New Werewolf: The Apocalypse Coming This Summer

Announced back in 2019 for a 2021 release, Werewolf: the Apocalypse's 5th edition is finally here--at least, it will be this summer. Coming from Rengegae Game Studios (who also make Kids on Bikes, and a number of Hasbro licensed RPGs) it's the first core book for the horror game in over a decade, and uses the latest version of the Storyteller game system. You'll choose a heritage from one of 11 werewolf tribes and fight to save a dying world.

Werewolf 5th Edition is a 300+ page hardcover book. You can pre-order it now for $55, for a release on August 31st (though if you are going to Gen Con in Indianapolis this year you can pick up your copy earlier).

 

[EthanSental]

When I first saw the heading I initially thought, another new edition, but thankfully see that it’s the 2019/2021 release now a 2023 release information in the article. I’ll be curious how it sells and I went through that World of darkness phase in the mid 90s more as reading material as we never played a session. Timing wise would have been when the Underworld movies came out to give it a try as our group had fun watching those movies.

 

[EthanSental]

Double post

 

[Voadam]

I wonder how tightly it is in the same continuity as Vampire 5th edition.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I bought somebooks of 2nd Ed, the 20An Ed, Book of Wyrm 20A and Changing Breed 20A.

But I am more interested into the lore than the crunch part.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I went through that World of darkness phase in the mid 90s more as reading material as we never played a session.

Lol. Same. Never played a single game.

 

[ProfessorDetective]

Oh, this is finally happening. I'm curious on the lore, too. If only to see how the false-alarm apocalypse went and see how the wolves are faring starring down the twin-barrels of the probable global climate disaster and the... current wave of civil unrest, we'll call it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

WtA is fascinating to me. Even in the 1990s, it was hyper-sincere, in sometimes awkward-to-me ways. But the environmental themes certainly haven't gotten any less relevant and having an antagonist group that was all about racial purity and railing against dilution of the blood was definitely ahead of its time (edit: that might be the nWoD Werewolf, actually).

The "lol, the Irish are all drunks" clan probably needs to be changed, though, as does having a breed based around birth defects.

 

[Bill Zebub]

The "lol, the Irish are all drunks" clan probably needs to be changed, though, as does having a breed based around birth defects.

Wait, the Irish are off-limits now, too?

Pretty soon all jokes will be about nazis and billionaires.

 

[Crusadius]

The "lol, the Irish are all drunks" clan probably needs to be changed, though, as does having a breed based around birth defects.

I believe the Fianna have now had their name changed, despite Justin Achilli's insistence that it would remain even though the names of the other tribes were changed to remove the cultural / regional links, particularly if they would promote (negative) stereotypes.