The Totem bond - Garou Players
Mar 16, 2018 15:02:21 GMT -6
Post by Admin on Mar 16, 2018 15:02:21 GMT -6
Sometimes players leave, sometimes characters die and so forth. And sometimes new Garou join a pack. Each scenario affects the Garou packs and its bond to its Totem. But each will have a different effect because each scenario is different and as such each will be handled differently.
If a player leaves/stops posting - Totem points will be allowed to ride as it is not the rest of the players fault someone left the game. This is out of everyone's control and I do not see a reason to penalize the pack for this. When a new Garou joins the pack, the points will be "re-calibrated" with the new members totem points as well as the current players points.
Character death - The pack looses all but one of the points invested by the now deceased character, but only if that loss would still allow the pack to afford the totem’s base cost. The pack loses abilities associated with those dots, as the spirit grieves its lost child. The remaining pack members can spend experience points to buy those Background dots back freely, without the usual restriction that totems can only increase in power after significant events. If the lose will drop the pack below the minimum to have the totem, the pack will 'sit' at the minimum number til the above is done or a new member added.
Adding a new member. - A new member will have to under go the Rite of the Totem with the pack, which can induct a new member into a pack as readily as it creates a whole new pack, however the requirements and the procedure are slightly different. First and foremost, the prospect must have at least one dot of the Totem Background and must not currently have a totem (whether pack or personal). Second, the prospect must spend an entire lunar month,from auspice moon to auspice moon, living and fighting alongside her new pack and adhering to the prospective totem's ban. Any violation requires her to start the process over again on her next Auspice moon.
Once the prospect meets all of those requirements, the ritemaster (who need not be a member of the pack being joined, but at least one member of the pack must be present and participate) performs the Rite of the Totem as described on p. 213 of W20. Instead of a spirit hunt for a member of the totem's brood, however, the pack's totem avatar presents a challenge directly to the prospect: a hunt, a fight, a riddle contest, or something else appropriate to the spirit.
If the prospect successfully completes the challenge, the totem accepts her and she joins the pack. The players can spend the character’s points in the Totem Background immediately to upgrade the totem's abilities. Unlike when a pack performs the Rite of the Totem to gain a new totem, prospects must possess at least one dot of Totem; it takes more to bond with the spirit of an established pack than it does to bond with a new spirit.
If a player leaves/stops posting - Totem points will be allowed to ride as it is not the rest of the players fault someone left the game. This is out of everyone's control and I do not see a reason to penalize the pack for this. When a new Garou joins the pack, the points will be "re-calibrated" with the new members totem points as well as the current players points.
Character death - The pack looses all but one of the points invested by the now deceased character, but only if that loss would still allow the pack to afford the totem’s base cost. The pack loses abilities associated with those dots, as the spirit grieves its lost child. The remaining pack members can spend experience points to buy those Background dots back freely, without the usual restriction that totems can only increase in power after significant events. If the lose will drop the pack below the minimum to have the totem, the pack will 'sit' at the minimum number til the above is done or a new member added.
Adding a new member. - A new member will have to under go the Rite of the Totem with the pack, which can induct a new member into a pack as readily as it creates a whole new pack, however the requirements and the procedure are slightly different. First and foremost, the prospect must have at least one dot of the Totem Background and must not currently have a totem (whether pack or personal). Second, the prospect must spend an entire lunar month,from auspice moon to auspice moon, living and fighting alongside her new pack and adhering to the prospective totem's ban. Any violation requires her to start the process over again on her next Auspice moon.
Once the prospect meets all of those requirements, the ritemaster (who need not be a member of the pack being joined, but at least one member of the pack must be present and participate) performs the Rite of the Totem as described on p. 213 of W20. Instead of a spirit hunt for a member of the totem's brood, however, the pack's totem avatar presents a challenge directly to the prospect: a hunt, a fight, a riddle contest, or something else appropriate to the spirit.
If the prospect successfully completes the challenge, the totem accepts her and she joins the pack. The players can spend the character’s points in the Totem Background immediately to upgrade the totem's abilities. Unlike when a pack performs the Rite of the Totem to gain a new totem, prospects must possess at least one dot of Totem; it takes more to bond with the spirit of an established pack than it does to bond with a new spirit.
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