Bone Gnawers Tribebook
Bone Gnawers Tribebook is a sourcebook for Werewolf: The Apocalypse detailing the culture of the Bone Gnawers.
Summary
- I roam the streets
- lookin' for eats
- I ain't no good
- tough to beat when i'm in th' Hood
- They says i'm a mutt
- Kick me in the butt
- says i got fleas
- I say Snoop Doggie Dogg's got nothin' on me
- We're outlawin'
- and we're Gnawin'
- Bone after bone'
- we ain't gotta home
- It's time to learn
- time to turn
- away from the trashas
- make them burn
- Burn the Wyrm
- make it turn
- back to its home
- at least we got th' Bone
- Bone Gnawers Tribebook includes
- The history and culture of the tribe
- A "Legends of the Garou" comic
- Five ready-to-play character templates
- Bone Gnawers Tribebook includes
Contents
Weird Wolf Tales
An eight-page comic by John Bridges.
Introduction: A Forward by Shakespeare
Chapter One: Trails in the Rust
The history of the Bone Gnawers.
Chapter Two: Ways of the Rat
The culture of the Bone Gnawers.
- The Totems of Rust:
Chapter Three: Gaia's Armpit
Bone Gnawers around the world.
Appendix One: Powers
New Gifts, rites, fetishes and totems.
- Gifts:
- Nose of the Hungry Hound (Level One)
- Find the Prize (Level Two)
- Ward of the Road (Level Two)
- Rites:
- Rite of the Cardboard Palace - Level One
- Rite of the Shopping Cart - Level Two
- Rite of Man-Taint - Level Three
- Fetishes:
- The Lost Keyring - Level 1, Gnosis 5
- Chuck Rock - Level 2, Gnosis 4
- Susie's Dollar - Level 4, Gnosis 8
- Honest Rock - Level 3, Gnosis 6
- Gaia's Big Thumb - Level 2, Gnosis 5
- Rover's Whistle - Level 2, Gnosis 4
- Totems:
- Totems of Wisdom
- Totems of Respect
Appendix Two: Bone Gnawer Templates
Five ready-to-play characters
- Ragabash Rat Fink - Homid Ragabash, Rat Finks
- Rust Shaman - Homid Theurge
- Vigilante Wolf - Lupus Philodox, The Hood
- Hillfolk Hitchhiker - Metis Galliard, Hillfolk
- Frankweiler Knight - Homid Ahroun, Frankweiler
Appendix Three: Lifestyles of the Poor and Forgotten
Famous Bone Gnawers of the past and present.
Background
- The Bone Gnawers Tribebook was re-printed in the Litany of the Tribes Volume 1.
- The book's dedication is made to Jack Kirby.
Memorable Quotes
Africa:
"We're hyena-breed, some say. There're a few Bone Gnawers in Africa who live out on the plains, running with the hyenas." - Bonetrotter
Characters
Other characters:
- Weird Wolf Tales
- Mother Larissa
- Thomas, "Tommy" - Humam, died
- Martha - Bone Gnawer Kinfolk
- Old Frankie - Bone Gnawer
- Mr. Renfroe - Human
- Corazon Bitefinder - Past Bone Gnawer
- Blackbomb - Bone Gnawer who runs a shelter
- Sarah Walker, "Walks Among Equals" - Children of Gaia Theurge
- Rat's-Ass - Bone Gnawer Ahroun
- Samuel Haight
- Lord Dread - Sabbat Vampire who hunts Werewolves, has a Banesword
- Francois laRoche - Bone Gnawer Galliard from New Orleans
- Runs-Without-Shoes - Bone Gnawer Ahroun
- ACME - Bone Gnawer Ragabash
- Anwar Huskar - Shadow Lord in service of Morningkill's Court
- Moxie - Bone Gnawer
- Right Reverend Doghouse - Bone Gnawer
- Sister Bonnie Belle - Bone Gnawer
- Bo - Wizard of Washington Square Park, Mage
- Bonetrotter - Bone Gnawer Ragabash
- Great-Grandmother Charity - Bone Gnawer
- Tale-Nobody-Knows - Stargazer Ragabash from Los Angeles and knows Kailindo
Terminology
The American Dream, Ban of Man, The Barking Chain, Black Ball Rite, Burnings, Camps: Deserters, Frankweilers (Wingers, Waxers and Bookworms), Hillfolk, The Hood, Maneaters, Rat Finks; City Father, Hide and Go Seek (Celebration, Only Open to local Ahrouns), Inquisition, Nosferatu (Sewer Rats), Old Dawg Ball (Celebration), Piping, Rat, Ratkin, The Ring of Shadows (Collection of Bone Gnawer elders served by a loyal band of Ratkin), Rite of the Grand Dance, Sea Dog (Sea-faring Bone Gnawer), Subway Surfin', The Trash Heap (Trashpile, Gulietta), Trasha,
References
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WTA: Black Furies Tribebook   | Werewolf: The Apocalypse books | WTA: Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition |