A HOMEBREW SOURCEBOOK FOR VAMPIRE:THE MASQUERADE

TZIMISCE
 The Tzimisce Recrafted
LEGAL
The Following was created under the OGL as a fan-based creation.
All Vampire The Masquerade rights and materials belong to Paradox Interactive.
Art Credits go to Paradox Interactive and Molly Brown.

PREFACE
All materials in this homebrew are designed to be as close to v5 designs and pre-existing material as possible while
incorporating older v20 concepts and powers to make a fully complete remade Vicissitude Discipline for the Tzimisce Clan
as a replacement for the Amalgam powers added within Protean.

The Powers listed are intended to be balanced but it is the responsibility of each Storyteller and Player to adapt them to
their own table.

Dragons, The Old Clan, Voivodes, Stokers

“Not to lead, not to triumph, but to rule - to own utterly” - Unknown

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Vicissitude
Nicknames: Body Crafting,
Level 1 Redistribution: Add a single dot to
any of the user’s Physical Attributes.
Sanguinus, Corpus Mutare This cannot cause any attribute to
MALLEABLE VISAGE
exceed 5 dots.
Dice Pools: Resolve + Vicissitude
Vicissitude is the signature power of These changes are visible, but not
Cost: One Rouse Check
Masquerade-threatening. Note that
the Tzimisce, and is rarely shared System: Roll Resolve + Vicissitude.
outside the Clan (though it is known player characters need to keep track
Each success allowing the user to
to some other Cainites of the of their original values as these are
modify more features as listed below:
Sabbat). Similar to Protean in some still used to calculate experience cost
● Cosmetic (skin tone, eye color, hair
ways, Vicissitude allows vampires to for Attributes.
color, blemishes)
shape and sculpt flesh and bone. Weapons (Once per subject only): The
●● Ugly Flaw, voice, height, body
The wielder must establish skin- user gains the equivalent of a light
build
to-skin contact and must often piercing or heavy impact weapon (+2
●●● Beautiful Merit, Repulsive Flaw
manually sculpt the desired result for Damage). The damage caused by
●●●● Mimic Looks
these powers to take effect. This also these weapons is mundane.
●●●●● Stunning Merit, Mimic Voice
applies to the use of the power on Armor: One Attribute point can be
A complete failure results in the
oneself. Tzimisce skilled in turned into two points of armor
subject gaining the Repulsive Flaw
Vicissitude are often inhumanly value, with an upper limit of six
that can only be reverted by mending
beautiful; those less skilled are simply points of armor. This often takes the
as Aggravated damage.
inhuman. form of reinforced bone or layers of
These changes must remain
There are rumors that Vicissitude fat and cartilage, and appears
inline with typical human features.
increasingly inhuman as the points
is a disease rather than a “normal” The users height gained or lost
Discipline, but only the Fiends know allocated increases. While vampires
cannot be more than a foot and body
for sure, and they aren’t talking. gain little benefit from this, apart
build must typically remain inline
from a disturbing appearance, it
within a reasonable range with their
serves a purpose on mortal and
weight.
ghoul retainers when combined with
Characteristics Duration: Until undone with
Fleshcrafting.
■ Type: Physical Vicissitude, supernaturally healed, or
Other changes: More creative uses
■ Masquerade threat: High. healed with surgery.
of this power, such as creating a
Vicissitude powers are clearly secret pouch somewhere on the body
unhuman when being actively or moving eyes around, are beyond
applied, though once the effects are Level 2 the scope of these mechanics and are
achieved they can potentially go up to the Storyteller to interpret.
unnoticed depending on the level of BODY CRAFTING The Attribute cost, and even the
Modification(s) made. Dice Pools: Resolve + Vicissitude Rouse Check, for smaller changes
■ Blood Resonance: Nil. Blood Cost: One Rouse Check may be waived in favour of a
that is empty of Resonance and System: Roll Resolve + Vicissitude. Dexterity + Craft or Intelligence +
thereby equally pliable; psychopaths, Every success on the roll allows a Medicine roll with the Difficulty and
sociopaths, narcissists, antisocial single modification to be made, Time Required determined by the
personalities, and those who are though the total number of changes Storyteller.
otherwise emotionally detached in cannot exceed the user’s Vicissitude Changes can be mended as
some way. rating, no matter the number of Aggravated damage, with each
■ Additional notes: Tzimisce clan applications or successes. Each change equivalent to a single level of
members can replace Protean with change causes the loss of a single damage (restoring the lost Attribute
Vicissitude as one of their Clan Physical Attribute dot of the user, as points accordingly), or restored with
Disciplines. the body mass must come from another usage of Body Crafting.
Features, such as Predator types, somewhere (No Attribute can be Duration: Until undone with
which give a dot in Protean may be taken below 1). Each use of the Vicissitude, supernaturally healed, or
treated as a dot in Vicissitude when power takes one full turn to perform. healed with surgery.
taken by a Tzimisce clan member. Potential Body Crafting changes are
listed below:

