Werewolf Storytellers Handbook

Werewolf Storytellers Handbook is a book of advice for storytelling a Werewolf: The Apocalypse chronicle.

Summary[]

From Savage Horror

The battle against the Wyrm rages, and the losses hurt more each day. Victory is harder to find as the Apocalypse approaches. One person stands above this fray: the Storyteller. It is her responsibility to display the horror and and the wonder of the world of the Garou, the werewolf defenders of the Earth. It is the Storyteller's task and reward to tell the tales of Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

To Mythic Reality

The Storyteller is the important person who gives the players their victories and defeats, their moments of terror and promise, and their rise to heroism... or their fall to doom. For this reason, Storytellers get their own handbook, full of tips on enhancing the depth and intensity of their stories.

Werewolf Storytellers Handbook includes:

• Advice, tips and essays on Storytelling, from creating chronicles to telling mythic stories.
• Details on Garou culture, from the inner strife tearing apart the Garou Nation to the Seasonal Rites of the Thirteen Tribes.
• New antagonists and allies of the Garou, from urban horrors to Native American monsters.

Contents[]

Legends of the Garou: A Galliard's Tale[]

By Sam Inabinet.

Chapter One: Storytelling[]

• Chronicle Construction
• Mythic Cycle Stories
• Essay: Daring to Improvise by Andrew Greenberg

Chapter Two: Culture[]

• The Garou Nation
• The Blood and the Bone (Seasonal Rites)
• Essay: On the Importance of Being Renowned by Sam Chupp

Chapter Three: Setting[]

• Essay: Scent of the Invisible World by Dan Greenberg
• Wilderness
  • Animals
    • Wild Boar - Stats
    • Rabbits - Stats
    • Hornets - Stats
  • New Secondary Abilities
    • Wood Lore
    • Wood Craft (Knowledge)
• The City
• The Spirit World
• Historical Settings

Chapter Four: Enemies[]

• Essay: Understanding Villainy: Splatterpunk Villains and More Subtle Antagonists by James Moore
• Antagonists
  • DNA Operatives - Stats
  • FBI Special Affairs
  • Chimera - Stats
  • The Jersey Devil - Stats
  • The Piper
  • The Pumpkin Man - Stats
  • Wyld-Things - Stats
  • Sewer Gator - Stats
  • Mexican Pet (Giant Wharf Rat) - Stats
  • The Hook - Stats
  • Pup Pid - Stats
  • The Bog Monster - Stats
  • Lake Serpents - Stats
  • Little People - Stats
  • Unakas - Stats
  • Nuhnehi - Stats
  • Utluhtu (Spearfinger) - Stats

Chapter Five: Friends[]

• Essay: With a Little Help from My Friends by Robert Kaminsky
• Kinfolk
• Kami: Incarnations of Gaia
  • Kami Powers
    • Animal Kinship
    • Animal Powers (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Animal Speech
    • Animal Summons (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Animate Self (Cost: 1 Willpower
    • Aura of Tranquility
    • Autumn's Blessings
    • Child of Air (Earth, Fire or Water) (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Command the Earth
    • Curse of Gaia (Cost: 3 Gnosis)
    • Enchanting Voice (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Gaia's Summons (Cost: 1 Gnosis, 1 Willpower)
    • Garou Kinship
    • Great Destiny
    • Heart Sense (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Invulnerability
    • Long-Lived
    • Lord of the Land
    • Mask Presence (Cost: 1 Gnosis
    • Mega-Strength
    • Mother's Touch
    • Peaceful Fighting
    • Piecing Gaze (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Plant Animation (Cost: varies)
    • Plant Kinship
    • Regeneration
    • Silent Speech
    • Spirit Awakening (Cost: 1 Gnosis)
    • Spirit Charms
    • Spirit Sense
    • Spring's Blessings
    • Strange Senses
    • Subtle Presence
    • Summer's Blessings
    • Transformation (Cost: 1 Willpower)
    • Umbral Passage
    • Universal Translator
    • Winter's Blessings
    • Wyldkin
  • Kami Characters
    • Iglanotti the Wise (Chipmunk Kami)
    • Allouwoasowocho, the Oak that Cries (Oak Tree Kami)
    • Billy Beauregard (Human Kami)
    • U'laah (Great Vortex, flesh-borne spirit Kami)
    • Haunted Bayou (Animate Land Kami)

Chapter Six: The Ways (Rules and Methods)[]

• Essay: Sharpening Your Claws by Brian Campbell
• New Gifts and Rites
  • Break the Bonds - Level Six Philodox and Galliard
  • Firebringer - Level Six Ragabash
  • Rebirthing - Level Six Theurge
  • Unstoppable Warrior - Level Six Ahroun
  • Rite of the Sparrow - Level Four Mystical
• Fetish artifacts
  • Earth Rattle - Level 8, Gnosis 7
  • Elder Stone - Level 7, Gnosis 8
  • Klaital's Tears (Talen) - Gnosis 8
  • Seed of the World Tree (Talen) - Gnosis 8
• Forged in Spirit: The Making of a Fetish
• Essay: Simple Lessons by William Spencer-Hale

Appendix[]

Tribal weaknesses (Optional) and renown conversion.

