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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 3267537" data-attributes="member: 3087">Death Rage made simpleIf I understand it correctly this is what you need to know:[edit: I was basically wrong about how serious this is. No starting character is going to got into death rage because they get insulted. I'd misread the rules. Sorry for the confusion. Just  think of this as FYI.]Garou form is the ultimate war-form. You’re fast, strong, and so covered with fur and superhuman muscle you actually get armor. You also are fast and have wolf senses.It’s like a barbarian rage + Shapechange.But you’re rage unbound; iirc you need to make a check to force yourself to not attack something each round, or speak, or open a door, or do anything that doesn’t involve clawing or biting.But the Uratha still controls the rage, you can choose to tear open a wall instead of cutting your friend standing next to you.Generally you can’t stay in Garou form too long. And you can only do it once a day (or once a scene?).Death Rage, Kuruth is part of the Forsaken curse (it applies to Pure too I think but anyway). It’s related to the death of father wolf, the shattering of Pangea and the raising of the gauntlet.You resist Kuruth by rolling composure + resolve.The three ways you go into Death Rage in combat:*Somebody hits you with aggravated damage (including silver).*Somebody hits you with an exceptional success.*Seriously injured (i.e. you fill in one of the ‘last three boxes’)There is also a chart, based on your harmony, that  includes additional (out-of-combat) Death Rage inducing events.For our purposes:*Loved one or packmate is slain or betrays you*Ally betrays you(If your harmony drops to 6 or lower you have to start checking for things like "loved one in danger" or "takes aggravated damage outside of combat".Below 4 is where getting insulted or humiliated could trigger Kuruth)When in Kuruth you are in Garou form but there are some extra factors.There are two big changes1. You’re totally berserk. Total lost of character control; always attack the closest creature. Nothing matters*, no wound penalties**, no limits on how long you stay in Garou form. 2. You’re channeling dark forces that rose when Father Wolf was killed. So the spirits really don’t like it, or you, or the pack. So even after the crisis has passed there is (or can be) an additional spirit related sets of issues. At the very least you have penalties to dealings with spirits for a certain period of time.*=Again this is from memory but I -think- that if you’re gonna do something really really bad, like eat your own baby or whatever, you get a second chance roll. Don’t quote me though.** =You aren’t affected by the wound penalties but it changes the sort of Death Rage you have. Instead (i.e. if you’re seriously injured per the definition above, or affected by certain gifts) the Death Rage manifests as a “flee” type directive. If we can’t get someone (like a pack mate) out of death rage then beating them down to seriously injured and then getting them to run away is really the –only- solution.</blockquote>

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