Vampire Powers

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Let’s talk about the basic’s

The base for vampire powers in my opnion:

Strenght and Stamina: Use your blood and rise your brute strenght and stamina above your common.

Healing: Vampires are undead, they dont heal damage in a normal way, they need blood to do that, the good side is they can heal a massive amoung of damage in seconds, the bad side is they need the blood in their bodies to do that.

Speed: Vampires can use they blood for move really fast, that dont make a Firearm shot faster or anything like that (On the contrary, you can even break your Pistol trying to make him fire faster than it can handles), but for melle and dodge, it helps a lot.

High Senses: Well…you can see, ear, smell and taste like no one else.

Invisibilty: A Vampire can Vanish on plain sight.

Mesmerize: A Vampire with his gaze can make someone act like a mindless zombie and things like that.

Bat/ Wolf/ Raven etc form: You can turn in a animal…pretty sick.

We have even more powers in the legends…but for a base, i think that’s it.

But of course…if i can walk in a wall like the Vampire in the «Enterview with a Vampire», i will be very happy.

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Vampire powers idea

Powers are broken down to Dogma Breaking to Dogma Accepting.  Making a person a mind slave isn’t Dogma Breaking as no would flinch if someone take their credit card and bought something for someone.  But running 90mph and leaping a football field on the other hand, that is going to cause people to scream monster.  

So without further pause.
Power that increases your maximum blood pool.
Power that works with making others believe a wall or door is or isn’t there.
Power that makes others believe a monster is there but it is all in their mind.
Power that increases health (Stamina/Health boost)
Power that increases strength (Minor increase of movement speed, Increase Leap and attack damage with physical attacks)
Power that increases speed (Movement speed/Attack speed)
Power that increases toughness (Damage reduction)
Power that increases base blood healing
Power that animates objects in your haven/domain (You are the Lord of your castle as the land itself fights for you)
Power that makes one look like an NPC
Power that makes one invisible
Power that turns one into shadow
Power that animates shadows to attack
Power that uses shadows for short range teleportation
Power that transforms into an animal
Power that melds with the ground
Power that grows claws
Power that transforms into mist
Power to enthrall someone
Power to mind control
Power to astral project
Power to read the history of an object
power to increase the five senses
Power to cause an npc to go insane briefly and thus be able to use dogma breaking powers in front of. Against players it would make them see things that aren’t there and changes colors and shapes on the screen.
Power of a massive scream damage
Power to transform blood into armor and weapons
Power to stealing blood from NPC’s by drinking the breath. (Toggle power, very slow blood gain, and not a lot of risk)
Power to spit poison blood/Acidic blood

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more than powers I am curious about gameplay…
Will this be your traditional MMO gameplay where you click target, click skill and watch the magic happen, like SWTOR or will it be more action oriented like DCUO or Neverwinter?
I would personally like a gameplay  that gave me a freedom feeling when in control, sorta like an Hack’n’Slash meets Batman Arkham games, meets MMOs XD

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Also, gonna post some ideas that I have about powers gonna sort this be elements

Blood

I think there could be something like blood spells that all vampires can do, stuff like write some runic symbols with their own blood to do stuff like bind a item to them, so they can them summon it at will (so you’re not seen carrying you buster sword around but you can draw it when in battle) also to cast a protection symbol on your haven so that no one else can enter it.

Other than that blood as a power element would be bloodline restricted and would grant abilities like healing and stuff.
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Telekinesis

Lock on enemy target making it soar and then either pull it closer and toss it into a direction we desire using the area around as a weapon (like in LOK Defiance).

Area blast that shoves away enemies in the radius.
toss energy ball (like in LOK Soul Reaver)
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Shadows

Hide in shadows (become a shadow or a static object)
Follow as shadow (become a shadow of an enemy target)
Control shadows (distract or scare an enemy target by making shadows that it can see move)
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Necromancy

Revive corpses (enemy targets or corpses in an area, for example if you’re in a graveyard) as mindless minions that fall dead again after battle (cool idea would be to do this in a museum, revive some dinosaur bones as minion )
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Animalism
take the shape of an animal you’ve drank blood from (used for stealth — dogs, cats, rats, birds, bats; used for combat — wolves, bears, tigers…)

Take a form of a swarm of animals you’ve drank blood from (small animals only — bats, ravens, bugs, rats… used to move around (fly) or to confuse enemies while slowly biting and drinking blood from them while they can barely move or harm player).

