Basic Gifts

 

Crescent Moon's Awareness - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift.

• Waxing Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Gnosis

Challenge: Gnosis vs. up to five targets' Willpower

Effect: You heighten the awareness of the spirit world in a group. Garou and other Fera find this experience invigorating -- they are one Trait up on Challenges to step sideways or communicate with spirits. Others find this effect disturbing -- they are one Trait down on all Challenges. Spirits are not affected. These effects are doubled if you are a Theurge.

Duration: One turn for each of your Permanent Gnosis. Double this if you're a Theurge.

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Deep Roots - Wise Heart House Only.

To Learn: Must be a member of the Wise Heart House to learn this gift

Cost: One Physical Trait or One Level of the Survival Ability

Effect: All attempts to move the Silver Fang automatically fail; though they still suffer damage as normal, and if they become incapacitated or killed, the gift ends.  The Garou may still choose to move if they want to, they simply may not be forced to move by others.

Duration: A number of turns equal to their permanent Gnosis

 

Eagle's Beak - House Wyrmfoe Only.

To Learn: You must be House Wyrmfoe to learn this gift.

Required: Spend one full turn screeching at an enemy.

Activation Time: One turn

Cost: One Rage

Effect: Your teeth become as sharp as a raptor's shriek. Your bite does one additional level of Aggravated damage. the user must be engaged in active combat to activate this gift.

Duration: One Scene or Hour

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Empathy

Initial Cost: One Gnosis

Challenge: Mental vs. one or more targets

Retest: Empathy

Followup Cost: 0-2 Mental Traits

Effect: You call on a heightened insight into the desires of others, the better to lead them. Success earns you a simple explanation of your targets' desires: to forgive or to punish, to make peace or make war, etc. Spending one Mental Trait informs you about desires your targets haven't even expressed. You can use this insight to make popular decisions -- although not necessarily good ones.

 

Eyes of the Falcon

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: Your vision sharpens with the acuity of a bird of prey. You gain a two-Trait bonus on all vision-related challenges using the Perceptive Mental Trait (or a synonym). You gain a one-Trait bonus on all ranged attacks.

Duration: One Scene

 

Falcon's Grasp

Cost: One Rage

Effect: Your hands or jaws gain the deadly strength of Falcon's talons or beak. If you spend one Rage, choose either your hands or your jaws; you gain a three-Trait bonus in Physical Challenges where you use the chosen parts in grappling.

Duration: One Scene

 

Full Moon's Cleansing - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift.

• Waning Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Rage

Challenge: For Ahroun, a simple win-or-tie test; for everyone else, Rage vs. the number of scenes they've been in Harano (max. 11)

Retest: Meditation

Effect: You steel yourself against the psychic toll of war. You may ignore the effects of Harano for the duration.

Duration: A number of scenes or hours equal to your permanent Rage

 

Gibbous Moon's Song - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift. To learn it you must defeat a Great Green Cheese spirit (seriously?) in a battle of wits and wordplay, and you may only attempt this once a month.

• Waning Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: The blessing of the gibbous moon makes you more friendly and charming. You gain the Social Traits Charismatic x2, and you gain a free retest on all positive Social Challenges. However this cannot be used for any gift requiring a social challenge. Galliards using this gift gain the social trait 'Charming' in addition to the other traits gained. 

Duration: One Scene

 

Hand Blade - House Wyrmfoe Only.

To Learn: You must be House Wyrmfoe to learn this gift.

Cost: One Rage

Effect: This gift grants 3 bonus traits and deals 3 aggravated damage. You may not use this gift in conjunction with Klaivaskar maneuvers. Gifts that specifically increase claw damage do not increase the damage done with this gift (for example, Razor Claws). However, if the Silver Fang has Silver Claws activated, the hand blade deals silver damage, likewise with Luna's Avenger.  Gifts that increase damage done by natural attacks (such as Kiss of Helios) stack with this gift.

Duration: Until you choose to end the effect

 

Harrier's View - Unbreakable Hearth Only.

To Learn: You must belong to House Unbreakable Hearth to learn this gift.

