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| - Disciplines are vampiric powers and capabilities that have often given rise to old wives' tales of superhuman speed, strength and endurance possessed by the Damned, along with their piercing gaze, their hypnotic and seductive voices and the unholy power to vanish into shadows and shapeshift into bats, wolves and mist. (VTR: Vampire: The Requiem Rulebook Image:Bullet-nip.png, p 114) Kindred (the word vampires use for themselves) can use a variety of supernatural powers called Disciplines. These are special abilities associated with their curse which, like their undead bodies, are "fed" in a way by the living blood they take from mortals. Many of the Disciplines provide Kindred with preternatural means of ensuring their continued existence, or of easing the process of hunting and stealing blood from mortals. Disciplines are generally recognized as common (common place among the Kindred and more than one clan has an innate knack for them), unique (the proprietary abilities of each of the five clans), covenant (possessed only by a specific covenant and never shared with outsiders), and bloodline (known only to the members of a particular bloodline within a clan). However, each Kindred has the capability to, given a tutor and the proper amount of time (sometimes years for powerful disciplines), learn a discipline that is not natural to their clan or covenant. In game mechanics, the experience point cost for such disciplines is higher than that of a clan discipline innate to a specific Kindred, and given the amount of time in a given storyline necessary to successfully master an other-clan discipline, many players never get the chance to fully master such things. However, many storytellers (the orchestrater and judge of the game) will allow certain concessions, or "house rules", that enable players to learn other-clan disciplines much easier than is standard in the official rulebook. However a Kindred (except Kindred from the En bloodline, and even then they have to have a Blood Potency 10, and they don't actually learn the Discpline, but can steal a dot by diablerizing a vampire who does know the Discpline) cannot learn Disciplines (apart from a few exceptions) from bloodlines they are not a member off. Storytellers allowing "house rules" are the only way Kindred can learn Discplines that belong to bloodlines. Shadows of Mexico brought in a optional rule of the strength of faith, where a vampire could pay tribute to the god or spirit releated to thar Discipline, granting a extra dice for rolls related to the Disciplines use, but if the tribute isn't paid, a dice is lost. It also brought several alternative powers. Powers that combine aspects of two or more Disciplines are called Devotions.
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