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This book is an incredibly interesting read -- I definitely enjoyed it! It provides a lot of information about how the Sabbat could continue to function as a sect in modern nights, rather than being fractured into pieces the way it is in the officially published materials.
That said, there are some things that are less good.
1. The Table of Contents is very sparse, and the index isn't all that much better.
2. There aren't many details on how to create a Sabbat Pack -- are we meant to use the Coterie Types from the official material? Beyond the fact that the pack needs a Priest, a Ductus, and an Abbot, and the duties of those roles, we really don't have much to work with.
3. The Predator Types are... underwhelming, at *best*. Ravager is hardly different from Alleycat and Pack Feeder is essentially a reskin of Blood Leech. Soriety Sister is an interesting one, but it doesn't have much to do with the Sabbat in particular, and thus, to me, seems a bit out of place in ...
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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This book is overall...good. It just rubs me the wrong way. The book starts with a very jokey, Paranoia-esque tone that feels very off for Mage. Honestly, that's the thing about this book, there's a lot of good things, but it feels off in a bunch of ways. For example, putting Machine Learning under Iteration X instead of the New World Order is certainly a choice, but not one that makes sense to someone who knows machine learning and how closely tied it is to data science (this could also create an ItX/NWO rift/rivalry over AI approaches, adding potential stories that are just being ignored). There's other places that are just baffling, like getting approximately the same number of words about Control as about sexuality within the Union, followed by a bizarre set up regarding family life that would cause almost every actual human being to abandon the Union.
Overall, though, there's a lot of useful material, particularly on the Conventions and their Methodologies, so...
Rating: [4 of 5 Stars!] |
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Honestly, unless you're completely new to Vampire: the Masquerade, and only then if you're wanting to be a Storyteller, and only then if you really feel the urge to include the Sabbat directly, there's no reason that anyone should buy this book over any of the other previously published Vampire: The Masquerade Sabbat books instead and just operate under the knowledge that "Gehenna War is going on, lots of Sabbat went to that" because that's more or less what this book amounts to in around 140 pages. The PDF has a disturbingly high number of misspellings and grammatical errors, and while I realize this book isn't intended to present any of the antitribu as PCs, it does a piss-poor job of presenting any real SPCs involved with the sect whatsoever, save for in brief passing. If this is the quality that we can expect from Renegade, which I'd been leery of when they took over for Modiphius, maybe Paradox should just give the license to Onyx Path ins...
Rating: [1 of 5 Stars!] |
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