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====== Combat ======

This guide is going to provide all the necessary information regarding the combat system in the WoD, which is used in this community. The system itself is not hard and is easy to understand, and you will soon notice that it brings a lot of fairness and seriousness. 


Generally, the combat itself is split into two categories:
**Ranged Combat:** covers a variety of techniques to fight over a distance. Guns, bows, throwing objects and so on. One must see another to attack him over a distance, you can't hit what you can't really see. 
**Close Combat:** deals with the world of punches, kicks, bites and so on. When a beer bottle is smashed across your face, you are probably having a close combat. Various martial arts also fall under this category and other less-developed forms of combat.
Order of Battle
No matter what happens or whatever mayhem your characters faces, all combat is played through a series of actions turns. 

===== Turn: =====
In game terms, a turn is a specific amount of time which is required to do a single action. The exact length of a turn heavily depends on the action in question. An action turn generally lasts about 3 seconds, that is a turn in combat. Punching a creepy guy who was staring at you the whole evening takes a turn, as well as blasting vampire's head off with a sawn-off.

All players are required to roll their initiative to see who acts when and in what time, handling those actions in one-by-one basis. After everyone rolled their initiative rating, combat is split into three parts:
Attack: When you check whether or not attacks hit their targets...

**Defense:**
The time when you see if a character can defend himself from those attacks...

**Damage:**
When you determine how badly your character is hurt

**Initiative:** To determine your initiative, roll 1d10 and then add your initiative modifier; the sum of your Wits and Dexterity dots (Vampires may add their Celerity rating as well.) The character with the highest initiative acts first, the second highest goes next, and so on down the line. Ties on the die roll go to the player with the highest modifer; if the initiative modifier ratings are also tied, then favour the character with the highest Wits. If the Wits ratings are also tied, favour the character with the highest Dexterity.

===== Phase One: Attack =====

When bullets fly, and you throw fists - the dice pool you employ depends on what you are doing.
For attacks that use projectile guns use Dexterity + Firearms

For attacks with thrown weapons, use Dexterity + Athletics

For attacks using the various hand-held melee weapons, your dice pool is the sum of your Dexterity + Melee

The better part of attacks that happen in hand-to-hand combat, roll your Dexterity + Brawl. (Some special manuevers ask from you to roll your Dexterity + Athletics, Martial Arts or Do. You don't need to worry about that now)
For the specific difficulties and results involved, see the section below.

The final form of melee combat is martial arts, which are performed using maneuvers and Dexterity + Martial Arts.

===== Phase Two: Defense =====

No one likes to be hurt. And in the World of Darkness, you can be hurt... really badly. And so, we present you with a system to defend yourself from various attacks. Be it a bottle swung at your head, or a shadowy dude trying to stab you — there's a chance to defend yourself! A character who doesn’t want to get hit with an attack has several options, all detailed below. These defensive maneuvers use the successes you roll to take away from the successes rolled by your opponent. You can perform a dodge, block, or parry as part of an attack – parrying a sword and then sliding your blade up your opponent’s own, for example, or dodging around a corner and then taking a shot at your enemies from behind cover. In each case, you need to divide your dice pool. A desperate defense, on the other hand, reflects all-out escape. A character can’t do anything else that turn.

**Note: Brawl, Martial Arts, and Melee**\\
Even though the defenses below are listed with brawl, they may be performed with any melee combat ability, such as martial arts and melee.  But only in situations where such things apply.  If you are unarmed, you cannot realistically use melee to defend yourself for example.

**Dodging:** To have your character bob and wave to the side and avoid an attack, make a successful Dexterity + Athletics roll. Dodging close combat attacks calls for the usual difficulty of 6, Dodging attacks by bows or crossbows is a difficulty of 8, Dodging thrown weapons is a difficulty of 6 and Dodging firearm attacks is possible, but the roll is made at difficulty 9. This difficulty increases to 10 for attempts to dodge shotgun attacks, automatic fire, strafing, or three-round bursts.

**Blocking:** To use a part of body to deflect a blow, roll Strength + Brawl. Blocking hand to hand attacks is done at a difficulty of 6, a character cannot block lethal or aggravated strikes without having an Armor on or and an appropriate discipline (Fortitude, Life Magick, similar skin hardening effects). Blocking cannot be used to defend against firearms unless you are wielding a shield. Blocking any ranged attacks by bows, crossbows, or thrown weapons increases the difficulty of the block roll by 2.

