Werewolf: The Forsaken - Blank It

If a werewolf ever suffers a wound that exceeds his
Health dots (it would cause him to go unconscious or start
bleeding to death), and the attack could trigger Death
Rage (say, it’s an exceptional success that inflicts five or
more points of damage), the roll to resist Kuruth is made
before the character is decreed unconscious or down. The
timing of events here is important, because a character
entering Death Rage gets four extra Health dots by virtue
of assuming Gauru form. Those extra Health might allow
him to remain conscious where he would have collapsed
in another form. If the Resolve + Composure roll fails,
the character enters Death Rage and assumes Gauru,
potentially gaining more Health dots if he wasn’t already
in Gauru form. These extra dots might be enough to keep
the character conscious. If the Resolve + Composure roll
succeeds, the character remains under control, remains in
his current form and doesn’t go into Kuruth.
The player may choose to forgo the roll and have his
character automatically fall into Death Rage. This has the
advantage of keeping the character on his feet longer, but
at the loss of control. A wounded character in Death Rage
could get himself into an even more dangerous situation.
SPIRITS AND DEATH RAGE
The Shadow Realm seems to remember the
death of Father Wolf and the rise of the Gauntlet
all too well. Each time a werewolf falls into Ku-
ruth, she echoes the moment of murderous rage
that changed the world forever — and spirits
hate and fear her for it. It drives a greater wedge
between the werewolf (and her pack) and the
spirits of the area.
Although there is no specific rules system
to enforce this phenomenon, the Storyteller
should feel free to play up the fact that each
time a werewolf enters Death Rage in a chapter
or game session, she earns more animosity from
most spirits. Just as the first outburst of Kuruth
separated the Uratha from their spirit kin, the
killing fury of today’s werewolves continues to
mark them as Forsaken.
LUNACY
Human beings have long recognized the power of the
moon to inspire them, to cause them to become contemplative…
and to drive them mad. The Uratha benefit from a
concentrated form of this power derived from their alleged
spiritual mother, Luna. This power wraps around a werewolf
like a cloak, infecting human observers with the same sort
of insanity that causes them to become more violent under
the full moon, to forget what the night led them to do. This
madness — which humans vaguely recognize, as evidenced
by their use of the words “lunatic” and “moonstruck” — is a
weapon and a mask that Uratha use to conceal themselves.
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