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The Tabletop Gaming Club got the opportunity to playtest the product a couple of months before its release. We can't say enough good things about this product. The author dug deep into myth and literature for many of the wonderful Flora and Fauna that appear within the tome's pages. We really loved the Hospitalitree which was enspired by L. Frank Baums work Ozma of Oz.
Everything in this book helps bring the magical world of Changeling to life. WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND THIS PRODUCT TO EVERYONE. Even game masters of other world of darkness lines or even other game systems can make use of materials presented in Encylopedica Magica chapter of this book.
A+ product.
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Ladies of Darkness Ghouls & Vampires is accumalation of the author's Ladies in Darkness Series. This book takes the characters introduced as mortals in those other products and now presents them as ghouls and vampires. The product first represents these characters with roleplaying notes. In the second chapter this product ppresents these characters as ghouls with an updated background of how they they meet their dominator. (The author uses existing characters from other books as the various dominators). The third chapter of this product, presents these characters as vampires with updated backgrounds of how their sires chose them. One of the great things about this product is the different way the same base character is protrayed... for example the character of Axel Lamer is presented as both a Assamite Ghoul and a Ventrue Vampire. Aother great thing about this product is the variation they give to each character based on who is their dominator or sire, with each giving different bonuses to the base characters. This allows players or storytellers to take any character presented to be modifed differently based on who they want to be their sires or dominators.... which gives a ton of options.
The Tabletop Gaming Club loved this product. We strongly recommend this product to players and storytellers.
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MODELS is a unique roleplaying game, where the players play well fashion models who are also spies working for The Agency. We played a session of this game and it felt like we were playing though an episode of Charlie's Angels, the tv show from the 70's. We loved it.
The Tabletop Gaming Club recommends these product to gamers that want to try something new and a little different.
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50 Desperate Desire is basically a table of possible goals that a vampire can work for during heir waking hours. The ideas on the table can really spark some creativity, and give a player or storyteller some concepts to run with. That being said, rolling dice to chose a result from this table doesn't feel all that useful, as most players i don't think would want to randomly determine what their character would do, and as a storyteller randomly chosing one of these goals would be difficult as some of them are ideas that entire story arc can be set around, while others are pretty much can be accomplished in 5 mins of game play.
The tabletop gaming club found this product useful as inspiration, and some of the stuff on the table would make great campaigns. We recommend checking it.
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The section about the Trail of Kings beneath the channel is great. The general idea of Kindred establishing an Elysium with several services open to all is brilliant, the fact that they exploit human misery to secure sustenance in the form of the Saunterers is pure WoD The general services provided in the Trail can be used to move a chronicle there without much issue, at least for a few sessions.
The second part of the book is also very good, at the beginning we disliked the idea of another "sect whitin the sect" but the author manage the get us invested in the history of the Confrérie and the ralationship with stablished VtM canon.
The Tabletop Gaming Club recommends this product, its a great city book for a truly unique city.
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50 Chrysalis Manifestations is a short product that basically exists of a table with various short descriptions of chrysalis manifestions to be used in a changeling campaign.
The Tabletop Gaming club found this product useful for ideas to use when a changeling first awakens to their fae nature.
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50 Distrubing Drones is a short product that basically exists of a table with various short descriptions of disturbing drones to be used in a campaign.
The Tabletop Gaming club found this product useful when we needed a quick scene for a campaign.
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Sprites introduce us to a new kith for changeling the dreaming. Sprites are changelings with ties to technology. This book provides use with limited background of the kith and provides information on their appearance and lifestyles. The book also provides a little write up on Church of Isodora, a group that belives that the internet like the dreaming connects the physical and ephermeal.
The Tabletop Gaming club really liked the concept of this kith. For the price, this booklet gives some great ideas. We do recommend this product, but also wish that kith was expanded on more.
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The New Recruits contains six well developed characters for use with Orpheus or Wraith. These characters can be used as a ready made player character or as npcs to flush out your campaign. Each character includes four variants of the character, to use depending on the power level of your campaign.
The Tabletop Gaming Club used these characters in a short campaign, and found the characters well balanced and with interesting backgrounds that made them fun to play. We recommend this product to storytellers of Orpheus looking for quick characters to use in their campaigns that require minimun preparation.
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Mission Reports Volume 3 to continues in the same vein as precessors. Mission Reports Volume 2 provides the background to play through two seperate missions. The book gives enough detail to get a storyteller started with each adventure with allowing the storyteller the freedom develop each mission as he or she sees fit.
The Tabletop Gaming club played through both missions and enjoyed themselves. Our group particularly liked the first mission involving an antique shop selling haunted artifacts. The Tabletop Gaming club recommends this product to any storyteller wanted a quick mision plot to introduct their players to Orpheus.
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New World Nights 100 Ghouls for the American Camarilla is a useful tool when looking for quick npc with a little personality and background. The book gives us a 100 different character names with about a paragraph of background and personality information for each.
The Tabletop Gaming Club found the book useful during their weekly game and recommends this book to storytellers who want to flush out their Camarilla based games with little work. Its another wonderful addition to the other 100 series of character books.
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Well the Assamite Notes Pack is... well basically just a bunch of blank sheets from from the various setting templates that white wolf put together, with a clan specific cover added. The editable ones do have a large blank box in which you can type some info.
The Tabletop Gaming Club can't really recommend the product. It feels more like a pay what you want product... we might have donated a 50 cents if we had downloaded it for free. But the majority of our members didn't think it was actually worth being priced at 50 cents. We expected a little more....maybe like lined paper for the non-editable ones..so people can print and write on them easier.... and maybe have the fill in ones us a script font so they look more like actual writing in a journal...
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Well the Assamite Notes Pack is... well basically just a bunch of blank sheets from from the various setting templates that white wolf put together, with a clan specific cover added. The editable ones do have a large blank box in which you can type some info.
The Tabletop Gaming Club can't really recommend the product. It feels more like a pay what you want product... we might have donated a 50 cents if we had downloaded it for free. But the majority of our member didn't think it was actually worth being priced at 50 cents. We expected a little more....maybe like lined paper for the non-editable ones..so people can print and write on them easier.... and maybe have the fill in ones us a script font so they look more like actual writing in a journal...
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Sorcerer: Paths of Power is the must have book for hedge magic in the world of darkness. This quality book is professionally done and covers not only mechanics of sorcery, physic powers, and even true faith: it also covers the various factions that your sorcerer can belong too.
The tabletop gaming club loves this book. Every gamemaster and player should have this book in their library. We have used this book and found every part of this book balanced and useful. Go out an buy this book.
The only problem with this book, is that the storyteller vault doesn't allow us to have print on demand. Oh wait that isn't a problem with this book, but this is definetely a book that deserves a hard back edition.
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A great little chose your own adventure for Vampire. Throw back to the early 90s, when they were rage.
The tabletop gaming club recommends picking up a copy.
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