Werewolf: The Apocalypse Corebook — source revision

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• Against the Odds

  Each success restores one Superficial Willpower damage for each pack member, including you.

• Ancestral Conviction

  Add Honor to Persuasion pools against other Garou.

• Animal Magnetism

  Add Glory to Social Skill tests against human subjects.

• Banish Spirit

  Force a possessing spirit present in your realm to leave its host and withdraw into the Umbra.

• Beast's Fealty

  Gain the obedience of one visible animal and communicate commands to it.

• Blissful Ignorance

  Remain motionless and silent to evade sight, cameras, and most spirits.

• Blur of the Milky Eye

  Add Wisdom to Stealth and defenses against physical attacks.

• Break the Shackles

  Look into the subject’s eyes and roar to break supernatural compulsion or mind control.

• Call the Ridden

  Call to spirit-possessed creatures within earshot.

• Closing the Gap

  Move into melee reach of a visible enemy across up to 3 m (about 9.8 ft) per Glory, and still attack that turn.

• Command Spirit

  Command a spirit present in the same realm, winning a new contest for each instruction.

• Command the Gathering

  Become the focus of creatures within sight or hearing, including those who do not understand your language.

• Crow's Laughter

  Target someone who can see and hear you.

• Defy Death

  When your Health becomes completely filled with Aggravated damage, immediately roll Honor.

• Drain Spirit

  Drain a spirit present in your realm.

• Dreamwalk

  Send a spirit into a dream at a known location.

• Ensnare Spirit

  Hold a non-hostile spirit present in your realm and weaken its resistance to your bargaining or commands by two dice.

• Eyes of the Cobra

  Maintain eye contact to draw someone toward you in a trance until within arm’s reach.

• Fangs of Judgement

  Mark a visible enemy who previously harmed a pack member.

• Feral Regression

  A visible target loses one Mental Attribute dot per point of margin, with no Attribute reduced below 0.

• Gaia's Candor

  Ask a question and determine whether the answer matches what the respondent believes.

• Galestalkers

  Persistent hunters who commit themselves to bringing a pursuit to its conclusion.

• Galestalkers — Ban

  Going a day without eating from a fresh kill; the kill need not be the current quarry limits Willpower recovery at the start of the next session to one point, instead of the normal Composure or Resolve-based recovery.

• Galestalkers — Favor

  Add one die to a pool directly concerned with pursuing your prey.

• Gathering for the Departed

  The community honors someone recently lost, often under the guidance of a packmate or Galliard.

• Geas

  Issue a spoken command in the subject’s presence.

• Grasp from Beyond

  Grasp a physical object while crossing the Gauntlet, or while looking into the physical world from the Umbra, to bring it across.

• Gremlins

  Disable a visible device within 5 m (about 16 ft).

• Halt the Coward's Flight

  Howl at a visible target within 50 m (about 164 ft) fleeing you or a packmate.

• Howl of Assembly

  Other Garou who hear your howl and join you recover one Willpower.

• Jam Technology

  Temporarily disable nearby technology according to the successes rolled and the device’s complexity.

• Kiss of Helios

  Ignore ordinary fire and comparable heat damage.

• Living Ward

  Concentrate without taking other actions to ward off spirits within 3 m (about 9.8 ft).

• Luna's Armor

  Whenever fire or silver would inflict Aggravated damage, convert up to Honor of that damage to Superficial.

• Luna's Blessing

  Howl to a visible moon.

• Mindspeak

  Send thoughts to one person, with a two-way exchange if both agree.

• Mother's Touch

  Touch another living being and heal one Superficial Health damage per success.

• North Wind

  North Wind embodies patience and relentless movement. Honor emphasizes being dependable once a course of action has been chosen.

• Oathbreaker's Bane

  Bind a promise made to you in person that the speaker understands and accepts.

• Open Seal

  Open ordinary mechanical locks or bars automatically.

• Porcupine's Reprisal

  After receiving Brawl or Melee damage, inflict Superficial Health damage on the attacker equal to Glory, capped at the damage you just suffered.

• Primal Anger

  Damage yourself to fuel Rage, then roll Glory and gain one Rage per success.

• Pulse of the Prey

  Track someone whose face and name you know.

• Rapid Shift

  Shift without the normal minor-action penalty.

