Resisting Frenzy

If you fail the Frenzy Test, you may still cancel the Frenzy by spending a point of Willpower and aborting any further actions for the rest of your turn (in combat), or a few seconds (out of combat). When resisting out of combat, you must leave the source of the potential frenzy immediately and for at least ten minutes. Staying around the stimulus forces you to have to expend more Willpower. One Willpower for every minute more you stay around the initial stimulus. This affect ends when either you remove yourself for the ten minutes or the stimulus is removed.

 

Berserk Frenzy

When you enter Berserk Frenzy, your anger takes over and the world becomes a blood-red haze of moving shapes you want to kill. You immediately gain the following effects:

• You instantly shapeshift to your war-form at no cost.

• You ignore all Wound Penalties.

• At the beginning of each combat round, you gain one Rage.

• You can bid the Trait "Frenzy" against Mental and Social Challenges, although you cannot initiate such challenges yourself.

 

Each round of combat, you must spend as many Rage Traits as you can for extra actions, up to the limit of five per round. Each action is a Melee or Brawl attack against whomever triggered your Frenzy. You will use whatever weapon you're carrying, or claws and teeth if you're otherwise unarmed. If you can't attack the trigger of your Frenzy, you'll attack whomever else is close and moving.

 

If your target falls incapacitated during your Frenzy, you test for the Thrall of the Wyrm (below).

 

If you pass that test, or if you lose your target by some other means, you have a chance to end your Frenzy. Attempt another Willpower versus Rage test. If you win, you regain control, and your Rage is reset to one.

 

If you cannot stop your Frenzy, you will switch to another target -- whomever is closest and moving. You may spend a Willpower to ensure that this target is at least the closest moving enemy, rather than an ally. If your permanent Gnosis is higher than your permanent Rage, you get a modicum of reprieve in that you will never attack a member of your pack. If there are no available potential targets, you get a free Willpower test every round until you win. During that time, you will destroy whatever is at hand.

 

The Thrall of the Wyrm

When you kill or incapacitate someone while you are in Frenzy, make two simple Rock-Paper-Scissors test. If you fail them both, your Frenzy enters the depths of the Thrall of the Wyrm. The spiritual corruption of the Garou's ancient enemy taints your Rage, driving you to acts of depravity.

 

• Homid Garou become infected by the Eater-of-Souls, which drives them to acts of cannibalism on humans, wolves and other Garou. Whenever a homid Garou in Thrall kills or incapacitates a target.

• Metis Garou come under the attention of the Defiler Wyrm, which drives them to attacks of psycho-sexual perversion. A metis who kills or incapacitates a target while in Thrall must make a Static Mental Challenge against seven Traits to avoid the compulsion to spend the next turn defiling the helpless body.

• Lupus Garou are sought out by the Beast-of-War, which amplifies their natural predatory instincts to insane heights. A Garou who kills or incapacitates a foe while in Thrall must make a Static Mental Challenge against seven Traits to avoid the compulsion to keep attacking until the target is dismembered and strewn around.

 

Thrall of the Wyrm lasts until the end of the scene or until a new target actively tries to get your attention.

 

Fox Frenzy

When you enter Fox Frenzy, terror takes over your mind. You immediately take Lupus shape at no cost. Spend every round running away as fast as possible from the trigger of your Frenzy, and attack anything that tries to stop you.

 

Fox Frenzy ends when:

• You spend some time cowering in a safe hiding place, far from the triggering situation; or

• The trigger for the Frenzy is dealt with, and you win a new Willpower vs. Rage test. You may call for this test each round unless the trigger reappears