Dark Eras: The Bowery Dogs is a setting for Werewolf: The Forsaken in New York City in the 1970s.
Summary[]
- Ford to City: Drop Dead
- —New York Daily News, October 30, 1975
- New York City in the 1970s. Crime. Drugs. Gang violence. Vast economic disparity. And werewolves. It’s a lean, ugly time to be alive, and the lone wolf doesn’t stand a chance out there. In the end, all you really have is family.
Contents[]
Theme and Mood: When All You Got's A Little...[]
The 1970s[]
New York City[]
Gangs[]
Drugs[]
Atmosphere: A TV Culture[]
What Has Come Before[]
Ancient History[]
Labor Movements[]
Civil Unrest[]
Vietnam[]
Stonewall[]
What is to Come[]
Game Evolution[]
The Privileged[]
The Downtrodden[]
Territories[]
Burning Down[]
- New Tilts:
- Urban Collapse
- Riot (Environmental)
Rebuilding[]
The World Beneath[]
Courts[]
- The Court of a Fair Wage (The Kuspu Dinu)
- Soldiers - Spirits
- Locks - Spirits
- The Court of Indulgence (Ikkusunu)
- Greeds, Consumptions, Hubaa - Spirits
- Prides, Privileges, Shaddim - Spirits
- Wraths, Burns, Hihim - Spirits
- Sloths, Lethargies, Shiddu - Spirits
- Gluttonies, Overdoses, Shabu - Spirits
- Envies, Emptinesses, Enro - Spirits
- Lusts, Wetnesses, Titu - Spirits
Unique Manifestations[]
- Scoopers - Spirits
- Melting Pots - Spirits
Running The Game[]
The Punk Generation[]
- New Condition:
- The Punk Generation
Drugs[]
Betrayal[]
Events[]
Storyteller Characters[]
Inspirations[]
- Across 110th Street (dir. Barry Shear, 1972)
- City Boy (Book), Edmund White
- The French Connection (dir. William Friedkin, 1971)
- Serpico (dir. Sidney Lumet, 1973)
- Shaft (dir. Gordon Parks, 1971)
- Soylent Green (dir. Richard Flesicher, 1973)
- Summer of Sam (dir. Spike Lee, 1999)
- Taxi Driver (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976)
- The Warriors (dir. Walter Hill, 1979)
Background[]
This setting was originally published in Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras.
Characters[]
Mortals[]
- Officer Thompson - Detective
- McNabb - Cop
- Doubting Thomas
- Hard Donny
- Pastor "Little Bobby" Washington - Living Locus
- Snuggy Roscoe, "Thomas Worthington"
- Stephanie Dimera - Detective
Uratha[]
- Brown - Private Investigator
- Hannah - Rahu
- Tonya Lawson - Ghost Wolf Elodoth
Other Supernatural Beings[]
Terminology[]
First Tongue: Hisil, Azlu, Beshilu, idigam, magath, Kuruth; Spirit-Claimed, Spirit-Ridden, Spirit-Urged, Pure Tribes, Spirit, Forsaken, Wolf-Blooded, Oath of the Moon, First Change, Uratha, Locus, Ghost Wolves, Elodoth
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