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该书全称为《第2版说书人手册（(WW2304）》。

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　外邦人紧握他们的神，祈求永生，
　而我乐于再死一次——义无反顾。
　——T·S·艾略特，《智者之旅》

　下面的章节包括一些将其它黑暗世界的存在放入你的吸血鬼故事的建议。这些是指导，而非完整规则，最好用于将其他种族放入，以作敌人、盟友或线人。

　想经常使用其它种族角色的说书人和玩家应参考对应核心规则书。战斗时，任何异能、灵赋、领域、冥法或术艺的具体细节都应优先于以下规则。一如既往，说书人是最终权威。

　最后，这些规则偏向血族的哥特朋克“现实”，而非妖精的奇魅存在或狼人的精魂世界观。各种游戏的主题截然不同，不可能仅凭简单叠加就完美融合。赋予每个游戏特性的基本原则阻止了这种缝合怪——如果血族角色追求肆意杀戮的不朽余生，会很快发现自己被心兽控制，而这种战斗是狼人螳臂当车将至末日的一部分。两者结合模糊了其界限。

　因此强烈警告，除非是很厉害的说书人或纯为好玩，否则请勿尝试联动。任何游戏的联动都会导致某些主题元素的缺失——“要素”过多，或由欠佳的说书人主持，产生“超能力”杂烩，而非基于各线独有设定的恐怖色彩。所以要真跑，谨慎。

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　 ...with an alien people clutching their gods,I should be glad of another death.
　— T.S.Eliot,"Journey of the Magi"

　The following sections include some suggestions for incorporating the other denizens of the World of Darkness into your Vampire: The Masquerade stories. These are guidelines, not complete rules by any means, and are best used for bringing in other supernaturals as adversaries, allies or contacts.

　Storytellers and players who want to introduce perennially played characters of other supernatural types should consult the other core rulebooks. The details for any particular Discipline, Gift, Sphere, Arcanos or Art should override these rules in the event of a conflict. As always, the Storyteller is the final authority.

　Finally, these rules are slanted toward the Gothic-Punk Vampire "reality" rather than the chimerical existence of the fae or the spiritual world-view of the Lupines. The various games have radically different themes, and in no case can you simply stack one atop the other and achieve a seamless hybrid. The fundamental principles that lend each of the games their identity prevent such a perfect mixture - Vampire characters will soon find themselves claimed by the Beast if they pursue unlives of wanton killing, while such combat is part and parcel to Werewolf's desperate rage against an imminent apocalypse. Combining the games blurs the line between them: As a word of caution, don't attempt crossover unless you're a very skilled Storyteller or you just wanna kick ass. Any crossover will result in a loss of certain thematic elements from whatever games are introduced into the mix - too many "ingredients" or handling by a poor Storyteller yields a messy mix of "superpowers," rather than the individual horrors built into each game's distinct setting. Proceed with caution, if at all.

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等级

　当一个角色对另一个使用超自然能力，前者也被后者的能力所挑战时，请比较各自超能力的等级（除狼人为位阶）。最高的胜出；平局投对抗，投掷平局归防方。


注解

　被比较值为能力本身等级，而非正使用的。如果血族有感应术4但用了2级的侦测灵气，值就应是4，而非2。因此有威仪术5的长老用2级的畏怖凝视，比刚升到2级的雏儿强得多。

　如范围和持续时间等要素不变，但对其它超自然的强度要增加。


难度

　有时规则要求用角色没有的特性来防御。例如，一些狼人灵赋得用目标的魂怒点，但血族并不怒。这种情况，几种选项：

　没更好选择，默认难度6。

　目标强烈抵抗，说书人可用永久或目前意志点，因为这特性各线通用。

　另一简单操作，对应属性+技能总和。当然少用计算器。


范例

　一位名叫甲的以太之子血猎法师有力场4，他追上了有隐身术3的迈卡维乙。甲看到了乙，但后者用了2级的看不见存在来快速消失。

　甲知道乙就在此地某处，于是用了1级法术，扫描仍炎热的新墨西哥沙漠，来寻找冷得多的热源。

　因为甲的法术有4级，高于乙的3级异能，所以虽然使用能力的等级更低，但仍有机会察觉到后者。

　“有机会”是关键。不推翻已有规则，但也不自动判定。甲仍需照常投魔峰。如果没成功数，乙保持隐身；有1个，就能定位。

　如果甲只有3级呢？和乙的一样了，得投抵抗来决定。甲投魔峰，乙照常投机敏+潜行。成功数最多的胜出。乙胜，隐身；甲胜，定位；平局，偏防，乙仍隐身。因为甲积极搜寻，算攻方，投出平局也归乙。

　如果甲只有2级呢？比乙的低了，因而无法识破隐身。然而说书人也应让其投掷，然后告知他什么也没探测到。


等级表

异能	位阶	领域*	冥法	术艺	念刃
1	1	1	1	1	1
2	2	2	2	2	2
3	3	3	3	3	3
4	4	4	4	4	4
5	5	5	5	5	5
6	6	6	-	-
7-9	-	6+	-	-

* 联结法术则取所用领域的最高等级。

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Relative Power Levels

　　When one character uses a supernatural power against another and the first character's ability to perform the feat is challenged by the second character's supernatural powers, compare the following: vampire's Discipline level, werewolf's Rank, mage's Sphere level, wraith's Arcanos rating, changeling's Art level or hunter's edge level. The supernatural with the highest score wins; ties are resolved through a resisted roll, and ties on this roll go to the defender.

Important Note: The scores compared are the highest level the character has achieved, not the level of the power in question. If a vampire has Auspex 4 but uses Aura Perception, the value used is 4 (the maximum level to which the vampire has developed that power), not 2 (the level of the Auspex power in use). Thus, an elder with Presence 5 will use the second-level Presence power Dread Gaze far more effectively than will a neonate who has just developed her second level of Presence. Elements such as range and duration of effect do not change, but the power's strength over other supernaturals does increase.


Difficulties

　Sometimes a rule calls for a character to defend with a Trait that she does not possess. For example, some werewolf Gifts use the victim's Rage score as their target number. Kindred aren't very big on Rage. When this situation arises, you may exercise several alternatives. If nothing else looks appealing, the default difficulty is always 6. If the target is actively resisting a power, the Storyteller may decide to use his permanent or current Willpower as the target, as this Trait is common to all Storyteller system games. Other easily derived difficulties may be appropriate Attribute + Ability totals. Common sense, of course, should override calculator use.


Crossover Example

　Andrew, a vampire-hunting Son of Ether mage with Forces 4 (among other things), has caught up with Oliver van Grift, a Malkavian who has Obfuscate 3 in his bag of tricks. Andrew has the treacherous Leech in his sights, but van Grift decides to use a convenient cactus and Unseen Presence (Obfuscate 2) to effect a quick disappearance. Andrew knows the vampire is somewhere in the general area and decides to use a Forces 1 effect to scan the still-warm New Mexico desert for heat sources that are significantly cooler than the background. Since Andrew's Sphere rating of 4 is higher than van Grift's Discipline rating of 3, the mage has a chance to spot the vampire, even though the power that Andrew is using is a lower-level one than van Grift's.

　"Has a chance" is what's important here. This system doesn't override the existing rules and is not automatic. The mage must still roll his Arete (just like any other mage using a sensory effect). If he has no successes, then van Grift stays hidden. One success tips off Andrew to the vampire's location.

　Now, what if Andrew has only Forces 3? His power is equal to that of van Grift's Obfuscate 3. The result depends on the outcome of a resisted roll. Andrew rolls Arete, while van Grift rolls Wits + Stealth (just like any other vampire using Unseen Presence). Whoever has the most successes wins. If van Grift wins, he remains hidden. If Andrew wins, he pinpoints his target's position. Ties go to the "defender"; in this case, the vampire remains cloaked. Since Andrew is the one actively searching, Oliver gains the benefit of a tied roll.

　What if Andrew has only Forces 2? His Forces is lower than van Grift's Obfuscate, and thus, it is not able to penetrate the Unseen Presence. However, the Storyteller should let him roll anyway and simply tell him he detects nothing.


Table

Discipline	Werewolf Rank	Sphere Rating*	Arcanos	Art	Edge
1	1	1	1	1	1
2	2	2	2	2	2
3	3	3	3	3	3
4	4	4	4	4	4
5	5	5	5	5	5
6	6	6	-	-
7-9	-	6+	-	-

* In the case of conjunctional effects, use the highest Sphere rating of the effect that the mage is attempting.

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狼人

　狼人与其它变形种是两个世界——实与灵界——的造物。除黑旋舞者和极个别妖蛆化兽的变形者都坚持一种信仰体系，将血族看作受诅之物。因此，绝大多数对其有效的灵赋都具攻击性，绝大多数两者间的互动也都是暴力性质。

　以下规则是为狼人——最可能遇到的变形种——而设计的。若说书人允许，也适用于其它的。


灵赋与异能

　狼人灵赋直接来自灵界，其运作不依血族异能的基本规则。血族不可能学习灵赋。狼人学习异能只有变血仆或憎恶，但黑暗世界中都不太常见。

　驯兽术：只能影响动物的能力（如2级召唤野兽）对变形者无效——包括狼子族类。但狼人有心兽（以魂怒表现），可用相应能力控制。唯一例外是交流——比如，使用1级荒野之语的血族能以狼语和他们对话。

　感应术：同开头规则，绝大多数扰乱侦测的灵赋能被强力感应术识破。如果血族试图以气味追踪狼人，那么1级活水嗅觉能被够高的异能破坏。

　隐身术：同开头规则，所有延伸感官的灵赋都能破除隐身术。

　治疗：所有治疗相关灵赋（如2级慈母之触）意在用于活物，对血族无效，所以就算变形者被以某种方式说服使用也没辙。修复无生命物体的一样，精魂不允许如此漏洞。

　妖蛆生物：人性6-的血族在狼人看来就是妖蛆生物，被相应灵赋影响。只要心路为教化之道，就会被自动视作腐化，无论等级。兽心之道是唯一例外，侦测妖蛆腐化时同人性。

　1级抗毒不能防止血仆转化，但可多给予4个骰子，来吸收寂灭术、死亡术（译注：卡帕多西亚族支系萨梅迪的血脉异能，着力于死亡和腐化）或其它以血液接触、疫病或腐败造成伤害的异能能力。

　4级开裂伤口使血族每回合损失1点血量点，而非1个健康等级。


狼血

　魂怒渗透了狼人的整个生命… 包括血液。一个吸食狼人的血族可能发现自己濒临狂乱，直到那强力血液被排出。

　血池中每点狼人之血，都使抵抗狂乱难度+1（上限10）。然而它们比凡人血液更多——一个没受伤的狼人有25点血量点。

　狼人也远比凡人坚韧——除非被吸干，否则不会因失血而有生命危险。吸干则陷入无法行动，若无及时救治会于10分钟内死去。

　狼人每小时恢复1点血量点（如果某只被绑在血族避难所充作食物，这就很重要了）。

　狼血的极其强力会造成上瘾，这应被扮演出来。当然抖S说书人也可自由发挥，对太久没“狼汁”滋补的“吸狼鬼”施加些游戏影响。

　据传狼血可提供类似迅捷或蛮力术的加成。实际上（且没血族知道）加成看血纯背景。1回合中，血族花费1+点来自有血纯的狼人的血量点后，依下表获得对应加成：

血纯等级	效果
1	1个额外动作
2	1个额外动作和力量骰自动成功数
3	2个额外动作和1个力量骰自动成功数
4	2个额外动作和力量骰自动成功数
5	3个额外动作和力量骰自动成功数

