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66 Chapter II: Character WEREWOLF TEMPLATE QUICK REFERENCE This reference summarizes the changes that apply to werewolf characters. Use it in conjunction with the summary of character creation on p. 34 of the World of Darkness Rulebook. AUSPICE Choose an auspice under which your character experiences the First Change. There are five auspices from which to select. Rahu (Full Moon): determined, aggressive, warlike Cahalith (Gibbous Moon): passionate, thoughtful, expressive Elodoth (Half Moon): discerning, observant, even-tempered Ithaeur (Crescent Moon): contemplative, foresightful, spiritual Irraka (New Moon): inquisitive, contrary, resourceful SPECIALT Y SKILLS A free Specialty is gained at character creation in one of three Skills based on your character’s auspice, in addition to the standard Specialties available. You must have at least one dot in one of these three Skills to gain an auspice Specialty. There’s no award otherwise. Rahu: Brawl, Intimidation, Survival Cahalith: Crafts, Expression, Persuasion Elodoth: Empathy, Investigation, Politics Ithaeur: Animal Ken, Medicine, Occult Irraka: Larceny, Stealth, Subterfuge TRIBE Choose a tribe to which your character belongs. There are five tribes from which to select. To forsake all tribes is to be a Ghost Wolf. Blood Talons: warriors, defenders, champions Bone Shadows: shaman, wise men and women, seers Hunters in Darkness: stalkers, assassins, guardians Iron Masters: innovators, progressives, improvisers Storm Lords: commanders, aristocracy, alphas Ghost Wolves: loners, outcasts, independents PRIMARY RENOWN The following Renown traits are primary to the listed auspices and tribes. Assign one dot to each primary Renown type for your character’s auspice and tribe, and a third dot to a Renown of your choice. Note that a Ghost Wolf receives Renown for auspice, but not for tribe. Cunning: Irraka and Iron Masters Glory: Cahalith and Blood Talons Honor: Elodoth and Storm Lords Purity: Rahu and Hunters in Darkness Wisdom: Ithaeur and Bone Shadows GIFT LIST S The following Gift lists are affiliated with the auspices and tribes. Choose one Gift from a list associated with your character’s auspice and tribe, and one from a list of your choice. The Father Wolf and Mother Luna lists are also affiliated with all werewolves. Ghost Wolves get one Gift from among their auspice-affiliated lists, one from the common lists and one from any list of the player’s choice. Your highest-dot Gift cannot exceed your character’s highest primary Renown. The only lists from which you cannot choose Gifts are those that are synonymous with auspices other than your own: Full Moon (Rahu), Gibbous Moon (Cahalith), Half Moon (Elodoth), Crescent Moon (Ithaeur) and New Moon (Irraka). Your character’s third Gift at character creation — your free pick from any Gift list — can also be traded for one dot in Rituals, which grants one free one-dot rite from the lists on pp. 147-152. Rahu: Dominance, Full Moon, Strength Blood Talons: Inspiration, Rage, Strength Bone Shadows: Death, Insight, Warding Cahalith: Gibbous Moon, Inspiration, Knowledge Hunters in Darkness: Elemental, Nature, Stealth Iron Masters: Knowledge, Shaping, Technology Elodoth: Half Moon, Insight, Warding Irraka: Evasion, New Moon, Stealth Storm Lords: Dominance, Evasion, Weather Ithaeur: Crescent Moon, Elemental, Shaping PRIMAL URGE A character’s Primal Urge begins at 1, but Merit points may be spent to increase it. ESSENCE A character’s starting Essence points equal Harmony. MERIT S New werewolf Merits include Fetish (• to •••••) and Totem (varies; special). Wolf-Blooded (••••) is a new Merit available to normal human characters, but not to werewolves. EXPERIENCE POINT COST S Trait Cost Attribute New dots x 5 Skill New dots x 3 Skill Specialty 3 Affinity (tribe, auspice or common) New dots x 5 Gift or Rituals Other Gift New dots x 7 Rite Rite dots x 2 Merit* New dots x 2 Totem Merit 3 per dot Primal Urge New dots x 8 Primary (auspice, tribe) Renown New dots x 6 Other Renown New dots x 8 Harmony New dots x 3 Willpower 8 experience points *Not including Totem, which is bought separately.