**Parrying:** To parry an incoming attack, roll Dexterity + Melee. A parry acts as a block, but is done with a weapon. successfully deploying the parry maneuver against an unarmed attack (punches,kicks,grapple attempts, werewolf bites,claws etc) allows you to inflict an amount of damage based on the amount of the successes that exceed your opponent's roll, the amount of damage dice rolled against the victim equals exceeding successes - 1. 

**Desperate Defense:** If you want your character to put everything she can in order to get out of harm — declare a desperate defense. While your character cannot act in any other way except desperately defending in that turn, she does have higher chances of not being hurt. You roll your Dexterity + Athletics. Your character gets to use her full dice pool against the first attack, but she must subtract one die from each subsequent attack that turn, your character may not perform any other actions aside from defending when this maneuver is executed, although some reflexive feats are allowed, such as using blood to augment your Dexterity by a certain amount and proceeding to desperately defend afterwards.

===== Phase Three: Damage =====

During this stage, you determine the damage inflicted by your character’s attack. Each extra success you get on an attack roll -1 equals an additional die you add automatically to your damage dice pool. Roll your ''Strength'' at a difficulty of 6 (damage is always rolled at this difficulty unless stated otherwise by a special power) to determine the damage of a unarmed attack (a punch for example) aswell as the ''additional'' successes that you acquired on your attack roll as mentioned above. Inflicting damage with a melee weapon grants you an additional ''Strength +'' damage, every weapon has its own base weapon damage which you roll alongside your ''Strength'', for example a Great Sword has a damage equal to ''Strength + 5'', which basically translates into roll your Strength + an additional 5 dice of damage, the same principle applies to firearm usage (various guns), except when it comes to that you only roll the weapon's base damage + the additional successes scored on the initial attack roll.


==== Damage Types: ====
 

Each success on the damage roll inflicts one health level of damage on the target. However, the damage applied may be one of three types:

**Bashing damage:** \\
Bashing damage comprises punches and other blunt trauma that are less likely to kill a victim (especially a vampire) instantly. All characters use their full Stamina ratings to resist bashing effects, and the damage heals fairly quickly. Any amount of /physical/ bashing damage inflicted on a vampire is halved down /after/ the soak roll given the vampire's undead nature which is resilient to such form of damage. punches, kicks, throws (depending on surface you land on), and similar attacks all fall under the bashing damage category, any character can naturally soak bashing damage unless specific restrictions of the power state that he cannot.

**Lethal damage:**\\ 
Lethal damage cause immediate and fatal injury to the target. Mortals may use Stamina to resist lethal effects (at a difficulty of 8 as a house rule), and the damage takes quite a while to heal. Vampires, Werewolves, Abominations & other may resist lethal damage with their Stamina. attacks that inflict lethal damage include knives, swords and other similar weaponry. 

**Aggravated damage:**\\
Certain types of attacks are deadly to anyone. Fire, sunlight, and the teeth and claws of vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings are considered aggravated damage. Vampires cannot soak aggravated damage naturally without the discipline Fortitude, Some werewolves naturally can (depending on form and breed), same goes for Abominations and other races depending on their setup and forms. **All splats can suffer Aggravated Damage; yes, __even Hunters and mundane mortals__.** The only real exception (if that's even the right term) here is Wraiths, since all types of damage are treated the same way for them due to how Corpus works.

==== Soaking Damage: ====
 

Characters can resist a certain degree of physical punishment; this is called soaking damage. A normal human can only soak bashing damage. A vampire (or other supernatural being) is tougher, and can thus use soak dice against lethal damage. Aggravated damage can rarely be soaked, but there are certain traits and powers which enable an invidivual to do so.

After an attack hits and inflicts damage, the defender may make a soak roll to resist. This is considered a reflexive action; characters need not take an action or split a dice pool to soak. Unless otherwise stated, soak rolls are made versus difficulty 6. Each soak success subtracts one die from the total damage inflicted. As with damage rolls, soak rolls may not botch, only fail.

==== Armor: ====


Armor adds to your character’s soak. The armor’s rating combines with your base soak for purposes of reducing damage. Light armor offers a small amount of protection, but doesn’t greatly hinder mobility. Heavy armor provides a lot of protection, but can restrict flexibility. Armor protects against bashing, lethal, and aggravated damage from teeth and claws; it does not protect against fire or sunlight. Armor is not indestructible. If the damage rolled in a single attack equals twice the armor’s rating, the armor is destroyed.


