NAME

ACTION

REASON

Homid: Paralyzing Stare

Removal

This is a Shadow Lord Gift.

Present in 1st ed, but Staredown exists in Revised to compensate.

Homid: Calm the Flock/Part the Veil

Rename

To "Part the Veil"

Homid: Ubermensch

Rename

To "Übermensch"

Lupus: Venom

Level Change

Advanced > Intermediate

As per Revised Players Guide.

NAME

ACTION

REASON

*Theurge: Find the Portent

Removal

Not a Theurge Gift - sourced from Rage Across The Heavens (Gifts of Ruatma)

Philodox: Take the True Form

Level Change

Advanced > Intermediate

As per Revised Players Guide (level 4)

*Galliard: Song of the Siren

Level Change

Advanced > Intermediate

As per 2nd Ed Players Guide (level 4)

NAME

ACTION

REASON

BG: Stone Throwing Devil

Rename

To “Stone-Throwing Devil”

BG: Face in a Crowd

Rename

To “Face in the Crowd”

CoG: Water Conning

Rename

To “Water-Conning”

CoG: Eyes of the Cobra

Removal

From 1st ed Laws of the Wild, but Dazzle exists in Revised to compensate.

CoG: Serpent Driving

Rename

To “Serpent-Driving”

Fianna: Saint Herve’s Folly

Rename

To “St. Herve’s Folly”

Fianna: Pin The Eagles Wing

Rename

To “Pin the Eagle’s Wing”

GoF: Glory Scars

Rename

To “Glory-Scars”

GW: Modern Prometheus

Extra info

“Custom” label will be added next to the Gift’s name, rather than just a note, to make it extra-clear. It confused me.

GW: Sense Weaver

Removal

This is a Theurge Gift from the Umbra book.

GW: Heat Metal

Level Change

Intermediate > Basic

As per 2nd ed Players Guide; this Gift is already reduced in intensity from how it was published.

Mechanics Change

Clarification that this Gift works for forging or molding.

Removal of trait-based “slag” rule. This is ST discretion.

GW: Phone Travel

Mechanics Change

Adding camp restriction: Random Interrupts, as per Revised Tribe Book.

SL: Interrogator

Mechanics Change

Adding Lords of the Summit as approved camp. The Revised Tribe Book specifies both.

SL: Fatal Flaw

Mechanics Change

Current effects are too strong, so the effects will be changed to match MET more closely:

• Full turn study in combat, Mental Challenge with retest Empathy.

• Success: Extra level of Damage for current fight.

• 2 mentals spent: Find out an additional character weakness that provides no damage boost (Victim/ST discretion)

• 4 mentals spent: Know all combat weaknesses (all negative traits)

SL: Shadow Pack

Mechanics Change

Removing Rage restriction, as per Tabletop Revised

SS: Heaven’s Guidance

Rename

To “Heavens’ Guidance”

SS: Messenger’s Fortitude

Mechanics Change

Revert to MET default. This Gift’s flavor is different from Tireless Running.

SS: Dam the Heart’s Flood

Rename

To “Dam the Heartflood”

SS: Scale of Maat

Rename

To “Scale of Ma’at”

SF: Full Moon’s Cleansing

Rename

To “Full Moon Cleansing”

*SF: Paralyzing Stare

Removal

This is a higher level Shadow Lord Gift.

It existed in 1st ed Laws of the Wild, but was based on Mentals. By transplanting it into a newer system that uses Socials and has it at a higher level normally, this Gift is unbalanced.

SF: Ignore Wound

Rename

To “Ignore Death Blow”, differs too much from book

SF: Reasons Grasp

Rename

To “Reason’s Grasp”

SF: Secret of Gaia

Rename

To “The Secret of Gaia”

*SG: Catfeet

Level Change

Basic > IntermediateIt was in 1st ed Laws of the Wild, but since then the level was raised because the advantage can be really good.

*Uktena: Blur of the Milky Eye

Removal

This is a Ragabash Gift.

Though Uktena had it in 1st ed, it was replaced with Invisibility, a far better advantage.

Uktena: Guardians Fortitude

Rename

To “Guardian’s Fortitude”

Wendigo: Attunement

Level Change

Advanced > Intermediate

As per 2nd ed Tabletop core book, and consistency with other Attunement Gifts

• Off-hand penalties are gone. With the change to Ambidexterity, and given that you can only ever attack with one weapon per action anyway, there is no benefit to tracking such things.
• Without off-hand penalties, two-weapon combat specializations are no longer any different than other specializations. They apply a +1 bonus to fighting in that style.
• Clarified that multiple specializations don't stack. A Two-Gun Mojo specialization plus a Pistols specialization is still just +1. (Ambidexterity is a Merit, however, so its bonus will stack with your specialization.)