　效果不累积（但能加到已有的迅捷或蛮力术加成上），且取最高的血纯——如同回合花费了2点血纯2的狼血和1点血纯3的狼血，下回合也只有2个额外动作和1个力量骰自动成功数。

　如果你正跑联动团，血族们的纯血狼人成了其肾上激素储备，你就跑错了。想想当某个血族要求“借”几公升的血时你会有何反应。


血仆或血族

　狼人能变血仆，照常获蛮力术1。然而绝大多数会强迫自己吐出而非喝下，因为死人之血是对自然的嘲弄。

　尝试初拥狼人通常会失败。由于精魂母亲的恩宠，绝大多数都在途中死去。然而极少数倒霉情况下会成功——结果就是恰如其名的憎恶。

　注解：这些憎恶规则是从血族视角写的，更完整的请看狼人的《第2版玩家导读》。本书并没有后者的复杂世界观，所以只提供适用本线的信息。

　狼人血族是真正的不应存在之物。初拥将它们与世界之灵——其存在的非常原因——割裂。因此，任何时候都只有十来个的憎恶的主要终亡原因，都是自杀。

　创造恶煞的方式同一般血族，例外是有最后一次安乐死的机会。投掷1次灵知点，难度6，来平静死去。

　成功，没痛苦地死去，灵魂游至目的地；失败，极度痛苦地死去，但灵魂自由；大失败，就成了憎恶。

　没有异能、灵赋、魔法或任何其它逊于天神下凡的力量能影响投掷，但可花费1点意志点，获得1个自动成功数，平静死去（而且几乎都会这么做）。

　憎恶当然和尊长同一氏族，也能照常学习3点氏族异能，拥有氏族弱点。但也可是贱民。他也能照常花血量点来提升属性或治疗。

　好处没了，下面就真不好受了。

　初拥会让即使很强的长老都失去同伴敬重。憎恶也不能提升灵知点。

　初拥后与灵界的联系开始衰退，这意味着憎恶没法像普通狼人一样自动回复，只能花费血量点。虽然憎恶一般还记得生前学习的灵赋和仪式，但他们只能使用妖蛆仪式，也只有邪恶和腐化精魂会回应死物召唤。憎恶只能从忌灵那儿学习灵赋，但它们都是阴险狡诈的老师。

　憎恶也不能在花费和投掷灵知/魂怒的回合花费血量点。三种物质相互排斥。

　憎恶血池一样依世代定。

　憎恶处于永恒的严重抑郁。他们不能投掷意志点来摆脱负面情绪，也无法在“活”着时移除诅咒。实际上，憎恶必须花费1点意志点，来全骰池游玩1幕。此外也无法花费意志点，获得自动成功数。

　憎恶的人性值通常会迅速下降，将其拖入心兽虎口或自灭。因为他们会不断遭受心理伤害，也不能用经验点提升人性、意志点或美德。

　如果你不明白的话，我们把憎恶放在说书人手册是有原因的。他们往往是强大凶残的敌人，有条件尽量少用。


归类血液



（从上到下）
　1. 初始血池
　2. 吸食狼人后
　3. 酒吧吸食后
　4. 吸食换生灵后

　有时当血族吸食了多种血液后，有必要追踪每种的数量。血族一般按吸食顺序花费血液，最老（最久）的血液最先，不能选择先花更新的血。我们建议你把卡底部的血池当作循环的，以缩写记录不同种类血液。

　例如，甲一般吸食凡人。晚上开始时，他有8点血量点。

　他和一只狼人战斗，奇迹地赢了，当中花了4点（还剩4点）。随后从尸体上吸食了3点补充了下。

　之后甲踢进了家酒吧，感觉自己有点暴躁，又从一个凡人上吸走了2点。还花了1点治疗最后的伤。

　他决定再吃顿零食就收工。他看上了一位迷人的年轻女士，并成功胁迫她独自离开。甲从她身上吸了1点，但当其挣脱逃跑时，却被狠打了一巴掌，造成1个等级的伤害！他又花了1点治疗，才发现自己看到了… 啥。

　甲不知道他最后顿“饭”其实是只换生灵。他要再花7点，才轮到她那1点，这之前她的血会一直生效。

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Werewolves

　The Garou and the other Changing Breeds are creatures of two worlds - the physical and the spiritual. With the exception of the Black Spiral Dancers and certain other Wyrm corrupted individuals, the shapeshifters hold to a system of belief that views the undead as anathema. Thus, most shapeshifter Gifts applied to vampires will be of the offensive variety, and the vast majority of interaction between the two is of the violent kind.

　The following rules are designed for use with Garou, the Changing Breed that Kindred are most likely to encounter. They can be adapted for use with other shapeshifters at the Storyteller's discretion.


Gifts and Disciplines

　Werewolf Gifts come directly from the spirit world. They do not function on the same basic principles as Kindred Disciplines. Vampires can never learn Gifts, and the only way a werewolf can learn Disciplines is through being made a ghoul or an Abomination, neither of which are even remotely common in the World of Darkness.

　Animalism: No Animalism power that specifically affects only animals (e.g. Beckoning) will have any effect on a shapeshifter, even one of Lupus breed. Garou do, however, have Beasts (as expressed through their Rage Traits) and these can be manipulated with the appropriate Animalism powers. The sole exception is communication - a vampire employing Feral Whispers, for example, could carry on a conversation with a Lupine through the language of wolves.

　Auspex: Most Gifts that complicate detection can be seen through with a sufficient level of Auspex, as per the above rules. Scent of Running Water can be broken with sufficient Auspex if the vampire attempts to track the werewolf by scent.

　Obfuscate: All enhanced-senses Gifts can be used to pierce a Kindred's Obfuscate, as per the above rules.

　Healing: All Gifts that deal with healing (e.g. Mother's Touch) are intended to work on living beings. They have no effect on a vampire - in the unlikely event that a shapeshifter is somehow persuaded to use them on an injured Leech. Gifts that mend inanimate objects don't heal vampires either - the spirits won't allow that loophole.

　Wyrm Creatures: Any vampire with a Humanity rating lower than 7 is considered a creature of the Wyrm from a Garou standpoint and is affected as such by the appropriate Gifts. A vampire on most modern Paths of Enlightenment is automatically considered Wyrm-tainted, regardless of his Path score. The Path of the Feral Heart is the only exception to this, and it is treated as Humanity for purposes of Wyrm-taint detection.

　Resist Toxin does not keep a Garou from being ghouled. It does, however, give the werewolf four additional dice to soak the effects of appropriate powers of Quietus, Thanatosis or other Disciplines that inflict damage through blood contact, disease or decay.

　Open Wounds causes a vampire under its effect to lose one blood point per turn instead of one health level.


Werewolf Blood

　The Rage of a werewolf permeates her entire being.. including her blood. A vampire who feeds from a werewolf may find himself on the verge of frenzy until the potent vitae is purged from his system. Every point of Lupine blood in a vampire's blood pool adds 1 to his difficulty to resist frenzy (maximum difficulty 10). However, werewolves provide much more sustenance than do mortals - an uninjured werewolf has the equivalent of 25 blood points in its system. Lupines are much hardier than mortals, too: A werewolf's life is in no danger from blood loss until it is completely drained, at which point it falls to Incapacitated and will die within 10 minutes if not aided. A werewolf regains one blood point per hour (which becomes important, say, if one is kept chained in a vampire's haven as a supply of sustenance). Werewolf blood's very potency makes it psychologically addictive, which should be roleplayed - but sadistic Storytellers should feel free to inflict game effects on "dog-suckers" who go too long without a fix of "wolf juice."

　It is rumored that Lupine blood can provide benefits similar to the effects of Celerity or Potence. In truth - and no Kindred know this - the additional benefit is a factor of the werewolf's Pure Breed Background. On the turn after a vampire spends one or more blood points that came from a werewolf with a Pure Breed rating, he gains extra actions and/or additional automatic successes on all Strength rolls, as per the following chart:

Pure Breed	Effect
1	1 additional action
2	1 additional actions and 1 automatic success on all Strength rolls
3	2 additional actions and 1 automatic success on all Strength rolls
4	2 additional actions and 2 automatic successes on all Strength rolls
5	3 additional actions and 3 automatic successes on all Strength rolls

　The effects are not cumulative (although they do add to existing Celerity or Potence benefits), and only the highest Pure Breed rating applies. For example, if Jesse, in one turn, spends two blood points from a werewolf with Pure Breed 2 and one blood point from a werewolf with Pure Breed 3, he will gain 2 additional full actions and 1 automatic success on all Strength rolls made during the next turn only.

　If you are storytelling a crossover game and the coterie's pure-bred Lupine becomes a reservoir of steroid blood for the group's Kindred, you're doing it wrong. Consider your own reaction if a vampire asked to "borrow" a few liters of blood.


The Works

　A Lupine can be ghouled; he gains one level of Potence as any other ghoul does. Most werewolves, however, will force themselves to spit out or vomit vitae rather than swallow it, as the blood of the dead is a mockery of all that is natural.

　Attempts to Embrace werewolves usually fail. By the grace of their spirit-mother, most werewolves die upon the attempt. However, the Embrace works in a few nasty, rare instances - and the results are the rightly titled Abominations.

　Note: These rules for Abominations are taken from the point of view of Vampire. More complete rules may be found in the Werewolf Players Guide Second Edition. This book does not pretend to have all of the cosmological complexity of Werewolf, so we present this information as it applies to this game only.

　Kindred Lupines are literally things that should not be. The Embrace severs werewolves from the world's soul, their very reason for existing. As a result, the leading cause of Final Death among the dozen or so Abominations that exist at any given time is suicide.

　Abominations are created in the same manner as other Kindred, except they have one last chance for a merciful death. A werewolf's player can make a Gnosis roll, difficulty 6, to die quietly. If the roll succeeds, he dies without pain and his spirit travels to its destined place. If the roll fails, he dies in torturous agony, but his spirit is free. If the roll botches, the werewolf becomes an Abomination. No Discipline, Gift, magic or any other power short of divine intervention can affect this roll, save one - the werewolf can spend a Willpower point for an automatic success and die peacefully (and is almost certain to do so).

　An Abomination, unsurprisingly, is of the same clan as his sire, learns three dots of clan Disciplines and exhibits the clan weakness, just like any other Kindred. An Abomination may be Caitiff, as well. He may also spend blood points to increase his attributes or heal himself like any other vampire.

　That's where the benefits end. After that, things become really unpleasant.

　The Embrace usually causes even mighty Lupine elders to fall from their former peers' esteem. Abominations also cannot increase their Gnosis Trait.

　Upon the Embrace, the Lupine's connection with the spirit world begins to fray. This loss means that Abominations cannot regenerate their wounds as do other werewolves; Abominations may heal themselves only by spending blood points. Although Abominations usually remember the Gifts and rites they possessed before their Embrace, they cannot effect any rites other than Wyrm-rites; only vile and corrupt spirits ever answer a call made by a dead thing. Abominations also may never learn Gifts from any spirits other than Banes, and these spirits are spiteful, devious teachers.

