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For questions about games branded “World of Darkness”, including the original “old WoD” or “classic WoD” and the “WoD” reboot by WW/Paradox Interactive/Modiphius. Not for nWoD/CoD questions. See full description for details.

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How many Discipline points does a newly embraced ghoul get?

An embraced ghoul receives three discipline points. The part of: necessary to raise them to the starting values for vampires. strictly refers to Attribute and Ability points, nothing else. Hen …
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Does Blood Of Potency (Path of Blood •••) permit the learning of advanced Discipline powers?

No The corebook itself clearly prevents this trickery. Learning takes time. As said on page p124 of the V20 rulebook: Learning new Traits, however, is a little more difficult. Even a vampire ca …
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Blood bonded through human victim

Depends The wording in that section of the rulebook (3rd Edition p218): Each sip of a particular Kindred's blood ... If a being drinks three times, on three separate nights, from the same Kindred …
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Average Number of Ghouls per Vampire?

No I haven't ever come across an average number in my years of reading and playing Vampire. If I just look at the rules, then V20 gives more room to have several ghouls than Third Edition. In V20 a …
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How to handle lowering Generation to third or lower with Blood of Potency?

I'm going to challenge your question a bit. Why would you do it? I don't understand why your character would cast this power as you describe it. The only increase you experience is a bigger blood …
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Do Lasombra show up in cameras?

No, it never applied The weakness is still the same (see p59 of V20). So at first I thought that it would depend upon the type camera used. But the comment of T.J.L was a trigger to dig deeper: C …
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How should I roleplay Trait levels of 6 or more?

Attribute and abilities are normally rated on a 1 (poor) to 5 (peak human capacity) scale. Peak human capacity are people such as athletes who win medals at olympian events (Usain Bolt, Ian Thorpe, .. …
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What is the minimum essential reading for a new Mage: The Ascension player?

If more info is needed / required with regards to the Quickstart rules, then there's: Chapter Eight: Rolling Dice Difficulties Actions: The various Types Failure Success Chapter Nine: Part I: …
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Should NPCs use Willpower to get auto-successes?

In all my games (as player or ST) story important NPC would use Willpower in critical moments (based on their Nature and desired goals). This would be added into their roll automatically. Negotiatin …
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Who, how and when created the combo Disciplines?

My answer is heavily rooted in Vampire the Masquerade Third edition. Pleasebe aware that there's very little written about how any vampire develops a combination discipline. But how did those "tea …
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Difference in Core Mechanics between Revised Edition and W20?

Attributes & Abilities Leadership has been become a Talent. Dodge has been removed as a skill; its former functionality has been moved to Athletics. Larceny, Academics and Technology have been added. …
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Was the Ravnos antediluvian a wight?

There's no in-canon reference for either, however I think there are strong points for Zapathasura to not be a wight. First, a breakdown of the history before Zapathasura awakened: Ravnos and Kuei-J …
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How can I incorporate Koldunic Sorcery in Vampire: The Requiem?

Rough-do-it-yourself-conversion: The branching nature of blood magic paths (as seen in the gazillion paths that the Tremere had) doesn't exist in Requiem. The disciplines that come closest to resem …
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DTF to DTD conversion confusion about cover

Going to go point by point: Torment is specific to Demon the Fallen and has no similarty to Demon the Descent. The closest similarity is Integrity. See the Torment section in the Demon Translation G …
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Does the translated Aura of Vitality form power affect only one target?

There are quite the differences between DtF and DtD for Aura of Vitality. Demon the Fallen The Aura of Vitality is triggered by entering Apocalyptic Form (such as Dagan, The Visage of Awakening) …
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