Short Burst	Up to 3 bullets	+1 die	10 Again
Medium Burst	Up to 10 bullets	+2 dice	9 again
Long Burst	Up to 20 bullets	+3 dice	8 Again

New Attribute Rules

Strength now provides Power to Weaponry and Brawl attacks.

Strength 3	+ 1 Power
Strength 5	+2 Power
Strength 7	+3 Power
Strength 9	+4 Power
+2 Strength	+1 Power

Melee Defense is now the highest of Dexterity or Wits. Ranged Defense is now the lowest of Dexterity or Wits.

Revised Ranged Weapons Table

Type	Power	Finesse	Range	Clip	Strength	Size	Cost
Light Revolver	+1(L)	+0	20/40/80	6	2	1	••
Heavy Revolver	+2(L)	-1	35/70/140	6	3	1	••
Light Pistol	+1(L)	+0	20/40/80	17+1	2	1	•••
Heavy Pistol	+2(L)	-1	30/60/120	7+1	3	1	•••
Rifle†	+2(L)	+3	200/400/800	5+1	2	3	••
Small SMG*	+0(L)	+0	25/50/100	30+1	2	1	•••
Large SMG*†	+1(L)	+0	50/100/200	30+1	3	2	•••
Assault Rifle*†	+2(L)	+0	150/300/600	42+1	3	3	•••
Shotgun†	+3/+2(L)	+0/+2	20/40/80	5+1	3	2	••
Crossbow**†	+0(L)	+3	40/80/160	1	3	3	•••

* Autofire. ** 3 turns to load, can be used to stake (-4). † requires two hands. The first numbers for the shotgun represents slugs, the second represents shot.

Revised Melee Weapon Table

Type	Power	Finesse	Size	Cost	Special
Sap	+0(B)	+1	1	•	Knockout
Brass Knuckles	+1(B)	+0	n/a	•	Brawl
Sap Gloves	+1(B)	+1	n/a	••	Brawl
Club (wood)	+1(B)	+1	2	n/a
Mace (metal)	+2(B)	+1	2	••
Maul (metal)†	+3(B)	+1	3	••
Knife	+0(L)	+1	1	•
Rapier	+0(L)	+3	2	••
Sword	+1(L)	+1	2	••
Katana	+1(L)	+1	2	•••	Durability +1
Great sword†	+2(L)	+1	3	•••
Small Ax	+1(L)	+0	1	•
Large Ax†	+2(L)	-1	3	••
Great Ax†	+3(L)	-2	4	•••
Stake	+0(L)	+1	1	n/a	Heart -5
Spear†	+0(L)	+1	3	•	+1 Defense

† requires two hands

Revised Armor Table

Type	Protection	Strength	Defense	Speed	Cost
Reinforced Clothing	1/0	2	-0	-0	••
Kevlar Vest (thin)*	0/1	1	-0	-0	••
Flak Jacket*	1/1	2	-1	-0	••
Full Riot Gear*	1/2	3	-2	-1	•••
Leather (Hard)	1/0	2	-0	-1	•
Chain mail	2/0	3	-1	-2	••
Plate	2/1	4	-2	-3	••••

* Bulletproof items downgrade bullet damage to bashing.

Special Merit Rules

Brawl Dodge and Weaponry Dodge allow you to use the highest of Brawl (or Weaponry, respectively), your Dexterity, or your Wits to determine your defense against Brawling or Weaponry attacks, respectively.  Increase the cost of this merit to 2.

Duck and Weave adds +2 Defense against Brawling-based attacks.

Special Supernatural Rules

Vampires are immune to shock (as are any supernaturals who have “dead bodies”). Increasing Strength, Dexterity or Stamina with Blood does not increase derived statistics, including Power. However, Vigor certainly improves total strength for the purposes of Power.

Werewolves gain new bonuses in their wereforms: increases in strength also increase Power if appropriate. Werewolf claws add +1 Finesse (and inflicts Lethal damage), while werewolf fangs add +1 Power (and inflicts Lethal damage). The armor of Gauru form subtracts health levels of damage, just as all new armor does.

Mages change how their armor and directed attack spells work (unraveling spells work as they always do: they were always gradual anyway).

• Armor spells which protect a mage from being grappled, but not during a grapple, (“Slippery” armors) continue to subtract dice from attacks. This includes armor from Fate, Space, Time and Mind.

• Armor spells that protect a mage from damage during a grapple, but not from being grappled (“Tough” armors) grants 1 point of armor at Arcana 1 and 2, 2 points of armor at Arcana 3 and 4, and 3 points of armor at Arcana 5 and 6. This includes armor from Death, Forces, Life, Matter and Spirit.

• Mages can only benefit from one form of armor against a given attack.  A Mage with both Entropy Guard and Misperception active could apply the latter against grapple attempts and the former against damage in a grapple, but he could not both reduce dice from a gun attack and reduce the damage from the same attack.

• Directed attack spells, specifically being spells that Defense subtracts from (Lightning, for example), do not add Arcana to their rolls. Instead, they add Power equal to the Mages Arcana -2 (thus Arcana 3 adds 1 extra success, Arcana 4 adds 2, and so on). At the GM's discretion, particularly powerful spells have a further -2 to their dice pool and +1 Power. This explicitly includes all directed attack spells that deal Aggravated damage.

• The rest of the Magic system works as normal.
  
  

Dramatic Spirits

Spirits have multiple new rules in Dramatic Combat. Because “power” and “finesse” are also Spirit traits, to avoid confusion, we shall use the terms “bonus successes” and “bonus dice” to describe these these traits respectively.

• Power provides bonus successes as though it were Strength (listed above). Thus, a spirit with Power five inflicts two bonus successes when it successfully strikes an opponent.

• A spirit's Defense is the higher of Finesse or Resistance. Spirits apply their full Defense against ranged attacks (Spirits can dodge bullets)

• A spirit's Initiative is Finesse x 2.

• Spirits gain armor equal to their Rank-1. Spirits without Rank (ghosts) are assumed to be rank 1. This armor does not apply to damage from their Ban (should it be applicable).

• All other traits remain the same (Speed is Power + Finesse + 10, Attack rolls are Power + Finesse, Corpus is Size + Resistance, and so on).

Spirits do not suffer from Shock, as they are not creatures of flesh.

In addition, the include or change the following Numina Options:

• Thorns: The spirit deals lethal damage with its standard attack.

• Blast: This Numina costs 1 essence. The spirit makes a ranged attack with a range up to 10 x Power, with dice equal to Power + Finesse, and bonus successes from Power as though it were a standard attack. The spirit may spend additional Essence to increase bonus successes on a one-for-one basis.

• Stalwart: The spirit gains +2 Armor.

• Elemental Immunity: The spirit gains armor equal to half of its Resistance (rounded up) against attacks from a single element.

The Essay can be found here