　Abominations may not spend blood points for any reason in the same turn that they spend Gnosis, make Gnosis rolls, spend Rage or make Rage rolls. The mystical properties of Rage, Gnosis and the Blood all interfere with one another.

　Abominations have blood pools according to their generation, as usual.

　Abominations exist in a state of permanent, crippling depression. They cannot escape their dolor with Willpower rolls and cannot lift the curse while they "live." In effect, an Abomination must expend a Willpower point to play a scene with his dice pool at full. Additionally, Abominations may never spend Willpower points to gain automatic successes on any dice rolls.

　Abominations' Humanity Traits often spiral downward quickly, hurling them into either the jaws of the Beast or merciful oblivion. They may never increase their Humanity, Willpower or Virtues with experience points, as they instead suffer incessant psychological erosion.

　And in case you couldn't figure it out, we put Abominations in the Storytellers Handbook for a reason. They are included to be powerful, vicious foes and should be used sparingly, if at all.


Blood Pool Accounting
(See Illustration)



(In order, from top to bottom)
　1. Original Blood Pool
　2. After Consuming Werewolf
　3. After Consuming in Bar
　4. After Consuming Changeling

　When a vampire has ingested two or more different types of blood, it is sometimes necessary to track how many blood points of each kind are in his
system. A vampire typically spends blood in the order in which it was ingested, oldest blood (the vitae that has been in his blood pool longest) first. It is not possible to choose to spend more recently consumed blood first. We suggest that you treat the blood pool area at the bottom of your character sheet as a rotating track and pencil in abbreviations for different types of vitae.

　For example, Jesse normally feeds on mortals. He has eight blood points in his system at the beginning of the night.

　He gets into a fight with a werewolf and, miraculously, defeats it, spending four blood points in the process (this leaves him with four). Jesse then takes three blood points from the fallen Lupine to replenish some of what he lost.

　Jesse swaggers into a bar, feeling like he's on something of a short fuse, and takes two more blood points from a mortal. He then spends one blood point to heal his last remaining injury.

　Our hero then decides to call it a night after one more snack. He finds an attractive young lady and manages to coerce her into going off alone. Jesse takes one blood point from her, only to be slapped hard enough to cause a health level of damage as she breaks free and runs away! Jesse spends one blood point to heal the damage, only to realize that he's seeing.. things. Jesse's latest "meal" was, unbeknownst to him, a changeling, and he's got seven blood points to go through before he can spend the one he took from her and get her vitae out of his system.

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法师

　虽然睿魔尔宣称他们的奇术比隐秘的“赫尔墨斯秘会”所研习的魔法更强，但后者却比任何异能都灵活。由于真实魔法的可塑本质，无法对法师可能带来的情况面面俱到。以下规则是个宽松框架，说书人有意向可依需要修改。


感知

　感应术抵抗幻觉/隐身法术，或隐身/幻术抵抗感知法术等对决，都依开头规则。将使用领域等级（联结法术取最高级）与异能的比较，决定一方是否有机会识破另一方的幻觉、隐身或潜藏。


反制

　领域魔法能反制兽性、支配、威仪或奇术。而在说书人指导下，针对心灵或灵魂的其它异能（或其具体能力）都能被相应领域反制（如感应术8的心灵鞭笞可被精魂或心灵反制）。此外说书人也可规定，任何异能都能被相应领域反制——血族的静态能力鲜能与行愿者的灵活秘术匹敌。

　法师为抵抗兽性、支配或威仪术，必须持有心灵领域（至少1级）。他投掷魔峰，难度为（异能等级+3），上限10，每个成功数抵消血族的1个。

　反制奇术也投魔峰，难度为（奇术等级+2），上限10，每个成功数抵消血族的1个。也能中止祭礼（难度+1），或其完成后无效化（难度+3）。

　血魔法因为由血族血液驱动，本质也是魔法。虽远没领域魔法灵活，却不像它那么不被现实接纳。由于奇术的本质，它也能反制法师法术。反制算1回合，且不适用于迅捷术的多重动作。投掷奇术等级，难度为（法师意志点），每2个成功数抵消其1个。如果有奇术的魔法反制（请看《密党导读》第108页），每1级令投掷的奇术等级+1。

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“平衡”法师伟力

　法师很强，他们以意志影响世界的潜在力量远超绝大多数血族的异能上限。然而也不应太低看该隐子嗣。

　法师作为凡人，对物理伤害敏感得多。血族也能制造（理论上无限的）后代，远比觉醒化身容易，所以有数量优势。

　此外，血族通常有多得多的社会影响力，法师则须花大量时间学习，而非在警察或媒体里钻营。傲慢的法师即使不陷入直接冲突，也可能沦为糟糕情况的牺牲品。

　换句话说，绝大多数法师仍是凡人，必须排斥一切兴趣来学习。当和血族交手时，这些是他们最大的限制。

血族与生命魔法

　血族是不死生物。所以生命魔法对其无效。绝大多数能用于凡人的生命法术（如变形、暂时增加体能属性）能加上物质领域来用于血族。

　“治疗”血族要用物质3，原质2的联结法术。它是巧合，就和对凡人用普通生命治疗法术为巧合一样。但治疗恶性伤害往往破则。


恶性伤害

　一般而言，由原质供能的攻击法术（除生命法术）都能对血族造成恶性伤害，有原质4+或基于火/电的力场攻击一样。制造阳光造成恶性伤害需力场3和原质2。夜晚制造真正阳光为破则，如把地球另一侧的阳光“传导”过来（空间5）。


血与法师

　法师除非对自己施法，改变了血液，否则还是普通的凡人之血。然而他能从血族之血获得些好处（当然变血仆除外）。2点血液同1点塔斯。血液通常存于某些形式的容器中。直接喝下也变成血仆，且有被血缚的风险，但鲜有法师知晓这点。

　法师和凡人一样能被初拥。但这会摧毁化身，让其变成“普通”的血族。绝大多数发现这点的法师都会在几晚后自杀。

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变回凡身

　以真实魔法反转初拥绝非易事。因极其破则，法师有累积巨量矛盾的风险。

　血族变回凡人至少要熵4、生命4、物质4和原质6。性质为有目击者的破则（毕竟有人会说这是逆转超自然诅咒）。难度还要加（初拥后年龄÷100（取整）+（13-世代））（不过世代更高也不会容易）。因此恢复550岁8代长老的难度就是离谱的24（说书人良心的话，也可是难度10下15个成功数）。很明显这个法术不会被轻易施展——没法师有随便将不死者，尤其强大不死者，变回凡人的习惯。即使成功变回凡人后，也没法恢复被初拥者的化身。

　魔法也能打破血缚，性质巧合。至少有熵3、生命4（打破血族的就是物质4）、心灵3和原质1。每血缚10年，难度+1。注意法师能打破自身血缚，但必须意识到被血缚，并知晓其本质以反制它。

　两者都要求高等级神秘学——打破血缚要5，反转初拥要6。拥有这种知识的法师少之又少——善终者最了解血族，一些先祖原人、以太之子和圣叶也有研究，当然还有灭世者…

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Mages

　Although the Tremere claim that their Thaumaturgy is superior to the magic practiced by the obscure "Order of Hermes," the Spheres of the mages are more versatile than any Discipline could ever be. Due to the malleable nature of true magic, it is impossible to account for every situation that might arise with a mage. The following rules are a loose framework on which the enterprising Storyteller can build as required.


Sensing

　Conflicts involving Auspex versus illusion or invisibility rotes - or Obfuscate or Chimerstry versus sensory effects - are resolved via the rules given above. The level of the Sphere in use (or highest Sphere for conjunctional effects) and the level of the Discipline are compared to determine whether or not there's a chance for one individual to see through the other's illusion, cloak or stealthing effect.


Countermagic

　A mage can employ her Spheres to counter Animalism, Dominate, Presence and Thaumaturgy. At the Storyteller's discretion, other Disciplines - or specific powers of Disciplines - that target the mind or the soul may be countered with appropriate Spheres (e.g. the Auspex Level Eight power Psychic Assault may be countered with Mind or Spirit). Additionally, the Storyteller may rule that any vampiric Discipline may be countered by a mage with appropriate knowledge of Spheres - the static powers of Kindred are rarely a match for the versatile sorceries of the willworkers.

　In the cases of foiling Animalism, Dominate and Presence, the mage must have some command (at least one dot) of the Mind Sphere. The mage's player (or the Storyteller) rolls Arete (difficulty of the opposing Discipline's level + 3 [maximum 10]); each success cancels one of the vampire's successes.

　To use countermagic against Thaumaturgy, the player rolls Arete (difficulty of the vampire's Thaumaturgy rating + 2 [maximum 10]); each success cancels one of the vampire's successes. This may be used to interrupt Thaumaturgical rituals (at +1 difficulty) or to negate and dispel their effects after they are completed (at +3 difficulty).

　Vampiric blood magic is quintessential in nature, as it is powered by Cainite vitae. It is much less versatile than Sphere magic, but it's less of an imposition on accepted reality. Because of Thaumaturgy's nature, it can be used to counter a mage's Effects. This does count as the vampire's action for the turn and cannot be a Celerity-generated multiple action. The player rolls Thaumaturgy (difficulty of the mage's Willpower). Every two successes cancel one of the mage's successes. If the vampire has Thaumaturgical Countermagic (see the Guide to the Camarilla, p. 108), each dot adds one level to the character's effective Thaumaturgy rating for purposes of this roll.

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"Balancing" Mages' Universal Power

　Mages are mighty and their potential ability to affect the world with their strength of will far exceeds the Discipline development caps of most Kindred. However, mages should not hold themselves too far above the heads of Caine's descendants. As mortals, they are far more susceptible to physical damage than the undead. Vampires may also create (a theoretically unlimited number of) progeny, which is far easier than Awakening an individual's Avatar, so they have the advantage of numbers. Additionally, vampires often have far greater influence socially than mages, who must spend their time in study rather than cultivating contacts among the police or media. An uppity mage may well find herself the victim of any number of unpleasant circumstances, if not outright physical violence.

　In other words, most mages are still mortal and must study almost to the exclusion of other interests. These are their greatest limitations when Kindred opponents are involved.

Vampires and Life Magic

　Vampires are undead creatures. As such, Life magic does not affect them. Most Life Effects that work on mortal bodies (e.g. transformation, temporary increases of Physical Attributes) can be performed on vampires with the Sphere of Matter.

　To "heal" a vampire, a mage must use a Matter 3, Prime 2 conjunctional Effect. This Effect is coincidental under the same circumstances that a normal Life healing Effect performed on a mortal would be coincidental. Healing aggravated wounds is always vulgar.


Aggravated Damage

　As a general rule of thumb, any damaging Effect (except Life Effects) powered by Prime inflicts aggravated damage on a vampire, as does an attack incorporating Prime 4+ or a fire- or electricity-based Forces attack. Any attempt to cause aggravated damage through the creation of sunlight requires Forces 3 and Prime 2. Creating true sunlight at night is vulgar, as is "channeling" sunlight into the area from the other side of the planet (Correspondence 5).


Blood and the Wizard

　A mage, unless she has performed Effects upon herself that alter her blood, has normal mortal blood in her veins. However, mages can derive some benefit from Kindred blood (beyond becoming ghouls, of course). Two blood points of vampire blood are worth one point of Tass. This is usually collected in some form of container - a mage who directly ingests vampire blood becomes a ghoul and also runs the risk of becoming blood bound, though few mages are aware of this.

