book |
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Natural Tilts | ||
Arm Wrack | Your arm has been incapacitated by pain or injury. | CofD 280 |
Beaten Down | Your will or capacity to keep fighting has been exhausted. | CofD 280 |
Bleeding | You're weakening from bleeding out. | HL 143 |
Blind | Your vision has been impaired or stripped. | CofD 281 |
Burning | You're on fire. You quickly amass lethal damage because fire bad. | PTC 2e 314 |
Deafened | Your hearing has been impaired or stripped. | CofD 281 |
Drugged | You're suffering the numbing mental and physical effects of a narcotic. | CoFD 281 |
Immobilized | You're restrained or held in place, incapacitating you and leaving you open. | CofD 284 |
Insane | A panic attack or severe psychotic break provokes extreme, irrational behavior. | CofD 285 |
Insensate | You've been overwhelmed and psychically incapacitated, leaving you open. | CofD 285 |
Knocked Down | You've been swept to the ground, disrupting your action and forcing you prone. | CofD 285 |
Leg Wrack | Your leg has been severely weakened or incapacitated by pain or injury. | CofD 285 |
Pierced Armor | Your armor has been damaged or ruptured. | HL 143 |
Pinned | Your flesh or clothes have been pinned to an object, holding you in place. | HL 143 |
Poisoned | You're being harmed by a fast-acting toxin. | CofD 286 |
Sick | You're impaired and weakened by disease. | CofD 286 |
Stunned | You're dazed and briefly incapacitated. | CofD 286 |
Supernatural Tilts | ||
Flesh Too Solid | You're so immersed in dream that you take physical instead of dream damage. | CTL 2e 329 |
Nimbus | You're subject to a mage's unique Immediate Nimbus, imposing a resonance that applies dice modifiers to certain Attributes or dice tricks to certain Skills. | MTA 2e 89 |
Environmental Tilts
Natural Tilts | ||
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Avalanche | Tumbling hazards buffet you along and quickly inflict lethal damage. | BTP 327 |
Blazing Light | Eye-searing brightness impairs vision. | DTR 314 |
Blizzard | Thick snowfall impairs vision and movement. | CofD 281 |
Crowded | Bodies press in on all sides,missed attack have a chance to hit others people. | HTV 291 |
Crowded:Traffic | Like above more but in public, with folk with Phones. | HTV 291 |
Detritus | Sharp and Jagged Ground, move slow or fall over and get cut up by the Ground. | HTV 291 |
Earthquake | Brief physical havoc quickly inflicts lethal damage, or bashing on a successful Stamina + Athletics roll. | CofD 282 |
Extreme Cold | Frostbite conditions disrupt natural healing and gradually accrue action penalties and lethal damage. | CofD 282 |
Extreme Heat | Sweltering, dry conditions disrupt natural healing and gradually accrue action penalties and lethal damage. | CofD 282 |
Drowning | You're submerged and quickly accrue bashing damage from suffocation. | BTP 328 |
Filth | Stratified filth covers the ground, gain the sick Tilt if Wounded. | HTV 2e 292 |
Flooded | High water levels disrupt movement or submerge those present. | CofD 282 |
Heavy Rain | Severe storm weather impairs vision and hearing. | CofD 283 |
Heavy Winds | Hurricane winds impair hearing and movement, and threaten bashing damage from debris. | CofD 283 |
Ice | Slick footing strips traction and endangers movement. | CofD 284 |
Inferno | Shit's on fire. You might choke if you don't burn up first. | HTV 293,DTD 386 |
Moving Terrain | The Ground is moving and shaking, making it hard to stand or act. often used for Vehicles. | HTV 294 |
Poor Light | Darkness impairs vision. | MTA 2e 323 |
Riot | Unpredictable violence erupts, and jostling and trampling poses a risk of bashing damage. | DE 576 |
Swarm | A horde of small but hostile creatures inflicts bashing damage each turn, and resists attacks that don't saturate an area. Special variants of this Tilt include swarms of thoughtful scorpions (DE 236) and obsidian mosquitoes (DE 239). | DTD 179 |
