Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

Dice Pool: Strength + Brawl + Glory
Action: Reflexive
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The werewolf wrenches his jaws in
his enthusiasm to shed blood and inflicts a point of bashing
damage upon himself.
Failure: The werewolf inflicts no damage at all upon
his victim and does not adversely affect the victim’s efforts to
break free or perform an overpowering maneuver of his own.
Success: Damage is doubled and the victim suffers
a penalty on his next effort to break free or perform a
maneuver of his own.
Exceptional Success: The damage of the werewolf’s
bite is doubled, and the shock automatically renders the
victim immobile for his next action. All the victim can
do is try to break free (no overpowering maneuvers of his
own are possible), and he still suffers a penalty equal to
the successes rolled in the bite. The werewolf need not
actually maintain this immobilization. He can continue
biting or performing other maneuvers.
Rage Armor (••••)
The natural resilience and rapid regeneration that the
Forsaken have inherited makes werewolves daunting foes.
Using this Gift, however, makes Full Moons even more fearsome
than their brothers and sisters. With a blood-curdling
howl to Luna, the werewolf tempers his flesh with the fire of
his Rage and renders himself nigh indestructible for a short
time. When he does so, his eyes glow the deep amber of the
harvest moon, and a faint distortion makes the air around
him waver as his inner fire burns close to the surface.
Cost: 1 Essence
Dice Pool: Stamina + Survival + Honor
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The werewolf mistakenly believes
that he’s well protected, which makes him careless. Not
only does he fail to gain the Armor, he loses his Defense
for the first turn of combat.
Failure: The werewolf gains no Armor.
Success: The werewolf gains a point of Armor for
every two successes rolled, with remainders ignored. It
protects against physical attacks and firearms equally, but
not against silver. Attacks made with silver weapons or
silver bullets ignore the effects of this Gift and still cause
aggravated damage. The effect lasts for a number of turns
equal to the character’s Primal Urge dots.
Exceptional Success: No special benefit other than a
high Armor rating.
Luna’s Fury (•••••)
A werewolf who Rages against his opponent is dangerous.
A werewolf who loses himself in the heat of battle
is even more fearsome. A werewolf who makes himself
a vessel for Luna’s own fury, however, is truly a terror to
behold. A shaft of pure white light lances down from the
heavens to bathe the Forsaken in its radiance before the
werewolf unleashes a whirlwind of destruction, his eyes,
fangs and claws blazing with white fire.
Cost: 1 Essence per turn
Dice Pool: Dexterity + Empathy + Cunning
Action: Instant
Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: The werewolf receives no benefit,
and instead loses his Defense modifier for the next turn of
combat.
Failure: No benefit; no penalty.
Success: Each success rolled keeps the Gift active for
one turn, though the player must pay one point of Essence
per turn as well. While the Gift is active, the werewolf
receives the benefit of a dodge for purposes of protection,
as well as the benefit of an all-out attack (see World of
Darkness Rulebook, pp. 156 and 157) for purposes of
offense. That is, his Defense doubles against incoming
close-combat attacks, and two dice are added to his own
close-combat attacks. (Normally, dodging precludes all
other actions in a turn, but this Gift allows attacks to
be staged normally at the same time.) The werewolf can
activate no other Gifts while this one is active.
Exceptional Success: Doubled Defense also applies
against incoming Firearms attacks while the Gift is active.
GIBBOUS MOON GIFT S
It is the Cahalith’s task to see that that glory never
dies. The Cahalunim Choir grants its werewolves Gifts
that help inspire great deeds and surmount dangerous
challenges, the stuff of legends. There’s a hard line between
glory and vainglory, however, and a Cahalith must
respect it.
The following Gifts are available only to Cahalith.
Pack Awareness (•)
When a pack goes into battle, its Rahu might lose
himself in the fury of the fight, while the Irraka moves out
to strike from the flanks, but the Cahalith must keep an
eye on all her packmates. It’s her voice that sounds when
a packmate is wounded, or that rallies members when
they’re badly pressed. This Gift grants the Cahalith an
intense sense of her pack’s welfare, so that she can make
sure none are beyond the reach of her voice.
When a werewolf invokes this Gift, she immediately
gets a general sense of where her packmates are in relation
to her, as well as a sense of their state of being. Allies
might be “to the left about 30 yards” or “on the next floor
of the building.” She also learns what form each packmate
is in, as well as what general activity each is performing.
Examples of the last include “fighting,” “waiting,” “moving,”
“sleeping,” “fleeing,” “frenzying” or “having sex.”
Finally, the Cahalith can tell when a packmate is suffering
wound penalties or has fallen unconscious from wounds
(which is different from simply being asleep for the purposes
of this Gift).
Gibbous Moon Gifts
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