Changing Breed House Rules
Homebrew Aspects
Mindspeech ••••
Prerequisites: Mindspeech ••
Effect: Extension to Mindspeech ••. Allows you to speak telepathically with multiple people at once (maximum number of targets based on your Feral Heart rating). This is a reflexive action with short range and lasts for one scene.
All participants gain a +2 dice bonus to Empathy rolls during the telepathic connection.
Inspired by The Reach's homebrew Aspects.
Kun's Kiss ••
Cost: 1 Essence per use
Effect: A mystical gift that allows you to grant aquatic adaptation. For 1 Essence, you can grant a target (or yourself) the ability to breathe underwater and survive cold water and salt exposure for up to 24 hours. The effect ends when the target breathes air.
You may affect up to a number of targets equal to your Feral Heart rating simultaneously. This is an instant action with lasting duration.
Inspired by The Reach's homebrew Aspects.
Spirit Gifts & Shadow Gifts
Changing breeds can access werewolf Shadow Gifts through the Spirit Gifts aspect. This represents a deeper connection to the spirit world and the ability to learn gifts from spirits that are typically the domain of werewolves.
Respect and Renown
Changing breeds use Respect instead of Renown. When a Shadow Gift facet requires Renown, you must have the equivalent Respect:
| Werewolf Renown | Changing Breed Respect |
|---|---|
| Cunning | Cleverness |
| Purity | Ferocity |
| Wisdom | Insight |
| Honor | Loyalty |
| Glory | Passion |
For practical usage and commands, see the main Changing Breed page.
Partial Change
Partial Change is the Changing Breed equivalent of the werewolf's Quicksilver Flesh ability. It allows fera to manifest specific animal features while in forms that don't normally possess them, heightened senses in human form, human hands in animal form, and so on.
| Partial Form | Available In | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Uncanny Vigilance | Man-Guise | +3 Perception |
| Swift Traverse | Man-Guise, Throwback, War-Beast | +2 Species Factor, +2 Swim Species Factor |
| Dexterous Digits | Primal Beast, Dire Beast | Grants functional human hands |
Partial transformations are activated through the shift command and can be stacked if the base form is valid.
Favors: Movement Types
Certain Favors grant special movement capabilities with mechanical benefits.
Aquatic
Aquatic ferals can swim with exceptional speed and dive to great depths.
| Rating | Available In | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| •• | Primal Beast, War-Beast, Dire Beast | Swim Species Factor 7 (replaces base) |
| ••• | All Forms | Swim Species Factor 7 in all forms |
Diving Depth: 100 feet per Stamina (land-based species) or 1,000 feet per Stamina (water-based species like Olutakami or Fishfolk).
Environment Access: Grants access to water_surface, water_shallow, and water_abyssal rooms when the favor is active.
Wings
Winged ferals can take to the sky in their beast forms.
| Rating | Available In | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| •••• | Primal Beast, War-Beast | Flight Species Factor 10 (replaces base) |
Flight Rules:
- Primal Beast: Automatic flight unless difficult maneuvers, hindered, or severe weather (Dexterity + Athletics required in those cases)
- War-Beast: Narratively equires Dexterity + Athletics roll every turn to fly or glide
- Man-Guise: Cannot fly, but narratively jump distance is doubled
Environment Access: Grants access to sky-restricted rooms when in Primal Beast or War-Beast form with Wings active.