Not really.

There is always the danger of drinking from that one vampire who has strong blood due to a Blood Merit, Discipline Power or Blood Magic. You might become fully bound by only two or even one drink.

Then there is the problem of keeping track of previous drinks.

Blood bonds, even partial blood bonds, do not fade. Bonds must be severed, deliberately broken. A partial bond can last for centuries. Thus, any partial bond is potentially dangerous.

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1.2) What about the three nights rule?

The rule is three drinks, with each drink taking place on a separate occasion.

Most Storytellers interpret the "separate occasions", as three separate nights.

So, if a vampire fills a cup with his vitae, and tricks you into drinking it. Whether you spend a few minutes or hours sipping from the cup, each sip does not count as a separate occasion.

This allows two lovers to repeatedly drink from the other's veins all night. Only their first drink of the night, counts toward the forming of any bonds.

(Unless the Storyteller says otherwise.)

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1.3) How many times can I drink from my sire?

All vampires start with a first level bond toward their sires.

That single drop of blood used to embrace you, counted toward the building of a full blood bond. You only need to take two more drinks from your sire to be fully bonded.

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1.4) Can I blood bond my sire?

The blood of even a 13th generation neonate, has enough binding power to blood bond Caine himself (VTM Rev, pg.219).

So, unless you have a Flaw of the Blood, your blood can bind any vampire regardless of generation. However, if your sire is already bonded to another, you can't bond him to yourself.

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Section 2: Oops, they already done unto you!

2.0) How much blood is required to create a blood bond?

This seems to have been left up to the Storyteller, but I am going to argue that only one drop is needed per stage:

It takes only one drop of blood to create a vampire, and vampires are born one-third blood bonded to their Sires.

If your going to require a whole blood point be consumed, then you are requiring up to one pint (16 oz.) of fluid be consumed before bonding takes place.

In White-wolf fiction, vampires are known to serve blood to guests, but secretly mix their own vitae in it. As there is no way to control the mix, it appears the process of drinking vampire blood, and not the amount is what's important.

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2.1) What about merely tasting vampire blood?

Nope. Touching blood is not enough, even if you touch it with your tongue and swish it around in the mouth. I see the need to swallow the blood, allowing it to merge into the blood pool.

Why?

In one of the San Francisco novels, a vampire bites his tongue and wills blood to flow into his mouth. He kisses another vampire, spitting the blood into her mouth. He then strokes her lower jaw, triggering her swallowing reflex. Her tasting his vitae was not enough, he made sure she swallowed it.

There is also the WTA ruling on ghouling & blood bonding. Feeding vampire blood to werewolves usually causes a violent upchucking of the blood, comparable to an allergic response. This immediate vomiting of the blood can purge the werewolf of its taint, preventing ghouling or blood bonding.

The Tremere's Thaumaturgical Path of Blood. Do you really think a Tremere would taste your blood, if he was in danger? Do you think he would be taught to taste your blood if he could be bonded to a non-Clan member?

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2.2) Can vampires become bonded by drinking from ghouls?

In theory, vampires are safe when drinking from the ghouls of others. However, there are no safe bets in the WoD.

The Storyteller can always decide differently. The Ghoul acting as a vessel of transference, creating bonds between the drinker and the ghoul's Regent.

In White-wolf fiction there have been attempts to blood bond vampires who drink from the recently dead. Apparently, dead mortals (or dead ghouls) can be drained of blood and refilled with vitae which can be used to bond the drinker.

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2.3) I'm bonded, can I return the favor?

Yes.

Being bound, does not remove the power to bind. As long as your Regent is not already bound to another, you can bind him.

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2.4) What about the lover's bond?

The blood bond is known to cause the thrall to develop strong feelings toward her Regent. A devotion which can be mistaken for love and admiration.

Vampires who already have feelings for each other, sometimes share blood to create a mutual blood bond. What was mere strong feelings becomes emotional bliss. As each is the thrall of the other, they supposedly become equals in the relationship. Neither is able to harm or betray the other.

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Section 3: How did they do that?

3.0) Can I be enthralled to more than one vampire?

You can only be fully blood bonded as a thrall to one vampire.

However, until your fully enthralled, you can enjoy a multitude of first and second level blood bonds to hundreds of vampires, until you take that notorious third drink.

Nevertheless, a full bond shatters ALL lesser bonds, and prevents new ones from forming.

(VTM Rev, pg.219)

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3.1) As a thrall, I'm I safe from additional blood-bonds?

Yes. Once fully blood bonded, you are immune to additional bonds. This allows you to safely drink from any vampire. Even if two vampires try to bond you at the same time by mixing their blood, only one full bond with onw vampire will be formed; shattering the bonds created by the other vampire.

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3.2) Why shouldn't I allow myself to be bonded?

Once fully bonded, you can no longer bond yourself toward another. You can't strengthen your feelings toward anyone except your Regnant.

If you finally meet Mr. Right, you can not mutually bond with him. You can still give of your blood, binding him as your thrall, but you can not drink from him to bind yourself as an equal.

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3.3) A Tremere can be bonded to a whole Council?