* Tough Hide: Reflects animals, Bygones & constructs. Rating ranges from 1 to 3 and no Dexterity penalty for wearing it.\\
* Cybernetic Armor: Rating ranges from 1 to 4, and wearer suffers no Dexterity penalty.\\
* Reinforced Clothing: clothing that is stiffened, padded, or layered with thin mesh protection. Rating ranges from 1 to 2, and wearer suffers no Dexterity penalty.\\
* Enhanced Clothing: normal clothing modified by the Matter Sphere, Lore of Forge or other forms of magic. Rating ranges from 0 to 5, and wearer suffers no Dexterity penalty.\\
* Biker jacket: represents thick, practical & heavy-duty protection. Rating 1 and wearer suffers -1 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Leather duster: Rating 2, and wearer suffers -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Cosplay mail: reflects modern costume armor, Rating 2 and wearer suffers -1 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Chainmail: represents battle-worthy chain-link armor, heavier than cosplay mail. Rating 4 and wearer suffers -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Steel Breastplate: Rating 3 and wearer suffers -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Full Plate: articulated knight’s armor. Rating 5 and wearer suffers -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Kevlar Vest: Rating 3 and wearer suffers a -1 Dexterity penalty. \\
* Flak Vest: Rating 4 and wearer suffers a -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Riot Suit: police heavy body armor. Rating 4 and wearer suffers -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Military Armor: Rating 5 and wearer suffers a -2 Dexterity penalty.\\
* Alanson Hardsuit: Rating 7 and wearer suffers -2 Dexterity penalty.\\


==== Shield Mechanics: ====
 

Shields, meanwhile, act as protective gear that can be brought to bear when facing an enemy. An opponent who’s facing your shield in hand-to-hand combat adds +1 or +2 to his difficulty to hit you, depending on the size of the shield in question. If it’s being used to ward off projectile weapons (bottles, rocks, bullets, etc.), then a shield also acts as armor, reducing a blow by one success for every level in the shield’s Rating. 

That said, a shield occupies one hand, restricting the user’s movements and potential activities. Blocking a specific incoming attack (say a volley of bullets or a swung fire axe) may demand a Dexterity + Melee roll and a dedicated shield blocking action. Shields are heavy, too, and they suggest that you’re looking for trouble. Outside of riot-trained police (who often use them in formation) and medieval reenactment enthusiasts, you won’t find many people using shields these days.


=== Shield Types: ===
 

* Trash Can Lid: Rating 3 | Difficulty to opponent: +1 | Dexterity penalty: 0\\
* Wooden Shield: Rating 2 | Difficulty to opponent: +2 | Dexterity penalty: -1\\
* Metal Shield: Rating 4 | Difficulty to opponent: +2 | Dexterity penalty: -2\\
* Riot Shield: Rating 5 | Difficulty to opponent: +2 | Dexterity penalty: -1\\

==== General Maneuvers: ====


• Aborting Actions: You can abandon your character’s declared action in favor of a defensive action as long as your character hasn’t acted in the turn. Actions that can take the place of a previously declared action include block, dodge, and parry. A successful Willpower roll versus difficulty 6 (or the expenditure of a Willpower point) is required for a character to abort an action and perform a defensive one instead. When spending Willpower for an abort maneuver, a character may declare the Willpower expenditure at the time of the abort. A Willpower roll to abort is considered a reflexive action.

• Ambush: Ambushes involve surprising a target to get in a decisive first strike. The attacker rolls Dexterity + Stealth (regular difficulty of 6 unless you've any modifiers) in a resisted action against the target’s Perception + Alertness (regular difficulty of 6 unless you've any modifiers). If the attacker scores more successes, she can stage one free attack on the target; she then adds any extra successes from the resisted roll to her attack dice pool, to a maximum of 3. On a tie, the attacker still attacks first, although the target may perform a defensive maneuver. If the defender gets more successes, he spots the ambush, and both parties determine initiative normally. Targets already involved in combat cannot be ambushed.

• Targeting: Aiming for a specific location incurs an added difficulty, but can bypass armor or cover, or can result in an increased damage effect. The Storyteller should consider special results beyond a simple increase in damage, depending on the attack and the target. targeting someone's limbs adds +1 difficulty, targeting the head and other small sized locations adds a +2 difficulty, going for precise locations such as the heart and eyes calls for a +3 difficulty.