Urshul and Urhan form? Picture your character as clearly as you can, as it helps you express his image and personality when it comes time to roleplay. The more realistic and interesting other people find your character, the more everyone enjoys the game. THE PRELUDE You don’t have an appointment, but you barge right into your boss’ office. You’ve got a file folder in one hand, trailing printouts, receipts and curling fax papers. You slam it down on his desk triumphantly, and your boss gapes in shock at the intrusion. You’ve figured it out, you tell him. The enormous loss in third-quarter profits last year, the skyrocketing overhead, the jacked-up insurance premiums the company’s been subjected to… it’s all a smokescreen. It’s all on paper and in the computer, but the numbers in the company records don’t match up with the bank’s records or with what the company reported to the IRS. Looking back at all the pay-cuts the company’s had to make and the loss of medical benefits, and matching it against the files and records in the folder, you’ve figured out that the company isn’t in as dire straits as the SEC seems to think. No, someone at the company’s been embezzling. You love the company and you’re furious at how it’s been mistreated, so you offer to personally lead the investigation to root out the criminal. “That won’t be necessary,” your boss says. “You’ve already found him.” What do you do? The prelude in a Storytelling game is similar to Step Eight in the character-creation process. You think about quirks and idiosyncrasies in your character’s behavior, as well as the events in his life that might have determined who he is. You think about how he acts as much as you do about who he is. Now you and the Storyteller go a step further, describing formative scenes in your character’s early life and discussing how he reacts to them. Going through the prelude isn’t mandatory, and experienced players and Storytellers might not find it entirely necessary, but it does serve a beneficial purpose. It provides some crucial opportunities that help fully immerse players and Storytellers in the shared setting they’re about to create and helps the player get comfortable in the role he’s chosen. It lets him try out the quirks he’s come up with and get into the mindset of a seemingly human creature who can change shape and sojourn in the spirit world. The prelude also shows the Storyteller how the player is going to play the character he’s created. If a player has given his character a high Intelligence, for example, the prelude reveals whether that character is a rational, deliberate, careful thinker or a hothead who’s only later able to piece together information coherently. That sort of characterization can make a world of difference in crucial moments during your story, so it’s very important to have a sense of it before play begins. Beyond its ordinary purpose, a prelude offers three significant opportunities. The first is the opportunity to tinker with the character sheet, rearrange dots and recal- culate derived traits. It might be that in the course of the prelude you find that you tend to play your character as a high-strung reactionary, rather than as the sedate intellectual that the dispersal of Mental Attribute dots first implies. If you’re more comfortable playing that way, the Storyteller will probably allow you to take a dot away from your character’s Composure and add it to his Wits instead. It’s also a good idea to have the Storyteller check your math on your character’s derived traits (such as Willpower, Initiative, Speed and Defense), just to make sure that any changes are accounted for accurately. Another important opportunity the prelude presents is delivering background information necessary to the story. Such information includes what year the story is set in, where it takes place, and what’s been happening in the local territories that have led up to current events. Delivering such information in a prelude is common in one-session stories or stories that continue the lives of characters from a previous chronicle. It’s also advisable to summarize important information for new characters, such as who the experienced werewolves are, where the local loci to the spirit world are, and how pervasive the human element is. It isn’t necessary to provide this preliminary information in the prelude, however. The first story or arc of stories in the chronicle could just as easily revolve around the characters’ discovering this information for themselves. Werewolf being a horror game, a certain amount of mystery, paranoia and terrible revelation is perfectly acceptable. The third significant opportunity a prelude provides focuses on the Storyteller. It’s a chance for him to show off his advanced Storytelling capabilities. The prelude is an excellent place to plant symbols or lay out motifs that become increasingly prominent as the chronicle progresses. A story that plays up a sense of confinement to make a point about werewolves being separated from the spirit world might use stop-and-go traffic, velvet-roped queues or literal imprisonment in the prelude to suggest the point. The Storyteller could also engage in foreshadowing. If a recurring antagonist is a sinister Storm Lord, the prelude might feature the rumbling of faraway thunder, or might be set against a backdrop of dreary skies or rain-slicked streets. If he wants to be really tricky, the Storyteller can reflect the core thrust of his entire plot in microcosm through one of the characters’ preludes. Perhaps the jealousy and mistrust a character experiences in a lovers’ spat directly reflects the hidden feelings between two rival pack alphas who have been at each other’s throats since they secretly broke the Oath and conceived a Ghost Child. Perhaps the characters learn a valuable lesson during their initiation that they need to remember at the chronicle’s end as they desperately try to put down a rogue idigam that’s been plaguing them all along. This is not to say that every Storyteller uses the mise-en-scène of his prelude to give away the ending of his chronicle, but the wise player minds the experiences his character has during his prelude, just in case. Character Creation 67
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