Lineage System
Ascension Sojourns is a generational game. This is a major component of Garou/Kinfolk theme, and it is illuded to in some Mage Tradition write-ups, such as the Verbena. As such, we have rules and rolls for having offspring.
When you decide your character is going to have a child, please open a +request and make the appropriate rolls to the job. Staff will interrupt the results for you. We also need to know who the biological parents are.
A +request can also be opened if you want to adopt a child. This is World of Darkness, those most of those up for adoption will end up being regular mortal children, there is a chance to receive a kinfolk or lost cub (shifter before their first change).
If you want to PUT a child up for adoption, open a +request. We will need to know who the biological parents are, and when the child will be born. Staff will handle the rest.
Mages parent(s) will be required to take the WARD flaw as well. Families are a huge responsiblity, and sometimes a liability as well.
Failure to open a +request for any child may result in bad thing(tm) happening.
House Rule: The shifter books make it quiet clear that while most garou and kinfolk believe in a "garou gene" all attempts to find this have been unsuccessful. Some believe that is because the gene is half-spirit and half-physical. We also quiet like this idea to explain why magick (Mage) can often run along family lines, why some avatars stay in the same families like some familiars do. A Mage may certainly awaken for any number of reasons, and from any number of causes, in some Tradition this mystical genetics might play a partk.
Shifter Offspring and Pure Breed
| Parents' races | Parents' breeds (Garou, Bastet, etc.) |
Same tribe? | % chance that the baby is a shifter |
kinfolk | neither | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shifter, kinfolk | Same | Same | 10 + (5 * KPB) | 90 - (5 * KPB) | 0 | K:UH 13, 51 |
| Same | Different | 10 | 90 | 0 | PGG 203 | |
| Different | n/a | 10 | 90 | 0 | ||
| Two kinfolk | Same | Same | 1 + (sum of KPB) | 50 | 49 - (sum of KPB) | K:UH 13, 51 |
| Same | Different | 1 | 50 | 49 | PGG 203 | |
| Different | n/a | 1 | 50 | 49 | ||
| Two shifters | Same | Either | 100 (metis, Fera limited by breed) | 0 | 0 | |
| Different (mother homid) | n/a | 20 | 80 | 0 | WPG 2nd 190 | |
| Different (mother lupus/etc.) | n/a | 10 | 90 | 0 | WPG 2nd 190 |
- K:UH = Kinfolk: Unsung Heroes
