Rules

Merits and Flaws add to the ways in which you can personalize your Kinfolk. These are optional tools, and not every Storyteller may allow them. Purchase Merits with freebie points. Flaws earn a number of freebie points, up to a total of seven. Having a character with more than seven points in Flaws often results in an unplayable individual. Alternately, your Storyteller may allow you to select up to seven points of Merits offset by an equal number of points in Flaws. In addition to the ones listed here, W20 Corebook lists a number of Merits and Flaws in its Appendix (p. 470). Some of these may be appropriate for Kinfolk as well as for Garou. Other sourcebooks may contain additional Merits and Flaws suitable for Kinfolk, provided your Storyteller approves their use.

Storytellers may even want to base some of their stories on the Flaws the players select for their characters. For example, a Kinfolk with a Fetish Merit or an Outsider Flaw may find themselves embroiled in a sept’s affairs, either favorably or not so favorably.