Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition

Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition is an update of the core book with improved rules and additions to the Werewolf storyline.

Summary

From the White Wolf catalog:

These are the final days -- the signs are clear: Even our pups know that this is the age of the Apocalypse.

The humans have Corrupted the Earth, destroyed the Trees, slaughtered the Beasts, choked the Air, poisoned the Soil, clogged the Waters, unleashed the Eternal Fire.

Now, the Wyrm rises to eclipse the Moon, devouring all within its grasp, hunting the hunters.

There is no garden to which we can flee. There is nowhere to hide. The end is upon us -- when will you rage?

Of Wolves and Men, by Barry Lopez.
Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat (or see the film).
American Indian Myths and Legends, selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
Call of the Wild and White Fang, by Jack London.
Moon Dance, by S.P. Somtow.
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, by Vice President Al Gore.

Films

The Wolfen (or read the book by Whitely Streiber).
A Company of Wolves
An American Werewolf in London
The Wolf Man
The Howling
Wolf

Chapter Three: Storytelling

Book Two:

Chapter Four: Rules

Chapter Five: Character Creation

Chapter Six: Traits

Book Three

Chapter Seven: The Spirit World

Chapter Eight: Systems

Chapter Nine: Drama

Appendix

Antagonists

Fomor (plural Fomori)
Black Spiral Dancers
Governments
The Inquistion
The Arcanum

Other Supernatural Beings

Vampires
Mages
Wraiths
Changelings (Faeries)

Spirits

Pack Totems
Naturae
Ancestor-Spirits
Elementals
Enigmatic Spirits
Epiphlings
Wyldlings
Weaver Spirits
Banes
The Dark Trinity

Sample Fetishes

Central Park: A Setting for Werewolf

Sept of the Green.

Last Words

Index

Background Information

This volume also features the full-color comic story Legacy Rite.

Henry Higginbotham designed the fetishes used throughout the book; his name was left out due to a printing error. He was acknowledged in Monkeywrench! Pentex.

Certain information from the first Rulebook on other shapeshifters is also re-used here, such as there being shapeshifting pythons and enormous, sentient orangutans in Indonesian.

Memorable Quotes

"The other members of the Changing Breed - the werecats, weremegatheriums, werealligators, and the like - were either driven to extinction or forced into far corners and caves." - Other Lycanthropes, Setting Chapter

Characters

Evan Heals-the-Past: A lost Wendigo cub.
Jonas Albrecht: Exiled Silver Fang.
Mari Cabrah: Powerful Black Fury.
Amara Windcrusher - Black Fury Philodox
Aether-Tongue - Stargazer Galliard
Walks-No-Road - Example Character: Silent Strider Galliard Lupus
Bessa Sings-in-the-Mist - Children of Gaia Galliard
Miranda Wayfarer - Children of Gaia Galliard
Luna's Voice - Shadow Lord Ragabash
Winter's Heart - Garou Ahroun
Quincy Iredown - Glass Walker Galliard
Brian, Wyrm-Takes-Last - Fianna Philodox
Deathbear-rhya, Death-Takes-Last - Wendigo Garou
Watcher-of-Wolves, another Garou keeper of the Silver Record
Kate, Chaser-Never-Rests - Ragabash Garou
Shines-Bright-Claws, Garou, Silver Record Tale

Central Park, Sept of the Green

Mother Larissa
Fengy
Howard Koar ("Bareback")
Simon Gentle ("Flash")
Spotlight ("Zoo")
Zachary Ellison ("Shade")
Reverend Barnaby Morton - Bone Gnawer Theurge of "Hooverville"
Wilhelm "Quarterback" Krause - Get of Fenris, Central Park Sept member
Alexandra Zamyatin - Silver Fang Galliard, Central Park Sept member
Gorgul - Dark Trinity Bane
Raza - Dark Trinity Bane
Fek - Dark Trinity Bane
Calvert Vaux (Glass Walker Kinfolk)
Frederick Law Olmstead (Bone Gnawer Kinfolk)

References

Previous book:
Book of the Wyrm

Game Books
Werewolf: The Apocalypse books

Next book:
Monkeywrench! Pentex