　A mage can be Embraced like any other mortal. However, the Embrace destroys the mage's Avatar, making her a "normal" vampire. Most mages who find themselves in such a condition commit suicide within a few nights.

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Restoring Mortality

　The reversal of the Embrace through true magic is not an easy task. The mage runs the risk of catastrophic Paradox accumulation, as this is considered a highly vulgar Effect.

　The minimum Spheres necessary to undo the Embrace are Entropy 4, Life 4, Matter 4 and Prime 6. This Effect is considered vulgar with witnesses (after all, some would say it's the reversal of a supernatural curse) and is performed at +1 difficulty for every century (or fraction thereof) since the vampire was Embraced and every generation the vampire is below 13th (although it doesn't get any easier at higher generations). Thus, the difficulty to return the mortality of a 550-year-old, eighth-generation elder would be an impossible 24 (or difficulty 10 with 15 successes, should the Storyteller feel generous). Obviously, this Effect is not performed lightly - there are no mages who make a habit of going around restoring lost humanity to the undead, especially the powerful undead. There is no way to restore an Awakened Avatar to a victim of the Embrace, even after successfully reversing that Embrace.

　Magic can also be used to break a blood bond. This is a coincidental Effect. The minimum Spheres necessary for this task are Entropy 3, Life 4 (if breaking a bond from which a vampire suffers, Matter 4 instead), Mind 3 and Prime 1. This Effect is at +1 difficulty for every full decade the bond has been in effect. Note that a blood bond does not prevent a mage from using this Effect on himself, but he must be aware of the bond and its nature in order to counter it.

　Both of these Effects require the mage to have a high level of Occult: 5 to break a blood bond, 6 to reverse the Embrace. Mages who possess this knowledge are few and far between - the Euthanatoi know the most about vampires, and some Progenitors, Sons of Ether and Verbena have made studies of the undead as well, as have the Nephandi... 

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死灵

　绝大多数不死者与无息者的互动很稀少。很多时候死灵都存在于和血族不同的位面。然而，不少血族能在上百年中引起死灵注意——往往是通过无心创造一只。研习不洁的死灵术亦可与无息者产生共鸣。


感知

　血族得有尘之道1才能穿透尸幕得知其存在（译注：尸幕是分隔冥和生界的屏障）。感应术3+有时也可一瞥死灵（说书人决定)，但仅此而已。

　当死灵身处冥界，试图用冥法（译注：死灵超能力）躲避生界的观察者时，依开头规则，和血族感应术或尘之道比较等级。所有死灵都能用生之视觉识破隐身术，投掷1次感知+超感，难度为（隐身术等级+3）。


冥法

　具象：死灵和血族通常物理分隔的一个例外，因为它能让前者穿过尸幕，和物质界互动。影响凡人的异能照常影响实体死灵（如操控术），所有被尸幕限制的冥法也能无罚值运作。

　宿命：穿过尸幕后并不太好用（至少3个成功数来读取）。然而，从血族上获取的信息，往往比凡人的... 更有趣。1级宿命视角的偶尔（看说书人）使用能看到血族的凡生是如何终结的——初拥。

　哀歌：实体死灵在说书人允许下，可花费1点意志点并使用5级挽歌来强迫血族陷入或脱离狂乱。目标若对此有准备，可抵抗，投掷1次意志点（难度7）。

　打磨：虽与变幻术相似，但两者完全不同。打磨作用于灵质（译注：一种构成死灵乃至冥界虚体的物质），但不影响血族肉身；而变幻术是仅改变肉体，不作用于（甚至实体）死灵，然而它可用于被死灵打磨的受害者，但对本人无效。

　暴行：4级死亡之触制造的火焰无法直接点燃不死者身体，但衣物能轻松点燃。5级湮灭照常作用于血族，且只能被坚韧术（不是坚韧术+耐力）吸收。

　魔舞：此冥法产生的“血”对血族来说相当难吃，如果咽下会剧烈呕吐。被5级掌控时间锁定的血族无法用迅捷术获得超出此能力限制的额外动作。它还能依其规则，抵消迅捷术动作。

　幻视：影响血族同凡人，前者陷入幻觉时无法使用异能或花费血量点。

　操纵：能被知晓其影响的血族抵抗，花费1点并投掷意志点（难度7）。如果对峙操纵术，双方投掷对抗意志点。失败者直到次日晚上，都无法再次尝试抵抗胜者命令。

　借贷：不能偷走/恢复血族健康等级，或偷走/制造血液。


死灵与血

　死灵不能被吸食、变成血仆或初拥（但那噶剌迦的灵魂盛宴能打破吸食禁忌）。

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Wraiths

　Interactions between most of the undead and the Restless are rare. For the most part, wraiths exist on a different level of reality than do Kindred. However, it's the uncommon vampire who goes more than a century without attracting the attention of a wraith - usually through the inadvertent creation of one. Also, vampires who practice the unwholesome Discipline of Necromancy see their share of the Restless.


Detection

　A vampire must have knowledge of the first level of Ash Path Necromancy to see past the Shroud. Auspex Level Three or higher sometimes allows momentary glimpses out of the corner of one's eye (at the Storyteller's discretion), but no more. When a wraith who is in the Shadowlands attempts to hide from an observer in the world of the living through the use of an Arcanos, use the vampire's Auspex or Ash Path rating, whichever is higher, to determine success as per the general rules above. All wraiths may see through Obfuscate with the use of Lifesight and a roll of Perception + Awareness (difficulty of the vampire's Obfuscate + 3).


Arcanoi

　Embody is something of an exception to the usual physical separation of vampires and wraiths, as it allows wraiths to cross the Shroud and interact with the physical world of the Kindred. Embodied wraiths are affected normally by all Disciplines that affect ordinary mortals (e.g. Dominate), and all Arcanoi that are hampered by the Shroud work without penalty.

　Fatalism does not work all that well across the Shroud (minimum 3 successes to get a reading). However, information that is obtained regarding vampires tends to be more.. interesting.. than that involving mortals. Occasionally (at the Storyteller's discretion) a Fatal Vision (Fatalism Level One) reading shows the Oracle how the vampire's mortal existence ended - his Embrace.

　Keening: At the Storyteller's discretion, an Embodied wraith may spend a Willpower point and use Requiem (Keening Level Five) to force a vampire into or out of frenzy. The victim of such an effect may resist with a Willpower roll (difficulty 7) if he is prepared for such manipulations.

　Despite Moliate's similarity to the Discipline Vicissitude, the two powers are nothing alike. Moliate works on plasm and cannot affect a vampire's body, while Vicissitude is strictly geared toward the alteration of flesh and will not work on a wraith (even an Embodied one). It may, however, work upon the unfortunate victim who the wraith skinrides, but this has no effect on the wraith himself.

　Outrage: Fires started by Death's Touch (Outrage Level Four) cannot directly ignite the undead body. However, clothing can easily be set ablaze. Obliviate (Outrage Level Five) works normally on vampires and can be soaked only with Fortitude (not Fortitude + Stamina).

　Pandemonium: Any "blood" generated with this power is completely unpalatable to vampires and will induce intense vomiting if ingested. A vampire targeted with Tempus Fugit (Pandemonium Level Five) cannot employ Celerity to gain extra actions on top of those granted by Tempus Fugit, but Tempus Fugit can negate extra Celerity actions as per its basic rules.

　Phantasm affects vampires in the same manner it does mortals. Kindred pulled into dreamscapes cannot employ Disciplines or spend blood points while trapped in the dream.

　Puppetry can be resisted by Kindred who are aware of its effects. The player resists by spending a Willpower point and rolling Willpower (difficulty 7). If commands issued through Dominate and Puppetry come into conflict, the vampire and wraith make a contested Willpower roll. The loser cannot make another attempt to override the winner's commands until the next night.

　Usury cannot be used to steal or restore health levels from or to Kindred, nor can it be used to create or steal blood.


Wraiths and Blood

　Wraiths cannot be fed from, turned into ghouls or Embraced (though the Nagaraja's Nihilistics does offer an exception on the feeding prohibition, in the form of Soul Feasting). 

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换生灵

　妖精倾向避开血族——绝大多数后者都让前者不适，而绝大多数前者都令后者饥饿。然而，偶遇也会发生，一些斯珞俄和红帽子族会和这些吸血浪子有亲近感。


异能

　感应术：2级侦测灵气能看出换生灵。妖精灵气的颜色常耀眼闪烁，这让识别具体情绪更困难——说书人应自由描述后者颜色，还可改动下色阶。高级感应术也能依开头规则，识破诈瞒之术的幻觉或隐匿。

　幻术：能对换生灵造成奇魅伤害。使用出身权敏锐感官的斯珞俄族能投掷1次感知+超感，难度为（幻术等级+3），来识破其制造的幻像。5级噩梦成真可制造形似冷铁的幻觉，被此“杀死”的换生灵得到1点永久板衲，并失去意识，直到被注入梦华。

　妖精术：稀有血脉卡西迪的独特异能。 2级能让吸血鬼看（并辨识）出换生灵的妖精灵征，还能投掷1次感知+神秘学（难度9），来看到奇魅物质和妖精居所的奇魅本质。

　隐身术：影响绝大多数换生灵时同凡人。用敏锐感官的斯珞俄族也能投掷1次感知+警觉，难度为（隐身术等级+3），来识破。


恶性伤害

　血族獠牙和兽爪对换生灵造成恶性伤害（请看其《第2版规则书》第247页）。任何直接对目标造成伤害的梦咒（如释梦4圣击）都可对血族造成恶性伤害，但后者也能以坚韧术吸收。


梦华

　血族一般和奇魅世界并无共鸣，吞下奇魅存在的血则有相当不快的后果。

　血族只要吸食换生灵，且血池中至少1点其血，就能看见周遭世界的奇魅与灵征。但她必须立刻投掷1次勇气，难度为（吸的血量点+3）。

　若失败，血族进入悖廊的第二限极（请看其《第2版规则书》第208页）：无法区分奇魅和现实，并获得1项和换生灵戚系或遗产挂钩的暂时精神疾病（看说书人）（译注：悖廊是离开凡界太久的妖精所陷入的一种疯狂状态，分三个等级，即限极）。

　大失败，进入第三限极：除上述影响，还要依说书人，加上1项永久精神疾病，且常和换生灵的哀怒廷遗产有关。


换生灵血族

　已有多次初拥换生灵的尝试，但几乎总会失败——目标在痛苦中尖叫死去。如果在赋名前被初拥，就会变成一个没有任何特殊优点或能力、和凡人变成的并无二致的血族（不过这种角色可能会有很… 奇特… 的特征，许多都显示出单或多个超自然优缺点）（译注：赋名是换生灵发现真名的仪式，代表完全加入其社会）。

　换生灵能被变成血仆或血缚。只要换生灵血仆体内有血族之血，就会得到2点永久板衲点。

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Changelings

　The fae tend to avoid the Kindred - most vampires make changelings uncomfortable, and most changelings make vampires hungry. However, chance encounters do occur, and some sluagh and redcaps feel a certain kinship with the blood-drinking Prodigals.