Cost: One Mental Trait

Effect: This gift grants you an innate awareness of where all your packmates are, relative to you; moreover, this sense helps you command them more effectively. Gain a 2-Trait bonus on your Leadership challenges with them. You and your packmates enjoy a 1-Trait bonus to your Pack Tactics and in relation to any specific plans you made ahead of time. The Pack Alpha MUST present the plan to the Storyteller in advance for the trait bonus, if the plan is not followed as it was designed, the trait bonus is lost.

Duration: One Scene

 

Hidden Meaning - Unbreakable Hearth Only.

To Learn: You must belong to House Unbreakable Hearth to learn this gift.

Required: Listen to your target speaking on a topic for at least a minute

Challenge: Mental vs. target

Retest: Empathy

Effect: You gain an uncanny sense of a target's unspoken concerns. Ask your target OOC "What worries your character most?" about the topic they've been addressing. They must give you an OOC answer, and you gain a clear IC sense of that response.

 

Ice Dance

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: Hearkening back to the tribe's frozen Russian roots, you can move across snow and/or ice with no penalties. You gain a one-Trait bonus to all Physical Challenges you make while standing on these surfaces. This Gift is especially effective for half-moons: if you're a Philodox, you enjoy a two-Trait bonus instead, and you double your speed across snow and ice.

Duration: One Scene

 

Lambent Flame

Cost: One Willpower

Effect: Your aura ignites with an intense silver light, bright enough to illuminate everything within a hundred feet of you. Enemies fighting you hand-to-hand suffer a one-Trait penalty from the glare, but you also become a clear target: foes making ranged attacks on you enjoy a one-Trait bonus.

Duration: One Scene

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Locate Spirit Tutor - House Wise Heart Only.

To Learn: You must be a member of House Wise Heart to learn this gift.

Required: You are in the Umbra

Challenge: Mental Vs Storyteller difficulty 10.

Cost: One Willpower

Effect: Spending a moment meditating for guidance, you gain a sense of where to find the nearest spirit that can teach a particular Gift you have in mind.

 

Luna’s Armor

Frequency: Once per scene

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: You invoke Luna's light to protect you from your enemies' attacks. You gain a number of Armor levels equal to your Rank plus one. While this Armor is intact, you do not take additional damage from silver weapons.

Armor Type: Barrier

Duration: Once per Scene.

 

New Moon's Laughter - Moon Lodge Only.

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift.

• Waxing Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: By gently reminding everyone about good behavior, you grant a one-Trait bonus to all positive Social Challenges and a one-Trait penalty to all negative or hurtful Social Challenges. If you're a Ragabash, these effects are doubled.

Duration: One Scene

 

Paralyzing Stare

Requirement: Your target must be able to see your eyes and facial expression.

Cost: One Gnosis

Challenge: Social vs. target

Retest: Intimidation

Effect: One glimpse of your terrifying visage freezes your target in place, unable to move, for the duration. 

Duration: A number of turns equal to your permanent Gnosis, or until the target takes damage.

 

Sense Wyrm

Challenge: Mental vs. Storyteller difficulty based on intensity of Wyrm influence (high intensity is low difficulty, low intensity is high difficulty)

Retest: Occult or Investigation

Effect: A mystical sense not unlike a scent tells you whether the Wyrm has corrupted anything in the area. This "Wyrm-Taint" may mean there is an enemy nearby, or it may simply mean that an innocent bystander ate Wyrm-manufactured food or works at a spite-filled office.

 

Truce of Helios - Sun Lodge Only

To Learn: Must be a member of the Lodge of the Sun

Required: Both sides must agree to a truce

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: In order to activate this Gift, the Garou must openly propose a truce that the other side(s) in a dispute agree to accept; if this condition is met, the Garou makes the expenditure to spiritually enforce the conditions of the peace for all present. During the following negotiations, those who seek to attack the speakers, outright ignore them or otherwise disrupt the proceedings must first defeat the Garou in a Social Challenge (retest Leadership). Garou who violate the truce in this manner lose a point of Honor, unless there are extreme circumstances. If the user of this gift violates the truce, they always lose the point of Honor, regardless of what caused them to do so; in addition, this Gift will never function again for those who see the user violate the truce. It should be noted that while those present are forbidden from attacking each other, as part of the truce, they are still able to defend themselves from sudden attacks or outside threats without losing Honor.