Tight Space | Hard to properly fight, good luck using anything larger than a shotgun. | HTV 295 |
Unstable Terrain | The Ground Could give away at any moment, dont put too much pressure on it, or you might have quite the drop. | HTV 295 |
Urban Collapse | The building is coming down, and characters may fall, be struck, or be crushed and trapped. | DE 573 |
Viscous | Passage through the area is difficult, requiring successful rolls to make progress through it. | DTR 320 |
Supernatural Tilts | ||
Boneyard | A Sin-Eater haunts this place, bringing it to life and aware. | GTS 2e 305 |
Lair | You're exposed to the particular ruling conditions of a primordial Beast's Lair. | BTP 100 |
Lightning | A supernaturally conjured storm which seeks victims. | NH-SM 97 |
Omen | Unnatural plague weather sears flesh or boils blood. | NH-SM 97 |
Shattered Time | Time is injured here, causing causal stutters and random modifiers to appropriate derived traits. History may mutate, and futures may split. | DE 46 |
Zombies! | There are too many zombies to wade through. Lose your Speed Factor bonus. Each turn in the horde not running at full tilt provokes an attack from the horde. | CofD 150 |
Power | Object | Usage | Book |
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One-shots | |||
Ambush | Cheap Arabic fireworks | Jumps user to top of Initiative | FoH 165 |
Data Wipe | Laser pointer with glass tip | Erases digital data incriminating the user | FoH 170 |
Deafen | Etched buckshot | Produces deafening noise when thrown | FoH 170 |
Disintegrate | Ball of tape and flesh | Passes through inanimate matter | FoH 170 |
Ellipses | Arcane arcade tokens | Sinks into a subject to preoccupy them with daydreams | FoH 170 |
Halo | Bloody pills | Provides a healing rest in under an eighth the time | FoH 170 |
Living Shadow | Black toy soldier | Melts into a pool of shadow to duplicate a doorway | FoH 170 |
Shift Consequence | Playing cards with elemental suits | Casts one injury into an inanimate object | FoH 171 |
Special Message | Exposed USB drive | Perfectly encrypts data to be decoded by a chosen recipient | FoH 171 |
Trust No One | Pamphlet depicting empty scenes | Inflicts a phobia of others on readers | FoH 171 |
Visions of Heaven and Hell | Metal insect | Burrows into a subject to cause terrifying nightmares | FoH 171 |
Wave Function Collapse | Blood-red glove | Forces a shapeshifter out of a chosen form briefly | FoH 171 |
You Can Tell Me | Blue electric capacitor | Causes a questioned subject to give an honest answer, if they had at any point in time known it | FoH 171 |
Embedded | |||
Ambush | Modified GPS navigator | Tracks people's movements indoors | FoH 164 |
Ambush | Paper compass | Unfold for a map of people's locations in the vicinity | FoH 164 |
Combustion | Lighter with copper wiring | Ignites inanimate combustibles at a distance | FoH 166 |
Fire Drill | Tape player with speakers | Perfectly duplicates a local alarm system | FoH 166 |
Fungible Knowledge | Training loupe | Trades the highest Skill rating with Crafts for 24 hours | Iface 110 |
Hush | Running shoes | Silences foot movement | FoH 166 |
Idle Conversation | LED fan | Disguises nearby conversation from eavesdropping | FoH 166 |
Imagine | Silver band with inscription | Provides affirmative visions of a chosen action's potential when slipped on a person's finger | FoH 168 |
Living Recorder | Tape recorder with stone buttons | Retells a subject's experience from the last 24 hours | FoH 167 |
The Look | Bright red flashlight | Freezes those caught in the light | FoH 167 |
Meaningless | Flickering ear bud | Shuts down a target's ability to actively communicate with others | FoH 168 |
Mercury Retrograde | Ramshackle flip-phone | Eavesdroppers on calls made misinterpret what they hear | FoH 168 |
Miles Away | Music box | Soothing music aids concentration | FoH 167 |
