Questions tagged [werewolf-the-forsaken]
Werewolf: The Forsaken is a role-playing game set in the new World of Darkness created by White Wolf Game Studio.
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What Makes Idigam Unspeakably Alien in Practice?
From time to time in discussions of the setting, the Idigam are mentioned as these eldritch, unspeakably alien entities from another time. The summary about them says as much, but doesn't go into ...
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What prevents the mass production of fetishes?
From the setting it seems fetishes should be fairly rare. However I'm wondering what is preventing a character with three key rituals: Call Jaffling, Bind Spirit, and Fetish Rite from making a a lot ...
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What options are there to increase the level of a locus in Werewolf the Forsaken 1st edition?
From what I can figure out there is a rule in the appendix about gathering 150 essence to either create or increase the level of a locus. However, there is also a ritual (Drawing down the Shadow) that ...
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Do "natural weapons" count as being unarmed?
One of the Uratha in our pack has the first dot of the Unarmed Defense merit:
From God Machine Chronicles, p65:
Like a Book (*): ... When facing an unarmed opponent and not Dodging, increase your ...
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Is there any penalty for failing to cross the Gauntlet?
If you attempt to cross the Gauntlet (in either direction) and fail the die roll, do you suffer any penalties (beyond staying on your current side of the Gauntlet, obviously). Our Storyteller recalls ...
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What happens if a werewolf attempts to shape change in a tight space or while tied up?
I'm new to NWoD, I've played a bit of VTM and VTR, but my group is looking to play Werewolf the forsaken, I've read through the book a bit and the shape-shifting section, but didn't find an answer to ...
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Cross-training magic between supernatural types
Can supernatural beings other than mages and vampires learn magic? Would others be able to learn thaumaturgy/blood magic, or is that only a vampire thing that other supernaturals cannot learn? I know ...
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How to revert a dramatic failure on "Rite of slaying the truth"?
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I'm playing a ritualist (aspect from Signs of the Moon - SotM) bone shadow ithaeur. Needless to say, I'm very focused on ...
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Confused on role playing [duplicate]
I am new here and I am wanting to start my own vampire and werewolf roleplay game but I honestly don't know how role playing works. Can someone please explain it to me.
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Is the new werewolf spirit sight an automatic identification of Duguthim?
With their new rules werewolves can watch the twilight spirits automatically and see them. Regardless which senses they actually use.
Now my question is though what does that mean if it comes to the ...
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Can I as a mage cast a spell to remove a condition if the condition prohibits me from defying the will of the one causing it?
In my current round an interesting case appeared. I have 2 players 1 being a werewolf and 1 being a mage.
The werewolf thanks to predatory aura put the submissive condition on the mage (and succeeded)...
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Can supernatural beings be possessed and claimed by spirits?
I'm not sure about the spirit rules. Can supernatural beings be claimed or possessed?
(Didn't find any excepiton that says they cannot)
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How to get a Garou out of Death Rage?
From my Storyteller, it seems as though the Death Rage is a permanent state. My question is twofold:
1) Will a Garou ever leave Death Rage naturally? Is it only by healing a certain amount of damage?
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Can a werewolf regenerate lost limbs?
Pretty much see topic. My Storyteller was wondering and I figured I'd look around. I didn't see anything in the book about it specifically though I would figure losing a limb is Aggravated damage so ...
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Is there a Lunar Calendar for Werewolf: The Forsaken?
So we're finding it a bit difficult to determine what parts of the month are each moon phase. I don't need something assigned to a real world calendar, just something that tells what each day in the ...
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What happens to your physical belongings in Twilight and Shadow Realms
There are various spells that let Awakened mages go to the Twilight and Shadow realms. Some of them (Ghost Gate and Spirit Road) open a portal for anyone to step through. Also, werewolves can enter ...
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How does the gift Two-World Eyes work in comparison to Dual Senses?
The Dual Senses rule allows a Werewolf to see across the Gauntlet with two penalties, firstly they cannot see clearly, the vision they get is blurred and fogged. The second penalty is of course not ...
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Which book is all about the Hosts?
I want to know more about the hosts.
The Azlu and the Beshilu.
There is a little about them in Werewolf Core.
A friend told me there was a book that was all about them,
but couldn't recall the name.