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Level 3 The target vampire must then Level 4

succeed on a Willpower roll against
the same success margin or be
FLESHCRAFTING HORRID FORM
considered staked.
Prerequisite: Body Crafting Prerequisite: Body Crafting
Other Offensive effects: The user
Dice Pools: Resolve + Vicissitude Cost: Two Rouse Checks
may attempt to do some other minor
vs. Stamina + Resolve System: This ability takes a full turn
offensive effect such as blinding a
Cost: One Rouse Check to activate, during which time the
target, removing their ability to
System: The user can use Malleable vampire can only defend, using their
speak, harming their ability to move,
Visage and Body Crafting on targets pre-Horrid Form dice pools. The
or binding their hands to each other,
other than itself. A willing target vampires form changes to that of a
to name a few examples.
follows the same system as Body monster, the player may choose the
Due to the extremely versatile
Crafting. An unwilling target can specifics within reason, and unarmed
nature of Vicissitude the specifics of
resist with their Stamina + Resolve, attacks add +2 to their damage value
these effects will be up to the
with the user’s margin counting as and do Aggravated Health damage to
Storyteller but typically it will require
Successes. mortals.
a Strength or Dexterity + Vicissitude
Making more than a single The vampire is granted a number of
with the target having some ability to
change per scene requires the subject free Body Crafting changes equal to
resist the effect, typically using
to be either willing or restrained, their Vicissitude rating. These can be
Stamina + Dexterity or Resolve.
though this ability may be used spent on Redistribution, Weapons,
Duration: Until undone with
multiple times per scene to change and Armor. Generous Storytellers
Vicissitude, supernaturally healed, or
what the singular modification is. An can also consider other changes such
healed with surgery.
unrestrained and unwilling target as wing-like membranes for gliding,
must be successfully grappled for the extended limbs for extra reach, or
effect to occur. other creative (but fair) uses.
To make more than one change All Physical attributes are
requires a full scene of work to increased by 1 but all Social attributes
perform. Changes can be mended as are reduced to 1 except when
Aggravated damage, with each interacting with another vampire in
change equivalent to a single level of Horrid Form (a vampire may use
damage (restoring the lost Attribute Strength for Intimidation rolls while
points accordingly), or restored with in Horrid Form). The vampire also is
another usage of Fleshcrafting. unable to communicate in anything
In addition, the vampire can but grunts, hisses, and roars.
attempt to Fleshcrafting in Physical All limitations on Malleable
Combat through the following Visage are dropped as the user is able
techniques: to change their form to their
Rend: The user rolls a Dexterity + cosmetic desire, though the
Vicissitude in place of a normal Storyteller may veto less reasonable
combat roll as they attempt to tear forms.
away strips of flesh, this damage is The vampire may only use
treated as Aggravated Damage. Physical type disciplines while in this
Rib Puncture: The user rolls a form.
Strength + Vicissitude against a Duration: One scene, unless
Stamina + Dexterity of the target (if voluntarily ended sooner. It may be
conscious and unwilling) to attempt extended by spending Willpower, at
to pierce the heart of the target using the Storyteller’s discretion.
their own ribs. For a mortal this is
most assuredly a death sentence.
For a Cainite it is less lethal but
no less dangerous as they will take
Aggravated Damage equal to the
user’s success margin.

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Level 5 The user is now able to attach dead

flesh and bone to a target, these do
not have to be human parts so long
BLOODFORM
as the parts are either well preserved
Prerequisite: Horrid Form
or are from a corpse that has only
Cost: One Rouse Check
been that way for a short time (two
System: The user physically
days at most).
transforms all or part of their body
Each part added will grant one
into sentient vitae. This blood is in all
free Body Crafting modification,
respects identical to the vampire’s
though certain unique body parts
normal vitae; being able to nourish
may result in other specific
others, create ghouls, or establish
capabilities as the Storyteller
blood bonds. If all this blood is
determines (e.g, improved hearing
imbibed or otherwise destroyed, the
perception if additional ears are
vampire meets Final Death.
added, extended reach from multiple
Each body part (each leg, each
arms being sown together, or dealing
arm, the torso, the abdomen, and the
Aggravated health damage due to
head) can be converted into the
supernatural strength from
equivalent of one hunger point
overabundant muscle fibres).
worth of vitae. The blood can be
The number of body parts that can
reconverted to the body part,
be added from a single usage is equal
provided it is in contact with the
to the number of successes on a roll
vampire. If the blood has been
of Resolve + Vicissitude minus the
utilized or destroyed, the vampire
cost of the type of body part as seen
must make a rouse check for each
below:
missing body part (even if it is only
● Human Limbs
partially used or destroyed).
●● Human Sensory Organs
A vampire entirely in this form may
●●●● Exotic Parts
not be staked, cut, bludgeoned, or
This power is often used in the
pierced, but can be burned or
creation of more potent and
exposed to the sun. The vampire may
monstrous Szlachta. Once a subject
ooze along, drip up walls, and flow
has 5 in each Physical attribute, 6
through the narrowest cracks.
points of armor, body modified
Disciplines that require eye contact
weapons, and whatever other
or vocal utterances are unable to be
requirements the Storyteller deems
used in this form.
necessary, the subject can typically be
Duration: One scene, unless
considered a Vozhd and use the
voluntarily ended sooner. It may be
appropriate SPC sheet.
extended by spending Willpower, at
Duration: Until undone with
the Storyteller’s discretion.
Vicissitude, supernaturally healed, or
healed with surgery.
CORRUPT CONSTRUCTION
Prerequisite: Fleshcrafting
Dice Pools: Resolve + Vicissitude
vs. Stamina + Resolve
Cost: One Rouse Check
System: In order to use this Power,
the user must be able to work
undisturbed on the subject, who
either needs to be willing or
restrained. Use the same rules as
Fleshcrafting regarding willing and
unwilling subjects.