Werewolf FAQ

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The Lycanthropic Condition

Auspices

Rahu (Full Moon, Warrior)

• Renown: Purity
• Specialties: Brawl, Intimidation, Survival
• Gift Lists: Dominance, Full Moon, Strength
• Ability: Warrior’s Eye. “Read” a foe once per session, Wits + Primal Urge to determine if foe is more/less powerful. DF: Misjudgment, ES: Sense of gap between power levels.

Cahalith (Gibous Moon, Visionary)

• Renown: Glory
• Specialties: Crafts, Expression, Persuasion
• Gift Lists: Gibbous Moon, Inspiration, Knowledge
• Ability: Prophetic Dreams. Gives clue about challenges faced once per story., must sleep at least 4 hours. +1 bonus to Occult rolls to interpret omens or occult riddles.

Elodoth (Half Moon, Walker Between)

• Renown: Honor
• Specialties: Empathy, Investigation, Politics
• Gift Lists: Half Moon, Insight, Warding
• Ability: Spirit Envoy. +2 bonus to Empathy, Expression, Persuasion, or Politics rolls made to negotiate with spirits. Does not apply to threats.

Ithaeur (Crescent Moon, Spirit Master)

• Renown: Wisdom
• Specialties: Animal Ken, Medicine, Occult
• Gift Lists: Crescent Moon, Elemental, Shaping
• Ability: Ritual Master. Rituals dots cost new x4. New Rites bought with experience cost dots x1.

Irraka (New Moon, Stalker)

• Renown: Cunning
• Specialties: Larceny, Stealth, Subterfuge
• Gift Lists: Evasion, New Moon, Stealth
• Ability: Pathfinder’s Sense. +2 bonus to ‘peek’ into Shadow (Wits + Occult + PU, Instant) or perceive ephemeral spirits (Wits + Occult + PU, Instant). Also applies to rolls to sense loci (Wits + Investigation + PU).

Death Rage (Kuruth)

Resolve + Composure to resist (Reflexive)

Failure: Shift reflexively into Gauru

Automatic Provocation

• Wounded by aggravated damage
• Struck by an exceptional success attack roll
• Striking an exceptional attack success
• Wound is marked on one of character’s last 3 health boxes

Effects

• Time in Gauru form lasts for entire scene
• Attempts to destroy nearest target, friend or foe
• Self-preservation takes over when wounded within last 3 health boxes – Flees, attacking anyone intervening
• Attempts to mentally/socially coerce at -3
• Talkdowns are an automatic -5
• Cannot use fetishes/Gifts
• Cannot spend Willpower
• Resolve + Composure may be rolled if talked down, etc.
• Induces fear in spirits
• Reflexive Kuruth roll may save from being disabled by giving extra health

Harmony

Exceptional Success on degeneration check: 1 Willpower gained If degeneration occurs, roll Harmony to check for derangement.

Lunacy

Modifiers:

• Dalu: +4 WP
• Urshul: +2 WP
• Wolf-Blooded: +2 WP, max 10
• Supernatural creature (Including mortal servants): Immune
• Storyteller fiat: Res + Composure roll adds successes to WP

Primal Urge

Regeneration

• Regenerate 1 Bashing at the beginning of action for the turn (reflexive).
• May spend 1 Essence to regenerate 1 Lethal INSTEAD of 1 bashing (reflexive). This may be done even when unconscious.
• Without spending Essence, 1 lethal is regenerated every 15 minutes.
• Aggravated is healed at 1 point per week.
• Dead/unconscious Uratha immediately revert to Hishu.
• Immune to mundane infection and disease.

Renown

Dots in tribally afilliated renown earn you brownie points among others of your tribe.

Shapeshifting

Shifting: Stamina (Hishu) + Survival + PU, Instant (ES: Reflexive action), OR Spend 1 Essence for automatic, Reflexive, OR automatic Reflexive under Auspice moon.

• Returning to Hishu is always a Reflexive action without a roll
• Automatic reversion to Hishu when knocked out or killed
• Fighting Style Merits usable only in Hishu and Dalu
• Manipulation never reduced less than 1, except in Gauru
• When not in combat, a dice pool of 5+ allows your character to shift in one turn.

Hishu (Human): No modifiers.

• -2 penalty to detect as supernatural creature

Dalu (Near-Human): Str +1, Sta +1, Manip -1, Size +1, Health +2, Speed +1, Perception +2. +25-50 lbs mass, +4-6” height.

• Lunacy at +4

Gauru (War Form): Str +3, Dex +1, Sta +2, Size +2, Health +4, Initiative +1, Speed +4, +3 Perception. +200-250 lbs mass, +2-3’ height.

