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Beast Player’s Guide Preview [Beast: The Primordial] – Onyx Path Publishing
The Beast Player’s Guide expands on the material presented in Beast: The Primordial, with additional information on the Families and Hungers, what it feels like to be a Beast and experience the Devouring, and how to commune with the Dark Mother. You’ll also find two new Families and two new Hungers! Mar 07, · The Beast Player’s Guide expands on the material presented in Beast: The Primordial, with additional information on the Families and Hungers, what it feels like to be a Beast and experience the Devouring, and how to commune with the Dark Mother. . Beast the Primordial Player's Guide: Chapter 4 In the Company of Monsters So this chapter is rather vaguely about beast society, and it's really not organized well, at all, it's also of incredibly questionable use before it gets to actual material.
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You are a Beast, a living embodiment of humanity's deepest and darkest fears, driven by an inescapable need to sate your Hunger, a manifestation of fear.
You may be driven by the urge to Ruin or Dominate, but you cannot help but Feed. Of course, where a Beast lurks, Heroes inevitably arise, driven to slay the Thing lurking in the Dark Sounds awesome, right? A chance to both completely blow off the supernatural wangst that bedevils almost all of the other WoD lines except Geist: The Sin-Eaters and maybe Demon: The Descent and revel in being the bad guy you truly are: what could possibly wreck that idea? For a start, you don't get any shapeshifting powers at all.
That's right, you have a "Beast's soul", but not a Beast's body - even your Atavisms are completely invisible to normalfags, even when you're squeezing through a too-tight space, ripping them apart with claws or breathing fire unless you decided to drop your Lair the fancy domain thing that is tied to you on top of their asses.
Though, if that happens, subtlety has gone right out the window. It would have been bad enough, but coming in the wake of Demon: The Descentwhich gave excellent modular rules for building a demonic form, fans were expecting a similar level of cool shapeshifting powers in a game that was advertised as "be the beast that haunts humanity's soul". It didn't help that the author openly mocked the people who argued in favor of making Heroes less unsympathetic.
But, in a surprising show of self-awareness, beast the primordial players guide pdf download, Onyx Path actually took the time to respond to the criticisms and began an immediate rewrite of the book to address them, rewriting large portions of the book to be relatively more neutral in tone, though in many cases these rewrites either failed to address the original issues or were exactly the same as the original.
And in at least a few cases, "optional interpretations" trying to shoehorn in the original depiction of Beasts were added in beast the primordial players guide pdf download attempt to circumvent the rewrite, beast the primordial players guide pdf download.
In some cases, the rewrite actually made the issues with Beast worse by attempting to give the Beasts the moral high ground.
That that's almost the exact same justification the Night Lords used, it didn't give them the moral high ground either. And Jigsaw, of the iconic Saw franchise - which looks like one of the foremost Beast's inspirations - may be liked by many a maniac admirers but hardly anyone sane argues him not a villain. The methods of dealing with Hunger suggested by the book ranged from the ludicrously petty to the outright murderous, and the addition of the "Family Dinner" mechanic in which a Beast could sate its hunger just by watching another supernatural being hunt or feed made the double-edged sword that Hunger could have been completely irrelevant.
Later on, it was discovered that author Matt McFarland was accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl and was quietly let go from Onyx Path, beast the primordial players guide pdf download. Following further accusations of sexual harassment in involving the abuse of his position as a senior writer, Onyx Path stripped McFarland of his remaining assignments with them and publically condemned his actions.
When you look at all the above stuff about Beasts being entitled to indulging their Hungers and that they're actually doing their victims a favor in the light of said accusation If BtP makes any success, it will not be because of him, beast the primordial players guide pdf download, but in spite of him.
To condense down what each family group of beast "souls" are, there are seven different families of monsters which again are each an abstract conceptual basis to come up with your own style of monsters, although in practice some of them tend to fit specific stereotypical monsters far more than others.
Each Horror is the nightmare manifested, a primal fear given shape, beast the primordial players guide pdf download the Beast is always the first inflicted upon by this nightmare, and are no longer troubled by it. These families are then mixed with seven hungers to help build your own monster. Giantsogresand the powerful primordials of an earthy disposition.
The fear that makes up your soul is the fear of powerlessness, beast the primordial players guide pdf download. Something that you will likely never allow to happen to you again. These are not your BFG friends, because even the nicest ones feed on the fear of powerlessness and dominate their opponents.
As for their powers, expect strength, presence and for a fight in their lairs to become a titanic struggle. Like Attack on Titan where you're the Titan and your enemy forgot their jet pack and cables. Lurkers, dwellers in the dark places, and sometimes capable of breathing fire or shredding opponents.
Eshmaki are the beasts of the fear of darkness and the things that go bump in the night. Because they have conquered their fear, they never feel alone, though they might be. Did I mention you can be a dragon with this? Maybe one day you can use your incarnate powers to rule beast the primordial players guide pdf download world as force of change After all, what's to stop a dragon except a knight?
And knights are just more tinned food. Nightmares of beast the primordial players guide pdf download Other, beast the primordial players guide pdf download. The youngest Family, "only" dating back to the dawn of civilization and the xenophobia it fostered.
This is where you find stuff like Doppelgangersthe Pod People, The Thing from the John Carpenter filmLacrymoles and various other monsters that can be called almost but not quite human. Ironically, they're the most humanlike of the Families despite their schtick of being the perpeutal outsiders.
For those wanting to say they are the Kraken, Leviathan, or any other sea monster. The Makara are the beasts of the fear of the depths. At its simplest this translates to a fear of drowning, but can easily be extrapolated further into overwhelming knowledge or circumstance.
They tend to have the more lethal kinds of lairs. Drop one into reality and watch the world face a natural disaster level threat.
