These are the rules changes that have most recently affected the game.

December 19th, 2025

• Added note to Talen page that listed talens are considered commonly known.
• Added Martial Arts Styles that had been approved by this and previous staffs but not added to the wiki. 

November 25, 2025

• Gifts: Dark Ages & Wild West - Added Command the Heart of Rage and Exceptional Swordplay
• Lupus Gift: Techgnosis - Clarified that this gift does not make your Primal Urge count as having dots of that ability, and so cannot be used for crafting.
• Added Discord Note for Rite of Accomplishment.

October 11, 2025

• Clarified the type of downtime action for game helpers, and added limitation on how many can be gained.
• Added Talen Hero's Mead to our wiki. 
• Added a translation of the Aiming action from the tabletop rules.
• Added the Rites Pledge of the Battle Mate, Rite of Memorial, Rite of Soul Sending, Call to the Lost, Call to Arms, Rite of the Shadow Play, Rite of Spirit Union, Rite of Succession, Calling the Directions, Greet the North Star, Honoring the Ancestors, and Rend Trod from the W20 Changing Ways and W20 Umbra books.
• Added the Kinfolk Network to the Caern Defenses page, and linked the page to the complete rules index.
• Updated the Alpha's Laws to Storm's Resolve's laws.
• Added the Downtime pacing for learning Rites to the Rites page to match the information included in the Downtime template. 
• Removed reference to getting true names with Name the Spirit from the gift Spirit Path. 

October 7, 2025

• Clarified the Battlemead based on by-book write-up (Fianna Revised page 79) and correctly renamed to Battlemead as Royal Mead is a separate talen.

September 26, 2025

• Added clarification on which traits get doubled from Might of Thor.
• Removed temp renown losses for punishment rites, as our game utilizes permanent losses instead of temp losses.
• Set abilities for retesting the social challenge in contesting a Rite of Accomplishment.
• Changed Katanka-Sonnak's Spear to be a contested challenge to align with our game's policy on contested actions when negatively impacting another character.
• Removed the reference to a "Surprise Round" from the wiki, and moved the retest for being invisible from Surprise to Blind to allow it to be canceled by Blindfighting.

September 15, 2025

• Race-bending rule updated based on announcement that took place earlier this year and wasn't updated on the wiki.
• Added Rite of the Spirit Tattoo to the wiki.
• Added rule back onto the wiki for how the Subterfuge ability interacts with the Empathy ability, and clarified what expending the Subterfuge ability does.
• Corrected knife bonus traits to Laws of the Wild & Dark Epics listing. Added concealability rating for Reinforced Vest. 
• Changed Healing Talen to Gaia's Breath (a generic talen out of Hammer and Klaive) and reduced difficulty of Bone Paint to more accurately reflect the very easy difficulty 4 Willpower roll in table-top.
• Clarified Black Mamba Strike to be the form's movement speed as opposed to "running"
• Clarified that Body of Scars is skin armor levels. 
• Added rules for how time frame functions when you lose a rank. 
• Removed reference to Rite of Adoption being used on kinfolk, as this is not part of the canon write-up, and no notes were left by previous staff as to why this change was made. 
• Removed renown for performing Rite of Accomplishment, as concerns were raised about this leading to Galliards maxing out Honor too easily. Galliards may still claim Honor through telling stories and claiming "Performing regular duties" once per month. 
• Removed the capability of Name the Spirit to steal true names, as this ability has no canon backing. 

September 9, 2025

• Changed Appease the Totem to require specifying the ability that gets the retest when the ritual is used.
• Clarified that spending the Willpower to leave the scene prevents the frenzy unless subjected to it again within 10 minutes.
• Added Blackfury: Arion's Burden to the wiki.
• Completed the missing info on Shard of Despair fetish. 
• Changed "Make" to "Initiate" on Combat and Rage, Gnosis, and Willpower pages to clarify the intention of allowing Rage to be spent if you've only defended against a Gnostic challenge. 

August 22, 2025

• Returned the verbiage of the Corax gift "Sky's Beneficence" to indicate that the static test is only possible against "Immobile" targets not simply "Stationary" targets.
• With the vote that concluded on 08/22/2025, Specialized Combat Styles is renamed to Martial Arts. "Hard", "Soft", and "Weapon" tags were added for the purposes of traveling characters. No other mechanical changes were made as the game voted to keep both additional traits and maneuvers for all styles.

August 14, 2025

• Changed "Scream of Gaia" on Get of Fenris page to match Lupus update.
• Updated Tribal rituals that had listed permanent renown to their canon temp listings as our game uses temp renown now, but they weren't updated when our game switched.
• Added Possessed Powers to the wiki for ST and player reference. 

August 8, 2025

• Changed "Blizzard of Arrows" and "Scream of Gaia" back to their canon write-ups to remove a static challenge that did damage to targets in keeping with our game's tradition of not allowing negative impact to a PC without allowing them to resist.
• Changed "Lash of Rage" to be a contested challenge, and removed extended challenge replacing with half permanent rage in damage.
• "Tears of Luna" replaced problematic verbiage.
• Changed experience granted for traveling PCs to be the standard granted for local play (half of monthly cap). 

July 25, 2025

• Added "Thousand Teeth" to Lupus gift list with restriction on learning the gift
• Updated multiple pages to align war forms across all pages. Laws of the Wild Revised allows a character to select what form they enter (Crinos or Hispo) when they enter frenzy, however the 1st edition Laws of the Wild only provided Rank Form Benefits to the Crinos form. Our game expanded this to allow Lupus to select Hispo as their "War-Form" and gain the rank benefits to that form instead of Crinos. This distinction is an artifact of that 1st edition system, and as such is removed for ease of play. Both Crinos and Hispo are "War Forms" for the purposes of what form you assume when you frenzy, and what forms you gain the Rank Form Benefits in. When a character enters frenzy, they may select which form they assume.

