For $3 I don't regret buying this book, but overall it needed much, much better editing and creative control. Typos abound. Multiple authors forgot some character’s name and changed it randomly mid-story. Many stories are drastically out of step with the Exalted setting, which is not what I want from tie-in fiction. Almost every story has multiple errors, which always jar me out of the fiction. 1/5 for the editing. However I did enjoy some of them.
Credits: Richard Dansky actually wrote the Trilogy of the _Second_ Age. There's no Trilogy of the Third Age.
Maiden’s Kiss (4/5) - A good story, a look at mortals interacting with magical beings who can casually turn their lives around. But the gold coins are weird and out of place in Creation.
Bronze and Bisque (4.25/5) - A mostly good, believable Solar story focused on character development, with a side of action. Not amazing, but has very few typos and no setting errors. The Solars are unusually knowledgeable about their Exal...
This book is mostly fine but i do have a couple problems:
-There's no Avatar/Mana background that gives quintessence despite there being a Quintessence Wheel in the character sheet. And there's an Arete tracker there for some reason?
-The explanation for Quintessence Manipulation, which i suppose is the main way to get new Quintessence in this system, is very poorly explained. Am i to assume that you need at least Level 3 just so you can start getting Quintessence? Or can you do it with a Level 1 Ritual? The way rituals work is also poorly explained.
-This is more of a personal preference other than anything else, but i would rather that this book had followed the Chronicles of Darkness book, Second Sight, instead of Sorcerer Revised, because i feel that book is closer to the way that real-life mystic practices are done than this system. Some paths are just too flashy for my taste. But that as i said, is just my personal preference rather than a flaw of this book....
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/21/2022 06:56:55
Once again None More Dark Publishing does an excellent work of converting bloodlines to the standards of Vampire: the Requiem 2nd edition. In addition, the also do a good work of expanding the lore and the ideas behind these bloodlines, so there is quite a nice extra for the storyteller. The illustrations are of a fine quality, and they have changed many of my own visualizations of the moods available in VtR.
In the pdf- booklet you will find the bloodlines presented in the 1st edition supplement Ancient Mysteries, but with details worked out and expanded. Ending the supplement is a useful list of all bloodlines available in VtR 2nd (so far)....
I write this review as one coming from the old *White Wolf: World of Darkness* games and books, so some of this review touches on differences between this and *Werewolf the Apocalypse*.
I won't go into exhausting detail but these are my general observations regarding this book. ***First***, I must state that I HIGHLY recommend picking up the **Chronicles of Darkness** (also known as the revised New World of Darkness) rulebook and becoming at least functionally familiar with the basic rules of the game from **that** book as *this* book claims to be a complete, stand-alone game, but it falls short of that goal. This book is built on the framework of the **Chronicles of Darkness** rules, but do to **bad editing**, it frequently leaves out bits and pieces of the core rules (such as fire damage, gaining willpower for each night of rest, etc.) This book is meant to be a template of sorts applied to the core rules of **Chronicles of Darkness** to facilitate playing a werewolf, and it do...
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/19/2022 21:22:02
Laws of The Night is, in my opinion, incredibly easy to understand. While I don't love the overuse of the term 'traits' referring to like, several different mechanics in game, I find the actual use of powers and bartering VERY easy to understand. It's definitely the type of game you need to play to get, but once you understand everything it's smooth sailing!
The actual printing was good quality, the book a wonderful handheld size for easy use at a game, though the photos used for Clans are wonderfully cheesy. I will never get the Brujah out of my head.
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Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/18/2022 09:08:27
If you are interested in playing vampire the masquerade V5 solo, this is the way to go. It has oracles and gives advices on how to run your own vampire the masquerade adventure without prep or with pre-defined adventures like "fall of london".
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/16/2022 06:37:14
I enjoyed this book for the most part, but the parts about the top tier mages were just OK. It was more cautionary and seemed to be on the verge of not recommending playing these characters. That was my only gripe in an otherwise good book.
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/12/2022 17:40:06
Probably one of the best books for any World of Darkness game that I've ever read. Want to know how the WoD developed to its current state, ready to go to hell in a handbasket any time? The character templates in this book, written by Mage's main author, provide the answer. Most of the characters in this book probably don't consider themselves truly evil, and none of them needs any magic or disciplines to bring ruin and conflict to the world. Even though this is a Mage Title, the template characters could be ghouls or vampires, servants of the Wyrm or whatever believable villain you need in any WoD game. And even though this is a supplement for a game of fiction, many of the mechanisms in it seem eerily realistic and familar. Seldom has the World of Darkness been THAT dark, and seldom that meaningful. This should be an official Mage title! Worth every penny. Five Stars!...
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/12/2022 17:28:31
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I adore the RPG Mage. Mage: The Ascension, Mage: the Awakening, Dark Ages Mage, and most of all Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade. The witches of Mage, the Verbena, get special treatment and I am here for it. The Witches & Pagans book covers them in detail.
**Witches and Pagans**
*PDF. 96 pages. Color cover, Black & White art. *
The cover art is by Christopher Shy who practically defined the look of many occult and supernatural RPGs of the late 90s and early 2000s. So regardless of the actual game, this *looks* good on my shelves; both real and virtual. All the interior art is by Richard Kane Ferguson.
Chapter I: History
This chapter covers "pagans" as they might have existed in the World of Darkness if they had survived to the Renaissance. If this is ...
Honestly, it's quite dull. The various characters, the hooks, everything just felt bland. I've come to expect so much from the Night Horrors line of books, but this one just fell flat.
Publisher: White Wolf
Date Added: 09/08/2022 13:27:24
This is a great example of what makes the Sabbat fun to play! Tons of great information in easy to read sections, plus new ways and ideas to play the Sabbat in your chronicle or one-shots. Great content wwarnings and safe play sheets as well!
