Questions tagged [werewolf-the-apocalypse]
Werewolf the Apocalypse is the original World of Darkness game in which players play Garou, lineages of humans who have been tasked by Gaea, the Spirit of the Earth, to serve her as warriors, and granted the ability to shape change to accomplish this, in the face of her imminent death.
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Does the lore say whether Glass Walkers and drones ever collaborate?
As the question sounds, of the tribes the Glass Walkers have an unconventional relationship with the Weaver - so I wondered if it is mentioned in the lore if they have the usual default attitude to ...
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How would a Garou missing an arm affect its stats?
This question is about 20th Anniversary edition if it helps.
Whether from losing it in battle, or a metis born with one arm - I was hoping to ask if there’s anything explicit anywhere on how this ...
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On the Nature of the Barrier between Russia and China
Hengeyokai, Shapeshifters of the East, page 43 contains this paragraph, right before the Tapestry:
A list of all the physical locations of interest in the Mirror
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How are Ajaba Metis being "hermaphrodites"?
I have not played W:TA before (but have been playing other systems since ~2009, mostly DnD variants and DSA 5). I will not have access to source books before session 1, where the group will create ...
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Can players create custom totems?
Is it possible to create a custom totem? Or should the pack just choose a existing totem from the books and then spend points in Totem Background to improve it?
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Where do I learn more about Jonas Albrecht?
W20 starts with a glorious little comic, in which a white-haired guy called Albrecht with a huge Klaive rescues a cub. Then in the Character Generation example, we learn Jonas Albrecht's setup for ...
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What combat implications has this proposed alternative initiative rundown?
Combat in the WoD is notoriously lengthy. The git rundown is about this:
Roll initiative
Sort high to low
Combat Round Start
Announce spending of rage for extra actions & handle "pre round&...
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Are backgrounds important after character creation?
I'm currently running a W:TA game using the 1st edition rulebook. Several of my characters have backgrounds. As we play, do those backgrounds increase, or do they only determine what the character has ...
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Is there a cost to learning new rites?
My character currently has 5 dots in the Rites background. This gives them 5 levels of rites, which they have already selected. Now they want to learn a new rite. What does it cost?
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How do I calculate damage?
In W:TA how do I calculate the damage from an attack?
As an example, consider Lina. Her stats in homid form are: Strength (1), Dexterity (2), Melee (3). She uses a pool cue (using the stats from a ...
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Where do I find charms for Wyrm elementals?
The wyrm elementals in Book of the Wyrm for Werewolf: The Apocalypse have charms that I can't find descriptions for.
For example, the Toxin elemental (pg. 100) has the charms Visceral Agony and Body ...
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Are there any spirits dealing with oaths in world of darkness
I want the spirit to function as a kolyarut to enforce a contract since I don't have entropy 5 there is always homebrew but I want to know if one already exists
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Can a hybrid Metis be born of parents of different Changing Breeds? If so, what happens?
I'm the secondary storyteller for a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game.
Our group is made out of mostly urban figures – specially Glass Walkers and Bone Gnawers – playing out a very finance-oriented pack ...
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On Werewolves and Plastic Surgery
A peculiar situation arose on a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game I'm taking part as secondary storyteller.
During a session conducted by our main storyteller, one of our players brought up the idea of ...
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In Werewolf W20, how does dice splitting work with no-roll Gift activation?
If I have a Gift that says, "spend a point of Gnosis: stuff happens", can I use this Gift while performing a normal action in the same turn ? If so, how would dice splitting work in this ...
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Is there a full-text version of the Litany?
The quick and dirty "precepts" are readily available in many different sources; but I've looked everywhere I can think of, all the way back to 1st edition material, and cannot find the full ...
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Werewolves in space?
We all know Werewolves are badass, that they can rip apart puny humans and mages and everything. They travel around the world on moon-bridges and through the Penumbra, ripping apart Pentax, Wyrm and ...