• Razor Claws

  Add half Glory, rounded up, to claw damage.

• Rite of Abjuration

  Drive a possessing spirit out of a person, place, or object; a living subject must consent or be incapacitated.

• Rite of Accomplishment

  A gathering formally recognizes a werewolf’s deeds and standing.

• Rite of Binding

  Bind a spirit to a physical place, object, or person for one week plus one week per point of winning margin.

• Rite of Caern Building

  Prepare throughout a lunar cycle, performing rituals in each phase and restoring the site and its spiritual accommodations.

• Rite of Celebration

  Attempt once per story, after a pack victory.

• Rite of Contrition

  Complete the required penance and make an offering to the offended party, or honor a representation of the spirit.

• Rite of Dedication

  Bind one outfit and small worn ornaments to yourself or another Garou.

• Rite of Kinseeking

  Seek a nascent Garou within approximately a small town or a large city district.

• Rite of Passage

  A prospective Garou or new pack is entrusted with a demanding objective and expected to complete it before returning.

• Rite of Patronage

  All pack members participate.

• Rite of Rage

  Each participant gains one Rage on a success.

• Rite of Shadow Passage

  Open passage through the Gauntlet for the participants.

• Rite of Shame

  Increase the subject’s chagrin penalty to 2 and establish the conditions for atonement.

• Rite of Spirit Summoning

  Perform where the spirit can reach you.

• Rite of the Forgetful Record

  Disrupt existing records concerning the participants, increasing the Difficulty of identifying or locating them through those records by 3.

• Rite of the Living Caern

  Perform at a consistent time each month to maintain a caern’s spiritual vitality.

• Rite of the Shrouded Glen

  For a lunar month, add two dice to efforts to conceal the caern and impose a two-die penalty on attempts to discover it unintentionally.

• Rite of the Whispering Field

  At a caern, attune participants to its bawn for a lunar month.

• Rite of the Winter Wolf

  Some severely injured or aging Garou use this funerary observance to mark a chosen end to their lives.

• Rite of the Wolf Reborn

  Only the target’s packmates may perform this Rite to restore a pack member who has Lost the Wolf.

• Rite of Tranquility

  On success, every participant’s Rage becomes 1.

• Satire Rite

  A public performance criticizes an offender through ridicule.

• Scent of Running Water

  Leave no mundane trail after activation, including footprints, disturbed plants, or biological traces.

• Scent of the Past

  Smell an object or location to learn about past events there.

• Sense Danger

  Add Wisdom to detecting traps, ambushes, and surprise attacks when failure exposes you to immediate danger.

• Sense the True Form

  Smell whether someone is an ordinary human or a different kind of being.

• Shadow Sense

  Detect a nearby supernatural presence without identifying it or locating it precisely.

• Sight from Beyond

  Receive symbolic visions chosen by the Storyteller, or deliberately seek one once per scene.

• Silver Claws

  Your claws inflict silver-based Aggravated damage on other Garou.

• Snarl of Challenge

  Challenge enemies who can see and hear you.

• Song of Inspiration

  Choose a Social or Mental Skill.

• Song of Rage

  Other packmates within earshot gain one Rage, or two on a critical.

• Song of Serenity

  Packmates within earshot lose one Rage, or two on a critical, to a minimum of 1.

• Song of Valor

  Packmates within earshot may spend Willpower to reroll any number of eligible dice instead of only three.

• Spider's Song

  Listen to a long-distance spoken exchange you know is occurring.

• Strength of Purpose

  Roll Honor dice to restore one Superficial Willpower damage per success, or one Aggravated damage per two successes.

• Take the True Form

  Force a shapeshifter to return to its natural form using its normal transformation rules, then prevent further shifting for the winning margin in turns.

• The Thousand Forms

  Assume a mundane animal’s form and senses, retaining Mental Attributes and using the form’s other pools.

• Thieving Talons of the Magpie

  Steal a learned supernatural ability from a visible target after witnessing them use it.

• True Fear

  A target within 5 m (about 16 ft) freezes or attempts to escape in terror.

• Umbral Tether

  Activate as you enter the Umbra.

• Whelp Body

  Affect someone in sight within 5 m (about 16 ft).

• Wind Claws

  Claw attacks bypass mundane armor or damage reduction up to Wisdom.

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