VTM V5: Clan Banes

Clan banes and their effects

Clan Bane is a supernatural limitation experienced by a vampire based on their clan. Clan Banes are at the core of the defining traits of a vampire, and are one of the features that sets traditional vampires apart from Caitiff.

Brujah: The Blood of the Brujah simmers with barely contained rage, exploding at the slightest provocation. Brujah are prone to acting through anger, even in the smallest situations. Brujah are more prone to Frenzy during battle.
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Gangrel: Gangrel relate to their Beast much as other Kindred relate to the Gangrel: suspicious partnership. In frenzy, Gangrel gain one or more animal features: a physical trait, a smell, or a behavioral tic. These features last for one more night afterward, lingering like a hangover following debauchery. In public, these features are likely to break the Masquerade.
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Malkavian: Afflicted by their lineage, all Malkavians are cursed with at least one type of mental derangement. Depending on their history and the state of their mind at death, they may experience delusions, visions of terrible clarity, or something entirely different. When the Malkavian suffers a Frenzy, their curse comes to the fore. Their Frenzies may often result in paralysis, self-harm or extreme mental torment.
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Nosferatu: Hideous and vile, all Nosferatu count as having the Repulsive Flaw and can never increase their rating in the Looks Merit. In addition, any attempt to disguise themselves as human incur a penalty, and are often spotted even through an articulate disguise.
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Toreador: Toreador exemplify the old saying that art in the blood takes strange forms. They desire beauty so intensely that they suffer in its absence. That said, even devotees of the Ashcan School never find normal streets perfectly beautiful. This obsession with aesthetics also causes divas to lose themselves in moments of beauty and a bestial failure often results in a rapt trance, as detailed in the Compulsion
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Tremere: Once the clan was defined by a rigid hierarchy of Blood Bonds reaching from the top to the bottom of the Pyramid. But after the fall of Vienna, their Blood has recoiled and aborted all such connections. Tremere vitae can no longer Blood Bond other Kindred, though they themselves can be Bound by Kindred from other clans. A Tremere can still bind mortals and ghouls, though the corrupted vitae must be drunk an additional number of times equal to the vampire’s Bane Severity for the bond to form. Some theorize this change is the revenge of the Antediluvian devoured by Tremere, others attribute it to a simple mutation. Regardless, the clan studies their vitae intently to discover if the process can be reversed, and, indeed, determine if they would want to do so.
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Ventrue: The Ventrue are in possession of rarefied palates. When a Ventrue drinks blood from any mortal outside their preference, a profound exertion of will is required or the blood taken surges back up as scarlet vomit. Preferences range greatly, from Ventrue who can only feed from genuine brunettes, individuals of Swiss descent, or homosexuals, to others who can only feed from soldiers, mortals who suffer from PTSD, or methamphetamine users.
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Lasombra: While all vampires lose something profound at their Embrace, the Lasombra exhibit the most telling signs of this spiritual deficiency. When viewed in a reflective surface or a recording medium, their image appears distorted, sometimes almost invisible. Whether flickering, twisted on transparent, their reflection betrays their undead state and lineage. Similarly, modern technology relying on touch or other form of direct interaction tends to glitch or simple act unresponsive to Magisters, and electronic detection systems easily pick up the tell-tale signs of their passing.
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Tzimisce: The Tzimisce are inextricably tied to their domains of origin, and must rest in the proximity of at least two handfuls of “native soil” earth from a place important to her as a mortal, such as the soil from her birthplace or the graveyard where she underwent her Embrace. Each night spent without this physical connection to her land limits all the Tzimisce’s dice pools by one dice per Bane level, cumulatively, until she has only a single die in her pool. The penalty remains until she rests for a full day amidst her native soil once more.
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Caitiff: Untouched by the Antediluvians, the Caitiff share no common bane. Caitiff characters begin with the Suspect Flaw. Further, to improve one of the Disciplines of a Caitiff costs six times the level purchased in experience points.
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Thin-blooded: No Bane