


WASTELANDS
A World of Darkness Chronicle

















Basic Gifts
Beast Speech
Challenge: Social vs. the animal
Retest: Animal Ken
Effect: You are able to speak with any sort of animal. If successful, you can speak not only to the target animal, but to all animals of the same type. This gift doesn't change their natures nor their reactions to the predatory nature of the Garou, nor does it force them to cooperate.
Duration: One Scene or Hour

Beastmind
Challenge: Social vs. target
Retest: Empathy
Effect: For a moment You bring out the animal in someone; all their higher thought functions are wiped away, and they must follow their most basic instincts.
Duration: One turn
Scent of Running Water
Activation Time: At will
Effect: Your scent is washed away from the world as if you had just stepped through a river. All challenges trying to track you by scent suffer two-Trait penalty.
Sense of the Prey
Required: Knowledge of your target; the target is in the same realm as you
Challenge: Mental vs. target if they are actively hiding; automatic success if they're not
Retest: Enigmas
Effect: If your target is in the same realm as you (Earth, the Penumbra, a particular Umbral Realm, etc.), then you gain an unerring sense of which direction you must go to find them. You can move directly towards them as fast as you are able to travel.
Wolf at the Door
Required: A non-Garou target with whom you make eye contact
Challenge: Social vs. target (if the target is a kinfolk, mage, ghoul or other supernatural, they get a two-Trait bonus)
Retest: Primal Urge
Followup Cost: 0-5 Mental Traits
Effect: You insinuate a terror in your target that makes it difficult for them to set foot outside the house, let alone enter a wild place. For the duration, your target must make a Willpower challenge vs. your Gnosis or Social Traits (whichever is higher) to leave their home. They are at a two-Trait penalty to all Mental and Social challenges while away from home. Going anywhere near a forest requires the target to spend a point of Willpower.
Duration: One day, plus one per Mental Trait spent
Intermediate Gifts
Elemental Favor
Challenge: static Social vs. a nature spirit
Retest: Subterfuge
Effect: You compel a natural elemental to abandon its material form, destroying a particular object. A sheet of ice could shatter, a cliffside could crumble, a tree could die and drop its leaves, etc. The Storyteller adjudicates the specific effect, though it usually won't cause severe direct damage. (Although if you are standing beneath a crumbling cliffside, you might take some serious indirect damage.)
Howl of Death
Required: You must see the target and the target must hear you howl.
Frequency: Once per turn
Challenge: Social vs. target
Retest: Primal Urge
Effect: Your howl is so frightening that your target's organs literally rupture from terror. They take two levels of Lethal damage that bypasses armor.
Trackless Waste
Required: You know the territory where you're using this gift.
Initial Cost: One Gnosis
Challenge: static Mental vs. six Traits
Retest: Primal Urge
Followup Cost: 0-5 Mental Traits
Effect: You enchant a region against travel, making it impossible for those within to find their way. Within a two-mile radius (plus an additional two for each Mental Trait you spend), compasses point randomly, maps give bad directions and GPS signals are scrambled -- even landmarks seem to shift location. Travelers within the area get lost and stay lost. If Garou are in the area, they may win a Mental Challenge (retest Primal Urge) against you to find their way.
Duration: Four hours
Gorge
To Learn: You must learn this gift separately for each type of Trait you want to store (Rage, Gnosis or Willpower); you can only learn it once per type.
Effect: Just like you gorge on meat in the winter when you don't know if you'll get another meal, so too have you learned to gorge on spiritual power for dire situations. You may call on three additional Traits per night of one type you select when you learn the Gift -- Rage, Gnosis, or Willpower. You may refresh these spent Traits by normal means, but they do not add to your Trait totals in Challenges.
Duration: Always in effect
Quicksand
Initial Cost: One Gnosis
Challenge: Social vs. eight Traits
Retest: Primal Urge
Followup Cost: 0-5 Mental Traits
Effect: You liquify an area of ground, turning it into a viscous sludge that clings to the feet of everyone who moves through it -- except you. This affects a ten-foot radius of earth, plus an additional ten feet per Mental Trait you spent. In this area, standard combat movement becomes one step, combat challenges take a one-Trait penalty, and nobody can execute any combat maneuvers that require special movement. You, of course, are the exception, moving freely through the area and harrying your foes at no penalty.
Duration: One Scene
Recycle
Required: Touch a man-made substance
Challenge: Rage vs. difficulty based on complexity of material (6 for iron, 7 for plastic, 9 for complex metal alloys)
Retest: Primal Urge
Followup Cost: 0-5 Mental Traits
Effect: You accelerate the ravages of time on a man-made substance, decomposing it to its natural elements. Five pounds of material decomposes in this way, plus an additional five pounds for each Mental Trait you spent.
Advanced Gifts
Curse of Lycaon
Cost: One Gnosis
Challenge: Gnosis vs. target's Willpower
Retest: Primal Urge
Effect: You impose a powerful wolf-nature upon your target. Against a fellow Garou, this has the effect of forcing them into Lupus shape for a day. Against a human, this permanently transforms them into a wolf -- body, mind and spirit.
Duration: One day vs. Garou; permanently vs. humans
Gaia’s Vengeance
Cost: One Gnosis and one Rage (yes, this is an exception)
Challenge: static Social vs. the Gauntlet rating
Retest: Primal Urge
Effect: You unleash the wrath of the wilderness against your foes. Every natural feature in the area attacks the intruders in any way possible: trees drop heavy branches on them, sinkholes open beneath unwary feet, tides pull victims under, brambles entangle them, etc. The exact effects are up to the Storyteller.
Duration: Storyteller-determined