• Blind Fighting/Fire: Staging attacks while blind (or in pitch darkness) usually incurs a +2 difficulty to all /physical/ related attacks, defending may not be done at all and same goes for ranged attacks. Powers such as Auspex Heightened Senses, Serpentis and Eyes of the Beast mitigate this penalty, where you suffer a +1 difficulty instead of 2.

===== Movement: =====


Characters may move at up to half maximum running speed, then subsequently attack or perform another action, Characters may also wish to move while taking another action. This is possible, but each yard or meter moved subtracts one from the other action’s dice pool.

==== Ambushes: ====


Ambushes are an important combat mechanic, one the books barely touch on. Neither of the book supplements clarify what the exact modifiers for ambushes are, or how invisibility and similar abilities factor in the roll, other than a few specific powers that explicitly state the enemy gets an increased difficulty on the Perception + Alertness roll. This guide will touch on the modifiers related to stealth rolls, sneaking up to people, firearms ranged ambushes and mechanics related to Unseen Presence and others forms of invisibility or powers that otherwise affect this.

**Close Quarters Ambushes:**

Ambushes that occur when an aggressor sneaks up to the enemy and then strikes with a melee weapon or their fist, these mechanics follow the basic Dexterity + Stealth 6, opposed by a Perception + Alertness 6 roll. If the aggressor succeeds, he adds each extra success in the contested roll to the dicepool of a single attack against the enemy, up to a maximum of 3. Note that it's not a turn, not an action you can split - it's ONE strike. Be it melee, a brawl or martial art maneuver combined with magick, it's one hit - no more. If they tie on the roll, the defender can only react in time to take a reflex driven defensive maneuver (Dodge, Parry or Block), actions such as Counter Throw and supernatural powers require a premeditated action. If the defender wins on the roll, then both the attacker and defender must roll initiative.

Bystanders who wish to get involved can also make a Perception + Alertness roll. Compare it to the attacker, if you score more successes, you can warn the defending player even if they failed their own roll. However, this only tips them off enough to react and defend, they can't take any other action since it's a spur of the moment assault.

During an ambush, characters can make full use of the Flanking & Rear attack modifiers if applicable, thus lowering the difficulty of their attack by -1 & -2 respectively. 

Characters involved in a combat scene cannot be ambushed at all during initiative play. 

**Attacker Modifiers:** 
- Your character can move no faster than their jogging speed (12 + Dexterity/yards per turn) when sneaking up to the enemy character. Unless you have means to silence your footsteps or confound the enemy's perception, add +2 to the difficulty of your sneak roll. 

- If your character laid in wait behind a wall, was shrouded in darkness or concealed in some other form when the victim passed nearby, they gain a -2 difficulty modifier to their Stealth roll. 

- Moving over foliage, gravel, old floorboards or other flooring that produces additional noise raises the difficulty by 1 on the Stealth roll.

**Defender Modifiers:** 
- Acute Senses can lower the difficulty based on the enhanced sense. This doesn't always apply however. 
> Sight (Reduces the penalty only if the attacker is within your natural field of view)
> Hearing (Reduces the difficulty in quiet areas, unperturbed by surrounding noises and people); Being able to hear fast steps whilst in a crowd won't necessarily warn you of an impeding threat.
 
==== Ranged Ambushes: ====


Ranged ambushes are attacks in which the distance between the defender and attacker is greater than 25 yards. Contrary to a sneaking (Dexterity + Stealth) roll, the attacker rolls (Wits + Stealth), which reflects how well they make use of the environment to conceal themselves before the attack. Assume that if the defender is not facing your general direction, the ambush succeeds by default unless bystanders warn them. While regular ambushes give the attacker additional dice on their attack, ranged attacks instead grant them with additional turns for each success over that of the defender. During this period, they take aim (and thus lower the difficulty when using scopes) or prepare additional effects (I.E. use gifts to give additional dice, enhance the weapon with matter, extend force rotes, etc), up to a maximum of 2 extra turns. 

Other than using the common sense that a sniper behind you can't be detected at all, there are some modifiers that shape the difficulty of such rolls. 

- Distance: For each 100 extra yards the target is distanced from the attacker, the defender adds +1 to the difficulty of their Perception rolls.

- If the target camouflaged themselves or otherwise concealed their position by other means, the Perception difficulty increases, or the difficulty of their own Stealth decreases. As decreed by the power in use.


