VTM Disciplines Guide

bond an animal companion. It will listen to basic commands, but full communication is not possible (unless you have Feral Whispers)

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

sense hostility and supernatural traits in people

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

make an animal enrage or flee

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

communicate with animals. You can also call for animals and if they are nearby, they will come.

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

Feed more effectively on animals. You can consume your famulus to temporarily gain their aspect

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

Shut down a target's drives and desires, pull vampires out of frenzy

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

Detect Mortals who saw Masquerade breaches

Common clans: Nosferatu, Gangrel, Ravnos, Tzimisce

your senses become supernaturally sharp; add Auspex rating to perception rolls

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

sense supernatural activity

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

soothe a person's psychological turmoil

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

gain visions of the future

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

create a bond with a target to spy on them

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

determine a target's weakness

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

see people's auras

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

sense through another person (eg. see through their eyes)

Common clans: Toreador, Tremere, Malkavian, Hecata, Salubri

Discern traits about someone by tasting a drop of their blood

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Learn information such as Skills, Desires and Convictions about someone

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Animals avoid the area.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Prevent someone from communicating something negative about the caster

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Embed messages into Blood or vessels.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Turn blood into water.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Learn characters generation, name, and sire.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Make a message appear to a specific type of person then disappear once read.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Cling to walls like an insect.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Use plant life to defend.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

make your blood corrosive to dead substances

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Craft a tracking stone.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Remove their fear of fire temporarily.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Make a mortal more nourishing.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Ward a single kine of a herd to prevent unauthorized feeding.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Place a ward on a letter

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Reveal traces of spilled blood.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Make a tattoo permanent on a vampire

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

manipulate blood to show simple messages or shapes

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Awakens the caster at any signs of danger during day sleep.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protect themselves against Ghouls.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Walk on water silently.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Store vitae for a later use.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Speak with the residual aura of someone who has died.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Creates a long-distance telepathic link between Sire and Childe

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Temporarily gain dots and speciality in certain skills (Academics, Craft, Performance or Science)

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Curse someone with nightmares that cause Willpower Damage, which can't be healed during the Ritual's duration.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Command your chosen element to interfere with a target

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Allow multiple Kindred to feed from one Dyscrasia without destroying it.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

increase another vampire's hunger

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

By consuming the eyes and tongue of another, they gain the ability to read and speak any language known by the victim.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Allows the caster to follow the trail of a specific person.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a connection between two people, providing they desire each other at the time the Ritual is cast

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

locate particular information in text

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Prevent sounds from escaping a room.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Replicates Silence of Death (Obfuscate ●), which creates a radius of silence

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Convert a dose of vitae to weaken their victim against mundane manipulations or mind-altering Disciplines.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Attune yourself to a place of power, like a Furcus

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

The caster can discern truth from lies.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Become invisible underground.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Grow Blood-addicted plants that can consume corpses

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protect themselves against spirits.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protect themselves against Ghouls.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Avoid the pull of the [[Beckoning]]. {{Errata|source=Vampire: The Masquerade Fall of London|date=August 2023|summary=Power revised in re-release}}

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Sharpens the user's hands into a weapon.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

temporarily increase your Blood Potency

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a tattoo on a Kindred which also contains a message

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Purify blood, creating a clear blood-like substance.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

A Pack Priest shares their Blood Potency with their pack.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

The caster can rupture the blood vessels of a victim from afar.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

This ritual protects them from being staked.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Meld with your chosen element, similar to Earth Meld (Protean ●●●)

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Allows for flight.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

See what happened at their current location in the past.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create anguish of fire in one's blood to incapacitate

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Allow themselves and their comrades to become resistant to fire.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Short out electronics and wiring nearby.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protect the mind of a target against Frenzy.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Make a haven appear as if it's haunted.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Ward a herd against unauthorized feeding by warding the door to protect multiple people within.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Make a corpse appear as if it'd died a natural death.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Become a nondescript person to blend into crowds.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a draught that can remove Stains, but prolonged use of it can make those Stains permanent

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Claim ownership of a weapon and protect it from damage.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a small rat out of vitae.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

turn your blood into paralyzing poison

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Observe a target from above

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Find veins of the Earth

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Incapacitate a vampire by drugging them.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a Hemonculus, a shrivelled, smaller and weaker version of the caster, who must obey your every command

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Dispel illusions and creatures altered via Disciplines and Rituals

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Lupines entering the area are forced into Wolf Form.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

your blood can retain Blood Bonding properties even when stored in an object or a ghoul

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Allows the caster to easily sneak around a building, such as by flowing through crevices that blood can fit through

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Gather information from everyone in an area suffering from a certain disease

