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England Will Burn $15.00
Publisher: White Wolf
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by Heather M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/13/2019 18:00:52

If you plan to run a DA20 campaign set in England, this book is the best resource available. It's not only one of the finest books in the Storyteller's Vault but a stand-out among all the Dark Ages vampire sourcebooks I've read.

Five domains are described in detail - London, Winchester, Ely, Chester, and Carlisle. Each follows a standard pattern, with a theme, mood, advice on how to use the domain, a section on history and geography, and details of the Cainites in the domain, with individual histories and statistics and comprehensive "coterie" charts describing their various relationships. Some are familiar figures from classic White Wolf books, but even when we know the character, we usually learn something new about him or her. The domains are very different, from mighty London to occulted Ely to the incestuous aristocratic backstabbing of Winchester to remote Carlisle. You'll probably find something here to accomodate your preferred style of game, whatever it is.

At the back of the book are shorter but stil useful sections covering Thetford, Lancaster, Southampton, and Dover.

There have been historical "area" books dealing with England in the past - which I'm not knocking, I like and greatly enjoyed them, and much of their material is referenced here - but any Storyteller using them would need to do a lot of work. They only mention a few Cainites, seldom with stats, and usually have minimal descriptions of the cities and areas that they deal with. This book has comprehensive, fully statted treatments of all the Cainites in the domains described, explorations of their coteries and relationships with each other, and some absolutely excellent maps of the overall domains and individual cities - detailed enough to be useful, simple enough not to burden the viewer with extraneous information. In fact, you could say that about the entire book. It gives Storytellers absolutely everything that they need to run a game, without wasting space on anything they don't, or could find out for themselves by spending five minutes on Wikipedia. I get the sense that it was written by a Storyteller who was constantly asking himself what other Storytellers would find useful. The writing style is crisp, clear and engaging, and there are generally very nice, full-colour portraits which actually look like the characters they portray, not always a given in RPG supplements. The NPCs themselves run the complete range from peasant to royalty, from warrior to priest, from Methuselah to neonate.

Given the very considerable volume of information in the book, some pdf bookmarks would have been a useful addition, to help with navigation, but that's my only criticism. It's an excellent book and I wish there were a PoD option for it. I'd love to have a physical copy



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Creator Reply:
Embarrassingly enough, there were pdf bookmarks in an earlier version which were accidentally stripped out during the production process. These will be re-inserted as soon as possible.
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