Duration: One Day or One Negotiation

Word of Honor

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: As long as you speak the truth as you know it, anyone hearing your words will automatically believe your words to be true. This applies only to matters of fact ("I was with a friend at the time of the murder"), not to matters of opinion ("that man deserves death for his crimes"). If you attempt to lie, omit important details, or hide the truth in any way, the gift backfires, and every listener knows you are lying or hiding something.

Duration: One scene

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Intermediate Gifts

 

Crescent Moon Fata - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift. You must defeat a spider or firefly Jaggling of Moira in gamecraft to learn it, and may only attempt once each month; if you fail, you lose three Gnosis.

• Waning Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: Ten minutes of uninterrupted meditation

Challenge: A number of Mental Challenges equal to your Enigmas, vs. nine Traits (or seven if you're a Theurge)

Retest: Enigmas

Effect: You have discovered the ability to examine the very threads of fate themselves. Each success allows you to learn one minute of the future (in cryptic riddles) or one hour of the past for one individual.

 

Gibbous Moon's Understanding - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift.

• Waxing Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Social Trait -- and if you're not a Galliard, one Rage as well.

Effect: Your voice cuts through any noise of battle, carrying your words clearly to your allies' ears, as long as they are within ordinary earshot.

Duration: Until the battle is over, or one hour, whichever comes first

 

Half Moon's Diplomacy - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift.

• Waxing Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Required: You are participating in a discussion or debate

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: Upon activating this Gift, everyone in the debate must fall silent for five seconds. Thereafter, nobody can say anything inflammatory, tactless or disrespectful unless they first succeed in a static Willpower Challenge vs. five Traits (no retest). If you (the gift-user) are a Philodox, the difficulty is seven Traits instead, and you may force the Garou to retest it (once per Challenge).

Duration: Until the discussion or debate is over

 

Half Moon Mnemonics - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift.

• Waning Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: You affix the present minute in your memory, making yourself able to recall it later with perfect clarity. You may only keep a number of such memories equal to your permanent Gnosis.

Duration: Forever, unless you discard the memory in favor of another.

 

Ignore Wound

Required: You're about to suffer the effects of losing one combat Challenge.

Activation Time: At will

Frequency: Once per scene

Cost: One Willpower

Effect: Rather than suffer the effects of a terrible wound in battle, you grit your teeth and fight on. You ignore the effect of one combat Challenge you just lost.

 

Mastery

Challenge: Social vs. target Garou

Retest: Leadership

Followup Cost: 0-5 Mental Traits

Effect: You deliver commands with such force as to compel obedience in a Garou target (and only in a Garou target). Your target immediately complies with one non-suicidal order for the duration.

Duration: One turn, plus an additional turn for each Mental Trait you spent

 

Mindblock

Effect: You maintain peak mental defenses -- perhaps as compensation for certain mental weaknesses. Against all efforts to attack or control your mind (e.g., mind reading, possession, mental illusions) you defend with a three-Trait bonus to your Mental Traits, or ten Traits, whichever is higher. Mindblock offers no protection against powers that perceive or affect your emotions.

Duration: Always in effect

 

Reasons Grasp

Once learned this gift is always active.

Effect: The burdens of leadership express themselves in the psychological "quirks" suffered by the Silver Fang Tribe, but this Gift offers a respite from those burdens.  Once learned this gift is always active. The user gains an additional retest on attempts to resist the activation of a derangement or against sanity altering powers.

 

Roll Over

Frequency: This gift is specially subject to the five-minute rule (i.e., if it fails, you cannot attempt it against the same target until five in-game minutes have passed).

Challenge: Social vs. target, and possible Rage vs. target.

Retest: Intimidation, and possible Primal urge.

Effect: Bearing down on your target with an irresistible force of will, you compel them to submit. For the duration, your target may take no action other than submission to you unless they are directly endangered.

If the target is in frenzy, there may be a follow-up Rage-based challenge (using current Rage) to pull the target out of frenzy. The only retest that can be used is Primal urge, representing the primal dominance.

Duration: One scene or hour

 

Silver Claws

Required: A form with claws

Challenge: Gnosis vs. 6 Traits

Retest: Occult

Effect: Calling on Luna's power, you transform your claws to silver, which inflicts an extra level of Aggravated damage to any creature vulnerable to the moon's metal. In addition, the searing pain gives you one Rage each turn and inflicts a one-Trait penalty on all non-combat Challenges. If your Rage ever exceeds your Willpower, you must test for Frenzy.

