Tyrant’s Gaze

Level Seven Dominate Power

This power is an unusually aggressive and overt use of Dominate. With it, a Cainite may weaken the mental faculties, social skills or bodily strengths of a target. The use of this power demands eye contact, unless the wielder possesses Command Obedience, but it does not require words.

System: The player spends a point of blood and chooses which Attribute category to affect: Physical, Social or Mental. She then rolls Manipulation + Intimidation (difficulty of the target’s Willpower). The target may resist with a Courage roll (difficulty of the user’s Willpower). If the player’s roll fails, the target becomes aware that the character was trying to affect her. On a botch, the target becomes aware and is immune to any Dominate attempts from the user for the remainder of the night.

For each net success, the victim loses one dot from one of the Attributes in the selected category. The loss is spread as equally as possible, with the user deciding where odd successes go. This loss does not affect reflexive rolls (such as soak and many Appearance rolls), as the loss is purely psychological.

Players Guide to High Clans, Page 154