• Self-Doubt
Everyone has moments when they wonder if they’re good enough — not just whether they can succeed at a task but whether they should even try. For a moment, the vampire’s target feels utterly worthless and incapable of doing anything right. She dithers briefly in a fit of doubt and despair.
Effect
Dramatic Failure: The subject does not feel the sudden loss of nerve and does not lose a turn of action. What’s more, she becomes immune to the character’s Despond until the next sunset.
Failure: The character loses or ties the contested roll. The subject feels nothing.
Success: The character wins the contested roll by getting the most successes. The subject loses her next turn of action as she struggles against her sudden certainty of failure and personal worthlessness.
Exceptional Success: The character wins the contested roll with fi ve or more successes. The victim loses her next turn of action, and suffers a –1 penalty to all non-refl exive actions for the rest of the scene, as she struggles against her own feelings of failure.
Failure: The character loses or ties the contested roll. The subject feels nothing.
Success: The character wins the contested roll by getting the most successes. The subject loses her next turn of action as she struggles against her sudden certainty of failure and personal worthlessness.
Exceptional Success: The character wins the contested roll with fi ve or more successes. The victim loses her next turn of action, and suffers a –1 penalty to all non-refl exive actions for the rest of the scene, as she struggles against her own feelings of failure.