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Chapter II: Character
resolved peacefully, supernatural powers and
capabilities can be brought to bear to decide
which creature prevails.
In this book, Gifts are applied against ordinary
human beings and other werewolves. In those cases,
the rules operate as written. There’s little question
as to what protection a target might have. A
regular person probably has little protection other
than his relevant Resistance Attribute, and another
Uratha has the protection described for the power
in question. For example, a werewolf who’s made
the target of the Loose Tongue Gift has a contested
dice pool composed of Composure + Primal Urge.
Meanwhile, a human target has only his Composure
to apply in a contested roll against a werewolf’s
Manipulation + Persuasion + Wisdom. (After all, an
ordinary person has no Primal Urge.)
So what happens when one of the Forsaken
encounters a supernatural being and is subjected
to the powers that creature wields? How do the
werewolf’s inherent nature or capabilities protect
him? When a contested roll is made to determine
the power’s effects, the werewolf’s relevant
Resistance Attribute + Primal Urge is rolled.
The Resistance Attribute is either the Stamina,
Resolve or Composure. Stamina is used against
powers that have a physical effect, Resolve is
used against powers that have a mental effect,
and Composure is used against powers that have
an emotional effect.
For example, if a mortal mage seeks to
transform your werewolf’s body, roll Stamina +
Primal Urge in a contested action to resist. If a
vampire tries to use the powers of the undead to
alter your character’s mind, roll Resolve + Primal
Urge to resist. If a mysterious creature seeks to
strike terror into your werewolf, roll Composure
+ Primal Urge to resist.
Otherwise, follow all the other rules that
apply to the power used. The main difference is
that the Forsaken benefit from their Primal Urge
in resisting supernatural phenomena.
The Storyteller can invoke this general rule
whenever he confronts your character with monsters
of his own creation — weird beings that might
have never been seen before. Or he can allow you
this kind of contested roll when your Werewolf
chronicle overlaps with Vampire: The Requiem,
Mage: The Awakening or any other Storytelling
game. When the Disciplines, spells or other powers
from those games are turned upon your character,
you know that his inherent potency as Luna’s chosen
may afford him some protection.
Note, however, that such protection doesn’t
apply when no contested roll is allowed against
the power in question. Say the Storyteller rolls
a dice pool to determine the effects of a witch’s
spell cast on your werewolf, and the rules say
your character’s Resolve is simply subtracted
from that pool. In that case, your character’s
Primal Urge is not subtracted from the pool.
Since no contested roll is involved to fight off
the power, your character’s Resistance Attribute
alone applies as a dice-pool penalty.
Be prepared! Just as the Uratha get
special defenses against the powers of other
supernatural entities, so too do those beings
get extra benefits against werewolf Gifts.
When Gifts are combated with contested
rolls, creatures such as vampires and mages
get special dice pools based on their own
otherworldly nature, substituting their own
traits where a werewolf would use Primal Urge.
Their extra protection is addressed in Vampire:
The Requiem, Mage: The Awakening and other
Storytelling games.
CRESCENT MOON GIFT S
The Shadow Realm is a dangerous place of ideas and
knowledge given shape. Charged with the task of deciphering
this knowledge and confronting the dark side of
the spirit world, Ithaeur take special care to explore and
learn as much about the Shadow as they can. The spirits
of the Crescent Moon Choir favor such pursuits, in their
own aloof way. It is up to the People, however, to temper
their intellectual curiosity with restraint, lest a lack of
wisdom lead them into trouble and make an unfavorable
impression on the Ithalunim.
The following Gifts are available only to Ithaeur.
Two-World Eyes (•)
Although they’re creatures of two worlds, the Uratha
can exist fully in only one or the other. They can look from
one to the other or cross the boundary that separates them,
but doing so is still an all-or-nothing proposition. Ithaeur,
however, can peer across the line between worlds without
sacrificing their perception of either. In one eye, the werewolf
sees the physical world, while in the other eye, she sees
what happens in the corresponding area of the Shadow.
The eye that sees the world that the werewolf does not currently
inhabit films over with the deep indigo of the night
sky, lit by pinpoints of starlight.
None of the werewolf’s senses except sight stretch
across the Gauntlet while this Gift is active, but the werewolf
suffers no penalties for having her attention divided.
The effect lasts for as many turns as the player rolls successes.
The presence or influence of a locus has no effect
on the use of this Gift.
Using this Gift does not make characters on the
opposite side of the Gauntlet aware of your character’s
attention. Mundane effects that impair your character’s
eyesight (such as a flashbulb going off in his face, a smoke
grenade occluding the air, or simple darkness) impose the
same penalties while the character’s attention is divided as
they normally would.