• Full Lunacy
• Armor 1/1
• Claws +1L
• Bite +2L (No grapple required)
• Ignore wound penalties
• No unconsciousness rolls
• -2 penalty to resist Kuruth
• Manipulation = 0, most Social and Mental tasks fail
• Must attack an enemy, travel toward one, or take out frustration.Resolve + Composure (Reflexive) required to do anything else, failure means Kuruth. Gifts and fetishes (Reflexive) excepted
• Maximum time in Gauru: Stamina (Hishu) + PU (+Auspice renown if under Auspice moon). Afterward must revert to Hishu, or make Sta + Survival + PU / spend Essence for alternate form
• May shift out of Gauru voluntarily if not subject to Kuruth
• May not voluntarily assume Gauru again for remainder of scene

Urshul (Near-Wolf): Str +2, Dex +2, Stamina +2, Manip -3, Size +1, Health +3, Initiative +2, Speed +7, Perception +3. 3-5’ at shoulder, 6-8’ in length. +150-200 lbs in weight

• Lunacy at +2
• Claws +1L
• Bite +2L (No grapple required)
• Human speech impossible
• Body language and scent can convey ideas to pack members
• Limited use of First Tongue
• Track by scent

Urhan (The Wolf): Dex +2, Sta +1, Size -1, Initiative +2, Speed +5, Perception +4

• Claw +1L
• Bite +2L
• -2 penalty to detect as supernatural creature
• Human speech impossible
• Can communicate with wolves (-1 to -3 penalty until familiar)
• Limited use of First Tongue (Complex ideas: Man + Expression)
• Track by scent

Silver

Silver weapons inflict aggravated damage. Werewolves must be wounded by these weapons, contact is not sufficient. The silver must be sufficiently pure. Silver is a poor choice of materials and imposes a -1 penalty for use of the weapon.

Spiritual Perception

Detect ephemeral spirits: Wits + Occult + Primal Urge, Instant.

Detect Loci: Wits + Investigation + Primal Urge, Instant.

‘Peek’ across the Gauntlet: Wits + Empathy + Primal Urge, Instant.

Stepping Sideways

Intelligence + Presence + Primal Urge OR Spend 1 Essence to cross as a Standard Action.

Must be done within the influence of a Locus unless the Rending the Gauntlet rite is used. Modifiers:

• Werewolf stares into a reflective surface: +1
• Near a locus rated 2 or 3: +1
• Near a locus rated 4 or higher: +2
• Crossing during the day: -2

Tribes

Blood Talons (Suthar Anzuth)

• Totem: Fenris, the Destroyer Wolf
• Ban: Offer no surrender that you would not accept
• Renown: Glory
• Gift Lists: Inspiration Gifts, Rage Gifts, Strength Gifts

Bone Shadows (Hirfathra Hissu)

• Totem: Kamduis-Ur, the Death Wolf
• Ban: Pay each spirit in kind
• Renown: Wisdom
• Gift Lists: Death Gifts, Insight Gifts, Warding Gifts

Hunters in Darkness (Meninna)

• Totem: Hikaon, the Black Wolf
• Ban: Let no sacred place in your territory be violated
• Renown: Purity
• Gift Lists: Elemental Gifts, Nature Gifts, Stealth Gifts

Iron Masters (Farsil Luhal)

• Totem: Sagrim, the Red Wolf
• Ban: Honor your territory in all things
• Renown: Cunning
• Gift Lists: Knowledge Gifts, Shaping Gifts, Technology Gifts

Storm Lords (Iminir)

• Totem: Skolis, the Winter Wolf
• Ban: Allow no one to witness or to tend your weakness
• Renown: Honor
• Gift Lists: Dominance Gifts, Evasion Gifts, Weather Gifts

Ghost Wolves (Thihirtha Numea)

• Totem: None
• Ban: None
• Renown: None
• Gift Lists: Father Wolfs Gifts, Mother Lunas Gifts

Tracking

• Tracking by sight (As human): Intelligence + Survival Skill, 10-20+ succ, 10 min per roll.
• Tracking by scent (As wolf): Wits + Survival Skill, 10-20+ succ, 10 min per roll.

(Uratha can choose either the above if in appropriate form).

• Countertracking: Tracking roll vs. Wits + Survival Skill each stage.
• Tracker has more succ: Progress made
• Countertracker has more succ: Trail lost
• Tie: Tracker needs # of succ equal to # of succ in countertracker’s tying roll in order to resume the trail.

Modifiers:

• Moving at ½ speed: None
• Moving at ¾ speed: -1
• Moving at full speed: -2
• Every hour trail ages: -1
• Each subject in group tracked after the first: +1
• Uratha has tasted subject’s blood: +4 (For 1 year)

Gauntlet modifier

The rolls for dual senses and to cross the Gauntlet at a locus are subject to the Gauntlet modifier. Within the city, this modifier is -3 everywhere except in parks, where it is -2, and loci, where it is +1

Rites:

The dice pool for all Rites is equal to the werewolf's Harmony, subject to the following modifiers:

• +2 Ritemaster meditates successfully prior to ritual (that is, four or more successes are accumulated in a meditation Attribute task — see World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 51)
• +2 In the vicinity of a powerful locus (rated ••••+)
• +1 In the vicinity of a locus (rated • to •••)
• +1 Ritualist has gained goodwill of local spirits
• +1 Ritemaster is in Dalu form
• +1 Ritemaster’s auspice moon is in the sky
• –1 to –3 Performer suffers wound penalties
• –1 Local spirits are hostile to ritualist
• –1 City suburb or town (only if rite is performed in physical world) (this includes any park within Sacramento)
• –1 Distracting environment (powerful odors, noisy)
• –2 Packmates are involved in battle
• –2 Dense urban area (only if rite is performed in physical world) (this includes all of Sacramento except parks)
• –2 Ritemaster is struck during rite but takes no damage
• –3 Rite is performed in a Barren

Moon Phases

To find the current Moon Phase follow this link.