On the Mend | Always-full syringe | Extracts and transfuses Willpower, Health, or Aether | FoH 168 |
Play Possum | Copper rod with eye | Strikes a target falsely dead for an hour | FoH 169 |
Raw Materials | Stone sledgehammer | Remolds struck objects into objects of similar size | FoH 167 |
Remote Link-Up | Mirrorshades | Borrow the natural vision of a subject for an hour | FoH 169 |
Right Tools, Right Job | Perfected tweezers | Large equipment bonus for horological work | Iface 110 |
Social Dynamics | Baseball cap with white "A" | Blend into a group as a long-standing acquaintence | FoH 169 |
Special Someone | Wooden compass | Points at the most violent person in range | FoH 169 |
Unperson | Folder of blank documents | "Proves" your identity as a chosen subject | FoH 170 |
Exploited | |||
Animate | Organic motherboard | Activates or supercharges an operable device | FoH 165 |
Apple of Discord | Money clip | Inspires murderous greed at night | FoH 165 |
Deep Cover | Smart card on a lanyard | Confounds a recipient's supernatural senses | FoH 166 |
Deep Pockets | Carbon's trunk | Links the car trunk by tunnel to a home closet | Iface 61 |
Deep Pockets | Metal-framed backpack | Stores any item, regardless of size or weight | FoH 166 |
Extispicy | Voodoo doll | Scries upon a subject using their name and a piece from their body | FoH 166 |
Four Minutes Ago | Four Minutes Home | Rewinds time as if the winder had retroactively left for the Seattle Horological Academy | Iface 111 |
Four Minutes Ago | Puzzle box | Permits demons four minutes of action, then rewinds time to play the effects out with different causes | Iface 62 |
Frozen in Time | Aluminum-plated harness | Move within slowed time | FoH 168 |
Frozen in Time | Knife of broken time | Can hold itself and a stabbed victim static and immutable | Iface 110 |
Merge | Glowing wristwatch | Disguises the appearance of the user's demonic form | FoH 168 |
Newton's Nightmares | Pistol with copper bands | Projects crushing gravity | FoH 167 |
Rip the Gates | Key with gears | Open a door one-way into an otherworld or back | FoH 167 |
Soul Brand | 3D projection PDA | Frightens witnesses of the projection, who try to appease its "master" | FoH 167 |
Stop | Engraved chrome ball | Freeze a target in time, immutable | FoH 169 |
Form gadgets | |||
Aura Sight | Kirlian lenses | Accentuate microexpressions when polished | FoH 172 |
Electrical Sight | Static glasses | Visualize electromagnetic fields | FoH 171 |
Essence Drain | Leech glove | Retractible spikes drain Essence or Aether from slashed wounds | FoH 172 |
Huge Size | Growth engine | Temporarily enlarges wearers with a key phrase | FoH 172 |
Memory Theft | Brainjack | Lets computers access human memories through USB interface | FoH 172 |
Sense the Angelic | Mints | Eating a charged mint permits a demon or stigmatic to sense angelic influence | Iface 61 |
Teleportation | Blitzen suit | Business suit with a hidden escape switch on the cuff | FoH 172 |
Tough as Stone | Granite brooch | Grows granite armoring when clasped tight | FoH 172 |
Lambdas | |||
Alibi Never Here |
Mind fog | Churning brooch hypnotizes and rewrites memories | FoH 173 |
Check Backdrop Shift Consequence |
Chaos engine | Electric coil drags bullet trajectories off course at operator's whim | FoH 174 |
Hellfire Swarm |
Swarm box | Contains deadly cryptid wasps with combustible venom | FoH 173 |
Identity Theft Living Shadow |
Shadow chain | Cuffs onto a person's shadow to manipulate them as an umbral passenger | FoH 173 |
Imagine Inflict Stigmata Rain of Blood |
Dreaming machine | Music causes a rain of somnambulent oil which causes dream visions and stigmata | FoH 164 |
Like I Built It Right Tools, Right Job |
Infinite multitool | Remolds into any shape at the end of a handle | FoH 173 |
NPCs, Beings (2nd Edition)
Ephemeral Entities
