{"id":"vampire/power/discipline_power/daemonic-possession","type":"power","system":"discipline_power","line":"vampire","name":"Daemonic Possession","sources":[{"source":"V20","page":173,"folio":165}],"entries":["Daemonic Possession lets a vampire insert a soul into a freshly dead body. This does not turn the reanimated corpse into anything other than a reanimated corpse, one that will irrevocably decay after a week, but it does","give either a wraith or a free-floating soul (say, that of a vampire using {@discipline_power Psychic Projection|V20}) a temporary home in the physical world.","System: The body in question must be no more than 30 minutes dead, and the new tenant must agree to inhabit it — a ghost or astral form cannot be forced into a new shell. However, most ghosts would gladly seize the opportunity. Should the vampire, for whatever reason, wish to insert a soul into another vampire’s corpse (before it crumbles to ash), the necromancer must achieve five successes on a resisted Willpower roll against the original owner of the body. Otherwise, the interloper is denied entrance.","Note: The soul can use whatever physical abilities ({@ability Athletics|V20}, {@ability Brawl|V20}, {@discipline Potence|V20}) his new fleshy home possesses, and whatever mental abilities ({@ability Computer|V20}, Law, {@npc Presence|V20}) he already possessed. He cannot use the physical abilities of his old form, or the mental abilities of his new one."],"parent":"vampire/power/discipline/the-bone-path","level":5,"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"section_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-15","job":"v20-disciplines"},"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/daemonic-possession","html":"/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/daemonic-possession","parent":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline/the-bone-path","children":"/api/v1/records/vampire/power/discipline_power/daemonic-possession/children","sources":[{"abbr":"V20","page":173,"folio":173,"title":"Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition"}]},"_db":{"title":"Daemonic Possession","props":[["Discipline","The Bone Path"]],"parent_id":"vampire/power/discipline/the-bone-path","level":5,"category":null,"summary":"Daemonic Possession lets a vampire insert a soul into a freshly dead body. This does not turn the reanimated corpse into anything other than a reanimated corpse, one that will irrevocably decay after a week, but it does","tags":[],"children":[]}}