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===== Player versus Player Interactions =====

__**Important Note**__: PVP is not and never will be the primary focus of this game. There is no 'PVP splat' (no, not even Hunter), and with the way the game has naturally developed plotwise over its years-long existence, any serious attempt at starting PVP between splats **without a very good reason** will be met with swift retribution often by your own splat's leaders. However, just because it isn't the focus of this game doesn't mean that it cannot happen; PVP is not banned here, and there are very rare and very far-between instances in which it can happen, such as a PC turning traitor. As such, we need to have mechanics for it.


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==== Types of PVP Rolls ====


We generally separate dice-rolling against other players into two categories: **Non-Hostile**, and **Hostile**. What is the difference?

**Non-Hostile Dice-Rolling**: We define this as any dice-rolling that, by themselves, //cannot cause harm to the character//. Using a non-hostile roll on a player character is fair game in nearly all situations. Examples include, but are not limited to:
  * Awareness checks, when triggered by a supernatural event or use of powers (this is activated reflexively, anyway; such calls are made by STs, and sometimes by the user of the power themselves).
  * Social rolls, such as lying (the liar's Manipulation + Subterfuge in a contested roll against the recipient's Perception + Empathy). Seduction against a player character must be played out, //not// rolled. Otherwise that's just asking for trouble, and we're not going there.
  * Reading auras. Note that whether or not this is considered 'hostile' can be situational.
  * Scrying. Same as above; spying on somebody without their permission, if you get caught, can result in consequences for your character.

Non-hostile dice-rolls against another character are allowed in nearly all situations, though there are exceptions (see Aura Reading or Scrying above). An ST's presence will only ever be necessary if it //becomes// hostile. This means that they are perfectly fair-game in social scenes, in which an ST's presence is not required and usually absent.

**Hostile Dice-Rolling**: These are the rolls whose primary purpose is to intentionally cause harm to another character, either directly or indirectly. This includes mind-control effects //intended to coerce a character into doing something they otherwise would not want to do//, as it robs a player of agency over their character, and thus requires an ST to adjudicate. This also includes things such as non-consensual feeding by vampires. Both of these are considered PVP by default. **PVP in what are supposed to be social scenes is highly discouraged and will almost certainly result in consequences for your character**. We handle PVP thusly:
  * It __**must**__ be made clear to all parties involved if a scene whose intended purpose is PVP carries a risk of permanent harm or death to one or more characters involved. Tricking players into entering scenes in order to kill their character is bad form. If such an attempt at tricking a player is made, the scene will be retconned. 
  * We **__will not__** allow players to abuse the rule above in order to provide a 'get-out-of-jail-free' card for a player to avoid in-character consequences for their character's actions. If your character has been violating the Balance, breaking the Masquerade and the Litany, cavorting with infernalists, poisoning the water supply, kicking puppies, and Rickrolling Hunternet, your character will have to face the consequences eventually. **Don't start what you aren't prepared to finish!**
  * Any time PVP breaks out in any scene, no matter the degree or risk to characters involved, one or more STs must be present to play referee to ensure fairness. The ST(s) should be familiar with the splats involved, and made aware of the context (including all plot-related details) in which the PVP is occuring. The ST should also //not// have any //player characters// of their own present in the scene in order to ensure impartiality. If no ST is available, the scene will be paused until one is. **This is non-negotiable and no exceptions will be made**. Proceeding with the scene without an ST will result in the scene being retconned and a possible strike against the players involved.

To be perfectly clear, if the violence against the character is your own fault and the result of //your own actions//, these rules cannot and will not save you. Violating the Masquerade in front of the Sheriff, murdering innocent people for shits and giggles in front of more virtuous player characters, wandering into the middle of the Sept wearing an "I <3 The Wyrm" shirt, or trying to convert that Imbued or Celestial Chorus mage to infernalism and then whining to an Admin about how it's a social scene when the fangs and claws come out will earn you zero sympathy.

In short, don't be an idiot.

==== Social PVP ====

Social PVP is defined as PVP by means other than direct physical violence. Starting (false) rumors designed to destroy another character's reputation, having the City Council vote to demolish a vampire's haven at noon on a sunny day, having somebody's financial assets frozen, or getting mortal law enforcement to think that the guy with a bunch of guns in his house is planning a terrorist attack are all examples of Social PVP. **Just because there is no risk of dying does not make something //not// PVP.** The following rules are enforced for Social PVP:

  * An impartial ST (with no PCs involved or otherwise connected to what is happening) must be kept appraised of what is happening in order to ensure fairness.
  * Any attempt at Social PVP **requires dice rolls.** Difficulty will be decided by the presiding ST, who must be made aware of factors such as NPCs involved, different laws (mortal or otherwise) involved, etc.

