Freak Legion: A Players Guide to Fomori is the primary sourcebook for information on fomori, and one of the few books to provide players with rules for playing characters explicitly identified as antagonists.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Chosen by the Wyrm
- Pentex wants to speed up the process of human evolution. If nature won't do it quick enough, then Pentex will have to do it instead. Thus, the fomor: a sick, corrupt combination of Bane and human, a superpowered freak unfit for human society, blessed with deadly powers yet cursed with terrible diseases - and now you can play one of these things!
- Abandoned by Gaia
- Courtesy of Black Dog Games and the Wyrm, find out what life is like among the Wyrm's chosen. Lead assault teams against your Garou oppressors! But beware: A fomor's life is more extreme than you can imagine. Boundaries are crossed and conceptions shattered.
- Freak Legion: A Players Guide to Fomori is a sourcebook for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. It includes:
Chapters[]
Food for Wyrms[]
A comic featuring Mort, a hapless human who becomes a fomor. Written by Phil Brucato, art by Steve Prescott, lettered by Matt Milberger.
Introduction: Violations[]
A "Reader Advisory" preparing the reader for the type of content in the book, as well as an introduction to fomori.
Chapter One: Character Creation[]
Rules for creating both randomly generated and custom built ex-human fomori.
- Abilities
- Skill
- Indoctrination
- Backgrounds
- Consecrated
- Equipment/Fetish
- Favors
- Rank
- Skill
- Merits & Flaws
- Hidden Power (2 pt Merit)
- Banespeak (3 pt Merit)
- Pathetic Aura (3 pt Merit)
- Stigmata of the Wyrm (4 pt Merit)
- Unpossessed (5 pt Merit)
- True Faith (7 pt Merit)
- Deformity (1 pt Flaw)
- Scary Presence (2 pt Flaw)
- Equipment
- Basic First Team Kit
- Ammunition
- Silver Nitrate Hollowpoints - Rank 5
- Armor
- Pus Armor - Rank 3
- Silver Bodysuit - Rank 4
- Grenades
- Fragmentation Grenades - Rank 3
- Smoke Grenades and Tear Gas Grenades - Rank 2
- White Phosphorus - Rank 4
- Poisons
- Cyanide Capsule - Rank 1
- Ionone Gas - Rank 1
- Tear Gas - Rank 2
- Mustard Gas - Rank 3
- Nerve Agent (Sarin) - Rank 4
- Atropine - Rank 1
- Kiss of the Wyrm - Rank 4
- Sensory
- Sub-Dermal Radio - Rank 2
- Weaponry
- Automatic Staplegun - Rank 5
- Claw Caps - Rank 3
- Waldoes - Rank 3
- Ammunition
- Basic First Team Kit
- Fetishes
- Fomorol - Level 3, Gnosis 5
- Power Goggles - Level 2, Gnosis 3
- Putty Buddy - Level 3, Gnosis 5
- Vibro-Blade - Level 3, Gnosis 5
- Powers
- Animal Control (2 pts)
- Balefire Flux (7 pts)
- Berserker (3 pts)
- Body Bards (2-10 pts)
- Body Expansion (2 pts)
- Brain Eating (6 pts)
- Cause Insanity (2 pts per die)
- Chameleon Coloration (varies)
- Claws, Fangs or Horns (3/5/7 pts)
- Corrupted Visions (4 pts)
- Darksight (2 pts)
- Deception (7 pts)
- Extoplasmic Extrusion (3 pts)
- Enhancement (3 pts)
- Exoskeleton (2 pts)
- Extra Limbs (3 pts per limb)
- Extra Speed (3/6 pts)
- Eyes of the Wyrm (3 pts)
- Foot Pads (1 pt)
- Frog Tongue (3 pts)
- Fungal Touch (4 pts)
- Garou Gifts (varies)
- Gaseous Form (6 pots)
- Hand from Beyond (4 pts)
- Hazardous Breath (varies)
- Hell's Hide (2 per soak die)
- Hide of the Wyrm (1-5 pts)
- Homogeneity (6 pts)
- Immunity (varies)
- Immunity to the Delirium (1 pt)
- Infectious Touch (5 pts)
- Invisibility (5 pts)
- Lashing Tail (3 pts)
- Malleate (6 pts)
- Mega-Attribute (varies)
- Mind Blast (5 pts)
- Mind Rape (6 pts)
- Molecular Weakening (4 pts)
- Mouth of the Wyrm (4 pts)
- Nightmare Command (3 pts)
- Nimbleness (2 pts)
- Noxious Breath (2 pts)
- Numbing (3 pts)
- Phoenix Fire (5 pts)
- Plasmic From (6 pts)
- Poison Tumors (3 pts)
- Procreation (4 pts)
- Prolonged Life (4 pts)
- Rat Head (4 pts)
- Regeneration (5 pts)
- Roar of the Wyrm (4 pts)
- Savage Genitalia (2 pts)
- Scent of the Wyld (or Weaver) (5 pts)
- Sense Gaia (2 pts)
- Sense The Unnatural (2 pts)
- Shadowplay (4 pts)
- Shapechange (varies)
- Size (2/4/5 pts)
- Skittersight (2 pts)
- Slither Skin (4 pts)
- Slobber Snot (3 pts)
- Spirit Ties (3 pts)
- Stomach Pumper (3 pts)
- Succubi's Veil (6 pts)
- Tar Baby (3 pts)
- Toxic Secretions (2 pts per die)
- Umbral Passage (5 pts)
- Venomous Bite (3 pts)
- Voice of the Wyrm (4 pts)
- Wall Walking (4 pts)
- Water Breathing (2/5 pts)
- Webbing (5 pts)
- Wings (3/5 pts)
- Taints
- Addiction (varies)
- Atrophy (varies)
- Balefire Curse (7 pts)
- Bane Attractor (3 pts)
- Brainwashed (3 pts)
- The Crusties (3 pts)
- Derangement (3/2/1 pts)
- Disintegration (6 pts)
- Doomed (varies)
- The Fading (5 pts)
- Infections (4 pts)
- Inner Volcano (5 pts)
- Limited Mobility (2 pts)
- Mental De-evolution (varies)
- Mutoid Cancer (4 pts)
- Physical Wasting (varies)
- Rotting (6 pts)
- Second Head (5 pts)
- Severe Allergy (3/2/1 pts)
- Special Diet (varies)
- Teledementia (5 pts)
- Ugly as Sin (1 pt)
- Walking Bomb (5 pts)
- Worms (3 pts)
Chapter Two: Breeds[]
Rules and background on some of the more well-known breeds of fomori.
