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=== Cast no Reflection ===
The LaSombra have a clan weakness Cast no Reflection, and there is a Flaw Cast no Reflection. Under the description of the weakness, it specifically states they do not show up on any cameras, including digital ones. Although scientifically, digital media today do not use reflections, neither did security cameras at the time the books were written. Furthermore, this isn't a physical, scientific weakness or Flaw - it is a supernatural one, involved in the curse of LaSombra's blood and the poor unfortunate Kindred who have somehow inherited this Flaw without being LaSombra. This is fate, if you will, rather than an effect of the environment. So, those with LaSombra blood and the Flaw cannot be captured on film or by video feeds.

However, for your PC to know this, you would need to have LaSombra-lore 1, Sabbat-lore 2, or Kindred-Lore 4. If you do not have these lores, and you see a vampire with no reflection, it would play into the stereotype from Stoker, et al, and you cannot identify said vampire as LaSombra. However, for those who take the Flaw, the assumption that the Kindred is actually LaSombra would be a valid one.

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 === Using Vitae to heal in combat ===
- A vampire may spend one blood point to heal one normal (basking or lethal) health level of damage. Characters must be resting and relatively inactive for the healing to take place without a roll.
+A vampire may spend one blood point to heal one normal (basking or lethal) health level of damage. Characters must be resting and relatively inactive for the healing to take place without a roll.
 Vampire characters in stressful situations may also spend blood to heal themselves. To do so, the character must concentrate and do nothing else for one full turn – the character may abort to a dodge, but if they do, the blood point(s) is/are wasted, and no healing takes place.  A character may attempt to heal while performing other actions, but this requires success on a Stamina + Survival reflexive roll (difficulty 8). This dice pool is not split regardless of how many other actions are attempted in the round.

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	Learning the first rank of an out of clan discipline can be done before the three months – it starts at the time of the first sip of blood. However, learning the discipline ‘starts the clock’ again. For example, Mary learns Fortitude 1, a clan discipline in May. In June, after discussions, Mary tries to get Victor to teach her Obtenebration – Victor obliges – and Mary would usually be approved right away as long as she takes the blood point. However, Mary most like would have to wait for three months to learn any new discipline from the day of the sip.		Learning the first rank of an out of clan discipline can be done before the three months – it starts at the time of the first sip of blood. However, learning the discipline ‘starts the clock’ again. For example, Mary learns Fortitude 1, a clan discipline in May. In June, after discussions, Mary tries to get Victor to teach her Obtenebration – Victor obliges – and Mary would usually be approved right away as long as she takes the blood point. However, Mary most like would have to wait for three months to learn any new discipline from the day of the sip.
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		+	=== Using Vitae to heal in combat ===
		+	A vampire may spend one blood point to heal one normal (basking or lethal) health level of damage. Characters must be resting and relatively inactive for the healing to take place without a roll.
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		+	Vampire characters in stressful situations may also spend blood to heal themselves. To do so, the character must concentrate and do nothing else for one full turn – the character may abort to a dodge, but if they do, the blood point(s) is/are wasted, and no healing takes place. A character may attempt to heal while performing other actions, but this requires success on a Stamina + Survival reflexive roll (difficulty 8). This dice pool is not split regardless of how many other actions are attempted in the round.
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		+	Failing this roll means the vampire loses all expended blood points with no effect, while a botch causes the vampire to lose both an additional blood point and an additional health level. Spending blood to raise Physical Attributes or power Disciplines may be done automatically, without the need for concentration, but both healing and raising attributes and disciplines are dependent on the blood spending per turn limitation.
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		+	A staffer may rule that a vampire may be doing too much - we aren’t playing undead superheroes. If a Kindred decides to fire a submachine gun while parkouring down the side of an alley while using Dread Gaze, staff is within their right to determine that a character may not also heal. If in doubt, ask before declaration.

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 === Flaw: Cast No Reflection ===
 The LaSombra have a clan weakness Cast no Reflection, and there is a Flaw Cast no Reflection.  Under the description of the weakness, it specifically states they do not show up on any cameras, including digital ones. Although scientifically, digital media today do not use reflections, neither did security cameras at the time the books were written. Furthermore, this isn't a physical, scientific weakness or Flaw - it is a supernatural one, involved in the curse of LaSombra's blood and the poor unfortunate Kindred who have somehow inherited this Flaw without being LaSombra. This is fate, if you will, rather than an effect of the environment. So, those with LaSombra blood and the Flaw cannot be captured on film or by video feeds.
 However, for your PC to know this, you would need to have LaSombra-lore 1, Sabbat-lore 2, or Kindred-Lore 4. If you do not have these lores, and you see a vampire with no reflection, it would play into the stereotype from Stoker, et al, and you cannot identify said vampire as LaSombra. However, for those who take the Flaw, the assumption that the Kindred is actually LaSombra would be a valid one.