Table of Contents
- System Changes
- The System
Flesh & Bone
(Im)mortal Combat
Psychology
The Rules
Disciplines
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Flesh and Bone: Influences
Bureaucracy
- Customer Service Agent
- Clerk at the DMV/Utility Company
- Acquire an authentic fake driver's license
- Disconnect utilities from a small residence ++
- Get public aid ($250)
- County Clerk's Office/Utility
- Fake birth/death certificates, passport or green card
- Close 1 public school for 1 day ++
- Turn 1 utility on a block on or off ++
- Shut down a small business for a coding violation
- Utility/County Clerk
- Initiate a phone tap ++
- Fake land deeds
- Initiate a department-wide investigation (non-police!)
- Dept. of Finance/City Zoning Board Member/City Department of
- Arrange or prevent an audit of a person or business
- Rezone a city block ++
- Start, stop or alter a city-wide program or policy
- City Government
- Initiate a major public works program (a large park or office complex)
- Shutdown a large business for a violation
- Obliterate or obtain records of a person on a city and county level
- Prevent emergency services (fire) from responding to a major disaster
- City Government
- Force an entire neighborhood to build as you see fit
- Collect taxes ($2,000)
- Divert funding to your areas of interest
- City Government
- Build or destroy small towns or suburbs (by cutting funding)
- Control an entire city district (borough)
- City Government
- Have a major building condemned and destroyed on short notice
- Build monuments or stadiums
- City Government
- Completely control one major aspect of city Government (Dept of Maintenance etc)
- Rebuild major sections the city as you see fit
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Church
- Altar Boy
- Identify members of a church in the area
- Pass as a member of the clergy at a church*
- Nun/Deacon/"Assistant" Rabbi
- Identify higher church members
- Track congregation members
- Suspend lay members
- Priest/Assistant Pastor/Cantor
- Open or close a single church (not permanently)
- Dip into the collection ($250)
- Access to private records and archives of church
- Senior Priest
- Discredit or suspend higher-level members
- Manipulate regional branches
- "Head" Priest/Pastor/Rabbi
- Access ancient church lore
- Use the resources of a Diocese
- Monsignor
- Borrow or access minor church relics or minor sacred items ++
- Identify church members with True Faith
- Stage a "miracle" that gains the Unofficial approval of the church
- Bishop
- Excommunicate a lay member of the church
- Have a church marriage annulled or dissolved
- Find an experienced church-associated Hunter
- Arch Bishop
- Pose as a Bishop or other major religious figure
- Nominate a member of the clergy for elevation
- Stage a "miracle" that gains Official recognition by the church
- Cardinal
- Create or destroy a major cathedral or temple within the city
- Exert minor influence over national church policy
- Ancient Jesuit Priest
- Exert major influence over national church policy
- Discover the secrets of the modern inquisition
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Entertainment (Formerly High Society)
- Local DJ/Staff on a Broadway play
- Keep up with current trends*
- Learn about concerts, shows or plays well before the public*
- Obtain hard to get tickets for shows
- Entertainment Reporter
- Track most celebrities and luminaries
- Be a local voice in the entertainment field
- "Borrow" $1,000 as idle cash from rich friends
- Critic
- Crush promising careers
- Hobnob well above your station*
- Various and Sundry
- Mr. Blackwell (& his list)
- Appear on a talk show that's not about to be cancelled
- Ruin a new club/gallery/festival or other high society gathering
- Gallery/Theater/Studio Owner or Manager
- Own a small but influential theatre, gallery or film studio
- Give someone their "15 minutes of fame" (1 level of fame for 1 session)
- Robert Rodriguez/Band Manager/Theatre Producer
- Bring a major travelling concert or play to the city
- Destroy the career of a minor celebrity (destroy 1 level of Fame)
- Appoint anyone as a member of the city's elite social circles
- Get your film shown at Sundance (or similar indie festival)
- Madonna
- Make someone a minor celebrity (create 1 level of Fame)
- Become a major celebrity (grant yourself 2 levels of Fame)
- Get your film distributed by a medium film company (New Line)
- Elsa Klench/Gale Anne Hurd
- Own a large gallery or theatre in the city
