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lists include Half Moon, Insight, Death and Warding)
seeks to learn a Weather Gift, it costs extra experience
points because it’s not connected to her auspice or tribe,
and it’s not on one of the “common” lists.
There is no limit to the sheer number of Gifts a werewolf
can know. If you want to spend the experience, and
your character can appease the appropriate spirit, she can
acquire a new Gift. Learning a Gift takes very little time
compared to learning a new Skill or Fighting Style Merit.
It takes about an hour per level of the Gift. Learning time
is often offset, however, by the time required to perform
the tasks a spirit teacher asks in return for its favor.
Your character does not have to learn the Gifts of a
given list sequentially, either. An Ithaeur may have the
three-dot Ithaeur Gift: Gauntlet Cloak without first learning
the two-dot Gift: Read Spirit, as long as her highest
primary Renown is at least 3.
Your character might learn a new Gift without knowing
its predecessors on a list when one of her Renown
traits is increased. Say her Wisdom Renown is increased
from 2 to 3. That means she gets a three-dot Gift from
one of her auspice- or tribe-affiliated lists, too. Maybe the
player decides to take the three-dot Gift from the Warding
list, but her character doesn’t currently have any Gifts
from that list. That’s fine. She gains the three-dot power
without the • or ••.
Another way to learn Gifts in a list without knowing
their predecessors is with experience points. In this
case, the experience cost is simply higher than normal.
When your character learns a Gift without first learning
all those of lower level in the list, the cost to learn the
new Gift increases by three experience points per Gift
that is skipped. Therefore, learning a four-dot Gift from an
auspice or tribal affinity list without first learning the appropriate
two-dot and three-dot Gifts costs 26 experience
points instead of the usual 20. Similarly, if a four-dot Gift
is learned from a list that’s not affiliated with auspice or
tribe (or that is not from one of the common lists) while
skipping the first three Gifts on the list, the Gift costs 37
experience points instead of 28.
Skipping dots in a Gift list does not allow you to
ignore your character’s highest primary Renown trait. If
your character’s highest primary Renown is 4, he can’t skip
ahead to a five-dot Gift in any list.
No Gifts can be skipped at character creation to learn
ones of higher level. They must be taken sequentially by
starting characters.
The Gift lists presented here should not be considered
the only ones in existence. These are simply the most
common. Storytellers may design their own Gift lists or
approve lists designed by players.
USING GIFT S
The basic system for using a Gift is a bit different from
the standard dice-pool mechanic. The Attribute that governs
a certain Gift’s use is included in the system subsection
of the Gift’s description. In conjunction with that Attribute
is a specific Skill that lends finesse or emphasis to the
power. Note that Gifts that rely on a Physical or Social Skill
are at –1 when the user lacks that Skill, while Gifts that rely
on a Mental Skill are at –3 when the user is untrained.
Additionally, your character’s Renown traits add dice
to a pool. The result is a dice pool composed of three traits
instead of the usual two for mundane tasks. For example,
the first Gift in this chapter is Two-World Eyes, of the
Crescent Moon list. The power lists Wits as its requisite
Attribute, Occult as its requisite Skill and Wisdom as the
Renown trait pertinent to it. If a character has Wits 2,
Occult 3 and Wisdom 4, his player rolls nine dice to determine
the margin of success of using Two-World Eyes.
Other information contained in the system subsection
includes the following:
• Trait costs, if any, such as Essence or Willpower
expenditures. If a point of Essence or Willpower is spent
to activate a Gift and the activation roll (if any) fails, the
point is still lost though the activation fails.
• Bonuses or penalties to dice pools based on circumstance.
These lists are not exhaustive, just a few commonly
encountered situations that a character using the Gift might
experience. As always, the Storyteller is free to modify these
circumstances in any additional ways he sees fit.
• Other specific details that need to be described in
game terms.
Suggested Modifiers for Gift Use
Modifier Situation
+2 In the area of influence of a powerful locus
(rated ••••+)
+1 In the area of influence of a locus (rated • to •••)
+1 Character’s auspice moon is in the sky
–1 Character has a wound marked in third to last
Health box
–1 Local spirits are actively hostile to Gift user
–1 In the presence of a werewolf in Death Rage
–2 Character has a wound marked in second to last
Health box
–2 Afflicted with powerful sensory stimuli
(deafening noise, powerful stench, etc.)
–3 Character is in a Barren
–3 Character has a wound marked in last Health box
–4 In the middle of a hurricane
–5 Bound and gagged with silver manacles (Gifts
that require a specific action or ability to speak
are impossible)
SUPERNATURAL CONFLICT
It’s inevitable that werewolves come in
contact with the other terrifying and bizarre
denizens of the World of Darkness. The Forsaken
might clash with vampires, mages or
stranger things. When such contact can’t be
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