Ratkin Renown

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  • A Guide to submitting Renown Requests.
  • A Renown FAQ if you have questions about the system
  • A Cheatsheet for creating a Ratkin

Litany of Survival

  • Preserve the Veil, which ensures your survival
  • Shred the Wyrm's tentacles wherever they constrict you
  • Sever the Weaver's threads wherever they calcify chaos
  • Survive so that you may breed
  • Respect strength, exploit weakness
  • Conflict breeds strength
  • Build, steal and suborn to strengthen your breeding grounds
  • Trust your own kind before you trust outsiders
  • When someone is responsible for injustice, make sure someone pays

Categories

Infamy

  • I will defend our breeding grounds against all threats, physical and spiritual
  • I shall seek revenge against those who prey upon my kind
  • I must shred the tentacles of the Wyrm wherever they constrict us
  • I must sever the Weaver's webs wherever they calcify chaos

Obligation

  • I shall preserve the Veil, which ensures our survival
  • I will build, steal and suborn to strengthen my breeding grounds
  • I shall nurture, instruct and aid the young
  • I will trust my own kind before I trust outsiders
  • When someone is responsible for injustice, I will make sure someone pays.

Cunning

  • I will survive so that I may breed
  • I must respect strength and exploit weakness
  • I shall grow stronger through conflict
  • I will learn from the mysteries of the spirit world
  • I will revel in the visions the spirits grant me

Rank requirements

Rank Any Combination
1 (Rakka) 3
2 (Voto) 7
3 (Tava) 15
4 (Teppen) 23
5 (Rrrrr't) 30

Sample awards

Combat and Encounters

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Besting someone (including a spirit) in a riddle contest 3
Ending a threat without serious harm to any Ratkin 5
Surviving an Incapacitating wound 2
Surviving any toxic waste attack 2
Attacking a much more powerful force without aid -3
Defeating a formidable supernatural threat not of the Wyrm/Weaver 2
Defeating a very powerful supernatural threat not of the Wyrm/Weaver 3
Defeating a minor Wyrm/Weaver threat 2
Defeating an average Wyrm/Weaver threat 3
Defeating a strong Wyrm/Weaver threat 5
Defeating a very powerful Wyrm/Weaver threat 7
...permanently destroying/killing the threat in question +1
...without a single other Ratkin being hurt +1
...without being hurt or damaged in the process +1
...and the threat(s) were armed with silver weapons +1
Drawing first blood in combat 1
Destroying an enemy stronghold 7
Wounding a powerful foe and prudently retreating 3
Defeating a Garou 3
Being captured by an enemy -1
Killing a Bone Gnawer -3
Killing a follower of Rat (not including Bone Gnawers -1 to -3

Defeating the Wyrm/Weaver

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Revealing with certain proof, that a human or Kinfolk is "of the Wyrm/Weaver" 2
Revealing with certain proof that an area or object is "of the Wyrm/Weaver" 3
Revealing with certain proof that a Ratkin is "of the Wyrm/Weaver" 6

Mystical

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Purifying a Wyrm-tainted object, person or place 2
Summoning an Incarna avatar 2
Traveling to any of the Umbral Realms and surviving 3
Successfully completing a spirit quest in the Umbra 3
Failing to succeed in a spirit quest in the Umbra -3
Having and properly following a prophetic dream 5
Giving prophetic warning that later comes true 5
Ignoring omens, dreams and the like for no good reason -3

After following mystical signs and advice...

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Discovering a talen 1
Discovering a useful secret 1
Discovering a fetish 2
Discovering ancient Ratkin lore 3 3
Discovering a Pathstone 4
Discovering an ancient nest that was lost 7

Rites and Gifts

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Refusing to participate in a Rite -1
Giggling, joking or otherwise not taking a rite seriously -1 to -5
Learning a new rite 1
Discovering/Creating a new rite 5
Discovering/Creating a new Gift 7

Fetishes

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Creating a talen 1
Using a talen for the good of nest 2
Creating a fetish 5
Sacraficing a fetish for the good of the nest 4
Accidently breaking a talen or fetish -1 to -5

Nest Activities

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Help guard a nest 1
Staying on your post when on nest watch, even when tempted not to 2 1
Not staying on your post when on watch -3
Not helping guard a nest even when asked to -3
Keeping a nest safe through trickery or negotiation 3
Helping to prevent a nest from being overrun by the Wyrm/Weaver 3 4
Not preventing a nest from being overrun by the Wyrm/Weaver -3 -7
Single-handedly prevented a nest from being taken by the Wyrm/Weaver 5 8
Dying to protect the Nest or clan (posthumous) 7

Ratkin Relations and Society

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Participating in a just challenge 1
Teaching another Ratkin (depends on the depth of study) 1 to 5 3 to 5
For a homid Ratkin, surviving to age 75 5 8 10
For a rodens Ratkin, surviving to age 65 5 8 10
Creating something that helps the Nest or clan 2
Earning the respect of another member of your Breed 5
Exacting Vengence on someone who has greatly harmed the Nest or clan 5
Performing a deed that affects all Ratkin 7
Becoming famous among the Ratkin 7
Getting Even 2
Taking the word of an outsider over one of your own -3
Hurting other Ratkin through recklessnes or conniving -5
Getting caught trying to foil Elders -5

Pack

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Gaining the position of pack leader 3
Becoming the pack runt 3 -3

Litany

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Upholding the Litany 1 to 5 1 to 3
Breaking the Litany -5 to -8 -2 to -4

Behavior

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Giving good advice 1
Giving bad advice -1
Any time trickery backfires -2
Usurping another's role -2
Ignoring your own aspect in favour of another's -2
Committing a sophistocated crime 2

Protection and Defense

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Healing a fellow Ratkin (non-pack member) unselfishly 1
Protecting a helpless Ratkin 4
Protecting a rat nest 3
Protecting an important secret from discovery 2

Human and Kinfolk Relations

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Fooling a human 1
Being fooled by a human -1
Maintaining good relations with nearby Kinfolk 1
Having poor relations with nearby Kinfolk -2
Spawning a Ratkin 3
Protecting the Veil 4
Harming/rending the Veil -5
Repairing the Veil 3 1

Cunning

Activity Infamy Obligation Cunning
Performing a monkeywrenching operation 3
Creating a successful diversion 3
Hatching a plot of Machiavellian proportions that succeeds 5
Stealing something of value from within an enemy lair 5
Failing attempts at craftiness -1
Exposed as a liar -3
Not protecting a Secret -3