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protects themselves against Werewolves.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protect themselves against spirits.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Set their arms on fire

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Reverses the effects of Diablerie

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protect a haven with mystical darkness from the sun.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Stop the use of Animalism, Auspex, Dominate, and Presence within a building.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

By hosting an illness, the caster is able to enhance Skills by access the experiences of everyone with that illness in the area

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Take control of a carnivorous bird and act through them.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Stop another Kindred from drinking blood for one night.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

With the Blood of another vampire, experience their memories guided by them.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

The caster's form becomes ghost-like.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Put up a blockade against [[Auspex#Scry the Soul|Scry the Soul]] to hide diablerie and other vampiric traits.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Temporarily make traces of Diablerie undetectable.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Confine a victim to a single spot

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Feed from a place of power, turning it into a place of suffering where injuries become more severe.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Transform a target into a bat similar to [[Protean#Metamorphosis|Metamorphosis]].

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Pull a vampire from the earth who is using [[Protean#Earth Meld|Earth Meld]].

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Travel from one furcus to another random one.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protects themselves against Kindred.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Protects themselves against Werewolves.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Set their arms on fire

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Drain blood from nearby creatures

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

The Koldun commands their chosen element to attack a foe. This can be a Chain Ritual

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a one-way portal.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Makes the caster one with their land, giving them access to it's secrets. This can be a Chain Ritual

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Turns their heart to stone preventing staking. The Caster also suffers from emotional detachment, taking penalties to Remorse or active Social-related rolls.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Regain blood potency faster after extended torpor.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

A stake that will seek out another vampire's heart and will cause final death if it finds it.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Create a gate to teleport multiple vampires.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

Take over a body from diablerie.

Common clans: Tremere, Banu Haqim

automatically pass balance tests

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Banu Haqim

faster reactions & free minor actions

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Banu Haqim

add Celerity rating for defense and Dexterity rolls

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Banu Haqim

dash up to 50m at supernatural speed

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Banu Haqim

run across liquids or walls

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Banu Haqim

add Celerity rating to defense against ranged (Requires Rapid Reflexes)

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Banu Haqim

make a person forget the past minute

Common clans: Ventrue, Malkavian, Tremere, Lasombra, Tzimisce, Salubri

a single, short command with an immediate effect

make it harder for thralls to resist you

Common clans: Ventrue, Malkavian, Tremere, Lasombra, Tzimisce, Salubri

allow issuing more complex commands

Common clans: Ventrue, Malkavian, Tremere, Lasombra, Tzimisce, Salubri

strengthen the mind of your dominated victims against interference from other kindred

Common clans: Ventrue, Malkavian, Tremere, Lasombra, Tzimisce, Salubri

Rewrite memories

Common clans: Ventrue, Malkavian, Tremere, Lasombra, Tzimisce, Salubri

When using Mesmerize you can give a command that stays dormant until triggered (requires Mesmerize)

Common clans: Ventrue, Malkavian, Tremere, Lasombra, Tzimisce, Salubri

add Fortitude rating to health track

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

add extra defense against mind-swaying

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

reduce Superficial physical damage sustained

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

use your blood to heal other vampires

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

turn aggravated damage to superficial

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

resist auspex and similar powers

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

ignore hunger for one scene

Common clans: Ventrue, Gangrel, Hecata, Salubri

blend into surroundings while motionless

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

mute all sounds you make

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

create brief sensory hallucinations

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

extend your obfuscate powers to animals under your influence

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

move while remaining hidden

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

Obfuscate affects technology (eg. hide yourself from recordings)

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

make yourself appear as a non-descript stranger to others

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

prevent someone from perceiving any exits or means of escape

Common clans: Nosferatu, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, Ministry, Ravnos

use your vitae to disintegrate non-vampire corpses

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

see in darkness and see ghosts

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

identify objects and locations that are connected to ghosts

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

Conjures shadow appendages that the user can control but the user is unable to do anything else.

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

Increase the chances of a mortal being harmed by exterior forces.

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

summon a supernatural shadow you control

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

find places where ghosts can cross between worlds

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

decay everything around

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

project senses through shadows

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

decay a living or unliving body

Common clans: Lasombra, Hecata

cause serious physical damage to a mortals

Common clans: Nosferatu, Brujah, Lasombra

jump over long distance

Common clans: Nosferatu, Brujah, Lasombra

add Potence rating to strength checks

Common clans: Nosferatu, Brujah, Lasombra

drain a person in seconds

Common clans: Nosferatu, Brujah, Lasombra

grip and hold onto any surface, including walls and ceilings

Common clans: Nosferatu, Brujah, Lasombra

add double Potence rating to strength when destroying objects (requires Prowess)

Common clans: Nosferatu, Brujah, Lasombra

become attractive and charismatic; add Presence rating to Persuasion and Performance checks

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

push people away and intimidate; add Presence rating to Intimidation checks

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

make mortals you feed from love you

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

use Presence powers against targets that can't see, but only hear you.

