MET LARP SRD

When you purchase Shape of the Beast, you may choose to thematically alter your fight and flight forms, changing their appearance to something appropriate to your character’s background or Archetype. The creatures you choose must be predators or scavengers, meat-eaters; they cannot be insects or herbivores, and must be animals that your character could logically encounter in person (no extinct or imaginary animals). Once you select your character’s flight and fight forms, you cannot alter them thereafter.

Instead of a bat, you may transform into any small flying animal you wish. Examples include ravens, owls, or vultures. Instead of a wolf, you may transform into any similarly sized land or water-bound predator. Examples include lynxes, komodo lizards, foxes, leopards, hyenas, sharks, wolverines, or small bears. Your Storyteller is the final arbiter of whether a particular animal is an appropriate choice for Shape of the Beast. All flight forms receive the same bonus and have the same detriments; you gain a +3 bonus to Dodge-based defensive test pools and can fl y at your normal movement speed. However, due to your relatively small size, your Physical attribute is reduced to 3 for the purpose of Physical attacks.

When you choose your fight form, you may apply one of the following templates as appropriate for the animal you choose, in addition to utilizing the standard bonuses and detriments of the wolf template. You may also apply one of these templates even if you choose to keep the visual appearance of a wolf; these templates simply make your particular wolf more unique. When you choose your fight form, you may apply one of the following templates as appropriate for the animal you choose, in addition to the standard bonuses and detriments of the wolf template.

• Huge: You transform into a large, lumbering animal, gaining 2 additional Healthy wound levels. • Vicious: You receive an additional +1 bonus to Brawlbased attack test pools. This bonus stacks with the normal +2 bonus gained when in Shape of the Beast’s fight form (+3 total). • Fast: If you expend both your simple and standard actions to move, you can move nine steps in a round instead of the standard six steps. • Agile: You gain a +1 bonus to Dodge-based defensive test pools. • Aquatic: You can swim at your normal movement speed, but your land speed is reduced to one step per action, or, at your Storyteller’s discretion, you may not move on land at all while in this form. While submerged, you receive a +2 bonus to Brawl-based attack test pools. This bonus stacks with the normal bonus from being in Shape of the Beast’s fight form (+4 total).

Spend 1 Blood point and use a standard action to transform into either a bat (your flight form) or a wolf (your fight form). You may end your Shape of the Beast transformation at any time by expending a simple action.

While in your flight form, you gain a +3 bonus to Dodge-based defensive test pools and can fl y at your normal movement speed. However, due to the bat’s small size, your Physical attribute is reduced to 3 for the purpose of Physical attacks. While in your fight form, you gain a +2 bonus to Brawl based attack test pools, and your brawling attacks, biting or clawing, inflict aggravated damage.

Both of your animal forms convert and retain the significant physical qualities and notable appearance-related flaws of your humanoid shape, such as one eye, a shock of white hair, or any other distinctive features. Vampires on paths still seem monstrous when in animal form, and Nosferatu or other disfigured vampires make for ugly animals, indeed. Shape of the Beast is a transformative power and cannot be combined with other transformative powers.