Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition blood potency level
Blood Potency 3
Key facts
- Level
- 3
- Blood Surge Bonus
- +3 dice
- Mend Amount
- 2 Superficial damage per Rouse Check
- Power Bonus
- +1 die to Discipline rolls
- Rouse Re-roll
- Rouse Checks for Discipline powers of level 2 or lower can be re-rolled once
- Feeding Penalty
- Animal and bagged blood slake no Hunger
- Bane Severity
- 3
- Typical Age
- 26 to 50 years dead in this system's approximation table
Overview
Blood Potency 3 marks the ancilla, the vampire who has outlasted the neonates and is now expected to be useful. Blood Surge rises to +3 dice, the Rouse re-roll covers Discipline powers up to level 2, and this system's age table places anyone dead between twenty-six and fifty years at this rating. This is also the rating that ends a certain kind of character. Animal and bagged blood slake no Hunger from here, so the Farmer either changes how they feed or starts starving. Ancillae are the working layer of Kindred society: senior enough to be given problems, junior enough that the problems are dangerous ones.
Tips and playstyle
Who Has This: Ancillae, clan whips, long-running player characters, the Kindred a prince sends when something needs handling Advantages: A Blood Surge of +3 dice and a Rouse re-roll for Discipline powers up to level 2 Disadvantages: Human vessels as the only meal that slakes Hunger, a Severity 3 bane, and enough standing that your failures are now noticed by people who can act on them Watch For: Mending stays at 2 Superficial per Rouse Check here, the same as Blood Potency 2, so the step up is about reach rather than durability
Frequently asked questions
Why does animal blood stop working?
The Blood grows more particular as it thickens. At Blood Potency 3 animal and bagged blood slake no Hunger, so every meal now involves a person.
What happens to a Farmer character here?
They have a crisis. The predator type stops functioning, and the character either finds human vessels, changes predator type with the Storyteller, or spends the chronicle starving.
Do I have to kill to feed at this rating?
No. Humans are the only meal that slakes Hunger, but killing is not required until Blood Potency 5. Most Storytellers run it as a deep, dangerous feeding rather than a sip, which is a Humanity problem either way.