• Umbral Body: Updated/clarified that theGift permits you to dodge as passive resistance (i.e., dodging doesn't cost an action). 

• Rage, Gnosis, and Willpower Challenges: Clarified: Just like your other Traits, these challenges use your current ratings, not your permanent ratings.

• Lores: You are may buy up to half your Rank (round up) in Garou, Tribe, and Spirit Lore without a teacher.

• Pack Tactics: No longer grants bonus Traits. Instead, you may give a packmate a retest on a challenge when it's not your turn. You must give up your next action, spend one dot of Pack Tactics, and offer a plausible description of how you assist that packmate. If so, your packmate gets an additional retest.

• Ambidexterity: No longer grants additional actions. Instead, in addition to granting equal facility with both hands, it gives a +1 bonus to two-weapon, two-gun or two-handed combat styles. (E.g., you attack with a sword; the dagger in your other hand lends a +1 Trait bonus to that attack.) The Merit is no longer Restricted. You may request an XP refund if you don't like the change.
• Danger Sense: As there are no longer Surprise rounds, you may instead simply act on your normal initiative when you are surprised.

• Black Fury Tribe Benefit: Once per day at a Holy Site you may now regain one Willpower per Rank. 
• Shadow Lord Tribe Benefit: Now does not cost Gnosis.
• Silver Fang Tribe Benefit: The First Tribe retest can only be used in challenges against Garou or Kinfolk. 

• War Form Base Damage: Claw attacks and bite attacks in Crinos and Hispo deal two Aggravated Damage rather than one. (The Hispo bite attack still does two. It does not increase to three.)

• Rage-Heal: Clarified: when you rage-heal, you don't actually drop -- you stay in the fight.

• Camp/House Requirements: When a Gift lists membership in a Camp or House as a requirement, you can still learn it as an "Out-Of-" Gift provided you are a member of the Tribe. A Camp or House member must vouch for you, you must pay the spirit chiminage, and you must pay "Out-Of-" XP costs.
• Armor Type: Effects that grant armor or health levels now include an Armor Type (Skin, Apparel, or Barrier).  You may benefit from only one of each type of armor at a time.

• Tongues: You may understand, speak, and read (but not write) all human languages.

• Shed: This gift may be considered "always on" in forms with fur.
• Gift of the Porcupine: Clarified: The two extra traits you bid to avoid the quills are an additional cost, not a called shot. (I.e., a called shot that avoids the quills is a 5-Trait bid total.)
• Umbral Body: Added. 

• Blur of the Milky Eye: Clarified: This Gift does not effect people who are looking at you when you activate it.
• Luna's Blessing: You don't need to be able to personally see the moon to use this Gift. Instead, you must be outdoors in an area where the moon is visible in the night sky.
• Whelp Body: The Traits you take can no longer regained until the end of the session.
• Blank: Added. 

• Web Walker: You must be able to move at least one step to use the gift.

Gifts: Philodox

• Wall of Granite: Assigned the Barrier armor type. Its 15 Health Levels no longer differentiate between different types of damage. It can now only be activated once per scene.

• Bridge Walker: You must be able to move at least one step to use the gift.
• Fog of War: Added to Galliard list. 

• Inspiration: Affects all allies within earshot, not just five. 
• Pack Tactics: Designate a target when you activate the Gift. You and your packmates get a +1 bonus per packmate to Physical Challenges against only that target. 
• Combat Healing: Removed "life-threatening combat" requirement. Scene Duration.

• Curse of Aeolus: Rather than a -4 penalty to all Physical/Social/Mental challenges, it halves all Perception challenges.
• Bacchantes' Rage: +10 Trait bonus on Physical Challenges rather than win-all-ties. 

Gifts: Child of Gaia

• Luna's Armor: Now grants Rank + 1 levels of Barrier-type armor.

• Balor's Gaze: Once the gift is active, focusing the Gaze on a target requires an action. The Willpower Challenge is contested, not static, subject to the five-minute rule. Under the gaze, a target who has no means of ignoring pain takes penalties as if Wounded (lose all ties); a target who can ignore pain for some reason instead loses that ability.
• Ley Lines: Free retest to avoid all tracking for the scene, not just mundane tracking. Five-minute rule applies rather than immunity for the scene. 
• Woadling: A contested challenge, Physical v. Occult, inflicting a 2-Trait penalty on all challenges for 3 turns. 