Ghostly Twilight | ||
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Ghosts | Self-aware impressions left behind by the death and loss, anchored from the pull of the Underworld. | CofD 122 |
Amkhata | Ravening aberrations formed from raw Sekhem unbound from any vessel. | MTC 2e 219 |
Fiends | The endless demons of Duat, who exist only to cause pain and to be pained. | MTC 2e 321 |
Shades | Shadows cast by dead lives, progressing to the unlit land of Duat. | MTC 2e 231 |
Spiritual Twilight | ||
Spirits | Symbiotic totems born from the resonance of the world, native to the Shadow Realm. | CofD 122 |
Idigam | Bizarre, ever-changing monsters of the Shadow Realm, with unique infectious powers. | WTF 2e 216 |
Astral Twilight | ||
Goetia | Thoughtforms native to the Astral Realms. | MTA 2e 252 |
Unfettered | Horrors of the Primordial Dream, divorced from the link to corporeal Beasts. | BTP 235 |
Angelic Twilight | ||
Angels | Servitors and subsidiaries of the God-Machine, consumed with cosmic tasks and commands. | CofD 122 |
Exiles | Failed and abandoned angels with impossible orders, who develop quirks and dysfunctions. | DSG 63 |
Material Creatures
Being | Description | Book |
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Claimed | Fusions of spirits and possessed vessels, merged in mind and body. | WTF 2e 207 |
Cryptids | Animals supernaturally mutated by exposure to Aether. | DTD 228 |
Geryo | Many-headed ur-predators which predate the Uratha and carry a shapeshifting contagion. | NH-SM 153 |
Horrors | Miscellaneous monsters and hidden dangers in the Chronicles of Darkness. | CofD 140 |
Hosts | Shattered fragments of ancient Shadow gods, including the spider-host Azlu and rat-host Beshilu. | WTF 2e 202 |
Manticores | Animals transformed in the same manner as the Remade, who instinctively wield similar Variations. | DTR 65 |
Pandorans | Hungry, parasitic monsters stirred to unlife by the radiance of the Divine Fire. | PTC 2e 239 |
Otherworldly Beings
Being | Description | Book |
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Hedge Ghosts | Insubstantial remembrances of feeling and character traits, tied to the Hedge. | CTL 2e 245 |
Hobgoblins | Cunning opportunists and strange dream-folk born of the Hedge. | CTL 2e 252 |
Huntsmen | Arcadian aborigines emptied of their hearts and inhabited by the True Fae to invade the material world. | CTL 2e 264 |
Qashmallim | Pyretic intelligences composed of Divine Fire, motivated by missions of catalysis and inspiration. | PTC 2e 271 |
Pangaeans | Ancient gods of the Border Marches, transcending flesh and spirit. | DE 58 |
Strix | Unliving shadows who steal bodies to sate their spite and visceral urges. | VTR 2e 200 |
Supernal Entities | Entities hidden in the Supernal World and summoned into the Fallen World. | MTA 2e 252 |
True Fae | Covetous alien gods who manifest as discrete Titles. | CTL 2e 269 |
Supernal Entities
Being | Realm | Manifest | Recondite | Description | Book |
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Angels | Aether | Seraphim | Cherubim | Elemental symbols of power and wisdom, ruling Forces and Prime. | MTA 2e 97, 252 |
Beasts | Primal Wild | Atavisms | Totems | Primal symbols of instinct and intuition, ruling Life and Spirit. | MTA 2e 97, 252 |
Demons | Pandemonium | Imps | Wraiths | Harrowing symbols of correspondence and insight, ruling Space and Mind. | MTA 2e 97, 252 |
Fae | Arcadia | Anachronisms | Moirae | Esoteric symbols of fate and fortune, ruling Time and Fate. | MTA 2e 97, 252 |
Shades | Stygia | Apeirons | Specters | Meditative symbols of theory and memory, ruling Matter and Death. | MTA 2e 96, 252 |
Being | Description | Book | |||
Ananke | Living works of imperial magic embodying the ordainment of a particular outcome in the timeline. | SoS 116 | |||
Ochemata | Extruded aspects and avatars of Archmasters and Ascended beings. | SoS 115 |