Predator Types

The ten core types

Each type gives the character a recognizable way into the feeding story. The pool below is guidance for the usual approach, not a permission to invent final results.

1. 01

   A package is a character snapshot

   A core type supplies its selected specialty, Discipline dot, Advantages or Flaws, and any Humanity or Blood Potency adjustment. Previewing, switching, retrying a save, or reloading cannot apply the same package twice.

2. 02

   A hunt finds access; it does not finish feeding

   The server resolves the hunt pool and outcome from the saved character. A successful hunt creates an opportunity to feed. Hunger, source amount, Blood Potency, consent, harm, and other costs resolve separately.

3. 03

   Off-type hunting is allowed, but visible

   A core character can try another method. The server adds +1 difficulty when the method is outside the persisted type, reports the base and final difficulties, and never lets the model smuggle in or remove the modifier.

4. 04

   A name is not proof of a resource

   Herds, households, flocks, named vessels, and Kindred targets need persisted access, availability, and scene facts. Historical package ownership does not invent a resource that the chronicle never established.

5. 05

   Legacy history stays honest

   Imported sheets and older NPCs may have final ratings without reliable package provenance. Review can confirm known choices or preserve an unknown history; it does not grant a second package or respec a running chronicle.

Three ways this appears in play

• Farmer outside the fields

  A Farmer can pursue an Alleycat-style ambush when the scene calls for it. The attempt is legal, but the server rolls it at the Storyteller's base difficulty plus one for the off-type method.

• A named household

  A Cleaver's household is not an infinite abstract Herd. The family or friend group has to exist in the chronicle, remain available, and still make sense as access when the character returns.

• The Kindred vessel

  Blood Leech feeding needs a living, present Kindred target with resolved access and explicit Hunger and Blood Potency. The result records exposure for later Bond judgment instead of pretending every consequence is automatic.

Questions that matter at the table

Can I choose a custom predator type?

Custom and expansion names remain valid compatibility data, but the current executable package catalog is the ten core types listed above. A custom profile does not silently receive the full package of a similarly named type.

Does a successful hunt reduce Hunger?

No. A hunt resolves access to a vessel or source. Feeding is a separate action with its own amount, Blood Potency, restrictions, resource costs, and consequences.

Does off-type hunting force a Stain or a Rouse Check?

Not by itself. The current rule is a server-owned +1 difficulty modifier. Moral consequences, Rouse costs, and feeding outcomes come from the actual method and scene facts.

What happens to Resonance?

Human Resonance comes from explicit vessel or scene facts. Animals provide animal Resonance, processed bags provide none, and missing information remains unknown. An active Resonance record expires when Hunger reaches five.