Gaia's Call House Rules

General and Creation Rules:

Character Creation Points

Characters are awarded 60 points at character creation. These are not experience points (XP) and may follow the discounted costs and rules of character creation.

Disallowed Merits and Flaws

Destiny, Fast Learner, Friend of Sorcery, Guardian Angel, Language, Mercury Midsky, Ratkin Buddies, Reputation (sept based), Throwback, True Faith, Winter Garou, Phantom Mask, Unnoticed. Any merit labeled as Ties, Nightclub, Mansion, or Corporate CEO are disallowed as they are covered in Resources and Influence. All non-Garou and non-Changing Breeds specific Merits and Flaws are ST approval.

Additional Rules that apply to sets of Merits/Flaws

● Red Book Merits that duplicate tribal advantages may not be taken by characters of that tribe.

● Anything from Rage Across the Heavens will require ST approval.

● Only one Aptitude applies per challenge.

Rank at Character Creation

Rank 0 No Additional Cost

Rank 1 No Additional Cost

Rank 2 ST Approval and must submit background at character generation. Must pay in XP as

much renown as required to hit Rank 2 for their Auspice. (i.e. a Ragabash Fostern would

cost an additional 4xp at character creation)

Rare and Unusual Characters

If you would like to play an R&U character, you must submit a request to the ST staff, which includes

your proposed character sheet and background. R&U listings can be found on owbn.net.

Tempers

The cost of tempers at character creation is as follows:

Rage 1xp per

Willpower 1xp per

Gnosis 2xp per

Character Creation Gifts

The following gifts from LOTWR and W20 are allowed as starting gifts (tribe books also allowed depending on gift):

Breed

Homid: Apecraft’s Blessing, City Running, Master of Fire, Persuasion, Smell of Man

Lupus: Hare’s Leap, Heightened Senses, Predator’s Arsenal, Prey Mind, Sense Prey

Metis: Create Element, Primal Anger, Rat Head, Sense Wyrm, Shed

Auspice

Ragabash: Blur of the Milky Eye, Infectious Laughter, Liar’s Face, Open Seal, Scent of Running

Water

Theurge: Mother’s Touch, Sense Wyrm, Spirit Snare, Spirit Speech, Umbral Tether

Philodox: Fangs of Judgment, Persuasion, Resist Pain, Scent of the True Form, Truth of Gaia

Galliard: Beast Speech, Call of the Wyld, Heightened Senses, Mindspeak, Perfect Recall

Ahroun: Falling Touch, Inspiration, Pack Tactics, Razor Claws, Spur Claws

Tribe

Black Fury: Breath of the Wyld, Man Skin, Heightened Senses, Sense Wyrm, Wyld Resurgence

Bone Gnawer: Cooking, Desperate Strength, Resist Toxin, Scent of Sweet Honey, Trash is Treasure, Tagalong

Child of Gaia: Brother’s Scent, Jam Weapon, Mercy, Mother’s Touch, Resist Pain

Fianna Faerie: Light, Hare’s Leap, Persuasion, Resist Toxin, Two Tongues

Get of Fenris: Lightning Reflexes, Master of Fire, Razor Claws, Resist Pain, Visage of Fenris, Snarl of the Predator

Glass Walker: Control Simple Machine, Diagnostics, Persuasion, Plug N Play, Trick Shot

Red Talon: Beast Speech, Eye of the Hunter, Hidden Killer, Scent of Running Water, Wolf at the Door

Shadow Lord: Aura of Confidence, Fatal Flaw, Seizing the Edge, Shadow Weaving, Whisper Catching

Silent Strider: Heaven’s Guidance, Sense Wyrm, Silence, Speed of Thought, Visions of Duat

Silver Fang: Eye of the Falcon, Falcon’s Grasp, Inspiration, Lambent Flame, Sense Wyrm

Stargazer: Balance, Channeling, Falling Touch, Iron Resolve, Sense Wyrm

Uktena: Sense Magic, Sense Wyrm, Shroud, Spirit of the Lizard, Spirit Speech

Wendigo: Beat of the Heart-drum, Call the Breeze, Camouflage, Ice Echo, Resist Pain

Character Sheet Changes

You have 90 days to make adjustments to your character sheet as part of character creation. After that

period, you cannot make any more changes. You are also granted 90 days to submit your background to

gain your background points. If you do not submit your background within that time frame, and you

have been allowed to spend the background points on your sheet already, the background points spent

will be removed by the staff.

Kinfolk Character Creation

Kinfolk Character creation goes by Laws of the Hunt Revised (Red Cover.) The age trait limit will not be

used. All characters will be treated as Peak characters unless flaws or background state otherwise.

