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them off themselves.
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trap rating).

• A trap that inflicts one point of lethal damage to a target
(concealed knife, caltrops) or three points of bashing dam- Suggested Modifi ers:
age to a small area (electrifi ed fl oor, mild poison gas).
Modifi er Situation

•• A trap that inflicts two points of lethal damage to a
•• A trap that infl icts two points of lethal damage to a
target (spring-loaded knife, concealed pistol trap) or in-
target (spring-loaded knife, concealed pistol trap) or in- +1 Intruder is actively
flicts six bashing damage to a small area (falling sandbags, looking for traps
fl icts six bashing damage to a small area (falling sandbags,

re and thus
fi re-hose trap), or a trap that incorporates fi
fi re-hose trap), or a trap that incorporates fire and thus
+1 Intruder has success-
has a chance of igniting targets and the house (see p. 180
has a chance of igniting targets and the house (see p. 180
fully surveilled the
of the World of Darkness Rulebook).
of the World of Darkness Rulebook).
location recently

••• A trap that inflicts three points of lethal damage to a
target (falling ax, poisoned needle on a doorknob) or eight -1 Dim light
bashing damage to an area (collapsing staircase), or a trap -1 Loud ambient noise
that damages a portion of the safehouse, reducing its Size
by one (explosives; anyone caught in the blast takes two -2 Intruder is hurried
lethal damage). -2 Trap does not require

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Each aspect of the Safehouse Merit has a limit of 5. In
••••• A trap that inflicts five points of lethal damage to

a target (spring-loaded sharpened stake, blowtorch trap) other words, Safehouse Size, Safehouse Cache, Safehouse Se-
or 12 bashing damage/three lethal damage to an area crecy and Safehouse Traps may not rise above 5 (to a maxi-
(bouncing Betty, acid spray), or a trap that completely mum of 20 points spent on this Merit). The combined pool of
destroys the safehouse, no matter how large (anyone points is used to determine the cost in experience points for
caught inside suffers four points of lethal damage). raising the Safehouse Merit during play.
Special: The Safehouse Merit may be shared among
A note on vulnerabilities: some creatures, such as vam- characters in a cell. The cell may have built the place from

pires, suffer aggravated damage from fire. Others have more the ground up, or a single hunter might have found or pur-
specialized weaknesses, and hunters might well guess at them chased it and improved as he met the other characters.
or learn them over the course of the chronicle. The Safehouse To share this Merit, two or more characters pool their dots
Traps system doesn’t make capitalizing on these weaknesses a for greater capability. A shared rating in the Safehouse Merit
special case — working silver bullets into a gun trap doesn’t cannot rise higher than five dots in any of the four aspects of the

put the dot rating up. This is because the creatures get a trait. That is, characters cannot pool more than five points to

chance to notice the traps anyway (see below), and because a be devoted to, say, Safehouse Size. If they wish to devote extra
hunter can’t be sure that a) werewolves really are vulnerable points to the Merit, they must allocate those dots to a different
to silver, or if that’s just a story and b) werewolves are going aspect of the Merit, such as Traps or Secrecy.
to attack the safehouse, rather than, say, vampires, who don’t Shared dots can be lost. If a hunter dies or leaves the cell
care a bit about silver. (perhaps due to a falling-out over methods), the dots that he con-
Any intruder receives a Wits + Composure roll to notice tributed are subtracted from the safehouse. The Storyteller decides
a trap before it activates: what reduced dots mean in the story when a character leaves a
Roll Results shared safehouse, but the decision should make sense. Dots rep-
Dramatic Failure: The intruder activates the trap and resenting Size, for instance, should probably disappear last, if at
suffers all relevant damage. In addition, roll (the rating of the all, and if they do, it might mean that a portion of the safehouse
trap in question + 2) and apply any successes as additional has become unusable rather than vanishing outright. A character
damage (type as appropriate to the trap). might take equipment with him when he leaves, thus reducing
Failure: The intruder activates the trap and suffers all dots in Safehouse Cache, or a death might draw attention to the
relevant damage. place, reducing Safehouse Secrecy.
Success: The character notices the trap and can try to A character need not devote all of her Safehouse dots to
disarm it (Wits + Crafts minus the dots allocated to that trap, the shared Merit, of course. A hunter might maintain a separate
failure sets off the trap, dramatic failure doubles the damage) safehouse of her own outside the communal one represented by
or just leave it be. the shared trait. Any leftover dots that a character has (or is un-
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