The number of blood points a Cainite can spend a turn and the maximum size of their blood pool also increases as generation is lowered, though this represents a concentration of power within the blood, not a larger physical capacity to store it. Dominate cannot be used on vampires of a lower generation than the character, and some other Disciplines are weaker as well. Low generation provides several benefits. The V20 supplement Beckett's Jyhad Diary introduces the 16th generation. Members of the 14th and 15th generation are special, and detailed rules for them are provided in the Time of Thin Blood supplement. Thus, standard VTM characters range from 13th to 8th generation, and DAV characters from 12th to 7th. Each rank represents a step below the default generation, which is 13th in modern times, and 12th in the Dark Ages. In game mechanics, all Kindred have a Generation Trait, which is ranked between 0 and 5 for standard characters.

Generation is the crudest measure of vampiric power, or more accurately, vampiric potential. Those of low generation, two or three times removed from Caine, are accorded more respect than those nine or ten times removed. Caine is considered the First Generation of vampires, the most powerful of them all and Cainites use Generation to describe their heritage as Caine's children. The clan founders comprised the Third Generation, their progeny became the Fourth Generation, their childer became the Fifth Generation, and so on and so forth up through the distant Thirteenth Generation prevalent in the modern nights.ДЄll Cainites trace their ancestry according to how far removed they are from Caine, how many generations down their cursed line they are.

When a vampire embraces, their childe rises from death one Generation higher than them - one more Generation removed from Caine.

Max 6 gen