Disciplines

　Auspex: Auspex Level Two (Aura Perception) will reveal a changeling for what she is. Fae auras usually appear as bright flickering colors, making identification of specific emotions more difficult - Storytellers should feel free to describe what colors might be in a changeling's aura, perhaps fudging the color scale a bit. A strong Auspex also counteracts those Chicanery powers that create illusions or conceal objects or individuals from sight, as per the general guidelines above.

　Chimerstry: Chimerstry may inflict chimerical damage upon changelings. Sluagh using Sharpened Senses may see through Chimerstry-generated illusions with a roll of Perception + Awareness (difficulty of the vampire's Chimerstry rating + 3). The Level Five Chimerstry power Horrid Reality can create the semblance of cold iron; a changeling "killed" with illusionary cold iron from such a source gains a permanent point of Banality and falls unconscious until he is revived with an infusion of Glamour.

　Mytherceria: The second level of Mytherceria, the unique Discipline of the rare Kiasyd bloodline, allows a vampire to see (and recognize as such) a changeling's faerie aspect. A vampire with the second level of Mytherceria may also see the chimerical nature of freeholds and notice chimera with a Perception + Occult roll (difficulty 9).

　Obfuscate: Most changelings are affected by Obfuscate as if they were mortals. Sluagh can see through it by using Sharpened Senses with a roll of Perception + Alertness (difficulty of the vampire's Obfuscate rating + 3).


Aggravated Damage

　Kindred fangs and Feral Claws inflict aggravated damage on changelings (see Changeling: The Dreaming, p. 247). Any changeling cantrips that inflict damage directly on their target (e.g. Primal Level Four [Holly Strike]) cause aggravated damage to Kindred. Like other aggravated damage, Kindred may soak this with Fortitude.


Glamourous Sustenance

　Vampires are typically not mentally equipped to deal with chimerical reality, and ingesting the blood of a being with a chimerical nature has some rather unpleasant effects. Whenever a vampire feeds from a changeling, she gains the ability to see chimera and the chimerical aspects of the world around her for as long as she has at least one blood point from a changeling in her blood pool. She must also immediately roll Courage (difficulty of the number of blood points taken + 3). Failure indicates that she enters the second threshold of Bedlam (Changeling: The Dreaming, p. 208): She cannot distinguish chimera from reality, and she gains a temporary derangement related to the changeling's kith or Legacies (Storyteller's discretion). A botch on the Courage roll throws the vampire into the third threshold of Bedlam: all of the above, with the added "benefit" of a new permanent derangement of the Storyteller's choice, usually related to the changeling's Unseelie Legacy.


Kindred Changelings

　Several attempts have been made to Embrace changelings. This almost always fails: The subjects die, screaming in agony. If a changeling is Embraced before her Saining, she becomes a vampire with absolutely no special benefits or powers whatsoever, just like any other mortal who undergoes the Embrace (although such characters may have rather.. unique.. personalities, and many display one or more Supernatural Merits or Flaws).

　Changelings can be ghouled and blood bound. A changeling ghoul gains two permanent points of Banality that last as long as she has Kindred blood in her system. 

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猎人

　不久前，猎人们都过着平凡生活。但如今他们变了，被赋予力量，被选中去消灭怪物。猎人从信使——被灵界的近日混乱而唤醒行动的神秘存在——汲取力量。还没谁得知其完整计划——除了想铲除超自然。猎人最常与数量和种类激增的僵尸战斗，之后便是血族。

　一或多个猎人几乎能在任何时候出现，使当地血族的不朽生命更艰难。狂热者搜剿血族，报复其造成的伤害；洞察者一样搜剿，即战斗又去了解——但力求了如指掌，以高效作战；慈悲者很少开战，更专注于保护受害者。

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可选规则：伟力与信念

　原设允许猎人花费信念点来抵抗任何超自然的欺骗或操控。如果你想让真正强大的存在——尤其长老和玛士撒拉——摧毁此屏障，就用如下规则吧。

　比较血族正使用的技能或异能等级与猎人的信条美德值。若后者更高，尝试失败；若相等或前者更高，生效。猎人抵抗血族攻击，就将其美德点加在通常的防御骰池中。没有防御可能时，投掷1次狂热点，难度6，抵消攻击者成功数。

异能

　猎人心灵防护生效时，许多异能都会失效，包括1级威仪和巨蛇术；2级幻、疯狂术、操控、隐身和暗夜术。

　驯兽术：3级抑制心兽无法影响已花信念点开启第二视觉和心灵防护的猎人。濒临狂乱的血族也不能对积极防护的猎人使用5级放逐心兽。

　感应术：当猎人使用坦率之刃1隐藏时，依开头规则，将坦率等级和血族感应术的比较。感应术2侦测灵气所显示的猎人灵气异常鲜艳活跃，使用念刃时更耀眼。遭受牺牲之刃5回报的怪物的灵气会掺杂凡人的。感应术1提升知觉能显示复仇之刃2留痕。感应术4心灵感应要用于积极防护的猎人，只有被其允许。侦测灵气下的猎人周遭还会有光环——极像中世纪和文艺复兴的圣人画。

　暗夜术：2级夜幕不能阻止延伸感官能力的使用（如审判之刃1洞悉）。

　寂灭术：能用于积极抵抗的猎人。这些能力造成物理，而非心灵或精神效果。意志抵抗阻止不了。蛮力术强化的攻击一样。唯一例外是寂灭术1。

　变幻术：可重塑猎人形体，但后者能还击。投掷现有信念点，难度6，每个成功数抵消变幻术投掷的1个。但第二视觉无法识破1级塑造面貌制造的伪装，因为是物理改变。加速愈合的念刃，如预见之刃4重建和守护之刃2生机，可逆转变幻术效果。治疗伤害时要+1级，因为消除非自然的转变得花更多时间。


念刃

　守护之刃：1级壁垒对虚体血族也有效。3级烙印无视隐身术3万千假面、变幻术2重塑血肉等，对其它血族仍可见。

　坦率之刃：2级明视甚至对外形极其非人的血族也有效，包括暗夜术4和5、变形术4和5与变幻术的。同幕的血族无论形态都能被发现。

　审判之刃：被2级重压影响的血族能变形，但仍无法移动，除非念刃解除。3级均衡适用于血量点花费，包括疗伤、提升属性等，还有供给异能。

　牺牲之刃：不像普通的第二视觉，2级见证能识破变幻术创造的伪装。3级侵蚀对猎人看见的血族都有效，不论形态。被用了5级回报的血族无法用变形等逃脱限制，且持续时间内都如此；它也可能阻止血族使用部分或全部异能，这取决于施加限制。

　救赎之刃：若血族在人类形态能听懂并理解问题，那变为非人形态时，2级暗示也有效。当用3级灵息吸光血族健康等级后，就轮到血量点。

　复仇之刃：感应术1提升知觉和疯狂术3混沌之眼能让血族看到2级留痕和3级黯云。

　预见之刃：说书人可让用2级明察的猎人指定，是要具体还是全种族的弱点。前者包括氏族和其它不涵盖全种族的。3级回溯除非用上述“伟力与信念”的可选规则，否则能穿透对预知的普通防御。


变不了

　猎人无法被初拥、血缚或变为血仆——信使的浸染避免了其发生。吞咽反射会让被喂食的猎人再吐出来，输血或者其它注射手段也是白费功夫。被吸光直接死了（也不会变成死灵）。

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Hunters

　Until recently, hunters lived normal lives. Now they're something more, imbued with power and chosen to hunt monsters. Hunters get their power from the Messengers, mysterious beings roused to action by recent turmoil in the realms of spirit. No hunter yet knows the Messengers' full agenda, only that the Messengers want to rid the world of supernatural entities. Hunters fight most often against the proliferating numbers and variety of walking dead. After the walking dead, vampires most often attract hunter attention.

　One or more hunters can show up at almost any moment to make unlife more complicated for the local Kindred. Zealots seek out Kindred to avenge the harm Leeches do. Visionaries also seek out Kindred, to understand them as well as to fight - but they understand precisely in order to fight more effectively. The Merciful seldom rush to initiate battle, preferring to concentrate on protecting vampires' victims.

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Power and Conviction: Optional Rule

　Hunter: The Reckoning allows hunters to resist all efforts at supernatural deceit and manipulation through spending Conviction. If you want to allow truly powerful beings - particularly elders and Methuselahs - to break through the Imbuing, use this rule. Compare the number of dots in the Discipline or ability the vampire is using to the hunter's dots in her creed Virtue. If the hunter's rating is higher, the effort fails. If the ratings are equal or the vampire is superior, the effort at deception or control can proceed. Add the hunter's Virtue rating to whatever dice the character would normally have to defend against the vampiric assault. In cases where there's normally no defense possible, roll dice equal to the hunter's Zeal rating, difficulty 6, to cancel out attackers' successes.

Disciplines

　Many Disciplines fail against a hunter with his mental defenses active, including Chimerstry, Dementation, Dominate, Obfuscate, Obtenebration Level Two, Presence and Serpentis Level One.

　Animalism: Quell the Beast doesn't affect a hunter who's spent Conviction to engage her second sight and mental defense. Nor can a vampire on the edge of frenzy use Drawing Out the Beast on a hunter with active defenses.

　Auspex: Use the chart at the start of this chapter to compare Auspex against a hunter's rating in the Innocence edge when the hunter uses Hide. Aura Perception shows a hunter's aura as unusually vivid and active. While using any of his Edges, a hunter's aura flares even brighter. Monstrous targets of the Martyr edge of Payback show auras with human manifestations intermingled with their normal auras. Heightened Senses do reveal the effects of the Vengeance edge of Trail. Telepathy only works on a hunter with active defenses if he chooses to allow it. Any use of Aura Perception on a hunter reveals a nimbus or halo about her, much like medieval and Renaissance paintings of saints.

　Obtenebration: Shroud of Night does not stop visionenhancing powers like the Judgment edge Discern.

　Quietus: This Discipline's powers work against a hunter with active defenses. These powers are physical effects, not mental or emotional, and force of will doesn't stop them any more than will alone stops a Potence-strengthened punch. The sole exception is Quietus Level One, which a hunter may confound as described above.

　Vicissitude: A vampire with Vicissitude can reshape a hunter, but the hunter's Imbuing fights back. Roll the hunter's current Conviction, difficulty 6; each success cancels out one success on the Vicissitude roll. Hunters' second sight does not pierce a disguise created by Malleable Visage, since that's a physical transformation. Edges that accelerate healing, like Restore and Rejuvenate, do reverse the effects of Vicissitude; the damage heals as if it were one level higher, since it takes more time to undo unnatural transmogrification.


Edges

　Defense: Ward does apply to vampires who are intangible. Brand's effects remain visible to other vampires despite Mask of a Thousand Faces, Fleshcraft and the like.

　Innocence: Illuminate works even on vampires in highly inhuman forms, including those created by Obtenebration Levels Four and Five, Protean Levels Four and Five and Vicissitude. A vampire on the scene can be detected, regardless of form.

　Judgment: A vampire afflicted by Burden can change shape, but still can't move from the spot until the edge wears off. Balance applies to all expenditures of blood points, including healing, raising attributes and the like, in addition to fueling Disciplines.

　Martyrdom: Unlike the standard hunter second sight, Witness does pierce disguises created with Vicissitude. Ravage applies to any vampire the hunter can see, regardless of the vampire's current form. A vampire afflicted with Payback cannot escape the limitation through shapeshifting or other transformation; the edge's effects last the full duration and may keep the vampire from using some or all of her Disciplines, depending on the limitation imposed.

