Bestiary

While many vampires tend to be careful with the number of animal ghouls they maintain, others see the power in manipulating a swarm, flock, or horde. For example, members of Clan Nosferatu have been known to use lesser creatures, like the bat, rat, or snake, as a group to defend themselves from attack or ward off curious onlookers. These animals might be incentivized to act through the use of Animalism, but they also might be Bound or fed vampiric blood.

For lesser creatures, their size precludes them from being fed upon or having a lot of blood in their bodies. Thus, a rat has 1/4 of a blood point. This means that four rats may all be maintained as ghouls with a single blood point. Eight, then, would be maintained with two, twelve with three, and so on. For animals smaller than a rat or a bat, the amount of blood that creature contains is at the discretion of the Storyteller.