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Can fetishes or talens step sideways by themselves?
In my Werewolf game, the players have to assassinate someone. A rank 1 theurge wants to shoot the target with a sniper rifle.
But they want to make the bullet a talen that enters the Umbra when it’s ...
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Is there any canon lore reason why urban werewolves haven't destroyed vampires (or vice versa)?
Werewolf: The Apocalypse has a couple of tribes of urban werewolves: the Glass Walkers and the Bone Gnawers. Plus those members of the Black Spiral Dancers who hang about in Pentex boardrooms or areas ...
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Capturing a sneaky Bane
Our Kaganmadi just encountered a Bane last round, that is sneaky and tries to influence a Bête by whispering to them sneakily. Now we had stopped at a cliffhanger, having found out the following:
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How many gifts can a Werewolf have active at once?
Most gifts have a duration and last until it expires (generally a scene). So, could a werewolf stack gifts like Razor Claws and Luna's Armor?
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Would garou tribes be alright with a kinsfolk joining the Second Inquisition?
Is there anything within specifically 5e lore, that might suggest as to whether different Garou groups who have them, would be alright with homid kinsfolk leaving them to try join the Second ...
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Can totem boons raise characteristics over 5?
Some totems have the power to raise garou's attributes or abilities. However, the rules seem quite tricky and controversial on this issue, depending on the sources you check.
Some say you gain, for ...
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What happens to dead Fomori corpses?
What happens to the physical form of a fomor after it’s dead, according to the WtA rulebooks?
I’m preparing a city-based Werewolf game, so I and the players need to take body disposal into account to ...
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Are there any official adventures for non-werewolf shapeshifters?
I've recently picked up several breedbooks for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. While there appear to be many adventures for werewolves, I'm wondering if there are any intended for use by non-Garou changing ...
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Could an Ananasi actively try to care/have empathy?
Ananasi by default, after their First Change do not care about or possess empathy towards other people, becoming very emotionless and just seeing others as potential pawns and meat.
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Vampire the Masquerade Discipline vs Werewolf Fetish
Recently, in a mixed WoD 20th Anniversary game, we came upon an unexpected problem.
Phoebe's Veil - a level 3 Fetish, Gnosis 7
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Vampire Auspex
While the Veil says, "Neither mundane creatures ...
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What's the equivalent age of a Metis' homid-form after their First Change?
With garou/fera, homid-born tend to have their First Change during adolescence or just after and the animal-born tend to have it as an adult.
So obviously, homid-born would appear the age they are ...
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Can Vampires learn Gifts?
This is more an idle curiosity than a question I'm wondering about to actively use in a game. Reading on the path of enlightenment that Abominations are put onto, one of the Sins was listed as:
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Which of the 21 fictional companies listed as owned by Pentex in Book of the Wyrm are references to real companies?
The Werewolf supplement Book of the Wyrm describes the Pentex Corporation and other Wyrm-tainted stuff. Pages 37-39 (in the first edition) list 21 fictional corporations owned by Pentex.
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Can the rituals in tribe books be taken by anyone?
There are Werewolf: The Apocalypse supplements for each Garou tribe. The Red Talon tribe book (and perhaps others) include new rituals. The text in the rituals section, as well as the description of ...
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What if the players refuse to join the questing pack in the Valkenburg Foundation?
The Werewolf adventure The Valkenburg Foundation begins with the players being asked to join the Questing Pack. Their role in the questing pack is pivotal because it is the mechanism used to feed them ...
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What is "the beast"?
Umbra: The Velvet Shadow, a sourcebook for Werewolf: The Apocalypse, is about 150 pages of information on the various locations within the umbra. Approximately 2 column-inches of that is devoted to "...
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Where do the Bête stand on LGBT issues?
In a recent Werewolf session, our GM had us meet an informant in a gay club, and it raised an issue we never really explored before in this game. Our group of players is composed of people close to ...
