Just as for Garou, this Background reflects your material and personal wealth, your assets, and your access to means. For Kinfolk, Resources also reflects how much you can help your Garou relatives. Werewolves often rely on Kinfolk to come up with the funds to buy sacred lands, purchase equipment, and fund raids against Pentex and other Wyrm-tainted human organizations and companies, along with anything else that might cost more in money or equipment than the Garou can provide for themselves. While some Garou may, in fact, be independently wealthy or prove able to handle the outside world well enough to amass their own material goods and money, most find it safer (for themselves and for humanity) to let their human Kinfolk interact with society, especially in affairs as potentially volatile as keeping a job or handling the pressure of investments or corporate management. The Shadow Lords and Glass Walkers, in particular, pay attention to the wealth their Kinfolk may accrue. Other tribes, such as Red Talons and Stargazers, may not care as much about material possessions or money. Most tribes fall somewhere in between. Even Bone Gnawer Kinfolk may accumulate up to three dots worth of Resources that they are able to contribute to their Garou relations (those scratch cards paid off!).

• Student: You have enough to squeak by on. You have an efficiency apartment (rental), keep a low-income job (or jobs), a moped or bicycle, and lots of canned soup and Ramen noodles. You could find room and board with you for one Garou relative for a few days.

•• Middle class: You have an apartment or small house and an older car. You have a steady, but often tedious job that lets you save a tiny bit each month, if you’re careful. Your clothes are good but rarely fashionable. By serious budgeting and buying cheap cuts of meat, you can provide for a couple of Garou for three months or a single Garou for longer.

••• Upper Class: You work at a professional level and earn good wages or are self-employed in a successful endeavor. You own a nice home or condo, drive a car no more than five years old (and have your eye on a “green” vehicle), and have nice clothes with popular, eco-friendly labels. You could support half a dozen Garou for a year and still manage steak tartare and rare filet mignon on a regular (not daily) basis.

•••• Wealthy: The family estate is or will be yours. You have access to land, a small staff of servants, a couple of fine cars (including that green-fuel SUV you’ve always wanted), and a stuffed bank account. Your investments are solid and doing well. You could (and perhaps do) support a large pack of Garou indefinitely.

••••• Filthy Rich: Money? No object. You possess multiple homes, at least one per season, have a fleet of cars, and interests in several businesses. With your assets, you could probably support the entire Garou population of North America for a while, at least.