They have commonly been viewed as the Disciplines that all Cainites can learn without needing a teacher, edition and individual Storyteller not withstanding. The physical Disciplines directly affect a vampires physical capabilities and are often believed to be innate to all vampires. Are they some third category or don't belong to any category?

And I guess at the end of the day I could ask my Storyteller, but I kind of thought there would be a list of Disciplines considered Mental Disciplines somewhere, since there is a list for the Physical Disciplines.Įdit: there's also an incomplete list of Mental Disciplines in the Possession power's description (Dominate 5), but the wording of the list implies there are Mental Disciplines that it does not mention which provides credence to the 'if it's not a Physical Discipline it's a Mental one' since it mentions so many Disciplines, but what about Disciplines like Protean and Vicissitude. What defines a Mental Discipline? Does any Discipline that is not considered to be Physical automatically qualify as a Mental Discipline? Or is does it have to do with some other factor like only ones that typically use Willpower in their rolls or are opposed rolls versus the victims Willpower? I originally thought it might have to do with if a Discipline used Mental Attributes in their rolls but if we use Dominate as a guideline, most of Dominate's powers use Social Attributes. I found a few times the core book mentioned that Dominate was a Mental Discipline, but no other references to any others. But I can't find in the V20 core book or through googling which ones are considered Mental Disciplines.

I know that the three Disciplines considered to be Physical Disciplines are Celerity, Fortitude, and Potence.

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