Author: ethan
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Enough Gifts For Christmas
How many Gifts are in Werewolf 20? A lot. Not all of them — that’s crazy — but a lot. We wanted a lot of choice to differentiate starting characters, so we went up to five initial selections for Level One Gifts. And there’s more than two per level thereafter. Duplication does occur, mind, but…
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One More: Uktena
One last tribal spread; they seem to be okay format-wise, but what the heck. The Uktena always struck me as one of the “least picked” tribes, but I think they’re beyond fascinating. It seems appropriate to show you them, especially as we have a revised Prescott sketch to go with it. He added some more…
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Controversy Ho!
Sorry, folks, but I’ve been quite occupied with things that didn’t lend themselves to posting. So, here’s a quick question to throw out for discussion: Tribal Weaknesses. Completely optional, added in for Revised, mostly used by folks who wanted to add some more drawbacks to the Garou. Should we include them? The argument pro is…
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Diverse Backgrounds
Quick something for the weekend: A couple of you noticed the tweak to Backgrounds we’ve made for Werewolf 20. Essentially, it always seemed a little odd to us that no Get of Fenris could ever have a Contact: yes, it’s socially discouraged, but it’s not categorically impossible, and it feels weird to say that no…
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Tribal Spreads 2: For Fenris!
So, here’s an example of how we’re looking at changing format. Take a look at the following tribal spread, one featuring a tribe near and dear to my bloodthirsty heart. There’s a slimmed-down Character Creation section that incorporates Background Restrictions, Appearance has been trimmed of talk of human ethnicities, and we folded Kinfolk and Territory…
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Tribal Spreads
Back to the wordage side of things. Let’s kick things off with a preview of what the tribal spread text might look like. The advantage is that you can picture Steve Prescott’s awesome art alongside this! Also, tribal glyph and such. I should note that this is probably a little too much word count. My…
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A Peculiar Definition of Core
One of the interesting things about this process has been expanding beyond the “core.” I’ve worked on two Werewolf core books myself simply from the cWoD alone, and done at least one translation project (the original Werewolf: The Dark Ages). W20 is an entirely different beast, play on words unintended but unavoidable. So I’m used…
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The Voice of Rage
So first drafts are rolling in and I’m working on them apace. It’s very interesting being back in this headspace after so long. In fact, it’s a slightly altered headspace, because there’s a certain level of Werewolf spirit that needs to be amplified from where I used to be. Every author has an individual voice.…
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Here’s What We Tell Steve Prescott
What goes well with Ron Spencer fullpages? If you said “Steve Prescott tribal spread art,” then you are a person of taste well after my own heart. Steve Prescott’s been knocking them out of the park for Werewolf for ages, from a maggot-spewing comic in the front of Freak Legion to those masterful Revised fullpages…
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Filling In the Corners
Okay, first things first: wow, what great discussion on that last post. You guys are doing Werewolf proud. Obviously, not every concern there can be addressed (and to point out said obvious, because some of them are diametrically opposed), but it’s a mass of information that our authors have to work with. Care to give…