W20 - Changing Breeds.pdf

Creating Beast CourtCharactersCharacters sworn to the Beast Courts of the EmeraldMother are mostly generated as is standard fortheir Changing Breed, but there are a few small twists,detailed below:• Beast Court characters may exchange one of theirstarting Gifts (player’s choice) for a General HengeyokaiGift.• In addition to any natural Auspice, Aspect, etc,that the character might have, he also has a Beast CourtAuspice (Lantern, Fist, Mirror, Leaf, Pillar, or Courtier).Characters almost always take the Auspice that bestmatches any natural Auspice role they might have — anAhroun is almost always a Fist. Exceptions are rare, andstill always somehow tie into a character’s role in hersentai. For example, a Hakken Ahroun might act as hersentai’s Pillar, while a Khan serves as its Fist.• Beast Court characters may exchange one of theirstarting Gifts (an Auspice or Aspect Gift, if the characterhas such things) for a Gift from his Beast CourtAuspice list.• Beast Court characters may buy additional Giftsfrom the General Hengeyokai list and their Beast CourtAuspice list for (Level x 4) experience points.Hengeyokai GiftsThese general Gifts are widely employed throughoutthe Beast Courts — any hengeyokai may learn them fromspirits generally allied to the Beast Courts as a whole.• Balance (Level One) — As the Stargazer Gift.• Create Element (Level One) — As the metis Gift.• Mindspeak (Level One) — As the Galliard Gift.• Sense Wyrm (Level One) — As the metis Gift.• Blaze Talons (Level Two) — The hengeyokaican cause his hands, claws, or wings to burst into flame.This Gift is taught by a fire elemental.System: The player spends a point of Gnosis androlls Strength + Primal-Urge. Each success causes theflames to last for two turns. The Gift adds one automaticlevel of aggravated damage to any damaging attack madewith the character’s forelimbs. Same-Bito, Zhong Lung,and Nagah must learn this as a level Three Gift due totheir attunement to water.• Courtly Speech (Level Two) — As the homidGift: Speech of the World.• Resist Temptation (Level Two) — As the StargazerGift.• Sense Balance (Level Two) — As the Level ThreePhilodox Gift.• Clarity (Level Three) — As the Stargazer Gift• Part the Wall (Level Three) — This Gift allowshengeyokai that cannot normally gain easy access to theYang World to do so as easily as the Garou.System: The character may step sideways as if shewere Garou. This Gift’s effects are permanent.• Waking Dream of Unity (Level Three) — ThisGift sends waking dreams into the minds of a group ofhengeyokai, making communication easier than withMindspeak. A Chimerling or spirit-servant of the Ministersof Heaven teaches this Gift.System: The player spends one Willpower pointand can place up to 30 willing individuals into silentcommunication. Only those present at the time of theactivation of the Gift are included.• Exorcism (Level Four) — As the Level ThreeTheurge Gift.• Mindblock (Level Four) — As the Silver Fang Gift.• Walking the Bone Road (Level Four) — Assumingthe character is able to step sideways, she may stepsideways into the Yin World as easily as she normallydoes the Yang World. A death-spirit teaches this Gift.System: This Gift’s effects are permanent; the characterchooses which world she enters when steppingsideways from the physical realm.• Elemental Gift (Level Five) — As the lupus Gift.• Way of Ten Thousand Cities (Level Five) — Asthe homid Gift: Assimilation.Auspice GiftsThe Beast Court sentai Auspices are similar, butnot identical, to the Auspices of the Garou. Each has itsown list of traditional powers, which characters are freeto explore or ignore as the needs of their sentai dictate.Lantern• Fangs of Judgment (Level One) — As the PhilodoxGift.• Persuasion (Level One) — As the homid Gift.• Scent of the True Form (Level One) — As thePhilodox Gift.• Truth of Gaia (Level One) — As the PhilodoxGift.• Command the Gathering (Level Two) — As thePhilodox Gift.• King of the Beasts (Level Two) — As thePhilodox Gift.284CHANGING BREEDS