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What are the rules for exhaustion?
My players ran up the side of a mountain for about 8 hours. Then proceeded to get in a fight. I can't imagine that more than one of them (we got an athlete), even in wolf form, could possibly be doing ...
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What does the Shining Example Gift actually do?
What does this ability do?
"For the rest of the scene, the werewolf can change a resisted
or contested action (WoD Core p130) into an instant action."
(Full text at bottom).
It sounds ...
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How can a werewolf fly?
How can I make my werewolf fly?
I feel like flying is within scope for things I expect a werewolf to be able to do, given enough XP.
I had thought that Mother Luna's second dot gift "anybeast" could ...
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Does a god machine doorway opening leave behind "spiritual" evidence?
So I had a player taken by an angel through a doorway in the infrastructure, from his home. What I'm wondering is if any of his packmates would be able to find any kind of spiritual change by the ...
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How do you keep track of the Moon?
The current phase of the Moon is slightly important in a werewolf game, how do you keep track of it in your game? this seems more problematic for me because I mostly haven't cared much about how much ...
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How can I understand spirits and the shadow world better?
I don't get spirits and the shadow world, not at like a mechanics level, but at like a conceptual level. I don't understand how the shadow world overlaps ours? how the Uratha are able to interact? ...
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Finding the local Forsaken on a road trip
During a game change I sent one of the players off into a God Machine experiment in New Mexico (See WtF - The Pure). The rest of the pack is now attempting to catch up to him (via details I gave ...
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Death Rage whilst recovering?
If a werewolf gets knocked out, say, over 4-5 dots in a hit. Do they immediately roll for death rage when they heal enough?
Presume this question where you are already in Gauru form, which means you ...
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Would a place of business be gifted along with the territory it's in?
So early in my chronicle I mentioned that a certain local bar (which is a 90% outside bar and very dog friendly) is a werewolf hangout. When the group decided they were going to all play werewolf (...
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Extra Health from Death Rage in Gauru form?
If a werewolf ever suffers a wound that exceeds his
Health dots (it would cause him to go unconscious or start
bleeding to death), and the attack could trigger Death
Rage (say, it’s an ...
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Are there any god machine experience conversion rules for Werewolf?
In lieu of an update book has anyone suggested, or does anyone have suggestions for experience conversion rates for Gifts, Rituals, and Rites?
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Can werewolves detect relics created by strong emotion?
I'm just getting back up to speed on Werewolf, and I'm looking at dropping some relics (Reliquary/Armory Reloaded) in front of a werewolf character. I suspect these things resonate in the spirit world....
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Werewolf: The Forsaken auspice names etymology
Rahu, Cahalith, Elodoth, Ithaeur, Irraka.
Where do these names - of the five auspices found in Werewolf: The Forsaken - come from, IRL? What real world words, terms, languages do they originate in, ...
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How can I do an interesting and engaging siege scenario in Werewolf: The Forsaken?
So, a long time plot arc is coming to a head where the pack has managed to organize all the local packs to undo a wound on the Arizona/Mexico border. Specifically, all the werewolves (about 17 in ...
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Rules for gradual transformation from mortal to template in nWoD?
Are there official / good unofficial rules for the new World of Darkness that would support gradually playing through, over the course of a few stories, the transformation of a PC from mortal to a ...
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How can I balance and blend spotlight time between PCs of different Lodges?
Recently, one of the players in my Werewolf game has taken on the Lodge of Spires, which is effectively "Batman: The Lodge". One of the benefits of this lodge (for those who don't play, consider a ...
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Which NWoD books deal with mortal and kinfolk NPCs in the criminal, law, or political arenas?
I'm running a Werewolf game and, after the pack managed to root out a Bale Hound and make the only other Rahu in the local area stand down, it seems like they want to take the time to handle mortal ...
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What kind of stories could I use for this pack of Uratha?
I'll admit that most of this is trying to plan while working at a call center, but I'm coming up blank. My blog, Gamerwritings.blogspot.com goes into detail about the campaign thus far, but here's ...
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Which rote spell would a Mage detect an Azlu with?
Which rote spell (from the Mage: The Awakening line) would be the most effective and "cost effective" (easiest to learn and cast etc) to reveal an Azlu Crawler (from Werewolf: The Forsaken core and ...
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