Crafting:

Time to Complete: You can do 5 levels of crafting in a 2 week period. Ex. 1 crafts 5 item or 1 craft 2 and one craft 3.

Ability Tests: You must challenge for each level of crafts you wish to apply to the item, retest is Crafts (of the appropriate type). Each success grants you a level of craft to be added starting at 1. Any failed challenges can be retried with the Repair ability, retest Repair. Failed Repair challenges will not be added to the items craft rating.

Ex: You are attempting to create a craft 5 sword.

You win three challenges and lose 2.

Your sword is now crafts 3.

You retry those tests with Repair and win 1 of the 2 tests.

Your finished item is crafts 4.

If you have double (round down) the skill level of the items craft rating you are making you do not need to test.

Weapon Crafting: Base item will be taken from the appropriate book. Then craft rating will be added.

⦁ Nothing

⦁ +1 Trait

⦁ Remove neg. Trait

⦁ Add a special ability (Appropriate to item)

⦁ +1 damage

Specializations: If you have a specialization in the type of item you are crafting you may add one of the following in addition to your crafts rating to your item; +1 trait, +1 damage, or remove a negative trait.

Armor Crafting: Base item will be taken from the appropriate book. Then craft rating will be added.

⦁ Nothing

⦁ +1 Armor rating

⦁ Can craft exotic armor such as gold and silver

⦁ +1 Armor rating

⦁ Remove neg. trait

Specializations: If you have a specialization in the type of item you are crafting you may add one of the following in addition to your crafts rating to your item; +1 armor rating or remove a negative trait.

Combat

Mass Combat

Rules for mass combat are as follows:

● Know your declared number of traits before you throw the challenge.

● Know where your traits come from and be able to tell an ST if they ask.

● Know your action before it’s your turn in the initiative.

● Please be prompt and do not talk to other people during the combat.

● If you have a rules question, ask the ST, not other players during combat.

● Know how much damage you are doing, where it comes from, and be able to tell an ST if they ask. Players may ask about other players combat stats through the ST.

● No coaching of other players on how to run their sheets.

Initiative and Turn Order

Order of Combat is based on Initiative traits only. Initiative goes purely off your attribute traits or tempers, depending of the nature of your challenge, plus any initiative modifying stats. Unless something expressly says it adds to initiative, it does not.

Challenges

Only one retest per category, unless otherwise noted.

Categories: Ability, Gift, Fetish, Rite, Merit, Tribal Advantage, Temper, etc….

Out-of-TBA Gifts

(TBA: Tribe-Breed-Auspice)

The number of Out-of-TBA Gifts a character can obtain is determined only by gameplay. Gifts granted by Celestines are not considered Out-of-TBA.

Tempers (rage, gnosis, will)

When a challenge pits Traits versus Tempers or visa versa, the character testing with their Tempers doubles their rating when resolving ties and overbids. When testing using tempers and there is no listed retest, you may spend a point of that Temper for a single retest. You can never hold more than twice your permanent temper.

Rage Challenges

Any time a character makes a rage challenge, it is followed by a standard frenzy challenge. This includes gift that are Rage challenges. When you are testing Rage versus Willpower, it is your current Rage if it exceeds your permanent Rage. Otherwise you use permanent rage rating.

Damage Reduction

Powers that grant a stated numerical value in damage reduction (i.e. it is a clear set number upon activation,) like the armor charm/talen/etc, do not function Per book. Instead, anything that grants such a benefit will grant an equal number of Healthy health levels that can be destroyed normally in any given round of combat, which refresh at the beginning of the next round, unless otherwise noted in the house rules.

Silver Rules

Silver Weapons do two additional aggravated damage against targets that are vulnerable to silver, such as Garou. Gold, cold iron, and any other species weakness functions in a similar fashion.

Trait Expenditures

Extra traits that can be spent to increase damage, duration, or other effects is limited to half your permanent traits in the category being spent in the event the power DOES NOT have a maximum trait expenditure listed.

Umbral Travel

Umbral Travel is scary and difficult even for the elders. Very few have learned the secrets of navigating the ever changing landscape of the umbra and the many realms within. As such all travel within the umbra will require tests. (outside of the Caern of course) The tests can be retested with Umbral Lore or Cosmology. The difficulty is set by where you are trying to go and what is happening around you. For example, traversing from the sept to the city might be a difficulty of 7, while navigating to the realm of the summerlands could be a difficulty 15. The test can be made by any or all involved in the scene and will be based upon the mental traits possessed at the time. On a win, you may continue to successfully navigate toward your target destination. On a loss however, you begin to get lost within the umbral realm, continued losses will continue to get you more and more hopelessly loss up to the point of stumbling into a hostile realm or winding up deep enough within the umbra you are no longer allowed to sidestep out until navigating back to the penumbra.