After being embraced (by a single sire), a Tremere undergoes a Thaumatugy ritual called the Transubstantiation of Seven. It is also known as receiving the Cup.

Blood is taken from the Council of Seven, and transformed into a alchemical powder. This is a safety measure. If outsiders captured the powder, it is useless to them. Jars of this powder are stored at each Chantry. When someone is embraced, a potion is created from the powder, and fed to the Fledgling.

The result is a first level blood bond to all seven council members. Unlike the normal bond, the third use of this Thaumatugical ritual causes full bonding to all seven members instead of to just one.

Merits and Flaws for being embraced without the Cup can be found on page 67, of the Revised Tremere Clan Book.

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Section 4: How to break a blood-bond.

4.0) Time and willpower.

If a thrall can avoid seeing or drinking from his Regent for 12 months (minus the thrall's Willpower), the blood bond will drop one level. However, this requires the thrall to be aware of the bond and resisting it.

If the thrall's Nature is Child (or another dependent archetype), the vampire may NEVER have the willingness to break the bond.

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4.1) The Vaulderie.

If a thrall is drained of all blood except his last blood point, then drinks six blood points from the chalice during a Vauldeire, the old bond is broken.

Bonds are usually broken the first time; strong bindings may require two Vaulderies.

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4.2) Kill the Regent.

Death of the regent will shatter the bond.

However, the thrall's Nature may still cause problems. The thrall could believe himself to be under his dead sire's influence or develop other derangements.

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4.3) Strong Magic.

There is a Mage rote which can break the bond. The Mage is suppose to have lots of Kindred Lore and uses the Spheres of:

Life 4, Mind 3, Entropy 3, and Prime 1

There are also rumors of rituals of Blood Magic which can break the blood bond (and even the Vinculum.)

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4.4) Death.

The Embrace may (or may not) break the blood bond.

In Giovanni Chronicles 4 (pg.41), a Ghoul who is to be embraced, is told his blood bond will vanish when he becomes a vampire.

However, the revised Clanbook speaks of the right to create ghouls being restricted to certain Clan members. The reason given is the blood bond remains after embrace. All Giovanni vampires are bonded to another Giovanni vampire.

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Section 5: The Vaulderie

5.0) What is the Vaulderie?

The Vaulderie is believed to have evolved from the magic rituals once practiced by Koldunic Sorcerers (Guide to the Sabbat). Although skill in Koldunic Sorcery is no longer needed, only vampires with the Rituals Background can make it work. Normally, only the Pack Priest performs the ritual.

The Vaulderie ritual allows all the members of a Sabbat pack to bond to each other. On certain occasions, all the packs within a local area will meet and use the Vaulderie to bond all who attend to each other.

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5.1) Bonding to one person is bad enough, why bond to everyone?

Partial Blood bonds give others influence over you, a full Blood Bond makes you the slave of another. You can still bond others, but only as your slaves. Over time, the bonds creates a soceity of slaves, taking orders from the one at the top.

The Vaulderie bonds all other members to you, and you to all other members. No one person has the power of a master, and you can not be made anyone's slave. The Vaulderie creates bonds of loyalty to a group, not bonds of love to an individual.

Vaulderie allows hundreds of individuals to bond to each other. They perceive a sense of loyality to each other, but due to the number of bonds pulling at them they can more or less ignore any single bond on an individual level.

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5.2) How else does the vaulderie differ from a mutual bond?

The blood bond has only three levels, and once the third level forms, all other bonds shatter, and no additional bonds can form.

The Vaulderie's special bond of loyalty (called the Vinculum) has 10 levels.
Old vinculums are not shattered by repeated Vaulderies. In fact the number of bonds can keep increasing into the hundreds.
Repeated vaulderies with the same individuals can sometimes lower the vinculum instead of raising it.

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5.3) How does the Vaulderie ritual work?

Using a knife dedicated to the rite, blood is drawn from all members of the pack. The blood is then mixed in a chalice (which can be a bowl, teapot, etc).

The pack priest then recites an incantation which concentrates the blood. Each pack member then drinks from the chalice.

After just one drink, a special bond of loyalty (called the Vinculum) is created between the drinkers.

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5.4) How can the Vinculum be broken? Does it fade?

As a rule, the Vinculum does not fade. In fact, a vinculum can last hundreds of years. (Guide to the Sabbat, pg.156)

Yet, Blood and magic sometimes do inexplicable things. Vaulderies sometimes lower a Vinculum instead of raising it. Sometimes, just sometimes, if a vampire fails to partake of the Vaulderie for an extended period of time, the power of the vinculum weakens.(Guide to the Sabbat, pg.203)

There are rumors of Sabbat leaders who know of rituals that can break the bonds of the Vaulderies.

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5.5) Does the Vinculum prevent blood bonds?

Maybe.

While blood bonds do not break the Vinculum, it is possible for them to co-exist.

The Vaulderie can fall to break a strong blood bond, while creating a Vinculum to several other vampires.
Its possible to hold a Vinculum to several others, and still become directly blood bonded to another by directly drinking his blood several times.