House Rules: Werewolf

Werewolf: The Apocalypse is in 20th Anniversary edition! Despite this, the game is still rife with several rules issues and things that need to be dialed back on a multi-sphere game.

Banned Gifts

The following two gifts are simply not allowed, ever. No excuses, and we think ill of you for even asking about them. :P

- Katanka-Sonnak's Spear (Rank 5 Croatan)
- Maddening Howl (Rank 4 White Howler)

Altered Gifts

These gifts are altered from RAW, or clarified. For many these are balance reasons. For others they are clarifications of confusing rules. There are 72 gifts in all that we modify. They are presented here in alphabetical order by gift name.

A Thousand Voices (Rank 2 Wyrm Theurge)

This gift now uses the user's Manipulation + Primal Urge vs the listed difficulties, rather than any pool on the part of the target. The Storyteller should still call for Perception + Alertness at whatever difficulty would be appropriate to detect the phantasms were they real. For every two successes beyond three obtained by the target, the user's successes are reduced by 1, and the report to the target is adjusted accordingly.

Aura of Confidence (Rank 1 Shadow Lord)

Blocks Scent of the True Form, Sense Balance, Sense Wyrm, Sense Magic and Fatal Flaw gifts. Mages require +10 successes on any effect to discern anything about this individuals pattern, the effect reads to a Mage like the user is protected by a very strong sort of Arcane. The Faerie Art of Soothsay will tend to fail against the user. Gifts, powers, or boons that rely on 'reading an opponent for flaws' all fail automatically.

Future Work will Discuss:

Banish Totem (Rank 3 Uktena) Beastmind (Rank 2 Red Talon) Bury The Wolf (Rank 4 Homid) Call The Rust (Rank 3 Bone Gnawer) Control Complex Machine (Rank 3 Glass Walker) Control Simple Machine (Rank 1 Glass Walker) Create Element (Rank 1 Metis) Curse of Hatred (Rank 2 Metis) Curse of Lycaon (Rank 5 Red Talon) Dazzle (Rank 3 Child of Gaia) Dam the Heartflood (Rank 4 Silent Strider) Direct The Storm (Rank 3 Shadow Lord) Dream of a Thousand Cranes (Rank 1 Hakken) Eye of the Cobra (Rank 3 Galliard) Fabric of the Mind (Rank 5 Galliard) Faerie Kin (Rank 3 Fianna) Fangs of Judgement (Rank 1 Philodox) Feral Lobotomy (Rank 5 Theurge) Fetish Doll (Rank 5 Uktena) Fog on the Moor (Rank 5 Fianna) Full Moon's Light (Rank 4 Ahroun) Gorgon's Gaze (Rank 5 Black Fury) Gremlins (Rank 3 Ragabash) Halt The Coward's Flight (Get of Fenris) Head Games (Rank 5 Galliard) Heart Claw (Rank 3 Black Fury) Heart of the Mountain (Rank 4 Get of Fenris) Inspiration (Rank 1 Ahroun) Intrusion (Rank 3 Glass Walker) Jam Tech (Rank 2 Homid or Glass Walker) Jam Weapon (Rank 1 Child of Gaia) Kneel (Rank 2 Black Fury) Laugh of the Hyena (Rank 3 Bone Gnawer) Liar's Craft (Rank 3 Ragabash) Liar's Face (Rank 1 Ragabash) Lightning Reflexes (Rank 1 Get of Fenris) Lover's Touch (Rank 3 Child of Gaia) Madness (Rank 5 Metis) Mindblock (Rank 4 Silver Fang) Open Moon Bridge (Rank 3 Ragabash) Open Seal (Rank 1 Ragabash) Paws of the Newborn Cub (Rank 5 Silver Fang) Plug and Play (Rank 1 Glass Walker) Power Surge (Rank 2 Glass Walker) Pulse of the Prey (Rank 2 Ragabash) Reach The Umbra (Rank 5 Silent Strider) Render Down (Rank 3 Red Talon) Scabwalker Curse (Rank 5 Red Talon) Scent of the Beyond (Rank 4 Philodox) Scent of the True Form (Rank 1 Philodox) Scream of Gaia (Rank 4 Lupus, Get of Fenris, or Wendigo) Scrying (Rank 3 Uktena) Signal Rider (Rank 4 Glass Walker) Sense Magic (Rank 1 Uktena) Sense The Unnatural(Rank 3 Lupus or Silent Strider) Sense Wyrm (Rank 1 Metis or Theurge) Shell (Rank 3 Metis) Silence The Weaver (Rank 3 Lupus) Smell Fear (Rank 1 Wyrm Philodox) Song of the Great Beast(Rank 5 Lupus) Staredown (Rank 2 Homid) Strike The Air (Rank 4 Child of Gaia or Stargazer) Take The True Form (Rank 4 Philodox) Taking The Forgotten (Rank 2 Ragabash) Terror of the Dire Wolf (Rank 4 Lupus) Trackless Waste (Rank 3 Red Talon) Umbral Tether (Rank 1 Theurge) Whelp Body (Rank 4 Ragabash) Wind Claws (Rank 3 Ahroun) Wolf At The Door (Rank 2 Red Talon)