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What does Fertile Essence mean for a female Mokolé?
As I was researching the Zhong Lung/Same-Bito connection, I came across a Zhong Lung Flaw that only appeared in the Breed Book 6 - Mokolé:
Fertile Essence (1 point Flaw)
You are filled with life-...
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How to arrange the Werewolf Auspices to the days of a lunar month?
There are 5 Werewolf auspices, each with a "phase":
Ragabash, New Moon
Theurge, Crescent Moon
Philodox, Half Moon
Galliard, Gibbous Moon
Ahroun, Full Moon
How can I sort a full moon phase to each ...
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Kitsune Eji and the Cunning Renown
I am in a long-running game set in the African Ahadi. My character is a Kitsune Eji. Now, in the time we played, we have gathered renown mainly in the Honor and the Glory areas. Cunning isn't really ...
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What happens to shapeshifters born to a different species of animal?
We know that different races of Fera can share kin; in fact, I'll base the rest of the question on the Zhong Lung merit Same-Bito Kin: this allows you to play a Mokolé who is also Kin to Rokea. ...
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What was the name of this Werewolf band?
I remember that there was a Werewolf hard rock or metal band in some pre W20 sourcebook, but I am having trouble finding it again.
I know these pieces of the puzzle:
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Does a lower, reactive Dodge Dice Pool replace the current Pool in W:tA 2nd edition?
Does a lower Dodge Dice Pool introduced via reactive Dodging replace (that is force a recalculation of) the current Pool in Werewolf: the Apocalypse, 2nd edition?
P.226 of the core rulebook says the ...
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Do combatants have to assign dice from their pool to be able to move in combat?
How exactly does combat movement work in Werewolf: The Apocalypse (preferably the game's 2nd edition)?
(Do combatants have to allocate at least one dice from their combat pool - itself being ...
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How can I speed up combat without seriously altering the rules? [closed]
What are some alternate (possibly widely accepted and used homebrew) rules that could help simplify and speed up combat in Werewolf: The Apocalypse, without disrupting the overall game balance?
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How does a spirit escape combat?
How does a spirit escape combat (in the Penumbra without utilizing any specific escape Charms) in Werewolf: the Apocalypse?
What action does it take, and when, what does it roll against what trait or ...
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Page 189 of which Werewolf Players Guide has "guidelines for cross-Gift learning"?
After long contemplation and because I lack access to the book and I don't know which I should track down second-hand, I ask the community:
Hengeyokai (WW 03063, published 1998) references on page 174 ...
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Werewolf: the Apocalypse's (canon) Garou population estimate? [duplicate]
How many Garou are out there according to the canon of Werewolf: the Apocalypse?
I'd like to get as precise data as possible, possibly with a tribal breakdown, from any edition of the game, with ...
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What is the benefit Kitsune have over other Fera when learning Gifts not on their lists?
There's a rules change from the Werewolf: The Apocalypse sourcebook Hengeyokai to the 20th anniversary edition of Werewolf (reference d as W20) that was presented in the supplement Changing Breeds (...
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Can a Garou create a fetish using bones of another Garou?
Recently I started a Werewolf table. A Metis Uktena Theurge wants to have a dagger made from his mother's femur. This fetish would be weak (level 2) and the power is still being discussed.
I know ...
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Corax and the Curse
We have a group of characters (in the oWoD) that stumbled upon a kinfolk played by another player. He now senses the rage of the changing breeds (two garou and a corax), otherwise known as the curse.
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Can the base damage of a Sorcerous Fetish be raised?
In the BNS MET Werewolf book, one of the options for a Fetish is the Sorcerous cantrip, which inflicts a damage of one. Is there any way to raise that damage with Fetish or Equipment Qualities?
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How can a Mage activate a Talen?
I'm running a crossover game and I'd like to reward one of the Mage's with a Talen as he's helped a shifter accomplish their goal.
However Talens require a Gnosis roll to activate them so how can a ...
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