Garou wishing to challenge for rank should challenge someone of a higher rank in the appropriate auspice, or they may challenge the Master of Challenge. If this challenge is to a PC, the challenge should be cleared with the STs as appropriate before it is offered IC.

Necessary time active in order to challenge for Rank:

  Cliath to Fostern: Minimum of 2 months
  Fostern to Adren: Minimum of 4 months as a Fostern
  Adren to Athro: Minimum of 6 months as an Adren
  Athro to Elder: Minimum of 6 months as an Athro

Retirement: If you retire a character and your 25% refund for a new werewolf character causes you to start with 100xp or more you may start play as a Fostern character, however please note this will require an accompanying backstory that is more detailed than we would ask of a Cliath backstory. Also your character will be a bit older than most cliaths as a result due to their enhanced training.

We have been trying for years now to update the renown system for our game. But it simply hasn’t worked. Part of it is moots being rare as they’re so time consuming to run. As well as it has still been hard for people to gain and maintain for renown. This will also help with fera as it means they won’t have to leave the area as much, making it easier for player and ST.

As such we are completely removing renown entirely from the game and making it based on XP.

XP and Rank

To determine when you can challenge for a rank, you must be at or above the amount of XP in the table below.

This cap, will be tracked by each of your characters as it can be increased and decreased.

You must still do a rank challenge and complete the rank challEnge to achieve the rank. In addition the minimum time between each rank is still maintained.

The rank of elder can only be achieved via main stage, and can only go down to 550 XP through this system.

Cap increasing:

The cap can increase based on negative actions. This would previously bring down your renown, but now it increases the XP cap. If the XP cap goes above your current XP amount, you will lose the same things as if your renown went below the minimum renown amount.

Anytime you would lose renown, instead, the cap for each rank will be increased by a factor of:

For example Rite of ostracism would cost you 1 glory, 5 honor and 1 wisdom. For a total of 7 renown. In this system, you take that and times it by 5 to have the xp cap increased by 35 xp

Cap decreasing:

You can also decrease the cap by doing things that would traditionally increase your renown. To prevent abuse of this system, things that were normally simple and easy to do for renown, won’t be considered for a cap decrease. It will apply to actions that truly stand out for the character. The cap decreasing and amount will be decided by the ST and by how much.

For gifts that have a renown component? It is instead replaced by 2 times your rank.

For rites that would make you lose your renown, instead follow the cap increase.

For rites that would increase your renown, it will depend now on what the rite is and how it’s done, but usually low level rituals won’t yield a cap decrease.