Editing Vampire: The Masquerade (section)

===[[Thin Blooded]]===
*'''Antediluvian - Varies'''
*'''Signature Discipline - Varies/as per parent clan (V20), Thin Blood Alchemy (a combination of bootleg chemistry and old style potion brewing) (V5)'''
*'''Sect - Mostly Anarchs or Hunters, very few in the Sabbat though some live in the Camarilla as yes-men (see below).'''
*'''Clan Weakness:''' Being stuck running with low tier clan powers (lvl 4/3 for 14th/15th respectively), less blood pool to play with, plus whatever your parent clan flaw is (V20). Being everyone's bitch, being a Z-tier vampire (though that has some benefit), being stuck with cookery as your power (V5).

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Do you not feel oppressed enough running as a Caitiff? Or do you just like an underdog? Thin blood might be for you. 

While in V20, not every thin blood is a caitiff by default, they seem to get the same treatment due to being considered both a sign of Gehenna and probably a little bit of jealousy due to the 15th generation vampires being able to find it easier to tolerate things like the sun. Almost all thin bloods between 14th-16th generation (though one, Smiling Jack's Childe is around 11th gen) and often come with a reduced usability for their blood pools and having to spend extra blood to do basically anything except wake up. Bloodlines 1 had a thin blood community in E, Lily, Julius, Rosa and Copper, a poor bunch of fucks who mostly got turned and abandoned by their erstwhile sires for being bitch tier vampires.

Then we get to V5, which changed thin bloods massively, almost to the point of being a different supernatural entirely, more akin to a halfway house between ghoul and vampire. First off, all thin blood are caitiff by default; their blood is too weak to show either clan traits or even a lot of typical vampire traits. Second of all, they have no disciplines except one: Thin-blooded alchemy, which is like a bargain bin replacement for the usual powers you'd get as a Kindred, allowing them to mix blood with all sorts of bizarre shit to do many things kindred can do by just focusing, with some weird abilities thrown in for good measure. Thirdly, they have their own merits and flaws now. 

Merits they can take include slowly metabolising food, seeming alive or even being able to walk around during the day (sans powers of course, but it's something), but with the drawback of flaws including no fangs, actual clan curses, or being unable to heal like a vampire. On top of this, it ''sucks'' being a thin-blood in general: the Camarilla either physically brand or execute them on sight, the Anarchs are only slightly more welcoming, and both have no compunctions about using you as a disposable ghoul (with the Anarchs sometimes giving a tenuous promise that you might be able to diablerise a criminal and become a clan member.) 

When in that position, most people either try to become mortal again, or diablerise their way into becoming a gen 13, full fledged vampire, losing all their thin blood merits (including their alchemy), but in exchange for existence not sucking ass for every moment of your life/unlife/halflife, just for most of it. Others go crazy and start down the near suicidal path of helping hunters, reasoning that they might as well die trying to fuck up the people who wrecked their life rather than live under the Camarilla/Anarch's bootheel until their boss gets tired of their yes-man gimmick.

All of this said, they're a good choice for high-mortality "VTM Survival Mode" kind of games. Just don't expect your game sessions to last long on average.