July 11, 2025

• Vote concluded and game voted in favor of 60/25/25/25/25 as the distribution of starting exp. This has been updated on Building a Werewolf under the "Spending Bonus XP" section.
• Added Gifts: Dark Ages and Wyld West page to the wiki, as well as the gifts Cousin's Coat, Dead-Eye, and Snuff Flames. Migrated False Comfort to the page as well.
• Added Link to above on Gifts  

July 03, 2025

• Changed Malleable Spirit to be a contested challenge instead of a Static that allowed for a retest from the spirit.

June 27, 2025

• Gifts: Bone Gnawer - Added Beg
• Gifts: Child of Gaia - Added Guilt Trip
• Gifts: Red Talon - Added Cull the Herd
• Gifts: Shadow Lord - Added Curse of Corruption
• Gifts: Uktena - Added Sideways Attack
• Added "Crafts: Bonecrafting" to the crafts page, and added an explanation of what it's used for.
• Updated the Caern Defenses page with the current spirit defenders and mystical defenses.
• Added BSD gifts to wiki 

June 17-18, 2025

• Made formatting changes to Gifts and Gifts: Ahadi no rules were changed.
• Made linking changes to the Renown pages, no rules were changed. 
• Corrected Rage, Gnosis, and Willpower and Health and Damage pages to align with the twice per scene limit on rage healing. 

June 13th, 2025

• Reason's Grasp (Silver Fang Gift) moved to Basic from Intermediate as the gift is listed in Silver Fang Revised as Basic.
• Ahadi Gifts added to the wiki, and linked on the Gifts overview page 

June 9, 2025

• Gifts: Homid - Added Global Citizen, Stench and the City, and Gaia's Toolbox
• Gifts: Metis - Added Awaken the Beast
• Gifts: Lupus -  Added Techgnosis
• Gifts: Ragabash - Added Silence and The Crawling Hand
• Gifts: Bone Gnawer - Added Stench and the City and Gluttony
• Gifts: Child of Gaia - Added Chant of Morpheus, Good Faith, Parting the Velvet Curtain, and Speech of All Things
• Gifts: Fianna - Added Brew
• Gifts: Glass Walker - Added Overclock, Call the City's Wolves, Invent, and Song of the City Beast 
• Gifts: Red Talon - Added Babble
• Gifts: Shadow Lord - Added Stench of the Peasant
• Gifts: Silent Strider - Added Message Glance
• Gifts: Uktena - Added Strange Rain 

Feb. 08-09, 2025

• Corrected typo in Hagvan's Healing on Gifts: Fianna
• Corrected typo, fixed alphabetization, and minor formatting on Gifts: Rokea
• Added clarification note under Throwing on Abilities re: using rank benefits when a strength trait is bid. 
• (Spot reserved to add more after using the sleeps)

January 29-30, 2025

• Separated two items under Health Influence 2, to get them on separate lines as intended. 
• Changed retest for Eye of the Eagle from Alertness to Awareness on Gifts: Lupus to match rest of wiki per previous ruling they are synonymous.
• Updated the mechanics for the Storm Cloak Fetish, as the previous book mechanics did not translate well to MET.
• Added the ability retest for Visions of Duat (W20) on Gifts: Silent Strider
• Added ability retests and changed trait vs. temper challenges to trait vs. trait challenges for Zarok, Sokhta, and Katanka-Sonnak on Gifts: Celestial
• Added missing difficulties and/or ability retests for multiple gifts on Gifts: Gurahl
• Added Sling to the Crafting Weapons and Armor page.

January 12-14, & 18, 2025

• Updated Blissful Ignorance text so it matches across Ragabash, Bone Gnawer, Silent Strider, and Bastet gift pages. 
• Added clarification that the Bruised Health level granted by Hunter's Necklace does not count as skin armor on Fetishes page.
• Added Requirement to Candle of Souls on Talens page. 
• Clarification on Stone Mask vs. Auspex powers (specifically part of Aura Perception).
• Clarification added about not being able to use the next round's actions to actively resist an action in the current round under Active Resistance on the Combat page.  And clarification of Hard Cap of only 3 rage actions per turn, but characters can spend up to a total of 5 rage per turn.
• Added note about splitting dots of Kinfolk between Humans and Wolves on the Backgrounds page.
• Added Brass Knuckles/Knuckle Dusters to the Crafting Weapons and Armor page.
• Clarification added to the Learning Rites and Lores Confirmations page.
• Formatting and alphabetization on many of the Rites pages, including getting Minor before Mystic in the header.  Also corrected the levels of several tribal rites to match printed material and OWbN packets.
• Clarification/updated write-up for Bacchantes' Rage on the Gifts: Black Fury page. 
• Moved Rules Changes from 2023-2024 into separate page: Archived Rule Changes 2023-2024 to alleviate error on page.
• Changed Hedge Magic Rituals page name to be capitalized, and fixed links on other pages relating to that.
• Modified Flaw: Driving Goal to show "resurrect the Croatan", since the org did that. :)
• Added clarification on Ability Specializations on the Abilities page re: ability specializations not applying to temper challenges.
• Removed activation cost from Falling Touch in Gifts: Stargazers to bring it in line with the rules change from 2024-05-26.

January 7th, 2025

• Moved Gifts: Black Fury: Bacchantes Rage from Advanced to Intermediate and removed extra fluff it doesn't have by book.
• Added Gifts: Celestial: Sokhta: Moondream (Level 5) Elder Gift. 

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Archived Rule Changes 2023-2024

Archived Rule Changes 2021-2022

Archived Rule Changes 2017-2021

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