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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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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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Would UV Rounds and Silver Nitrate Rounds be effective on vampires/werewolves?
I'm running a campaign in Vampire: The Masquerade, and I wanted to give the players these two types of ammo (UV Rounds and Silver Nitrate Rounds). Would these two have any effect on the supernatural ...
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How to award Kitsune Renown?
Let me preface my rant by saying this: Our current game is so alternate history and lore that it might as well be considered full homebrew. That said we are using Dark Ages 20th core books where ...
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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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Should Open Seal open electronic locks?
The gift Open Seal states that
The werewolf can open nearly any sort of closed or locked physical
device. A raccoon-spirit teaches this Gift.
RaW it seems to me that there is nothing explicitly ...
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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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Rite of Talisman Dedication, Containers & Pockets
A Werewolf game encountered a little problem coming from the wording of the "Rite of Talisman Dedication", that hasn't really changed since 2nd edition:
Cut to the base effect, one can bind ...
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Pentex African Killer Bees!
Welcome to Pentex Labs! We have everything to destroy nature: Banes, Vampires, Reality Warpers!
Now, my boss wants to weaponize Bees. He wants them to be super deadly, he wants them to destroy cacao -...
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Can these Gifts be used together for a supersonic Swara?
Reading through the W20 Changing Breeds, I realized either the writers overlooked something, I missed something or Swara are ludicrously fast:
Swara can start with Diamon Claws or Impala's Flight [as ...
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Is there a use for 'Replenishment of the Flesh'?
In the W20 Changing Breeds book, on page 66, there's this Anansi gift:
Replenishment of the Flesh (Level Two) — The Ananasi may summon
spiders and insects to join with her flesh, healing her. She ...
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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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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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Temporis and Supernatural beings, what's the effect?
In Vampire Dark Ages 20th Aniversary Edition, Temporis does not specify what is the effect of the ability on supernatural beings (except for the Laquesis Kiss effect on vampires).
For example, would ...
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What's the difficulty to detect Were-beings with Shintao/Kenning?
The Wording for Shentao and Kenning is a little ambiguous and I need a little help here:
Shentao
Much like Kenning, which it replaces, Shentao represents
the innate magical sense common to the Shinma....
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What rules can I use to emulate a W20 Wendigo werewolf with V5 mechanics?
I’m making a scenario using Vampire: The Masquerade Fifth Edition (V5) rules, and I want my players to face a werewolf of the Wendigo tribe, as they're depicted in Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th ...
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What happens when stepping sideways?
Planning a 20A edition OWoD game and creating an ambush from some Garou. Simply put, the old "wait in the Penumbra and go jack-in-the-box when the enemy is in position" gag. So my question is what ...
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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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How does Calm Heart work?
I'm looking at merits for an Ahroun in a city, and Calm Heart is confusing me a little.
Calm Heart (3 pt. Merit)
You remain calm and collected even in the most
trying of circumstances. You ...
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Are there official stats for elementals summoned with Thaumaturgy?
Five-dot Summon Elemental power in the Elemental Mastery Thaumaturgical Path lets a vampire summon an elemental (p. 215 of V20 Corebook):
a salamander (fire), a sylph (air),
a gnome (earth), or ...
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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:
A ...
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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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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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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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How are free points used?
In my translated version of Werewolf The Apocalypse, 20th Anniversary, it reads that the 15 free points on character creation can be used in two different ways:
On page 114, the 15 free points are to ...
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Where are the W20 rules for creating, etc. Den-Realms?
I have searched these books in PDF form:
Werewolf - The Apocalypse (zero hits for "den-realm")
Changing Breeds (25 hits for "den-realm", none dealing with this topic;
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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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Minimum Difficulty for Mother's Touch?
Mother's touch has a sliding difficulty, which uses the current rage, as shown here:
The player spends one Gnosis point and rolls
Intelligence + Empathy (difficulty is the target’s current
Rage, or 5 ...
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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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Stuck by Combat?
Sometimes, luck is just not with one character or another. Other times, it gets worse... Well, let's see:
Our group of 4 was almost ambushed by 6 Fomori. Almost, because there was no surprise round. 3 ...
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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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How does Level come to play with Fetishes?
I do not manage to understand how Level affects Fetishes. The rules (at least those which I have, W20 translated into Spanish) talk about Gnosis several times, but I do not find anything about Level, ...
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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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