- Taint
- Breed Prejudice (varies)
- Fomori Breeds
- Bane Children
- Brain Eaters
- Enticers
- Ferectoi
- Freakfeet
- Gorehounds
- The Hollow Men
- Colony Powers (varies)
- Dispersion (4 pt)
- Normalites/Norms
- Serpent Brothers (the Serpent Brotherhood)
- Shadowfiends
- Sicklungs
- Sons of Typhon
- Throwbacks
- Fomorach
- Breeds
- Fomorols
- Colliquators
- Renitents
- Breeds
Chapter Three: Supernatural Fomori[]
Rules for supernatural fomori, focusing on bane-infested Vampires and Garou.
- Vampire Fomori
- Blood Hounds
- Blood Hound Powers
- Blood Sniffing (2 pts)
- Blood Vomit (4 pts)
- Blood Hound Taint
- Diseased Blood (4 pts)
- Blood Hound Powers
- Blood Hounds
- Werewolf Fomori
- Howling Shamblers
- Howling Shambler Powers
- Howls of Horror (3 pts)
- Shambling (6 pts)
- Howling Shambler Powers
- Howling Shamblers
- Mage Fomori
- Changeling Fomori
- Psychic Fomori
- Bane Mummies
Chapter Four: Recruitment[]
Information on some of the groups that create and/or recruit fomori.
Chapter Five: Low Society[]
Details fomori society and organization, mostly with regards to Pentex.
Chapter Six: Storytelling[]
Advice for storytellers on running fomori-based games.
Appendix: The Wound Within (Banes)[]
Traits and information on some of the banes that most often possess humans (or others).
- Blood Banes - Stats
- Breeder Bane - Stats
- Howling Insanities - Stats
- Mind Feeders - Stats
- Scavenger Pack - Stats
- Serpent Fathers - Stats
- Typhon's Brood - Stats
The Beating That Made A Man Out of Mark![]
Comic by Steve Prescott.
Background Information[]
- This book was published under the mature-line Black Dog label.
- The title page bears the subtitle "Revolt of the Flesh".
- Freak Legion features one of the rare examples of random character creation to come out of White Wolf.
- The final pages include an ad for "Dr. Veridian" in the mold of comic book get fit quick ads.
- Ads at the back of the book include: Mage: The Ascension Second Edition and Werewolf: The Apocalypse/Rage Ad.
Memorable Quotes[]
"It is only fair to warn you this book is gross." - the first lines of the Introduction's Reader Advisory.
Characters[]
- "Mort," Morton - Fomor, Food for Wyrms Comic
- Gary - Human, Manager, Food for Wyrms Comic
- Valerie - Human, Mort's Wife, Died, Food for Wyrms Comic
- Filbert Peenuckle - Example Fomori Character
- Larry - Werewolf
- Annette - Kinfolk
- Macintyre - Human
- Johnson - Ferectoi
- Gorstall Clan - Fomori Family
- Willis Cotely - Storekeeper, Tuckowee, North Carolina
- Amadeus Blitz-Schwein - Garou
- Harold Hines
- Dr. Pain - Gorehound
- Warner Gates - Regional Manager of O'Tolley's
- King Rat - Scavenger Pack Bane
- Kevin - Serpent Brotherhood, Fomori
- Michael - Serpent Brotherhood, Fomori
- Dr. Nicola Tregar - Created the Smoker's Bane Program, Pentex
- Toby - Monkeywrencher, died
- Chester R. Van Gelding - 7th Generation, behind The Fellowship
- Jim Fowler - President of Homogeniety Incorporated, Pentex
- Katsumi Takahashi - Glass Walker Theurge, created Realm of Deceit
- Dr. Von Hauser - Aesop Research Company
- Dr. Samuel D. Veridian
- Mark - Fomor, Ad Comic
Terminology[]
Acquisitions Division, Action Bill Danger Squad (Show), Action Bill Tattoos!, Aesop Research Company, Alpha-Fomorol, Balefire, Banes, Bane Charms: Breeding Trance, Prolonged Dying; Banelings, Braney (Show), Buck Racer (Comic), Conceptual Services, Ltd., Dr. Veridian's Workout Program, The Fellowship, First Team, Fomorach, Fomor/Fomori, Fomori Families: The Rite of Making; Fomorach Generation Program (FGP), Homogeniety Incorporated, Lunghugger Bane, Magadon, Omega Plan, OmniTV, Panacea, Pentarch, Pentex, Project Aeneid, Project Iliad, Project Odyssey, Psychomachiae, Public Relations, Recycling Program, Realignment Division, Realm of Deceit (MultiUser Dungeon), Registered Artist Worldwide (RAW, Talent Agency), Section C (Labs: "Waste Product" Division), Seventh Generation, SimTech, Siren Cosmetics, Slaughterhouse Video, Smoker's Bane, Special Projects Division, Tau Upsilon Phi fraternity, Vesuvius, Inc.,
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