Fortitude

Fortitude is a Discipline that grants Kindred unearthly toughness, even to the point of resisting fire and sunlight.

OverviewEdit

Fortitude grants the Cainite the ability to resist all kinds of damage, however it fulfills its part of God's curse in that it bred arrogance and overconfidence. Sometimes, Cainite masters of Fortitude become convinced of their own indestructibility to the point that they disregard even mortal danger, as their survival instincts slowly atrophy.^[1]

Normally Fortitude does not need to be activated, and each dot is added to all soak rolls. Even Risen wraiths may also acquire this Discipline with the right training.

Like Auspex, Fortitude is particularly common among the vampiric bloodlines.

Official AbilitiesEdit

There are no individual powers for Fortitude until level 6. At that point characters may choose to gain additional Fortitude soak dice or learn a unique power. Included below are the official powers described in supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade and Dark Ages: Vampire. Sources are described below in the order they were printed.

Standard Powers (V5)Edit

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  • Resilence: The vampire can add their Fortitude rating to their Health total.
  • Unswayable Mind: The vampire can add their Fortitude rating to dice rolls to resist manipulation and coercion.
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  • Toughness: The vampire can subtract Fortitude rating from all Superficial damage sustained.
  • Enduring Beasts: Amalgam of Animalism 1. The vampire can extend their Fortitude powers to animals under the effect of their Animalism.
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  • Defy Bane: The vampire can downgrade Aggravated damage into Superficial damage.
  • Fortify the Inner Facade: The vampire can use their Fortitude to resist the Auspex powers of Scry Soul and Telepathy.
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  • Draught of Endurance: The vampire can bestow their Fortitude abilities onto those who drink his blood. 
  • Shatter: The vampire become so tough, that they repel close combat blows, to the point where weapons break and bones shatter.
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  • Flesh of Marble: The vampire can ignore the first source of damage each turn, including Fire but not Sunlight. 
  • Prowess of Pain: The vampire can ignore penalties to dice pools from injury. 

Advanced PowersEdit

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  • Personal Armor: Weapons that hit you may break
  • Sensory Shield: Protect your mind from sensory overload and suffer less wound penalties
  • Stand Against All Foes: Cannot be moved from your spot by any force
  • Alabastard: Ignore damage penalties
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  • Armor of Kings: Weapons that hit you may break, doing no damage
  • Curse the Laurel: Slowly move stakes from your heart
  • Resilient Mind: Your mind sheds derangements and animalistic quirks while becoming resistant to mind-altering powers
  • Shared Strength: Grant your supernatural resilience to another
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  • Adamantine: Weapons that hit you may break, doing no damage
  • Eternal Vigilance: Remain awake during the day almost at full strength
  • King of the Mountain: Take no actions but fully blocking attacks, breaking weapons that you stop
  • Repair the Undead Flesh: Heal aggravated damage without need of rest
  • Armored Flesh: Suffer no damage outside of combat, and block attacks with your bare hands.

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  • Arm of Prometheus: Make one of your limbs completely indestructible for 10 minutes

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  • Plot Device

Gallery Edit

VTES CardsEdit

References Edit

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^  Levels 1-5

Fortitude

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

^  Level 6

Armor of Vitality	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 84
Personal Armor	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 90
The Knight’s Bane	Vampire: The Dark Ages 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 221
Sensory Shield	Clanbook: Gangrel Revised	Pg. 64
Stand Against All Foes	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 155
Personal Armor	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 159
Alabastard	Anarchs Unbound	Pg. 110
Curse the Laurel	Lore of the Clans	Pg. 262

^  Level 7

Bestow Vigor	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 84
Shared Strength	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 91
Curse the Laurel	Clanbook: Ventrue Revised	Pg. 76
Resilient Mind	Clanbook: Gangrel Revised	Pg. 65
Armor of Kings	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 155
Shared Strength	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 159
The Blessing of Vitality	Vampire: The Dark Ages 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 221

^  Level 8

Eternal Vigilance	Dark Ages Companion	Pg. 84
Adamantine	Guide to the Camarilla	Pg. 91
King of the Mountain	Clanbook: Gangrel Revised	Pg. 66
Repair the Undead Flesh	Players Guide to High Clans	Pg. 156
Adamantine	Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 159
Armored Flesh	Vampire: The Dark Ages 20th Anniversary Edition	Pg. 222

^  Level 9

Arm of Prometheus

Players Guide to High Clans

Pg. 156

^  Level 10

Plot Device

Gehenna

Pg. 182

Vampire: The Masquerade Disciplines pre-V5:
Abombwe · Animalism · Auspex · Bardo · Celerity · Chimerstry · Daimonion · Dementation · Dominate · Flight · Fortitude · Melpominee · Mytherceria · Obeah · Obfuscate · Obtenebration · Potence · Presence · Protean · Quietus · Sanguinus · Serpentis · Spiritus · Temporis · Thanatosis · Valeren · Vicissitude · Visceratika
Blood Sorcery pre-V5:	Abyss Mysticism · Akhu · Countermagic, Thaumaturgical · Dur-An-Ki · Mortis · Nahuallotl · Necromancy, Voudoun · Necromancy, Western · Ogham · Sadhana · Sihr · Thaumaturgy · Thaumaturgy, Dark · Thaumaturgy, Sielanic · Sorcery, Assamite · Sorcery, Anarch · Koldunic Sorcery · Sorcery, Setite · Wanga
V5	Animalism · Auspex · Blood Sorcery · Celerity · Dominate · Fortitude · Obfuscate · Oblivion · Potence · Presence · Protean · Thin-Blood Alchemy
Defunct:	Deimos · Kai · Kineticism · Maleficia · Nihilistics · Rift · Striga