　Redemption: A vampire in non-human form can be targeted by Insinuate if he could hear and understand the question in his human form. Once a hunter drains all health levels from a vampire, she can go on to drain blood points with Respire.

　Vengeance: Heightened Senses and Eyes of Chaos allow a vampire to see the effects of Trail and to pierce Smolder.

　Visionary: As Storyteller, allow the player of a hunter using Pinpoint to specify whether he wants information about a weakness specific to the target or applicable to its kind. Specific weaknesses can include clan weaknesses and other features that don't affect all Kindred. Delve pierces through normal defenses against scrying unless you choose to apply the optional rule for power versus Conviction.


Un-Embraceable You

　Hunters cannot be Embraced, blood bound or ghouled. The Messengers' Imbuing just doesn't let it happen. Gag reflexes make a Hunter fed vitae spit it out again, and vitae injected or otherwise inserted simply dissipates without effect. Drain a hunter's blood altogether and he dies. (He doesn't become a wraith, either.) 

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东方血族更新

　当此节材料与东方血族的矛盾时，前者默认覆盖以往出版的。但我们鼓励说书人在有疑问时自行裁定；或抛弃这些改动，用自己的。


心法社交加成

　虽然泼猴和尊者可能被智慧的展现所动摇，但官人知道，老祖甚至强大的菩萨，尽管睿智，却仍会犯错。依心法地位获得社交加成（详情请看其核心第54页）的鬼人在互动时，还要减去对方的。比如，一个心法9菩萨在对峙心法7官人时，只有3个社交加成骰。鬼人毫不质疑，菩萨难以置信的游说能力是官人严格限制自己与门徒和尊者接触的原因之一。


使用魔气

　如核心第91页所述，鬼人须投掷魄，难度为（魂值+3），来用1幕魔气。4+成功数进入走火入魔。此投掷仅限直接用魔气时。

　如核心第90页所述，激活魔艺的魄投掷是邪魔外道的魂投掷（难度为魄值）。激活魔艺都要投次，这并非91和151页的普通邪魔外道投掷。首次使用黑煞的鬼人也须投次，每回合还要投掷魄（难度8）。如核心第108页所述，此投掷失败自动进入走火入魔。


抵抗操控

　鬼人能以魄抵抗任何精神束缚，包括魂契5灵魂枷锁、血缚、操控术、威仪术或其它神更古怪的能力。注意等同世代比血族低（详情请看核心第12-13页）时，自动免疫操控术。任何心灵操控的魔法能力也能被魄抵抗，这甚至包括龙泪3螭吻拱卫、疯狂术和存在2公案对峙、5摩耶谜题。

　鬼人能花费意志点抵抗此类操控，但仅限知道自己被控制。说书人对此应宽容。一般来说，每次控制只有1次抵抗机会，但能在说书人准许下，于例外情况，额外投掷。

　注意魄无法抵抗调查而非操控的力量（如感应术和魂契的某些能力）；误导心灵的（隐身术或月隐星移）；专门针对心魔的（如心魔精进、威仪术2畏惧凝视或磷神体2鬼火闪的“烟火”）。

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Kindred of the East and Vampire Revised

　Where material in this section contradicts the text of Kindred of the East, it should be considered to supersede and replace the previously published material. Storytellers are encouraged to rule independently when in doubt or to discard these conversions in favor of their own.


Dharmic Social Bonuses

　While the Running Monkeys and jina may be impressed by displays of wisdom, the mandarins know that the ancestors and even the mighty bodhisattvas, however enlightened, are still fallible. Kuei-jin who themselves receive a bonus to social interactions based on their Dharmic station (see Kindred of the East, p. 54) may subtract the number of bonus dice they receive from the number of bonus dice an elder of higher station receives when the characters are interacting. So for example, a bodhisattva of Dharma 9 would receive only 3 bonus dice to Social rolls against a mandarin of Dharma 7. The Kuei-jin have little doubt that the bodhisattvas' incredible powers of persuasion are one of the reasons that the mandarins strictly limit the amount of contact they have with disciples and jina.


Unlocking Demon Chi

　As stated on p. 91 of Kindred of the East, a Kuei-jin must roll P'o (difficult Hun +3) to gain access to their Demon Chi for a scene. Four or more successes on this roll sends the vampire into fire nature. This roll need only be made when the Kuei-jin wishes to burn "raw" Demon Chi.

　The P'o roll used when activating a Demon Art is a shadow soul roll of Hun (difficulty P'o), as specified on p. 90 of Kindred of the East. When a Kuei-jin activates a Demon Art, be sure to use this special roll and not the standard shadow nature roll described on pp. 91 and 151 of that book. Kuei-jin invoking Black Wind must make this special shadow soul roll when first activating the Art as well as a P'o roll (difficulty 8) each turn it is active. As specified on p. 108 of Kindred of the East, failing this roll triggers automatic fire soul.


Resisting Mental Intrusion

　Through the power of the P'o, Kuei-jin can resist spiritual chains of any sort, be they Soul Shackles, the blood bond, Dominate, Presence or the more esoteric abilities of other shen. Note that Kuei-Jin whose equivalent generation is lower than the Kin-jin's (see Kindred of the East, pp.12-13) is automatically immune to the effects of that Cainite's Dominate. Any magical power that would mentally subjugate the Kuei-jin's free will may be resisted with the P'o. This includes even powers like Chi'iu Muh's Dragon Ward, Dementation and the Mibasham powers Pors'dan and Riddle of Maya.

　Kuei-jin may spend Willpower to resist such mind control, but only if they are aware that they are bound. Storytellers should be generous in this. In general, only one attempt to break free is allowed per constraint, though extraordinary circumstances might allow an additional roll, at the Storyteller's discretion.

　Note that the P'o cannot resist powers that investigate rather than manipulate (for example, Auspex or certain powers of Obligation), those that rely on mental misdirection (like Obfuscate or Shrouded Moon) or those that prey specifically on the Demon's nature (like Cultivation, the Dread Gaze or Goblin Spark "firecrackers"). 

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战斗

　战斗由于其复杂性，属拓展规则，也是本游戏于不同版本间变化最大的一方面。其中绝大多数改变，涉及新的先手系统、获得同回合额外动作的能力和冲击/致命伤害的新划分。虽大可忽略，但给说书人一整套既定的改变似乎更好，也能让团自行决定需丢掉哪些已有规则。


整体改变

　普通武器和徒手攻击用本游戏的第3版规则。魔神体、阴炁或其它能力制造的超自然武器造成的伤害，依其第214页。种类上，只有能力描述指定了才是恶性。

　伤害来源没普通等价物，但依攻击骰定的，伤害-1。如骨神体3化骨成型生成的骨爪，现在造成力量+1而非2的恶性伤害。同类的还有骨剑、血鞭、爪、牙、口、刺、吸盘和其它几乎所有靠常规战斗系统（攻-躲-伤-吸）解决的攻击。

　不造成直接伤害的攻击（如血神体2血气搬运），或不靠攻击骰决定是否击中的（如骨神体4五毒瘴），无改动。

　这些规则的例外会在异能一节中说明。


枪械的冲击伤害

　无论气的平衡，枪械都造成冲击伤害（注：《伴书》说枪械对偏阳鬼人造成致命伤害，这条新规则把它覆盖了）。偏阳鬼人虽体温升高，有性能力，但仍是不死者。主要内脏被毁可能令其不便，但终究是小麻烦。即使对永久偏阳的也一样。

　如果永久偏阳鬼人被重伤，伤口未愈合或治疗，说书人应大幅提高其每月感染投掷的难度。当伤口未愈合的鬼人遭遇高度感染的情况时，说书人甚至能要求立即投掷1次，难度8或9。渗透血肉的阳气使其成为最可怕疫病的绝佳温床。


额外动作

　黑煞、魔气和阳炁使用不同且互斥的能量，因此其产生的额外动作不兼容（阳炁3 黑龙舞兮和黑煞是少有的例外）。它们也和迅捷术赋予的一样，只能用于物理动作。但鬼人物理和心灵动作的界限很模糊，这由说书人裁定。

　总体来说，气类异能和神体能同回合用多次，而绝大多数魂类不行。任何情况下都要牢记烧气上限。魔气和阳炁获得的动作同迅捷术，下回合生效，且仅能用于物理动作。黑煞获得的动作在花费魔气的回合生效，因此其1级非常值得购买。


反射动作

　以下动作属反射，它们不算1个动作，所以不分割骰池。

　• 用魄抵抗心灵操控。

　• 花费气驱动异能或提升体能属性。

　• 用气疗伤。

　• 进行1次反射攻击，激活需触碰目标的能力。

　• 吸收伤害

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反射攻击

　需触碰目标的攻击，要投掷1次敏捷+武术/格斗的反射检定，来决定是否能成功碰到目标。此反射攻击本身无伤害。

　分割骰池的鬼人于同回合多次使用涉及反射攻击的异能时，也必须分割反射攻击骰池。每个动作只有1个反射攻击骰池。

　若试图做复杂的事，如爬梯的同时朝某个目标发动普通攻击，并向另一个用混元，为简单起见，将包括触碰尝试的所有动作分割1个骰池。

　额外动作的鬼人不能在用1个动作成功攻击1个目标后，再用后来的1个动作，依之前建立的“触碰”，启动1项能力。激活异能要求的物理接触相当具体，不只是普通的生效情况。

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Combat

　Because it is complex, combat is the subject of extensive rules and is the facet of Vampire that changed most between editions. Most of the changes involve the new initiative system, powers that allow vampires to take multiple actions per turn and the new division between bashing and lethal damage. While matters could be glossed over, it seems better to give the Storyteller a full and established conversion to work from, and let individual troupes decide where to depart from the established norm.


General Conversions

　Use Vampire's revised rules for normal weapons and hand-to-hand attacks. Supernatural weapons made manifest through Demon Shintai, Yin Prana or other powers do the amount of damage listed for the weapon on p. 214 of Vampire: The Masquerade. This damage is aggravated only if specified in the power description.

　Sources of damage that do not have mortal equivalents but which do rely on attack rolls have their damage reduced by one. So, for example, bone talons grown through the use of Bone Obedience will now do Strength + 1 aggravated damage instead of Strength + 2. Included in this category are bone swords, the bloodlash, claws, fangs, maws, spines, suckers and pretty much any other attack that relies on the regular combat system (attack-dodge-damage-soak) to resolve.

　Attacks that do not cause direct damage (for example, the Blood Atemi) or that do not rely on attack rolls to determine if they hit (for example, the Five Poison Cloud) make the transition to the revised rules unchanged from their original form.

　Special exceptions to these guidelines are discussed below, under Disciplines.


Bashing Damage From Firearms

　Regardless of the Kuei-jin's Aspect or Chi Balance, they treat damage from firearms as bashing damage. Note: The Kindred of the East Companion states that Yang-aspected Kuei-jin suffer lethal damage from firearms. This new rule supersedes that. Despite their elevated body temperature and ability to function sexually, Yang-aspected Kuei-jin are still undead. While the destruction of major organs might inconvenience them, it is no more than a nuisance. This is true even for Kuei-jin with permanent Yang-imbalances. However, the Storyteller should raise sharply the difficulty of permanently Yang-imbalanced Kuei-jin's monthly infection roll if they are severely wounded and leave the wounds unhealed or untreated. Storytellers may even require an immediate roll at difficulty 8 or 9 if the vampire encounters highly septic conditions while bearing unhealed wounds. The scarlet Chi that permeates the flesh of such Cathayans makes it a fertile breeding ground for diseases of the most virulent sort.