Those that believe in beauty being skin deep might have been referring to these things. Probably before being horribly fossilised. Namtaru are the fear of revulsion, and have Gorgons, insectoid terrors, and various other fuck-ugly things in their background. They can inflict a single condition once per scene, but they also are potentially some of the easiest people to hide evidence. After all, a statue can't expose you if you're simply a talented stone carver.
Nightmares of Confinement. They embody fears of being kidnapped, imprisoned, and otherwise held against one's will. After an especially unwise brood attempted to re-enact the Rape of the Sabine Women on a band of Heroes, the entire Family got saddled with an Anathema which causes them to be followed with an air of menace that makes people think any Captor they encounter is "out to get them".
Naturally, they try to avoid brutalizing or raping their "prisoners" now, which probably causes some problems with the fact that, lore-wise, they're actually cursed to be compulsive rapists, though. Don't really end up mapping easily to a popular monster archetype like the others, so they mostly end up being giant spiders, living prisons, or unseen jailors.
Could probably work for folks wanting to be Jigsaw or Leatherface-style slashers Monsters of the air that represent everything from harpies to dragons againto great birds like the majestic Phoenix or Roc. They are the fear of exposure literally or metaphoricallyand too few people ever look up.
Flight is something that falls among the realms of ease for these creatures, beast the primordial players guide pdf download. What's terrifying is their birthright ability to breach through facades. That means no glamour or special obfuscation can escape these eyes. It only inflicts a condition, but sometimes that's all it takes. Your Beast's Hunger is what defines the kind of dark monstrous things you need to do to keep your Horror happy and full.
There is always the feeding on flesh and blood but sometimes a beast can satisfy their craving in other ways. Feeding your Beast is what gives you power, and how full your beast is is the satiety stat. High satiety gives you a lot of power to fuel your awesome abilities like unleashing your dragon breath or using your titanic strength to kick a vampire through a skyscraper, and also passively enhances your Nightmares.
However, high satiety has risks attached. Your Horror could become gluttonous or picky, refusing to feed on anything other than rare and high quality heists or stimulations. A Collector might not be satisfied until you have Fort Knox gold, for example. At maximum Satiety, the Horror goes into a food coma, leaving the mortal body kind of helpless in the mortal world and since it takes some pretty heinous shit to reach that point, the now-mortal Beast will have a lot of enemies waiting to take advantage of his weakness.
By contrast, not feeding your beast enough means your Horror rampages through the dreamscape more often. At its minimum, you take lethal damage every day you don't feed and your Horror starts attacking the same dreams more than once. This leads to Heroes showing up and cause extreme problems, especially since you're probably not equipped to deal with the murderous glory hounds after the kill of their lives- but on the other hand it makes your Atavisms stronger, among other stuff.
Walking the middle road between keeping your beast from rampaging and not having it become a glutton is manageable, but also has risks of its own.
You gain none of the benefits for being at either extreme, and Heroes will find it easy to saddle you with Anathemas. Beast the primordial players guide pdf download practice, it's best to rapidly ping-pong between high and low satiety without hitting either the minimum or maximum so you gain the benefits of either extreme without needing to suffer the drawbacks for long.
There are seven Hungers. When combined with the seven families this creates 49 types of Beasts, so even Beasts of the same Family can be widely different but in practice, several Hungers and Families overlap with each other or aren't well-defined enough to be distinguishable. These Hungers are:. The Hunger for the Hoard. Simply put, the Collectors like to obtain all sorts of stuff.
Not because of what it's worth to them, but for what it's worth to others. Anakim Collectors prefer trophies that show off their own strength such as things taken from Heroes or mementos from worthy enemies, beast the primordial players guide pdf download, Eshmaki Collectors like to terrify the owner before taking things, Makara Collectors prefer ancient relics for their worth and to learn more about the world, Namtaru Collectors collect what seem to be items of great beauty, but look too close and the horror sets in like the stench, insects everywhere or the ground being filthy; other Natamu like to vandalize valuable things.
Ugallu Collectors are magpies, or at least close to them: they look down at the world looking for something they like, beast the primordial players guide pdf download, mainly hidden objects, and if they find something that catches their fancy they swoop down, grab it and fly up to their out-of-reach lairs.
Hunger for Transgression. The tempters to the Nemeses' punishers, they push people to break their own moral codes, then gain Satiety when the transgressor feels guilty or ashamed about beast the primordial players guide pdf download into their vices. They can't take the easy way out of using mind control though, the victim has to make the choice to transgress of their own will. The Hunger for Punishment. The boogeymen of the Beasts, delivering retribution upon transgressors big and small.
Anakim Nemeses solve violence with more violence, going after violent criminals and serving the dish best served beast the primordial players guide pdf download. Eshmaki Nemeses work by reminding the perpetrator of a crime long forgotten of what they did, stalk them and drive the criminal to paranoia by reasonably making them think that there's a monster out to get them.
Makara Nemeses protect certain places, beast the primordial players guide pdf download. Those who break these codes transgressing somewhere where they shouldn't or killing animals somewhere will face the wrath of such a Beast, but because of the nature of their Hunger these Beasts will require support from broodmates to help them feed regularly.
Namtaru Nemeses tend to be scorned, and repay those who pick on those like them. Bullies, abusive spouses and other cruelty coming from hate will face one of them sooner or later. The Ugallu Nemeses punish secret crimes and other transgressions that are difficult to prove: hypocrisy, deceiving romantic partners, falsely professing belief in a religion and so on.
These Beasts too like to torment their prey days or weeks beast the primordial players guide pdf download striking, making the retribution all the better. The Hunger for Prey. Not as straightforward as you'd think: while some Beasts do kill their prey it's more about besting the prey than to outright eat it.
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