This is presented for the sake of having a overview of what is possible within the frame of a plot. But just like any other kind of PVP, it is discouraged, and these methods are better used against an NPC.

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==== 'Special' Ammunition And You ====

We'd actually made this ruling a while back due to people abusing this type of ammo for an 'I win' button against Vampires and Werewolves, but it's been brought to our attention that we should probably post it here to make it official, and for convenience's sake. 'Flare rounds' and 'silver bullets' are, well, a silver bullet against Vampires and Werewolves respectively. They can easily turn the tide of a fight against either character type in the hands of the right type of character.

There's just one major problem: They are (or at least, should be) extremely hard to come by. Incendiary rounds of any kind are banned in all fifty states on the civilian market, and the military keeps these kinds of rounds locked up tight, to the point where the small handful that somehow find their way onto the black market are extremely expensive. Silver bullets, on the other hand, would be considered a novelty item at best, and would neither be mass-produced nor sold in bulk. The reason for this is that silver is an extremely flimsy metal and make for poor weapons, and for obvious reasons, silver bullets are prohibitively expensive to manufacture. Only Pentex has a large stockpile of silver bullets.

So how do you get your hands on these? Simple: You make them yourself.

**__Incendiary Ammo/Flare Rounds__**:\\
In order to acquire flare rounds, you must have a minimum of Crafts 3, with two successes equalling one flare round. Botching this roll will cause the round to be faulty, and to explode in your own gun when fired, likely dealing severe Lethal damage to your character, not to mention destroying your weapon.\\
Attempting to buy the rounds on the black market will require a minimum of Resources 4, an in-character justification for how your character has black market contacts, and even then, it will be impossible to buy these rounds in bulk, due to how tightly these types of weapons are regulated.\\
Mages may produce these types of flare rounds with Matter 3/Forces 3, and by infusing 1 quintessence into each bullet produced. to lock the effect. A less costly method would be to create a batch of Charms with the same effect (Charms 3, 9 Quint for twenty bullets). But unless you really need these fire dealing bullets, you're better off just using Prime 2 to make your weapon deal aggravated damage for the duration of the scene.\\
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**__Silver Rounds__**:\\
These cannot be purchased in bulk. The only companies that produces them in an amount where this would even be possible, Pentex subsidiaries, do not sell these on the civilian market, and are used almost exclusively by their First Teams. Certain (small) businesses may make them as novelty items, but they're not meant to actually be fired. Botching a roll while using 'novelty' silver rounds will break your firearm.
You may attempt to get these rounds from Pentex itself, but make sure you have IC justification for it, such as having a Pentex operative as a background dot... or having enough Resources to ensure some "accidentally fall off the back of a truck." Make sure your character is not hostile with Pentex, or that bullet will be in their skull instead.\\
Mages may produces these with Matter 2. Much simpler than incendiary rounds.\\
Just like with flare rounds, you need a minimum of Crafts 3 to make them, or to make silver-plated weapons. But unlike flare rounds, you also need Resources 3 in order to buy the materials to make ten bullets (possibly less depending upon the caliber of the round you're making). Pure silver is not cheap, and it's a relatively flimsy metal that makes for a poor weapon unless you know exactly what you're doing. For details, see the ST of your splat.\\
It is not possible to buy these weapons on the black market. Again, the consensus opinion among arms dealers is that they're a stupid vanity item, with no real practical military use. Since, y'know, werewolves don't exist.

==== Purity of Silver ====

The amount of silver used in a weapon matters when it comes to Werewolves, Fera, or anything with the 'Vulnerable to Silver' Flaw.

  * At **80% silver,** it is possible for Werewolves, Fera, etc. to soak up to __50%__ of the damage, but they're just like any other bullets, swords, etc. against anything else.
  * **At 90% silver**, Werewolves, Fera, etc. can't soak any damage at all (without the appropriate gifts), but these bullets/weapons are borderline useless against armor due to being brittle. //If the attacker tries to use this weapon against something that **isn't** a Garou or Fera and doesn't have the 'Vulnerable to Silver' flaw and botches the roll, the weapon breaks. If it's a bullet, the gun jams.//

Naturally, getting hurt with Silver //freaking hurts//, even if you're not a Garou or a Fera. Imagine getting cut with something that also granulates and leaves shards in the wound that are liable to give you heavy metal poisoning. Yeah, it sucks. We expect this to be roleplayed appropriately.
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