Werewolf The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition Pdf
Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition - These are the final days-The signs are clear:Even our pups knowThat this is the age of the Apocalypse! Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition is a revised rulebook for the Werewolf: The Apocalypse line, celebrating its 20th anniversary in the same vein as its Vampire counterpart.
$begingroup$I've joined a long running group playing Werewolf but whereas I've got the 20th Anniversary PDF rulebook they're playing from the Revised Edition rulebooks and supplements. I'd like to discuss the differences with the group and maybe persuade them to take up the newer rules where appropriate.
I can see that Dodge and Athletics are separate skills in their version but what other differences in the core mechanics should I be aware of?
When I say core mechanics I'm excluding all the various gifts, merits, and flaws as they only apply in specific cases, it's the general rules I'm thinking of.
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Attributes & Abilities
- Leadership has been become a Talent.
- Dodge has been removed as a skill; its former functionality has been moved to Athletics.
- Larceny, Academics and Technology have been added.
- Linguistics is no longer a skill; each language known is a 1-dot Merit instead. (p. 484)
Breeds
Extra beginning gifts to choose from. No other changes.
Auspices
More beginning gifts!
Tribes
Again more beginning gifts for all tribes or some slight reorganisations (Bone Gnawers). Backgrounds have been clarified into discouraged or restricted (for example: the Silent Striders had a very ambiguous description).
- For the Bone Gnawers Resources has become discouraged instead of restricted. This gives you the option of having certain backgrounds at character creation, without explicitly requiring storyteller approval.
- Get of Fenris : Contacts are discouraged
- Glass Walkers : Mentor is discouraged
- Red Talons : There are no Homid Red Talons (in Revised you could argue for their existence), Allies & Contacts have become discouraged.
- Shadow Lords: Allies & Mentor have become discouraged.
- Silent Striders: Resources has become discouraged.
- Stargazers : are back! Allies, Fetish & Resources have become discouraged.
- Wendigo: Contacts & Resources have become discouraged.
Systems
- The sample table for gaining renown has been recompiled (more examples & different types of renown can be gained / lost through an action).
- The rules for 'splitting one's action' in a turn have been clarified (lose a die from each action in that turn & each action beyond the first losses an extra die).