• Black Furies: Anger
• Bone Gnawers: Social Outcasts
• Children of Gaia: Weak Veil
• Fianna: Low Self-Control
• Get of Fenris: Intolerance
• Glass Walkers: Weaver Affinity
• Red Talons: Wyld Affinity
• Shadow Lords: Failure's Dagger
• Silent Striders: Haunted
• Silver Fangs: Derangement
• Stargazers: Obsessive Mind Games
• Uktena: Intense Curiosity
• Wendigo: Wheel of the Seasons

• Recommended Reading
  • Chapter One: Storytelling
    • Chronicle Creation
      • Aristotle's Poetics
    • Mythic Cycle Stories
      • The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell; also: The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers) and The Historical Atlas of World Mythology: The Way of the Animal Powers (Volume One)
      • The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
      • Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung; also The Portable Jung (edited by Campbell), Psychological Types, The Meaning of Psychology For Modern Man, The Psychology of the Unconscious and Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
      • The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets and The Women's Dictionary of Symbols & Sacred Objects by Barbara Walker
      • Larousse World Mythology
  • Chapter Three: Setting
    • Wilderness
      • Using Wild and Wayside Plants by Nelson Coon
      • Indian Herbology of North America by Alma R. Hutchens
      • Field & Steam magazine
      • Frontiersman magazine
      • National Geographic magazine
      • Field manuals of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America
      • Reader's Digest
      • The Atlas of National Parks
    • The Spirit World
      • An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols by J.C. Cooper
      • Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small by Ted Andrews
      • Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
      • The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner
      • Shaman's Drum magazine
    • Historical Settings
      • The People's Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present by James Trager
      • The Masks of God series by Joseph Campbell
      • Penguin Classics
      • Great Ages of Man (Time-Life Books series)
      • A Distant Mirror, The Proud Tower and The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
  • Chapter Four: Enemies and Chapter Five: Friends
    • Urban Legends
      • The Vanishing Hitchhiker by Jan Harold Brunvand; other books by the same author: The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends and The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites.
    • Antagonists and Friends
      • The Book of the Damned, Lo! and Wild Talents by Charles Fort
      • The Encyclopedia of Monsters and The Encyclopedia of the Strange by Daniel Cohen
      • Strange Beasts, Giant Birds, and Bigfoot: A Bibliography of Monsters by George M. Eberhardt
      • On the Track of Unknown Animals and In the Wake of the Sea Serpents by Bernard Heuvelman
      • The Humaniods by Charles Bowen
      • Strange Creatures of Time and Space by John Keel

• Calendar by John Bridges

Background[]

• This is the earliest appearance of the Nunnehi.
• The Pumpkin Man is probably inspired by Pumpkinhead.

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

• Gorbuc - Fianna
• Colin - Fianna
• Flameback - Fianna
• Burle - Fianna
• Anukhet Whiptongue - Harbinger of the Silent Striders
• Auntie Smollet - Silver Fang Ragabash
• Fionn mac Cumhail
• Tuacholka - Wendigo Ancestor
• Microchip - Homid Glass Walker
• Stone-Eater - Lupus Red Talon
• Abe McPherson - Mircochip's old scoutmaster
• Sheila - Young Garou
• Kiko - Glass Walker
• Morning Singer - Galliard
• Hera Hears-the-Call - Theurge, Victorious Howl Pack
• Erlik - Ahroun, Victorious Howl Pack
• Haunch-Biter - Leader of the Victorious Howl Pack
• Tom O'Grady - Victorious Howl Pack
• Arlon Razortongue - Garou
• Angelo Costanga - Cyberwolf Garou
• Bon Bon Louie - Bone Gnawer
• Elisha - Garou
• Storms-At-Dawn - Garou
• Goes-Far - Lupus, Silent Strider Galliard
• Calf-Killer - Garou
• Ghost Dancer - Garou
• Sam Nakai - Wendigo Theurge
• Ruth Ann - Human
• Robert - Kinfolk
• Shere - Fianna
• Baron Rutherford - Infamous Silver Fang Kinfolk, Died
• Shelly Chiaroscuro - Glass Walker Kinfolk
• Hackles-Raised-In-Anger - Uktena Lupus Kinfolk
• Speaks-Without-Speaking - Stargazer Theurge
• Breaker-of-Chains - Garou, Died
• Accolon - Ahroun
• Ear-Biter - Rank 3 Philodox

Terminology[]

Antiseptik (Solvent developed by Pentex), Camps/Groups: Shadow Lord Revolutionary Guard, Loki's Smile, The Avenging Mother, Crest of the Horn, Fang Breakers (RT/W), The Inner Path, Renewal, The Silver Pack; Charm: Create Bridge (Utluhtu); Enigma Running Pack, Hall of Honor (GW), Historical Settings: First Times, The Great Passage, The Impergium, The War of Rage; The Hungry Moon Pack, Hvergelmir Well, Kami, Ke-Chuin (Hakken Bitter Brew), Kinfolk, Mimir Well, Moots: Grand Moot, Concolation, Imperial Moot (Can only be called by decree of the kings of the Silver Fangs); Orphan Kinfolk, Painting Stones (SS), Seasonal Tribal Rites: The Mysteries (Black Furies, First new moon following the Winter Solstice; L: 3), Superbowl Sunday (Bone Gnawers, Jan.; L: 2), Imbolc (Fianna, Feb. 2; L: 3), Feralia (Silent Striders, Feb. 13; L: 4), Rite of Joining (Children of Gaia, Earth Day; L: 2), Memorial Day (Glass Walkers; L: 2), Rite of the Impergium (Red Talons, Jun. 28; L: 3), Naskit-tin (Wendigo, late Jun. to early Jul.; L: 1), Rite of Long Remembering (Silver Fangs, Aug. 2; L: 2), Rite of the Opened Claw (Shadow Lords, Oct. 5: L: 4), Rite of the Three Wells (Get of Fenris, Oct. 31; L: 3), Rite of the Wyrm-Eaten (Uktena, Thanksgiving; L: 2) and Sky Hunts (Stargazers, Lunar Eclipse; L: 3); Song of the Impergium (RT); Urd Well, Warbuton Land Development,

References[]

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