Thin-Blood Alchemy

What the sheet is allowed to know

Start from the thin-blood, then from the catalogue row. Do not fill a gap with a borrowed Discipline.

One dot, one formula

The Thin-Blood Alchemist Merit is optional. When it is taken, the V1 package is one dot of Thin-Blood Alchemy and one level-1 formula. A Discipline Affinity is a different choice. Neither one assigns a clan or a predator type.

A method is a label

The record names Athanor Corporis, Calcinatio, or Fixatio. That name says how the formula was learned. It does not, by itself, set a pool, a time, a vessel, or a difficulty.

The row is the recipe

A formula has the level, pool, and Rouse cost printed on its catalogue row. If the row does not give a difficulty, a second Rouse, or a duration, do not supply one. Ingredients and effects come from that row, not from a neighbouring power.

Counterfeit is still Alchemy

A counterfeit formula imitates another power only as far as its own row says. It does not add a Discipline dot, grant a clan, or turn thin-blood vitae into a true Kindred ingredient. The app does not check the copied power's prerequisites.

Recorded, and not resolved

The thin-blood sheet keeps a small Alchemy record. It is not a laboratory, and a named formula is not an effect the server knows how to run.

Run it in this order.

1. 01Confirm a thin-blood, or a converted Kindred whose Alchemy record still asks for thin-blood blood.
2. 02Read the formula off the sheet: name, level, method, and the catalogue pool and Rouse cost.
3. 03If the record requires a thin-blood reagent, the Storyteller rules whether that blood is on hand before the formula is used.
4. 04Distil only what the catalogue row specifies. Do not invent a time, an ingredient, or a difficulty the row does not give.
5. 05When the formula is activated, build its pool, swap in Hunger dice, and roll its Rouse as its own check.
6. 06Apply the row's effect. Leave Discipline dots, clan, generation, and Blood Potency unchanged.

1. 01

   Weak blood, ordinary Hunger

   A thin-blood is a vampire at Blood Potency 0, not a mortal and not a ghoul. Hunger dice and Rouse Checks still apply when the formula's roll calls for them. Thin-blood vitae still cannot ghoul or start a Blood Bond. Alchemy does not lift that limit.

2. 02

   Distillation is not activation

   Cooking a formula and using it are two actions. The method names the cooking. The catalogue row names the cost of use. One recorded level-1 formula uses Resolve + Alchemy and one Rouse. Do not copy that cost onto a row that lists something else, and do not add a second Rouse because the scene felt expensive.

3. 03

   A counterfeit is not a Discipline

   Imitating a thin-blood power or a true Discipline does not put that Discipline on the sheet. There is no clan, no clan compulsion from the copy, and no Blood Potency bought by the recipe. Research, true Kindred vitae, and any rating the copy might demand stay with the Storyteller until a catalogue row states them. The app will not invent those gates.

4. 04

   Ascension keeps the notes, not the blood

   A verified transition to true Kindred can retain the Alchemy record and then require thin-blood blood as a reagent. Marking that blood available or unavailable is a Storyteller ruling. It does not distil a dose, measure a batch, or turn the formulae into in-clan Disciplines. Buying further formulae with experience is refused.

Common mistakes

• Treating Thin-Blood Alchemy as a clan Discipline, or an Affinity as a formula.
• Inventing a distillation difficulty, a second Rouse, or a duration the catalogue row does not give.
• Using thin-blood vitae as if it could ghoul, bond, or stand in for a true Kindred ingredient.
• Expecting a counterfeit to raise a Discipline rating or to validate its own prerequisites.
• Assuming the sheet cooks, stores, or expires a dose because a method name is written down.

One formula at the table

The roll uses the row she actually has. The effect stops where that row stops.

• Nia's fixed recipe

  Nia, 14th generation, Blood Potency 0, Thin-Blood Alchemy 1, Resolve 3, Hunger 1. One level-1 formula under Fixatio. Her catalogue row is Resolve + Alchemy and one Rouse.

  The pool is four dice: three normal and one Hunger. The faces are 7, 5, 10, and a Hunger 6: three successes, a clean success. The Rouse die is 3, so Hunger rises from 1 to 2. Whatever the row does, it does that and nothing further. No Discipline dot is added, and no dose is stored on the sheet.

How Vampiro Life stores Alchemy

There is no lab screen. The thin-blood sheet holds the method, the known formula, and whether thin-blood blood is still required. The Storyteller applies the catalogue row.

• Creation records one Alchemy dot and one verified level-1 formula under Athanor Corporis, Calcinatio, or Fixatio when Thin-Blood Alchemist is taken. A missing formula is flagged, not invented.
• The record can sit active, or it can require thin-blood blood. After ascension, a Storyteller ruling may mark that reagent available or unavailable. The flag does not brew, measure, or consume anything.
• Experience purchases of further formulae are refused. The server does not resolve distillation, batches, expiry, or a counterfeit's prerequisites.
• If the formula's row has a pool and a Rouse, those use the ordinary Hunger dice and Rouse Check. The Alchemy record itself does not roll them.

Frequently asked

What does Thin-Blood Alchemist give me?

One dot of Thin-Blood Alchemy and one level-1 formula, learned through one of the three methods. The Merit is optional. A Discipline Affinity is a separate choice and is not a formula.

Do the three methods roll differently?

Not in this chronicle. Athanor Corporis, Calcinatio, and Fixatio are stored names. Pools, ingredients, and times come from the formula's catalogue row, or they are not used.

Is a counterfeit a real Discipline?

No. It is an Alchemy formula that imitates a power as far as its own row says. It does not add Discipline dots or a clan. The app does not check the copied power.

Can I buy more formulae with experience?

Not today. The spend path refuses Thin-Blood Alchemy formula purchases. What you know is what creation, an import, or a recorded ruling already put on the sheet.

Does Alchemy let thin-blood vitae make a ghoul?

No. Thin-blood vitae does not ghoul and does not start a Blood Bond. A formula does not change that. See the Thin-blood and Ghoul rules.

Related rules

• Thin-Blood Rules
• Predator Types Rules
• Ghoul Rules