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I've never used XP charts for building NPCs, and in 1e when I ran a short, high-powered 'elders' game the XP I doled out for the players to create their characters with was far in excess of what the tables in the book suggested.

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No; the new Gifts are Shadow Gifts, and are available to all Uratha in the same way as any other Shadow Gifts - the Pure Tribes just possess affinity for them....

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So, I was asked about how I'd do a 'tactician's moon' type Gift. I've been poking at this for a couple of months now, slowly putting it together and refining it, and it's been a tricky process - among other things, I already put a lot of group-related powers and capabilities to influence the surroundings into the 2nd ed core, meaning a lot of the space for a Gift like this was already roped off by existing material. I've tried and discarded about a dozen different Facet ideas along the way, and I'm still not completely certain about the Facets that have survived the winnowing, but I feel like...

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Another teaser for Shunned - this time the opening paragraphs of the Devourers!


The Culling: Ghost Wolf Devourers

At the turn of the 21st century, a nightmare from stories poured into reality. The so-called Cull erupted in Russian and Chinese territories in an orgy of brutality and cannibalistic transgression. They plucked secrets from gristle and viscera, wielding incredible power torn from the corpses of their victims. The Cull swore allegiance to no Tribe and fought Pure and Forsaken alike. In a scant few years since, they have hauled themselves up to become...

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Another teaser: the first coupla paragraphs from the Mimics entry!

Children of Change: The Mimics
Evolution is a bitch. Uratha have been top dog for thousands of years, the handiwork of big daddy Wolf, and sure, they’ve done a passable job, but it’s time to step aside. Get out of the way for the new kids on the block, the latest models built to actually win this war. The age of Forsaken and Firstborn is over; it’s time to throw the obsolete and the outdated into the trash. The Uratha had their chance to pass the mantle of the hunt on to the mimics, and they failed, so...

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No Lodges - the Ghost Wolf entries are separate from that. Lodges are alluded to or indicated as possible outcomes for some entries though....

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It's the same Cull, although with some additional development past the original throwaway line in The Pack.

See, the Pangaean Cull wanted to cull humanity. That's not what the modern Cull is about......

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I wouldn't assume that, no - among other things, the Cull and the Devourers are both part of the same entry in Shunned....

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Have another teaser!

Look, this is the hard, cold truth. The Cull are coming. They’re coming, and nothing we can do will stop that. Now, we either give them the weakest as a sacrifice so the rest of us can live, or we all die. Me? I plan to live.

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*shakes magic 8-ball* It says... 'Odds are good'.



As I mentioned above, there's some new idigam in the book....

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There are four sample Bale Hound characters covering various contexts, including Pure infiltrators.

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No, I'm afraid not....

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Spirits, Spirit-Ridden, humans, and idigam.



We're not the right people to answer that, I'm afraid!...

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*shakes 8-ball* Looks like... 'Unclear' Some of the Host characters in Shunned by the Moon have beliefs about their origins, some are just driven by their instinctive drives.



There is. It's referenced in the new Gift of Hunger, and by inference in the Ghost Wolf Devourers entry, to my recollection. Might be more references elsewhere too!...

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For now, I'll just say ukusgualu, for those who have been waiting ...

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The five Gifts in Shunned are Agony, Blood, Disease, Fervor, and Hunger. Agony and Blood are affinity Gifts for the Ivory Claws, Disease and Fervor for the Fire-Touched, and Hunger for the Predator Kings. They also each have enough affinity Gifts from the core set as to have four each. Hunger should make the Predator Kings a fair bit scarier; with Strength, Nature, and Rage, they already have heavyweight combat capabilities and their old associations with the wilderness covered, but Hunger's tricks expand out their theme and tone and gives them some vicious tricks. Combined with the new Merits,...

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So there won't be a list of new Numina overall, but you'll see some new powers and Numina bolted onto specific entries....

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We're reviewing the Geryo mechanics at the moment so I'll let you know the answer once we've finished nailing everything down ...

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The Bale Hounds are indeed still involved with the Maeljin.

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So, uh, rereading my reply, I realize it might come across as somewhat flippant, which it isn't meant to be.

Bale Hounds are no longer divided up by their allegiance to Maeljin dedicated to corruption of human values (ie the Vices Plus Two of the old approach) - instead, they're defined by the corruption of particular *Uratha* values.