Duration: One scene, or until you end the effect

 

Talons of Falcon

Required: Make a claw attack, screeching like a falcon.

Activation Time: At will in conjunction with a claw attack

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: You strike with a Falcon's deadly power. If your claw attack connects (use standard combat challenges), you deal two Aggravated damage in addition to whatever damage your claws deal. Talons of Falcon does not stack with any other Gift that enhances claw damage, such as Razor Claws or Silver Claws.

Duration: One attack

 

Wrath of Gaia

Cost: One Gnosis

Challenge: Social vs. Storyteller difficulty (based on the Wyrm-minions present)

Retest: Intimidation

Effect: You manifest a magnificent supernatural glory that terrifies all creatures of the Wyrm. Wyrm-creatures within line of sight must succeed in a Willpower Challenge or immediately flee. Those that manage to remain must succeed in a second such Willpower Challenge in order to commence attacking you. The number of Targets effected equal to the gift users perminent willpower. The gift targets the closest enemies first.

Duration: One Scene

 

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Advanced Gifts

 

Full Moon's Wrath - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift. You must defeat nine Jagglings of Falcon in one night of battle under a full moon to learn it.

• Waxing Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Rage and one Gnosis (yes, this is an exception)

Challenge: A number of tests equal to your current Gnosis; a win is a success, and a tie is only a success if you're an Ahroun

Retest: Leadership

Effect: For each success in the challenge, you summon one of the Jagglings of Falcon you defeated. They attack your foes on your behalf.

Duration: Each Jaggling departs when its target is defeated, when you die, or when the battle ends, whichever comes first.

 

Luna's Avenger

Activation Time: One full turn of concentration

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: You transmute your body into living silver, the metal of Luna, the better to destroy the enemies of her sister Gaia. You gain the Traits Tough x2 and an additional Healthy Health Level. All brawling damage you inflict against Garou (and other silver-vulnerable Fera) becomes Aggravated damage. You are immune to the effects of silver yourself. Whenever your attacks connect, make a followup win-or-tie Simple Test to inflict an additional level of Aggravated damage.

Duration: One Scene

 

New Moon Legerdemain - Moon Lodge Only

To Learn: You must be a member of the Moon Lodge to learn this gift, and also complete a great quest in Luna's name, sacrificing one permanent Gnosis.

• Waning Cycle Gift: Moon Lodge members must master all Gifts in one Cycle (Waning or Waxing) before they can learn any of the other.

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: You have a small crowd of Luna's trickster-spirits bound to you. They are usually dormant, but when you wake them with Gnosis, they come awake and begin making trouble in the area. All your enemies in the area are at a one-Trait penalty to all their challenges; any challenge directly against you is at a two-Trait penalty. If there are no enemies nearby, the spirits will amuse themselves with annoying but harmless tricks against your friends and allies. You can lull them back to sleep by singing a lullaby and spending a Gnosis.

Duration: A number of scenes equal to your permanent Gnosis

 

Paws of the Newborn Cub

Required: You snarl and glare at an opponent.

Cost: One Gnosis

Challenge: Gnosis vs. the target's Willpower

Retest: Intimidation

Effect: Your displeasure tears through your target's very essence, forcing it briefly to lose all its supernatural powers: shapeshifting, Gifts, Disciplines, Spheres, etc. Shape-shifted targets revert to their natural breed form. All mundane Traits and Abilities remain.

Duration: One turn

 

Secret of Gaia

Cost: One Gnosis

Effect: You attune yourself to a secret whispered to the first ancestor of all Garou, the great white wolf who sacrificed himself for Gaia's sake. That secret brings you close to the heart of Gaia, like so:

• • You gain a two-Trait bonus to all tests to cross the Gauntlet;

  • You can automatically see and communicate with all local spirits;

  • You gain a three-Trait bonus on all tests involving the Perceptive Trait (or synonyms);

  • You gain a free retest in all of your dealings with Gaian spirits; and

  • You are automatically aware of all local changes to the Umbrascape.

Duration: One Turn per perminent level of Gnosis