Gifts: Get of Fenris

• Berserker Song: Aligned with Player's Guide to the Garou writeup. Is now a basic Gift. 

• Troll Skin: Assigned the Skin armor type.

Gifts: Glass Walker

• Steel Fur: Assigned the Skin armor type.

• Web Walker: You must be able to move at least one step to use the gift. 

Gifts: Shadow Lord

• Luna's Armor: Now grants Rank + 1 levels of Barrier-type armor.

Gifts: Silver Fang

• Luna's Armor: Now grants Rank + 1 levels of Barrier-type armor.

• Blur of the Milky Eye: Clarified: This Gift does not effect people who are looking at you when you activate it.

• Lores: No more will 1 XP be automatically assigned and spent on Lore when you Rank up. Instead, you are always permitted to buy up to half your Rank in Garou, Tribe, and Spirit without a teacher.

• Surprise: There is no longer a Surprise Round. Instead, a surprised target simply acts last in the initiative order of the first turn. 
• Initiative: Your permanent Physical Trait total in Homid is now your initiative. Break ties by comparing permanent Dexterity-related Traits.
• Declarations: You no longer have to declare Rage, Gnosis and Will at the beginning of the round. Just take your turn as it comes. If you use Gnosis, that precludes your ability to spend Rage that turn. If you use Rage, you can't spend Gnosis. When it comes time for Rage Actions, if you can spend Rage, you can take some. You still can't spend more than five Rage or Gnosis in a turn.

Weapons and Armor

• Armor Type: Effects that grant armor or health levels now include an Armor Type (Skin, Apparel, or Barrier).  You may benefit from only one of each type of armor at a time.

Umbra

• Stepping Sideways: Added rules for Gauntlet strength on the Bawn. While stepping sideways, you are pulling yourself through pure stasis -- you can take no other actions, you can't even regenerate. All you can do is communicate through pack link.

• Violation: This gift was changed to be more in-line with it's table-top write-up, rather than the 1st Edition Laws of the Wild write-up.  As such it is now a Social Challenge, rather than a Mental Challenge, and the gift lasts for a number of rounds, rather than scenes or sessions.

Gifts: Metis

• Gift of the Porcupine: Attackers may bid two additional traits to avoid the quills when striking (and thus not take damage).

Gifts: Uktena

• Shroud: The benefits are those standard to being in darkness.

Fetish Creation

• If you didn't see the original announcement, we added an additional set of rules for Fetish Creation. We encourage you to read these rules if you haven't already.

Spirits

• We clarified that spirits test with double their Gnosis for both Mental and Social Challenges. They test with triple their Rage for Strength Based challenges, and triple their Willpower for Stamina and Dexterity Based challenges.

• We have added a mechanic by which spirits may take “Rage-like Actions”. Spirits may now spend 3 essence to gain a single action at the end of the round. These actions take place at the same time as Rage Actions.

Rites: Mystic

• Rite of the Totem: We clarified that you did not need to perform this ritual each time someone was added to the pack, only when the pack is first formed.

Rites: Renown

• Rite of Accomplishment: We have removed the requirement that you be of higher rank than the recipient in order for them to gain renown from your Rite of Accomplishment. Let the Cliath write the tales of the awesome and amazing Elders!

Abilities

• Blindfighting: Blindfighting cancels the “Blind” retest once, rather than canceling it for an entire round.

• Linguistics: We will be allowing people to purchase more than 5 dots of the Linguistics ability. This does not change the cost of purchasing these points, nor their benefit. 

Tribes

• Stargazers: The Stargazer flaw has been returned to its 1^st edition drawback, as the previous drawback wasn't a penalty at all.

Rage, Gnosis, and Willpower

• We have removed the option to spend the Gnosis after failing a challenge activate Fetishes or Talens. You must now choose to do one or the other, but cannot spend immediately afterward to simply succeed.

Umbra

• We have removed the option to spend the Gnosis after failing a challenge to cross the Gauntlet. You must now choose to do one or the other, but cannot spend immediately afterward to simply succeed.

• At some point the capability to make minor alterations to the Penumbra using Gnosis became a rule in our game. However after investigation, we could only find a reference indicating that such alterations were possible in the Flux, not in any other realms, or the Penumbra. As such, this rule has been removed.

Rank

• Legend: The benefit has been changed from giving Ties on Strength-Based Challenges to providing a +10 trait bonus on Strength-Based Challenges.