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M20 Lore of the Traditions
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Marcin [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 11/04/2023 13:46:02

Don't buy this book, it's not worth the paper it's printed on.

This book has been written by Americans, for Americans, with the assumption that nothing of value exists outside of America. It's a racist tract of American cultural imperialism.

In order to be transparent, I'm a European, whose family experienced ethnic and political persecution.

The authors bend over backwards to rewrite the lore of the traditions, to make them evil and supportive of crimes against humanity. But it's selective, for example the book is mum about Akashics and Imperial Japan, barely mentioning their support for the real life evil of Chinese Communism. The book however makes sure to tell you the Sons of Ether, when not busy persecuting scientists of color, were supporting Japan in WW2 and their human experiments. The chapter on the Celestial Chorus even states as a fact there are 21st century crusader states in the Middle East, and it's clear the authors mean real world countries (which exactly, they don't say).

Whenever the blame can be put on someone, it's always the white mages who are all collectively racist and sexist, and only women and people of color can stop them.

This book takes established lore, and throws it out, for no gain at all.

And it gets worse when you realize how the book makes everything USA centric. The Verbena are reduced to Wiccan mages in the USA. Not a peep is said about Norse pagans, Neo-Hellenes, or Old Slavic faith. It's all ley lines and covens of witches. The Dreamspeakers chapter, is one long winded rant told from a Native American perspective. Austronesian spirituality? Not there. Siberian shamans? Not a word.

When looking for something, anything, that would be useful, one has to recognize the dearth of material in this book. It has only a handful of pages with rotes, wonders, etc. Some, like Enochian or the Kitab al Alacir are copy pasted from older books. Others, like NFTs, are already outdated as hell.

If you really want solid lore about the Traditions, try finding the old Revised edition guides. They at least offered unbiased takes on the traditions and more crunch.



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W20 Wyld West Expansion Pack
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
by Marcin S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/28/2014 21:24:35

This is a less than mediocre product. Instead of offering the players a one stop document they can use to update their old WWW characters to W20 it is just a collection of copy & paste from the old WWW main book. When it comes to things like new gifts, weapons, abilities or totems this pamphlet (can't call it a book, it's too small) brings almost nothing to the table, the weapons chart for example is widely spaced and big while offering only 14 randomly chosen guns compared with the old Frontier Secrets which offered 56 guns on only half a page more. The two new totems are copied almost verbatim from the old WWW core and Frontier Secrets, but they are also hit with the nerf stick for no apparent reason. Gifts are even worse off, a random grab bag that offers little excitement to old hands (some old favorites are absent). I could go one about the WWEP, but it would be like a broken gramophone record.

If you want to play werewolf in the wild west don't buy this pamphlet, buy the old books since they offer more bang for your buck especially since they aren't so different when it comes to rules.



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Origin of the Species: Transmechs Revised
Publisher: Crafty Games
by Marcin S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 07/02/2009 06:53:38

I was quite surprised by the unannounced release of this toolkit. After buying it I must say that it almost completely covers the Transformers, with their sometimes unique technology. Included are feats that allow the creation of combiners, pretenders, triple-changers etc. The only missing element are the headmasters (and all other "masters"), but their inclusion would probably require more rules to make them work.

This high quality pdf is a must for every transformers fan/spycraft gamer. For it's price it includes more than enough for several campaigns filled with gigantic transforming robots.



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