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Hybrid powers

Blood + Telekinesis
Drink blood from an enemy’s open wound, blood flies from wound to player’s mouth (LOK Defiance)

Levitate an enemy target and make it explode in blob of blood, then swallow the blood.
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Blood + Necromancy

Feed on dead blood (from dead enemy targets that were down drained of blood before death)

Summon various minions made of gore and bone from dead corpse (instead of reviving corpse, rendering more minions)

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Telekinesis + Shadow

Summon claws from enemy target’s shadow to hold them in place

Summon tendril like shapes from any shadow to strike an enemy target

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Shadow + Necromancy

Summon minions from shadows (dark humanoids made of dark solid mist with glowing red eyes) will resemble player shape is cast from player’s shadow, will resemble enemy target shape if cast from enemy target shadow.

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Necromancy + Animalism

summon ghost animal minions (VTMB Spectral wolf).
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Physical abilties
at low levels these should be common to all vampires (but higher levels should balance with other powers the vampire can use)

Celerity — move above what’s physically possible for a human (notice the the acceleration would also increase melee strikes damage based of physics of velocity and impact)

Potency — exceed the physical strength of a human (combined with celerity would increase it even further) — a fun use of this would be to lift up a car and toss it on an enemy target, also reap a street sign from the area and use it as a melee weapon.

High senses and supernatural perception — this could be used automatically sorta, like to perceive what NPCs around us have what sort of blood and how much, if NPCs are humans, vampires or another race… distinguish between neutral NPCs and enemy targets…

Extra thoughts, I was thinking maybe during character creation we decide what our blood type is and randomly NPCs will have blood of all types, but we get a bonus on feeding when drinking blood of our own kind.

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Karavolos wrote:

Does that suggest that it differs between and that there is no general rule that supernatural powers work less/equally efficiently between all? If it’s not too much to ask of course? =>

Not sure I understand your question.

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I believe for all there will be first need to know how the Character Sheet will be

Trait system or Attribute system?

What Skills will be implemented

Will the antiquity of the Blood have a role (like the Generation in VtM)?

Are we going to have a system like Humanity to show how we can meld into human society and/or alternative Paths to embrace montruosity of our predatory nature

Willpower will be implemented?

will Humanity/Path and Willpower be influenced by other aspects wich have theyr own role in the game (like the Virtues in VtM)

 

I know it may seem OT, but the powers are sricktly connnected with these aspects:

e.g. a kindred with lower Generation is generally not influenced by a younger kindreds mesmerize power; a kindred who’s been mesmerized can generally break control

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Regent wrote:

Not sure I understand your question.

Another World of Darkness comparison, cuz I know you never tire of those.
In nWoD (or CoD as it’s now called) every major template have a «Supernatural Advantage» such as «Blood Potency» for Vampires, «Primal Urge» for Werewolves etc. In most cases involving things like tricking the mind, the Supernatural Advantage directly combats such efforts; so a Vampire trying to Dominate a Werewolf would have to make the normal contested rolls in addition to the bonus of the Werewolf’s Primal Urge; as their supernatural template itself fights against other supernatural powers trying to mess with them.

Is it the same here or is just being a supernatural irrelevant when some Vampire tries to ‘Dominate’ you? If one came face-to-face with a Witch let’s say, would the Witch by default have some manner of protection against the Vampire’s powers?

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Karavolos wrote:

Regent wrote:

Not sure I understand your question.

Another World of Darkness comparison, cuz I know you never tire of those. In nWoD (or CoD as it’s now called) every major template have a “Supernatural Advantage” such as “Blood Potency” for Vampires, “Primal Urge” for Werewolves etc. In most cases involving things like tricking the mind, the Supernatural Advantage directly combats such efforts; so a Vampire trying to Dominate a Werewolf would have to make the normal contested rolls in addition to the bonus of the Werewolf’s Primal Urge; as their supernatural template itself fights against other supernatural powers trying to mess with them. Is it the same here or is just being a supernatural irrelevant when some Vampire tries to ‘Dominate’ you? If one came face-to-face with a Witch let’s say, would the Witch by default have some manner of protection against the Vampire’s powers?

Thats a good question. One I’d recommend saving for a possible Q&A coming soon.

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I don’t know if I’ll pay attention to those; but I’ll try and see where it leads. If worse comes to worst, maybe someone else can remember it.

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To make the things the easiest, we cloud use the powers of VtM, adapted to the Dogma

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@Regent. Is it far enough down the road to ask about more vampiric powers?

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the night is my day,
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I want the power to KILL any Twilight idiots on sight.