- Make someone else a major celebrity (create 2 levels of Fame)
- Influence nationwide fashion trends
- Get your film distributed by a major film company (Paramount)
- Stephen Spielberg/Maxwell Sheffield
- Destroy a major celebrity's career (remove 2 levels of Fame)
- Own the central gallery or theatre in the city
- Create a national fashion or trend
- Get any movie made that you want++
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Finance
- Stock Broker
- Earn money in the stock market (long term)
- Learn about major transactional and financial events
- Raise capitol ($1,000)
- Learn about general economic trends*
- Learn real motivations for many financial actions of others
- Investment Banker
- Trace an unsecured small account
- Raise capitol to purchase a small business
- Loan Officer
- Purchase a medium sized business
- Ruin a small business
- Bank Branch Manager
- Manipulate a local bank (delay deposits, credit alterations)
- Ruin a medium business
- Purchase a large business
- District Bank Manager
- Control an aspect of a city-wide branch (shut off ATMs)
- Ruin a large business
- Purchase a major company
- AmEx Director of Finance
- Obliterate all savings and credit for 1 person (destroy 1 level of Resources)
- Control the price of a minor commodity
- Perform insider trading ($10,000)
- Dow Jones
- Exert minor influence over local stock prices
- Purchase a minor nationwide corporation
- Bear-Sterns
- Control the price of a major commodity
- Cause inflation or depression for a regional area
- Goldman Sacks
- Siphon off all profits from a minor corporation ($100,000)
- Own a major nationwide corporation
- Exert major influence over local? stock prices
- Lehman Brothers
- Create a stock market crash
- Influence nationwide economic trends
- Make someone an instant millionaire ($1,000,000)
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Health
- Intern
- Access a person's health records*
- use public functions of health center at your leisure
- fake vaccination records
- get a blood trait
- Nurse
- Access to some medical research records
- have minor lab work done
- get a copy of a coroner's report
- Resident/Health Dept. Inspector
- Corrupt results of tests or inspections
- Alter medical records
- Doctor/Health Dept. Director/Coroner
- Acquire a body
- completely rewrite medical records
- abuse grants for personal gain ($250)
- shut down businesses for "health code violations"
- Chief of Staff/Health Dept. "Head"
- Have special research projects performed
- have people institutionalized or released
- institute a MINOR quarantine ++
- Blood Bank Director/Ambulance Dispatch
- Cause a major shortage of blood in an area
- Prevent ambulances from responding to a major disaster
- Board of Health and Safety
- Contaminate the blood supply for one region of the city (ie lower Manhattan)
- Locate samples of minor infectous diseases (influenza)
- Institute a MAJOR Quarantine ++
- Deputy Commissioner of Health & Safety
- Cause a major shortage of 1 type of medicine (penicillin, insulin)
- Perform major or illegal experiments on a large number of people
- Shut down a small hospital permanently
- Commissioner of Health & Safety
- Contaminate the blood supply for the entire city
- Shut down a major hospital permanently
- Locate samples of a major infectious disease (anthrax)
- Regional Director of the CDC
- Shut down all medical care in a city for an entire day
- Direct genetic engineering projects
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Industry
- Construction Worker
- Learn about industrial projects and movements*
- Construction Foreman
- Have minor projects performed or halted
- Arrange small "accidents"
- Dip into union funds or embezzle petty cash ($500)
- Construction Company Manager
- Organize minor strikes ++
- Appropriate machinery for a short time
- Owner of a Small Plant
- Close down a small plant
- revitalize a small plant
- Owner of a Construction Company
- Manipulate large local industry
- Owner of a Large Plant
- Cut off production of a single resource in a small region
- Attract a major industry to the area
- Illegally dump large amounts of toxic waste without getting caught
- Local Union Representative
- Siphon off company profits ($5,000)
- Eliminate or start a union in any company ++
- Local Union Director
- Arrange for a major ecological disaster ++
- Fatally sabotage a major construction project
- Local Union President
- Own a major heavy industry or construction firm in the area
- Cause a major strike ++
- Jimmy Hoffa Jr.
