Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/11/2021 22:56:29
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. ...
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/10/2021 19:49:07
I was really excited to crack into this product, since it got good reviews and came highly reccomended by the author. However, what I saw very much did not live up to the hype.
The book is very poorly edited. I know English is not the author's first language, but it badly needs to be read over by someone more fluent. Some parts are fine, but others are borderline unreadable. Formatting is also not great, with third- to half-pages regularly left blank and wide margins inflating the page count unnecessarily.
History section is probably the most useful bit; I got some ideas there for certain.
The section on local folklore and important dates is lacking. There's nothing wrong with the details themselves, but the focus is all wrong for a Vampire chronicle. Bank holidays and when school children go on their lunch breaks are cool, but they're not useful to an average game at all. The Player's Guide is better in this regard, but I shouldn't have to buy two separa...
firstly, these 20th WOD books are beef big books! just letting you know ahead of time.
now, this game is really fun! once in a while, i pull this game out and run a one off where a pack of werewolves are in a turf war and it's a fight to the death. super fun!
there are plenty in information and plot hooks in this book to have political intrigue type stories and heavy RP.
my only gripe, is that it takes 20-30 pages to finally get into how to make your character, it's a pain, but it is what it is.
overall, highly recommend this game!...
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/10/2021 03:07:09
An Immaculate and Enchanting stroll into the mysteries of the deep fae woods and what lies in the Garden when you aren't looking, I highly recommend Roots of Legend to any storyteller as there is some many things you could find use for inside its pages. I can't wait to incorporate this in my current Changeling game!
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/08/2021 14:21:58
Sorry but it is very poor. A plot, some NPCs and go for it! If at least some nice pictures from this era were added to build the intended atmosphere. Unfortunately, the material provided remains very empty.
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/06/2021 16:26:05
I'd have rated 3.5 if I could - but went with 4.
This book **does not** have Geography, History, or a Storytelling section that you'd expect to see in a *By Night* book.
This book **does** have plenty of Character Folios (NPCs). They are good quality, well written, and very usable characters - for Miami or anywhere you wanted to use them.
Of the 5 main classic World of Darkness games, Changeling: the Dreaming was always my least favorite. This edition actually makes it #2 (after Mage 20th). It's fixed so much! The balance, mechanics, world description, and kiths are all so much tidier and well-explained.
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/05/2021 17:49:22
Super interesting approach to a Kith evolving to fit the 21st Century! I really love how it opens up new ways of looking at the relationship between the Dreaming and advanced technology, and that it gives some options for new factions/setting material with the Church of Isadore. Great work!
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 05/01/2021 17:44:42
The Warning is an understatement! The Tremere of a significant part of this this book are pre-Vampire, i.e. the House Tremere of Ars Magica. I have difficulty imagining this House in this way. Nor can I easily imagine this as the secret, underlying culture of the Clan Tremere in the modern nights. That being said... to each his own. But I would warn buyers to take the Warning seriously.
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 04/29/2021 11:09:40
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 g...
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 04/29/2021 10:17:00
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....
Not a bad book, but it didn't have the "wow" of the old WW books. It is just that desing decisions are so.. visible, and there is not a desire to create a world, but simply to create a game supplement.
Publisher: Modiphius
Date Added: 04/28/2021 14:44:09
This PDF is a terrible starting point for VTM V5. Rules are mixed in with the module itself, so I had to spend the better part of an hour deleting pages and redacting pages that mixed rules with story.
The pre-gen characters included are fine. Just be sure to read over their abilities as a storyteller, I was caught off guard by the Malkavian's ability to get visions about things he investigates.
The module itself is a freaking mess. It tries to keep secrets from the storyteller, I had to read it several times to understand what the hell was going on. One standout flaw is a situation where an NPC *might* have killed someone but the module doesn't even tell the storyteller whether they or someone else did it. You just have to guess. There is also a really confusing flashback sequence taking place in a hotel with a bizarre, nonsensical layout that seems to consist of nothing but doorless hallways and rooms.
Several investigation scenes are given precious little detail. I had ...