Extra Actions

　Black Wind, Demon Chi and Yang Prana all draw on different and mutually incompatible sources of energy. As a result, these sources of extra actions are not compatible (with the limited exception of Dragon Dance and Black Wind). Just as with actions granted by Celerity, a Cathayan's extra actions can be used only for physical tasks. The difference between physical and mental actions is often very blurry for Kuei-jin and is left up to Storyteller adjudication. Generally, Chi Disciplines and Shintais may be used multiple times per turn, while most Soul Disciplines may not. In any case, keep the Kuei-jin's Chi expenditure limit in mind. Actions gained from the use of raw Demon Chi and Yang Prana powers occur next round, as if they had been granted by Celerity. Just as with Celerity, these extra actions can be used only for physical activity. Actions gained via the use of Black Wind occur in the round that the Demon Chi is spent, thus making the first dot of Black Wind a very worthwhile purchase.


Reflexive Actions

　The following actions are reflexive. They do not require an action and thus do not require that the vampire's dice pool be split.

　• Using the P'o to resist mental domination

　• Expending Chi to power Disciplines or improve Physical Attributes

　• Healing damage with Chi

　• Making a reflexive attack to active a power that requires the vampire to touch his target

　• Soaking damage

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Reflexive Attacks

　An attack that requires the vampire to touch his target allows the Cathayan to make a reflexive Dexterity + Martial Arts or Dexterity + Brawl check to determine if he can successfully touch his target. This reflexive attack does no damage, other than the effects of the power. A Kuei-jin splitting her dice pool to use a Discipline that involves a reflexive attack multiple times in the same action must also split her reflexive attack die pool; the Kuei-jin gets only one reflexive attack pool per action. Kuei-jin attempting do something complex like climbing up a ladder while launching a normal attack on one target and using Equilibrium on a different target should split one die pool among all the actions including the touch attempt in the name of simplicity.

　A Kuei-jin with extra actions cannot make a successful attack on a target with one action and then invoke a power on a later action based on the previously established "touch." The sort of physical contact required for the invocation of Disciplines in quite specific to the power in question, not just a simple condition of the power's effect.

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异能

　异能和战斗一样，因其重要性而需一定的机制说明。所以此节相当长。



混元

　如4级气脉紊乱和5级弱者道之用的能力可在额外动作中使用，使得精通此艺的鬼人在战斗中极其致命。



堪舆

　施展很困难，且其能力无法用额外动作使用。


3级寻龙点穴

　塑造恶氛效果在第3版规则下有不同影响。当某目标或地区被其影响时，投掷成功数要减去“1”和“2”。注意大失败仍需无成功数，且至少投出1个“1”——无成功数、无“1”和1+个“2”不算。



阳炁


1级生杀之始

　此能力传导的每点阳炁，都使本回合的先手点数多个“3”，而非3个骰子。


2级阳气导引

　虽然没说清，但以阳气爆发攻击时，敏捷+白刃骰的额外成功数会增加其伤害。本身是2个恶性伤害。


3级黑龙舞兮

　由于第3版规则的攻击骰成功数加在伤害骰池，此能力效果略有不同。使用时，攻击的成功数不会算2次。

　相反，徒手格斗时，攻击和伤害投掷难度-1，且即使没有或用钝武器，伤害种类也为致命，使得其攻击对凡人是毁灭性的，鬼人一样。伤口罚值抵消和其它效果仍依核心第105-106页。



阴炁


2级阴气导引

　同阳炁，阴气爆发攻击的额外成功能加到2个骰子的基础恶性伤害上。


4级塑气成兵

　要说清皮影戏承受伤害的方法——只能用基础的耐力值吸收，如骨甲、神体的耐力加成或血神体1 如水渗地的吸收难度降低无效。然而冲击伤害对其减半，枪伤也视为冲击——毕竟它不过是个有生命的影子。

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Disciplines

　Like Combat, Disciplines require a certain amount of mechanical overhead based on their importance to the game. As a result, the Disciplines section of the conversion is quite extensive.



Equilibrium

　Equilibrium powers like Chi Mastery and Chi Interrupt can be used during extra actions, making Cathayans skilled with this art deadly in combat.



Tapestry

　Tapestry is a difficult and often arduous Discipline to perform, and Tapestry powers cannot be performed with extra actions.


Chi-Shaping

　The bad joss effect of Chi-shaping has different effects under the revised rules. When a target or area is affected with bad joss, "1"s and "2"s are subtracted from the number of rolled successes. Note that botching still requires no successes and at least one "1" to be rolled - no successes, no "1"s and one or more "2"s is not a botch.



Yang Prana


Principle of Motion

　Each point of Yang Chi channeled through the Principle of Motion adds 3 to the Kuei-jin's initiative rating total for the turn, not three dice.


Yang Mantle

　Although not explicitly stated, additional successes on the Cathayan's Dexterity + Melee roll to attack with a Yang bolt add to the damage done by the bolt, which does two aggravated damage by itself.


Dragon Dance

　Because attack roll successes add to damage dice pools in the revised rules, the effects of the Dragon Dance are slightly different. Successes on attacks made by a Kuei-jin using the Dragon Dance are not counted twice.

　Instead, when performing the Dragon Dance, the Kuei-jin's attack and damage roll difficulties are reduced by 1 when she is engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Also, the Cathayan's hand-to-hand attacks do lethal damage, even if made unarmed or with blunt weapons, making the blows of Yang Prana practitioners devastating against mortals as well as effective against those who have taken the Second Breath. The negation of wound penalties and other effects of the Dragon Dance are exactly as presented on pp. 105-106 of Kindred of the East.



Yin Prana


Yin Mantle

　As in Yang Mantle above, additional successes on a Yin bolt attack add to a base two dice of aggravated damage.


Eightfold Yin Mantle

　To clarify the method by which the wayang takes damage, it soaks with the vampire's basic Stamina only, not adding other bonuses such as Bone Armor, Stamina bonuses from Shintai arts or soak difficulty reductions from Permeate. However, a wayang takes half damage from bashing attacks and treats gunfire as bashing. It is, after all, nothing but an animate shadow. 

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黑煞

　已在“额外动作”和“使用魔气”讲过，在花费魔气同回合提供额外动作。如核心第106页所述，使用黑龙舞兮时也能激活它，此时黑煞只能提供自动伤害成功或令跑步变快。但合用时，其每回合的走火入魔投掷失败会导致可怕后果——走火入魔和邪魔外道的叠加，鬼人堕落成魑魅数小时，有时数天。因此绝大多数鬼人避免混用两者，但迫切需要时，许多都愿为额外力量挑战极限。



魔神体

　属性加成不变。但恶魔兵锋生成的武器同上文“整体改变”，现在要用第3版武器面板决定特性。造成直接伤害的投资的伤害数-1。

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“月狂”

　魔神体形态的万鬼通常有特征骇人灵氛。这种恐怖是超自然的强大效果，使看到此形态鬼人的凡人感到恐惧。这种害怕是精神（魂）而非理性的。通常只在最黑暗的噩梦深处才能找到。

　意志点6-的凡人（绝大多数）往往会逃离其所在现场，且依意志点而有不同程度的恐惧。意志点更高的会有各种反应，通常依情况和于其中的作用定。能承受这种超自然恐惧的凡人并不一定会被迫与死而复生的怪物打斗，但极度愤怒偶尔会有。

　目睹后的凡人就算对此事有记忆，也会很少，是冲击引发的失忆和堵塞的混合。心理戒断、酗酒、吸毒、自杀、虐待配偶和其它创伤后应激症状，在陷入过月狂的人中很常见，于暴力或其它外伤情况下经历的更甚。被迫与如此可怕的造物亲密接触会导致诸多精神疾病，常常达到紧张性戒断的顶点。有此特征的鬼人应谨慎——这种神圣的恐怖是件不分敌我的武器。

　神，包括法师和血仆（以及实际并非神的持真实信仰的凡人），免疫此效果。虽然他们可能并不喜欢鬼人，但不会被歇斯底里的惊恐压住。有高度战斗训练、正保护孩子或与超自然界较熟悉的凡人能投掷1次机敏+神秘学（难度6），每个成功数将抵御此恐惧的有效意志点+1。

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Black Wind

　Black Wind is as described in Extra Actions and Unlocking Demon Chi, providing its extra actions the turn the Demon Chi is spent. As noted on p. 106 of Kindred of the East, Black Wind can be invoked during the Dragon Dance. When this is done, the Black Wind can be used only to provide automatic damage successes or to increase running speed. Failing the Black Wind's per-turn fire soul roll while using the Discipline in conjunction with the Dragon Dance generally results in a terrible combination of fire and shadow souls, in which the Kuei-jin is reduced to little more that a chih mei for hours, sometimes nights. As a result, most vampires avoid mixing the Disciplines, but during times of desperation, many Cathayans are willing to push the envelope for the extra power.



Demon Shintai

　Demon Shintai's Attribute bonuses work as printed. As noted in General Conversions (see above), weapons generated with Demon Weapon now use the revised-edition weapons table to determine the weapon's Traits. Other damage-causing Investitures that cause direct harm have the amount of damage they do reduced by one.

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"The Delirium"

　Kuei-jin in Demon Shintai form often have the Characteristic Horror. This terror is a supernaturally powerful effect that grips mortals who see the vampire in its demon form. The fear triggered by being confronted with such a creature is of a spiritual and not rational character and is normally found only in the depths of the darkest nightmares. Mortals of Willpower 6 or below (most of the population) will usually flee from the vampire's presence in varying degrees of stark terror, depending on their Willpower. Those with higher Willpower scores will react in a variety of ways, typically based on the situation and their role in it. Mortals capable of withstanding this occult terror are not necessarily compelled to throw themselves into mortal combat with a monster from beyond the grave, though hysterical anger is an occasional response.

　After exposure, most mortals remember the event poorly, if at all, from a combination of shock-induced amnesia and blocking mechanisms. Psychological withdrawal, alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide, spousal abuse and other post-traumatic stress symptoms are common among those who have been exposed to this Delirium, particularly in violent or otherwise traumatic situations. Being forced into close and continued proximity with such a horrific creature will induce massive derangement, usually culminating in catatonic withdrawal. Kuei-jin with this Demon Shintai characteristic should be careful - this divine terror is a weapon that knows neither friend nor foe.

　Shen, including magicians and ghouls (and mortals with True Faith, even though they aren't really shen), are immune to this effect. Although they probably don't find the vampire pleasant to behold, they are not seized by hysterical panic. Mortals with advanced combat training, who are defending their children or who have some familiarity with the unseen world may make a Wits + Occult roll (difficulty 6), with each success increasing their effective Willpower by 1 for the purposes of withstanding this terror.