- Fatally sabotage an entire product of heavy industry or machinery
- Influence nationwide labor movements
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Legal
- Lawyer in a small firm/Public Defender
- Get free representation for small cases
- Junior Partner in a major firm
- Have bail waived for some charges
- have minor charges dropped
- Senior partner in a major firm
- Manipulate legal procedures (small wills, minor contracts, court dates)
- access public or court funds ($250)
- get good representation
- Local Judge/Assistant District Attorney
- Issue subpoenas
- tie up court cases
- have most legal charges dropped
- cancel or arrange parole
- Senior Assistant District Attorney
- Close down all but the most serious investigations ++
- have deportation proceedings held against someone
- THE District Attorney (City)
- Bring any investigation short of a grand jury to a halt
- Force a guilty/innocent verdict on a misdemeanor trial
- NY State Judicial Commission
- Appoint a state judge
- Have a lawyer disbarred
- State Judge
- Successfully sue someone for major damages (destroy 2 levels of their Resources and give it to yourself)
- Force a guilty/innocent verdict on a felony trial
- State Supreme Court Judge
- Control one of the members of the State Supreme Court
- Appoint or fire the city's District Attorney (Politics!!)
- The State Supreme Court
- Force a guilty/innocent verdict on a major or sensational felony trial
- Change the interpretation of state or local laws as you see fit (Meghan's Law)
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Media
- Local Reporter / Anchorman
- Learn about breaking stories early*
- submit small stories/articles (within reason)
- Famous Reporter / Anchorman (Lois Lane, Kaity Tong)
- Suppress (but not stop) small articles or reports
- get hold of investigative reporting information
- News Editors (Editor-in-Chief)
- Initiate local news investigations and reports
- get project funding and waste it ($250)
- Access media production resources
- Local News Director
- Ground local stories and projects
- Submit headline news successfully
- Local Station/Paper Manager
- Broadcast/report fake local stories
- Network News Director
- Cause a regional media outlet to begin an investigation
- Walter Cronkite/Editor of NY Times
- Destroy a minor newspaper, TV/Radio station
- Write small nationwide stories successfully
- Manufacture a major scandal (destroy 1 level of Fame)
- "Owner" of a Major Network/Paper (NY Times)/Radio Service (AP Wire)
- Cause a national media outlet to begin an investigation
- Kill national news stories before they get off the ground
- Rupert Murdoch/Hurst Publishing **
- Broadcast fake regional stories
- Destroy a major newspaper or Radio/TV station
- Time Warner/Direct TV**
- Create a fake major national news story
- Create a news blackout over an entire city
** TO achieve these levels, the player MUST have an 8 in three separate Media categories (TV, Radio and Newspapers)
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Occult
- A Wiccan/Druid or member of another occult group
- Know some of the more visible occult figures*
- Contact and use common occult groups/practices
- Owner of a small apothecary / occult shop
- Know and contact some of the more obscure occult figures
- Access resources for most rituals and rites
- Access common occult tomes and writings
- Owner of a large apothecary / occult shop
- Know the general vicinity of Hedge Mages or Mediums and possibly contact them ++
- Can access vital or rare material components
- Milk impressionable wannabes for bucks ($250)
- Research a Basic Ritual (Tremere, Garou Only)
- Owner of a large, ancient occult book shop/Tremere Apprentice
- Research an Intermediate Ritual (Tremere, Garou Only)
- Access obscure occult tomes and writings (part of an alleged Book of Nod)
- Tremere Regent/Major occult leader?
- Access minor magic items++
- Unearth an Advanced Ritual (Tremere, Garou Only)
- Retired Arcanum Member
- Research a new or unheard of ritual or rite from tomes or mentors
- Create your own Basic Ritual
- Found a local cult (1 level of Allies)
- Learn truthful lore concerning Lupines
- Active Member of the Arcanum
- Create your own Intermediate Ritual
- Learn truthful lore about Wraiths or Spirits
- Hedge Mage
- Create your own Advanced Ritual
- Found a regional cult (2 levels of Allies)
- Locate and bring a specific hedge mage or medium to you
- Shaman
- Access legendary magic items (non-church) ++
- Locate and bring a specific Lupine to you
- Indiana Jones
- Locate an entire copy of the Book of Nod or the true lair of a Methuselah
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Police
- Patrol Officer (Beat Cop)
- Learn police procedures
- Learn police information and rumors
- have license plates checked
- avoid minor violations
- Watch Commander
- get "inside" information
- find bureau secrets
- get copies of an investigation report
- have the police hassle, detain or harass someone
- Detective
- Access confiscated weapons or contraband from evidence locker
- start an investigation
- Detective Sergeant
- Get money, either from evidence room or as an appropriation ($1,000)
- have some serious charges dropped
- Captain
- Institute major investigations
- arrange setups
- instigate internal investigations
- have officers suspended
- Chief of a department (Patrol, Detectives, I.A.)
