Life is power in a dying world.
The City withers. We grow stronger.
We wield our stolen might in myriad and brutal ways.
For the Kindred, all starts and ends in a pool of blood.
Disciplines are a seductive gift: often a swift solution to a Kindred's nightly woes. They are invocations of her will and the dreadful threat of her ire. The power fantasy of vampirism and that fantasy's corrupting influence, as archetypal to unlife as drinking blood and walking in night eternal.
Disciplines are a method of control. They define the ultimate extent of each Kindred's reach and influence. When all other avenues close, the Childer of Caine may turn to their Vitae and draw forth a power that once shook Creation.
And so these sinister aspects tempt her with their ease and sting her with their price. The deeper she delves into that ancient source of sin and greatness, the darker the world around her becomes.
And the more she hungers.
Curriculum Vitae: A Guide to Obscure Disciplines is a sourcebook that reaches far into the mist-veiled expanse of Vampire: the Masquerade's past editions to uncover powers that lay dormant in the Blood, just waiting for ambitious or desperate Kindred to call upon them once more.
These pages explore a host of abandoned Disciplines, long-lost Blood Magic, and the fallen Bloodlines that wield them, providing updated mechanics in keeping with the 20th Anniversary Edition of the game as well as numerous conversions to the 5th edition rules.
The Final Death / Ashcan edition serves as a preview for the upcoming final product, and is provided as a PWYW title.
This version is stripped-down to the essentials, including over a dozen Disciplines from the 1st and 2nd edition eras and a similar number of Blood Magic Paths - each given a V20 glow-up. Many are also presented as optional Discipline powers and Amalgams for V5.
Some of these Disciplines never received complete, 5-level treatments - some never had any mechanics at all, existing only as brief notes in NPC stat-blocks or narrative devices in works of fiction. There are even a few powers converted from Vampire: the Requiem, and more will appear in the finished product.
Bare-essentials information is provided in this version for those looking to portray Kindred from these Clans and Bloodlines that once walked the World of Darkness. As with the Disciplines, some of these Bloodlines only ever received brief mentions before their concepts were abandoned. Curriculum Vitae treats these loose-threads as opportunities for new Chronicles and Stories, and the full version of the book will include complete write-ups for these Kindred (as well as V5 Loresheets).
Whether you're looking for inspiration for your own Disciplines, need a special power to challenge your experienced Players, or you're simply intrigued by what once was (and might have been) in the World of Darkness, there's plenty of updated content to sift through.
