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are spent near or with a ritemaster, or he spends time learning
how to strike pacts with spirits as achieved through rote
performances and services. Or, the Storyteller could agree
that your character acquires awareness of such rites in the
downtime of the first days and weeks of your chronicle.
One dot in Rituals grants your character a single a onedot
rite, as chosen from those listed here. More one-dot rites
can be learned during play through the expenditure of experience
points (see p. 247). Your character can know as many
rites as you like, provided you have the required experience
to spend. He cannot, however, know rites with a dot rating
that exceeds his Rituals rating. So, with Rituals •, he cannot
know any two-dot through five-dot rites.
More dots in Rituals can be acquired through play
with experience as if the Rituals trait was a Gift list with
which your character has affinity. New dots are acquired at
a cost of new dots times five (see p. 247). If your character
doesn’t acquire the Rituals trait at character creation, it
can be purchased during the course of the chronicle. Rituals
is considered an “affinity” for all Uratha, so new dots
times five is always spent to increase it with experience
points. Unlike actual Gift lists, your dots in Rituals are
not limited by your Renown. You don’t have to impress the
spirits in order to learn the skills of a ritemaster.
With more dots in the Rituals trait, your character can
learn increasingly powerful rites. Remember, however, that
he can have only one dot of Rituals at character creation.
(Furthermore, only your free pick of Gift can be traded for
Rituals. A tribe-, auspice- or general-affiliation pick — the
last for the tribeless Ghost Wolves — cannot be traded.)
Each time your character acquires a new dot in Rituals,
he gains a new rite of the same value. So, acquiring
Rituals ••• grants him a free three-dot rite.
RITE DESCRIPTIONS
Every rite description comes in three parts: a general
discussion of the performance’s purpose and history (if
known), how the rite is actually performed and the game
mechanics. Most rites have no cost in Essence or Willpower;
for those that do, any invested points are lost if the
rite is disrupted before completion.
Although rites are often very formal in nature, they
are never considered rote actions. Rites that take more
than an instant action to perform may be disrupted. A rite
fails automatically if the practicing werewolf is paralyzed,
grappled, rendered mute or otherwise sufficiently hindered
to break the flow of the performance. Each point of damage
suffered in a turn during the performance of a rite is
a penalty to the next casting roll made. Other factors can
also influence attempts at instant or extended actions.
Teamwork (World of Darkness Rulebook, p. 134) is
possible in performing an extended rite, but only if the assistants
also know the rite in question. Teamwork isn’t possible
on a rite that takes only an instant action. Harmony is
rolled for assistants, with all the relevant modifiers, and successes
achieved for them are added to (or penalties caused