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Would UV Rounds and Silver Nitrate Rounds be effective on vampires/werewolves?
In the classic WoD, both of these is most certainly a NO:
The quick talk:
Werewolf made clear that only pure, metalic silver does aggravated damage. Silver Alloys? Nope. Silver salts? No. And then ...
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On Werewolves and Plastic Surgery
Let's start!
Plastic Surgery
The normal procedure for an operation is: put the patient under anesthetics (total or partial), then do the operation with steel instruments, sew closed, let it heal. At ...
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Can a hybrid Metis be born of parents of different Changing Breeds? If so, what happens?
No. Just No.
You can not be a Metis that is of two different Changing breeds. That's simply not allowed at all. You are either a Metis Garou or a Metis Ratkin. You are not a Hybrid.
Coupling between ...
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How would a Garou missing an arm affect its stats?
There's a flaw in W20, p474 in my book
One Arm (3 pt. Flaw)
You were either born with only one arm or lost
your arm through an injury of some sort. You suffer no
secondary-hand penalty, since you ...
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Should Open Seal open electronic locks?
Took me some time to reach the gaming store to browse the book, but here you go...
System: The player rolls Gnosis (difficulty of the local Gauntlet rating).
Since places where an electronic lock ...
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Werewolves in space?
I haven't found any rules in W:TA which address the physical realities of being in space. However, there are some sections that describe how to deal with the spiritual world. I'm also sticking to the ...
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Is there a full-text version of the Litany?
No
Wikipedia includes a list of Werewolf books. My collection includes most of them. Although I read through the books that seemed most appropriate, and didn't find anything that looked like the text ...
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How to award Kitsune Renown?
Hengeyokai - Shapeshifters of the East has a more extensive answer. See p174
Toku
I command you to aid your brothers, your sisters, and that which serves Gaia.
Honor, Toku is about being a good ...
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How many gifts can a Werewolf have active at once?
There is no limit.
I've just read over the rules for Gifts in W20, and there does not seem to be any mention of a limit on the number of Gifts a werewolf can use at once. However, many Gifts require ...
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Should Open Seal open electronic locks?
As long as the lock is physical
Open Seal is a little nifty trick that makes a "closed or locked physical device" operate itself to the open or unlocked state. It does not differentiate ...
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Temporis and Supernatural beings, what's the effect?
In general, this depends on your style as GM. There is no set rule for this because White Wolf has no specific rules on the interaction between the different rulebooks.
You could houserule it in a ...
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What happens when stepping sideways?
Page 309 of the Corebook.
System: To step sideways, a werewolf needs to meditate
on a highly reflective surface, such as a clear pool of
water or a mirror. When a character attempts this, roll
that ...
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Can a hybrid Metis be born of parents of different Changing Breeds? If so, what happens?
Mechanically, no. In-universe, possibly.
So, there are no rules for belonging to two different Changing Breeds - but just because you won't be both a wererat and a werewolf simultaneously doesn't mean ...
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Rite of Talisman Dedication, Containers & Pockets
W20
The cost is one Gnosis point per object dedicated, and a character may never have more objects bound to himself than his Gnosis score. Conceptually linked groups of objects may count as a single ...
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What is the benefit Kitsune have over other Fera when learning Gifts not on their lists?
Actual benefit of Kitsune
The paragraph you quoted from W20 Changing Breeds says that:
Kitsune can "learn potent Gifts of their own", without a teacher.
Kitsune can "learn the Gifts of other ...
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What happens to shapeshifters born to a different species of animal?
What do the Books say?
There is no mention of this in the 20th Anniversary Edition, nor the Changing Breeds belonging to it has this meritW20CB p207.
The Hengeyokai, that gave us so much about Same-...
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What happens to dead Fomori corpses?
The Werewolf: The Apocalypse Fianna tribebook (page 18-19) has a section describing the Fomori Wars, in which the Fianna battled fomori. This section explicitly describes fomori leaving corpses:
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How to award Kitsune Renown?
Renown is among the Bête!
Renown is generally not how the spirits look at you, renown is how your peers know of you. They might have heard of your cunning or your honor or glory.
When it comes to ...
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Pentex African Killer Bees!
The Mage alone is capable of making bees with addictive honey.
Simply put, all they need to do is take a Life 3 emotion manipulation effect, put it into a Charm with Prime 2, and then lock the charm-...
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On Werewolves and Plastic Surgery
Implants are totally possible.
See p15 of changing ways.
More invasive body modification is a bit trickier, but
entirely possible, and indeed often a mainstay of Garou
culture. Warriors pierce ...
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Kitsune Eji and the Cunning Renown
This is one symptom of a few problems.
1) Some of your explanations suggest your Storyteller isn't giving your character a chance to shine, and is even negligently preventing you from participating....
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Can these Gifts be used together for a supersonic Swara?
Yes, it's legit.
After reading the books and doing the math, we have the fastest shapechanger around. I would not be surprised if this was overlooked but even if it wasn't, you can only achieve that ...
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What happens when stepping sideways?
Are there any sensory cues (within the Umbra)?
There's a whole section on peeking from the Umbra to the Earth and vice versa, see p313 of the 20th anniversary rules:
Peeking
A Garou in the ...
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How does Calm Heart work?
This indeed sounds like an error reprinted from V20 series. Since there is no official errata that I know about, I've found the same merit in Werewolf Player guide (this is also how it is described in ...
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Are there official stats for elementals summoned with Thaumaturgy?
(The stats that I decided to use are at the end of the answer, right after the reasoning)
After consulting my friend who is a veteran WoD player, who suggested to look for the answer in Werewolves ...
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In Werewolf W20, how does dice splitting work with no-roll Gift activation?
Using a Gift normally takes an action. From pg 232:
Using a Gift, “accidentally” stabbing a challenger in the gut with
your klaive, hiding while watching two of your packmates breaking the
Litany, ...
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Where are the W20 rules for creating, etc. Den-Realms?
What you got is all there is in W20!
The Changing Breeds always had been the "offshoot" of the Werewolf game, and the one book is almost all they got in W20. The best information you get is ...
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How would a Garou missing an arm affect its stats?
Missing limbs or sensory organs appear at multiple spots in the rules!
There are two places where missing or defective limbs show up in the rules.
Flaw
The One Arm Flaw for 3 points, as identified by ...
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Stuck by Combat?
It's a problem of your storyteller.
As you made clear, they don't have the authority to change the rules, so them changing the rules is naughty.
Talk to them about how to handle combat as a face
...
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What combat implications has this proposed alternative initiative rundown?
You're removing the ST's ability to make enemies react to player actions, but that might actually be a plus.
Well, at least as far as time-in-combat goes. The general purpose of most ST/GM opposition ...
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