- close down an investigation
- Control one aspect of a large city precinct (homicide, dispatch)
- Appropriate contraband or drugs from the evidence room
- 'Chief of Department' Joseph P. Dunne ++
- Call for SWAT raids
- Have free access to all police facilities
- Have the crime lab "lose" evidence
- '1st Deputy Commissioner' Patrick E. Kelleher ++
- Completely control the police department of a borough
- Have people extradited across state lines
- Have officers fired
- Commissioner Howard Safir
- **Must have at least Police 5 in all 5 boroughs**
- Complete control of a large city's police network
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Politics
- Campaign Worker
- Meet small time politicians
- Have a forewarning of processes and laws
- Campaign Manager
- Use a slush fund or fund raiser ($1,000)
- Get your candidate into a minor office
- Lobbyist
- Sway or alter political projects (parks, renovations)
- Senior Lobbyist
- Enact minor legislation
- Dash careers of minor politicians ++
- Borough President
- Enact more encompassing local legislature
- City Comptroller
- Block the passage of major bills
- Suspend major laws temporarily
- Use state bureaus or subcommittees
- Enact major legislation on the local level
- Get your candidate into a major local office (mayor)
- Deputy Mayor
- Usurp countywide politics
- Subvert, to a moderate degree, statewide powers
- Destroy the career of a major local politician
- Mayor Rudolph Guilliani
- Call out a local division of the National Guard
- Declare a state of emergency in a region
- Get your candidate into a major federal office (senate)
- Enact minor national legislation
- Lt. Governor of NY
- Embezzle taxpayer money ($10,000)
- Engineer a major political scandal
- Governor George Pataki
- Give major support to a national political candidate
- Propose major national legislation
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Street
- Homeless person
- Have an ear open for word on the street
- Identify most gangs and know their turfs and habits
- Hooker/Small time drug dealer (Shaniqua)
- Live mostly without fear on the underside of society
- Keep a contact or two in most aspects of street life
- Access small time contraband
- Member of small gang/Pimp
- Get insight on other areas of influence
- Arrange minor services from street people or small gangs
- Get pistols or uncommon melee weapons
- Leader of small gang/"Huggie Bear" (Pimp)
- Mobilize groups of homeless
- Panhandle $250
- Can have a word in aspects of small gang operations
- Get a shotgun, rifle or SMG
- Leader of medium gang
- Control a single medium-sized gang (10-15 members)
- Slum Lord and Member of a Large Gang
- Completely dominate all aspects of a housing project or slum
- Mark a specific person who enters a "downtown" area for harassment
- Lieutenant in a Large Gang
- Locate exotic weaponry (bombs, sniper rifles)
- Start a small riot
- Leader of a Large Gang
- Completely dominate all aspects of a "downtown" neighborhood
- Control a large gang
- Shaft (Can ya dig it baby?)
- Locate unique or customized weaponry
- Mark a specific person who enters "downtown" for death
- The Reverend Al Sharpton
- Completely dominate all aspects of the "downtown" of a major city
- Start a major citywide riot
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Technology (*NEW*)
- Radio Shack Employee
- Free access to the internet*
- Be aware of current trends in technology*
- Get a cell phone (activated)
- Mid-sized Computer Store (Babbages, Software Etc.)