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

terrify an individual, causing them to submit, freeze, flee or terror-frenzy

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

cause infatuation, making a target do almost anything to remain in your good graces

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

project your voice to anywhere you can see

Common clans: Toreador, Brujah, Ventrue, Ministry, Ravnos

your eyes start glowing and you can see in total darkness

Common clans: Gangrel, Ministry, Tzimisce

become weightless

Common clans: Gangrel, Ministry, Tzimisce

grow deadly claws

Common clans: Gangrel, Ministry, Tzimisce

reshape your own skin, muscles and bone at will

Common clans: Gangrel, Ministry, Tzimisce

meld into the soil

Common clans: Gangrel, Ministry, Tzimisce

turn into a human-sized animal

Common clans: Gangrel, Ministry, Tzimisce

Create tattoos with personal touches beyond regular tattoos

Common clans: thin-blood

Enter a deep torpor where there is no difference between you or a corpse

Common clans: thin-blood

Get high regardless of Humanity or Blush of Life. Temporarily enhances Dexterity if well made

Common clans: thin-blood

Push, pull, hold or grab objects or people with their mind.

Common clans: thin-blood

Mark someone so anyone who drinks from them becomes obvious to the alchemist when they encounter them

Common clans: thin-blood

Receive a 2-dice bonus when freeing themselves from physical restraints or grapples.

Common clans: thin-blood

Create a mist that follows the user, making it harder to shoot them or identify them.

Common clans: thin-blood

Speak other languages than their own.

Common clans: thin-blood

Produce low-level electrical current from their body.

Common clans: thin-blood

Withstand the effects of Sunlight and walk in the sun.

Common clans: thin-blood

Place a message into someone's blood. The next vampire to drink from them gets the message

Common clans: thin-blood

Immediately cause Torpor

Common clans: thin-blood

Makes UV light damage vampires

Common clans: thin-blood

Infect the blood of a herd to cause those who feed from it to fall into a dreamless sleep.

Common clans: thin-blood

Forces a target to contemplate obsessively over an ally's failure

Common clans: thin-blood

Create a mist that clings to a victim.

Common clans: thin-blood

See connections between Kindred and mortals

Common clans: thin-blood

Gain 3 extra dice to persuade or intimidate someone into being honest.

Common clans: thin-blood

Smell and track the Kindred with the highest Blood Potency

Common clans: thin-blood

Imbue and experience a Memorium of another vampire.

Common clans: thin-blood

Reduces physical damage to the alchemist, turning Aggravated to Superficial

Common clans: thin-blood

Introduce blood into a mortal that causes no harm to them but harms vampire's that feed from them.

Common clans: thin-blood

Superheat your body

Common clans: thin-blood

Freeze a vampire's body.

Common clans: thin-blood

Prevent someone from healing

Common clans: thin-blood

Emit a gas that causes rigid paralysis in mortals and supernatural creatures.

Common clans: thin-blood

Expel blood-borne illnesses through ignited gases

Common clans: thin-blood

Creates an explosion of gas that causes no damage but negates the Blush of Life

Common clans: thin-blood

Become a sun battery and harm vampires they touch.

Common clans: thin-blood

Change their form into their ideal human shape.

Common clans: thin-blood

Make a statement and convince one person to agree.

Common clans: thin-blood

Strengthen their resistance to damage

Common clans: thin-blood

Enhances the blood of animals so it slakes the same as mortal blood

Common clans: thin-blood

Cause negatives effects to the religious

Common clans: thin-blood

Achieve flight

Common clans: thin-blood

Turn into an approximate copy of someone

Common clans: thin-blood

Be immune to, and redirect electrical currents

Common clans: thin-blood

Alters a Formula to be used by any vampire

Common clans: thin-blood

Erases memories of someone's misdeeds

Common clans: thin-blood

Overload the batteries in electronics or electrical equipment.

Common clans: thin-blood

Secrete caustic bile from their pores and orifices.

Common clans: thin-blood

Make it hard for vampires to resist feeding off someone.

Common clans: thin-blood

Awaken a vampire from torpor

Common clans: thin-blood

Gain the use of 1 Level 5 Potence, Celerity or Fortitude power

Common clans: thin-blood

Share diablerie with other thin-bloods.

Common clans: thin-blood

Harness the power of the Beast to support them.

Common clans: thin-blood

Break Blood-bonds

Common clans: thin-blood