MET LARP SRD

Since their early days, Anda have embraced new technology and innovation, incorporating these advances into their fighting styles. For most Gangrel, the advantages of weaponry rarely outweigh the benefits of Shapeshifting; however, you get the best of both worlds. Whenever you activate the fight form of Shape of the Beast or another Major Transformation power, you may choose to instead assume a bestial but near-human form. This gives you the benefits of the transformation power, but you retain the ability to use tools and weapons. Any benefit that you would receive toward your Brawl-based attack test pools may also be applied to your Melee and Athletics-based attack test pools.

Your appearance when using this benefit bears the distinct characteristics of the form you use. For example, if your Shape of the Beast animal form is a bull, your Beast Within Form will have horns and a bovine snout. These forms are distinctly masquerade-breaking in nature. You cannot appear normal through uses of Mask of 1000 Faces or creative applications of Vicissitude or prosthetics, but you may still hide by using Unseen Presence. If you meet shapeshifters who assume a similar animal form, and you possess the proper lore, you may be able to pass this off as a Glabro form. Speaking in this form is difficult, but still possible.

While you are capable of maintaining this form for long periods, many groups of vampires, including the Anda, view remaining this way a sign of insecurity or weakness.