- Obtain the latest software and minor accessories for free
- Get an outdated computer
- Manager of a large computer store chain (Comp USA)
- Get a state of the art computer with full software
- Have access to training classes (Get Computer 2)
- Have access to 24 hour tech support
- Highly Paid Consultant
- Gain customized designed software/hardware
- Obtain security technology
- Local "Spy" Store
- Obtain cutting edge security technology
- Obtain surveillance equipment
- The Spy Store of London/Major Consulting Firm
- Obtain cutting edge surveillance equipment
- Have a corporate network (LAN/WAN) installed quickly
- Obtain surveillance records (must have police 2)
- Hacker
- Reroute electronic transactions ($10,000)
- Obtain "secure" information
- Crash a network remotely
- Spread a non-lethal virus (Bubble Boy)
- Terrorist Hacker
- Completely shut down a major computer network
- Shut down a major web site (ebay, Amazon)
- Spread a lethal virus (Melissa)
- Shut down a major email network (Hotmail, Yahoo)
- Private Sector Researcher
- Obtain next-generation technology in a field (non-weapon)
- Institute research into the next-gen of a field
- Cicso Systems CEO
- Set major trends for the technology industry
- Research an AI
- Control or disrupt e-commerce for an extended period of time
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Transportation
- MTA Booth Attendant
- A wizard at what goes where, when and why
- can travel locally quickly and freely via public transportation
- Subway/Bus Driver or Airport Luggage Loader
- Can track an unwary target if they use public transportation
- arrange safe passage from mundane threats (sunlight etc)
- Taxi Cab Network (@5 drivers)
- Seriously hamper an individual's ability to travel
- avoid most supernatural dangers when travelling
- Subway Dispatcher/Traffic Controller
- Temporarily shut down one route for one form of mass transit (The N)
- route money your way ($500)
- MTA Inspector/Airport Security
- Reroute major modes of travel
- smuggle with impunity
- MTA District Manager
- Extend control to nearby areas (boroughs) ++
- Bar a person from entering or leaving a city via public transportation
- Attract a major transportation outlet (airport) to your city
- MTA Director/ Manager of a Shipping/Trucking Firm
- Isolate small or remote regions for a short period (1)
- Halt all public transportation and cargo shipping to a small town
- Siphon off profits from a small shipping or trucking firm ($5,000)
- NYC Department of Transportation
- Bar a specific form of cargo from entering or leaving a city
- Isolate a small town from any form of transportation (inc. highways)
- TBTA (Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority)
- Cause a major transportation disaster
- Destroy a major transportation outlet
- Completely dominate one aspect of regional transportation (airplanes, shipping, trucking)
- Port Authority (NY/NJ)
- Prevent anyone from entering or leaving a city via all forms of transportation (including highways) ++ (requires police 5)
- Bar all cargo from entering or leaving a major city
- Appropriate funds ($10,000)
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Underworld
- Street Thug/Pusher
- Locate minor contraband (knives, small-time drugs, etc)
- Mafia Soldier
- Obtain pistols, serious drugs, stolen cars etc
- hire muscle to rough someone up
- fence minor loot
- prove that crime pays (and score $1000)
- Mafia Made Man
- Obtain rifle, shotgun or SMG
- arrange minor "boost"
- Have someone "tailed"
- Mafia Lieutenant
- White collar crime connections
- Hide out: establish a safe haven permanently
- Protection money ($2,000) from local businesses
- Cappo
- Arrange gangland assassinations
- hire a hitman or firebug
- supply local drug needs
- Senior Level Cappo
- Locate exotic weaponry (bombs, sniper rifles)
- Contract a professional hit
- Make someone a Made Man
- Small Mafia Don
- Launder money
- Supply the drug needs of a large city
- Get specific inside information from the police
- Mafia Don
- Control the head of a small crime family
- Locate unique or custom weaponry
- Major Mafia Don/Teamster Leader
- Put a price on anyone's head
- Start a mob war
- The Godfather
- Control the head of a large crime family
- Stage a public assassination, terrorist act or shooting spree (and get away with it)
Note: Anything over a 4 will likely attract the attention of the FBI. Use it CAREFULLY!
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University
- Registrar's Office Employee
- Know layout and policy of a local college
- access to low level university resources
- get records up to the high school level
- Grad Student/T.A.
- Know a contact or two with useful knowledge or skills
- minor access to facilities
- obtain college records
- Non-Tenure Faculty
- Faculty favors
- cancel a class
- fix grades
- discredit a student
- Tenured Professor/Student Organizer
- Organize student protests and rallies
- discredit faculty members
- acquire money through a grant ($1,000)
- Head of Department
- Falsify an undergraduate degree
- Arrange major projects
- free run of facilities
- Assistant Dean/Dean of Students
- alter curriculum college-wide (1)
- Falsify a graduate degree
- Create a college class of your choice
- Discredit the head of a college department
- Dean
- Falsify a Ph.D.
- Know a contact or two with high levels of Ability or esoteric knowledge
- President of the University
- Appoint the dean of a college
- Funnel university funds in your direction ($2,000)
- Discredit the Dean of a college
- Moderate University Contributor
- Direct an entire department to research a specific problem
- Have a research assistant attached to your service indefinitely (gain 1 level of Allies)
- Major University Contributor
- Destroy or discredit an entire college
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