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血神体

　除血鞭变成力量+1的恶性伤害外，照常。



骨神体


3级化骨成型

　爪造成力量+1的恶性伤害，骨剑是+2。


4级五毒瘴

　照常。因为无攻击投掷，伤害不变。


5级尸魁降世

　激活的鬼人能自由使用3级的爪、脸和钥（但她仍需等待其生长）。甲和剑仍花费气，但每点效果翻倍——甲为2个吸收骰，剑持续6而非3回合。剑造成的伤口带有与尸魁的咬和爪一样的毒液。

　尸魁毒液创造的丧尸，承受伤害同鬼人（攻击的冲击伤害减半，枪械造成冲击伤害）。除非尸体损坏太严重，否则丧尸以完整健康等级回归。



玉神体


5级五气朝元

　五形态全造成致命伤害。虽然都提供了3个吸收骰（同3级护甲），但敏捷无减值。



肉神体


2级肢体分化

　绞缠伤害是冲击。撕咬是恶性，但必须花魔气长牙或嘴。注意庞南加兰跳跃或漂浮时，即使没成功抓住，也能撕咬攻击。


4级蛊虫操控

　蛊虫攻击默认致命，但鬼人能将其塑为冲击攻击的形态。


5级千变万化

　能长出各种角、刺、爪和牙，造成致命伤害；伤害数可用化骨成型和魔神体特征做指导。但无法长出造成恶性伤害的自然武器，得用其它能力（一般为魔神体或化骨成型）来进行如此畏惧的攻击。



磷神体


1级鬼面

　如果因某些原因，鬼人撕咬只造成冲击或致命伤害，那么此能力和后者结合，会使其变成恶性。


2级鬼火闪

　力量描述第三段的阳值是目标的永久值。

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Blood Shintai

　Other than Bloodlash's reduction to Strength + 1 aggravated damage, Blood Shintai works as printed.



Bone Shintai


Bone Obedience

　Talons do Strength +1 aggravated damage, and the Bone Blade does Strength + 2 aggravated damage.


Five Poison Cloud

　Five Poison Cloud works as printed. Since there is no attack roll, the damage remains the same.


Ch'ing Shih

　A Kuei-jin who has activated Ch'ing Shih has access to the Talons, Visage and Key powers of Bone Obedience free (though she must still wait for the appendages to grow). Bone Armor and Bone Blade continue to cost Chi, but the effect per point spent is doubled - Bone Armor provides two additional soak dice, and the Bone Blade lasts for six turns per point, rather than three. Wounds inflicted with the Bone Blade carry the same venom as the ch'ing shih's bite and talons.

　Walking corpses created through the ch'ing shih's venom take damage as if they were a vampire (that is, halve bashing damage after an attack and treat firearms as bashing weapons). Unless the corpse is very badly mutilated, the zombies return with full health levels.



Jade Shintai


Jade Servant of the August Personage

　Strikes by Kuei-jin wearing any of the five elemental mantles do lethal damage. Also, while the elemental mantles provide three additional soak dice (as per Class Three body armor), they do not penalize the vampire's Dexterity.



Flesh Shintai


Detach Limb

　Constriction damage is bashing. Bite damage is aggravated, but remember that Kuei-jin must spend Demon Chi to grow fangs or a maw. Note that Kuei-jin penangallan leaping or floating about may make bite attacks even without a successful grapple.


Pelesit

　The attacks delivered by pelesits do lethal damage by default, though the Kuei-jin may choose to shape the homunculi into forms that have bashing attacks.


Ten Thousand Forms

　Kuei-jin using the Ten Thousand forms can grow a variety of horns, spines, claws and fangs that do lethal damage. Use the Bone Obedience and Demon Shintai characteristics as guidelines for how much damage these body weapons do. However, the Ten Thousand Forms does not allow the Kuei-jin to grow natural weapons that deal aggravated damage. Cathayans must use other powers (usually the Demon Shintai or Bone Shintai's power Bone Obedience) to make such fearsome attacks.



Ghost-Flame Shintai


Goblin Face

　If for some reason the Kuei-jin's bite does bashing or lethal damage, the use of Goblin Face in conjunction with the bite causes the damage to become aggravated.


Goblin Spark

　The Yang rating referred to in the third paragraph of the power description is the target's permanent Yang rating.

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龙泪

　此异能的“恶魄占据”是指恶神体形态。鬼人得知晓后者来使用龙泪。凡人形态只能用善魂版本，恶神体形态则是恶魄版本。决定能用哪种力量的，是物理形态而非灵魂状态。

　它是一种形式的心灵操控。希望抵抗其效果（甚至5级饕餮食魂）的鬼人，要依核心第91页，投掷1次魄。每次尝试仅能投掷1次。


5级饕餮食魂

　注意吞噬灵魂会令除魔虎外的鬼人自动损失心法。魂魄都要协调，才能使用任一版本——食魂是个抽象而困难的过程，鬼人的双重灵魂于此必须保持和谐。如果当前主导的灵魂，希望不经另一半准许使用它，就必须进入意志战来强行解决。拓展投掷对抗1次魂对魄，难度都是意志点。最先比对手多积累3个成功的胜出。

　主导的胜，次要的必须准许；次要的胜，鬼人（至少）在当晚余下时间里，都无法对目标使用此能力。大失败通常会让败方瘫痪一段时间。

　最后请记住，魔虎能因无休止地吞噬灵魂而失去心法，但即使最可怕的滥用，也不过是引发蔽目塞聪。



真我


3级意念斩

　只能用于简单物理攻击。除伤害外有其它效果的攻击（如混元的绝大多数）不适用。难度照常，要正确施展得投出3+个成功。成功不能加在此能力造成的伤害上，也不能加在黑风和纯花阳气的自动伤害成功上。原造成恶性伤害的攻击，用此能力会变致命。

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Chi'iu Muh

　The "P'o domination" referred to in this Discipline is the Demon Shintai form. Kuei-jin must know the Demon Shintai to manifest the Dragon Tear. While in their normal mortal form, they may use only the Hun side of the Discipline, while in Demon Shintai form, they may use only the Discipline's P'o versions. It is the vampire's physical form and not their current soul state that determines which power is usable to be.

　The Dragon Tear is a form of mind control. Kuei-jin who wish to resist its effects, even Spirit-Eating, may do so with a P'o roll (difficulty 9), as detailed on p. 91 of Kindred of the East. This roll may be made only once per attempt.


Spirit-Eating

　Note that the loss of Dharma rating for actually devouring a soul is automatic for vampires other than the Devil-Tigers. The Hun and P'o must be in agreement to use either version of this power – Spirit-Eating is a metaphysically demanding process, and the Kuei-jin's dual soul must be in harmony over the matter. If the currently dominant soul wishes to use Spirit-Eating without the other half's permission, it must force the issue in a battle of wills. This is done via an extended, opposed roll of Hun versus P'o, with the difficulty of both rolls being the vampire's Willpower. The winner is the first to accumulate three more successes than its rival.

　If the dominant soul wins, then the lesser soul must permit the attempt at Spirit-Eating to take place. If the secondary soul wins, then the Kuei-jin cannot use Spirit-Eating on that target for (at least) the rest of the night. A botch on this contest of wills generally leaves the failed soul prostrate for some time.

　Finally, remember that the Devil-Tigers can lose Dharma for consuming souls to no real end, but even the worst abuses will constitute no more than an Act of Blindness.



Internalize


Distant Death Kata

　Only simple physical attacks can be made with the Distant Death Kata. Attacks that have an effect other than doing damage (for example, most Equilibrium-based attacks) do not work with the kata. The difficulty is as normal for the attack, and the player must roll three or more successes to perform the Distant Death Kata correctly. Successes do not add to the damage inflicted by the kata, nor do automatic damage successes from Black Wind and burning raw Demon Chi. Attacks that would do aggravated damage inflict lethal damage when inflicted by the Distant Death Kata.

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铁山

　吸收在本版规则下变得更难，此异能也随之改变。要激活，须照常为邪魔外道投掷1次魄（难度同魂值）。生效的每回合都花费1点魔气。



兽神体

　无视名字，它应是魂类异能，且魔神体形态下无法使用。第3版规则下它不能提升力量属性。



存在


3级踏脚之石

　效果发生并非瞬间。智力+神秘学投掷的成功数应和核心第147页的表格比较，决定穿越障壁时间。

　更重要的是，邯郸学步和阴阳炁为鬼人提供了保护，使其免遭灵界常出现的恶劣环境影响。阴阳界对缺少相应精魂本质的存在（包括堕落万鬼）充满敌意。以此能力进入阳界，会遭受1到3个骰子的恶性伤害/个回合。随着第六纪元到来，阴界进入了巨大暴风季，以此能力进入黄泉界域，有瞬间湮灭的风险。学习此异能的少数鬼人，一般用该能力紧急离开灵界，用邯郸学步进入阴阳界。

　进入地狱的风险小得多。然而，大门打开了一条道，却不一定能轻易转到另一条上。以此能力进入地狱界域的鬼人，有时会发现自己处于玄或朱道的危险地带，或是进入某地狱的大门的另一端。前一种情况的鬼人，只需担心能否活到确定方位的时候；后一种就可能发现自己离开地狱的企图被众多邪恶精魂阻挡——它们是阎魔王的门卫。


4级步履蹒跚

　上天不会对那些将同伴推离启迪之路的人微笑。非魔神的鬼人会因使用它而遭遇蔽目塞聪。

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Iron Mountain

　Soaking has become more difficult under the revised rules, and Iron Mountain has changed to reflect this. To activate this Demon Art, the vampire must make the P'o roll (difficulty equal to his Hun) for shadow soul, as per normal. For each turn that it is active, the Kuei-jin must spend a point of Demon Chi.



Beast Shintai

　Despite this Discipline's name, it should be treated as a Soul Discipline, including the Kuei-jin's inability to use its powers when in Demon Shintai form. Beast Shintai does not enable the Kuei-jin to increase their Strength Attribute under revised Vampire rules.



Mibasham


Stepping Stones

　The effect of Stepping Stones is not instantaneous. The number of successes on the character's Intelligence + Occult roll is compared to the chart on p. 147 of Kindred of the East to determine the amount of time required to traverse the Wall.

　More importantly, Following in the Crab's Footsteps and the Pranas provide the Kuei-jin with protection against the often hostile environments of the spirit world. Both the Yin and Yang Worlds are hostile to those without the proper spiritual natures, including the fallen Wan Kuei. Kuei-jin travelling the Yang World via Stepping Stones may suffer as much as one to three dice of aggravated damage per turn. The Yin World has entered one of its great storm seasons as the Sixth Age approaches, and Kuei-jin using Stepping Stones to enter the Yellow Springs risk instant obliteration. Those few Kuei-jin schooled in Mibasham typically use Stepping Stones as a method of exiting the spirit worlds in an emergency, using Following in the Crab's Footsteps instead to gain entrance to the Yin and Yang Worlds.

　Entrance to Yomi via Stepping Stones is much less risky. However, the gate that opens one way does not necessarily swing the other way so easily. Vampires who enter the Yomi Realms via Stepping Stones sometimes find themselves either in the hazardous terrain of the Ebon Road or the Scarlet Path or else on the other side of a gateway into one of the Thousand Hells proper. In the former case, the Kuei-jin need only worry about preserving his existence long enough to gain his bearings. In the latter case, the Cathayan is likely to find attempts to leave the hell blocked by the various wicked spirits who act as gate warders for the Yama Kings.


A Stumble On The Path

　Heaven does not smile on those who push their fellows from the path of enlightenment. Kuei-jin who are not akuma may well suffer an Act of Blindness from the use of A Stumble on the Path.