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V5 Storyteller Resources
by Kyran S. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/20/2023 15:39:38

I use this literally every time I run Vampire. The condensed Discipline tables are invaluable and so easy to navigate and it's amazing how much information they are able to include without overstuffing the pages. The diablerie chart has been SO HELPFUL. Can't recommend picking this up enough.



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Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition
by Matthew H. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/20/2023 06:58:42

This is an enjoyable edition, and one I personally found much more engaging than V5. There are definitely cultural flubs, the disciplines are a fair bit out of wack, and the character creation is more than a little busted. But the way the world was presented, the detail, and the art engaged me a fair amount more than when I first bought the V5 corebook a while back. Don't be afraid to check this out of you've only played V5, you might find some stuff you like more in here.



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Bloodlines Companion (Vampire: the Masquerade 5th Edition)
by Artemis M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/18/2023 05:13:42

Por favor, ignore isso se você fala português!

I was super excited to pick this book up, as I'm a major fan of some of the older bloodlines and thrilled to find something to revive them in fifth edtion. Unfortunately, it seems like the Bloodlines Companions were either hastily machine-translated, or amateurly translated from Portuguese to English, as evidenced by this exceprt and a read through the previews: To modern Cainites, Baali mentions are nothing more than a breath of fresh air from an era that no longer exists. Knowing their history, who they are and what they do has become nothing more than pure curiosity! Unfortunately, some Clans, like the Assamite, are rescuing a past that should have been kept secret. Therefore, if the Baali hope to reign over modern society again, they must destroy any chance of their reputation becoming spoken history again.

At best the choppy word choice will disorientate you as you read through, and at best it will make some key lore and rules barely comprehensable and therefore incredibly difficult to turn into something you can use at your table. This translation quality is mentioned nowhere in the description before you buy.

Despite this, there's still some amount of content you could extract or use if you're an English speaker, and it's very obvious that a lot of work went into developing this book and its sequel. However, good intentions and effort don't diminish the book struggling to be coherent for English speakers.



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Protean Remastered
by Artemis M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/18/2023 00:25:20

"Boring" feels harsh, but earned.

Many of the other entries in the Shadowfall Collection are great in exploring the boundaries of a Discipline, and encourage you to really think outside the box on how you could use that Discipline. Protean Remastered, however, feels like it lost the plot.

At least in my eyes, the basic power has two halves: Changing the properties of a Kindred (weight, solidity, merging with nature), and the other changes their shape (animal features and talents).

Remastered takes a similar approach to this split and follows the occult powers' (Blood Sorcery, Oblivion) approach of adding a second sub-discipline alongside the primary one: Metamorphosis. However, this results in an unsatisfying pairing where Protean - the primary discipline - lacks its own identity and doesn't provide much in the way of more esoteric or elemental powers. Out of ten powers, 4 are either boosting your animal-related powers or metamorphosis, four are the more elemental powers . . . with three of them being core powers anyways, and the last two are very specific resistance-based powers that are so niche in their use it feels like they'd only be viable if you asked your Storyteller ahead of time if they'd be useful, and saved them only for those moments.

This leaves Metamorphosis, which gives itself away when you observe one of the bigger appeals of this book: a section on creating custom powers, most of which recommend effects "similar to Auspex or Celerity" or "similar to Fortitude". This results in a further fifteen powers (ten provided, five examples) which really seem to just boil down to a mix of physical disciplines except reflavored to be more animalistic. "It's like Celerity, except you take on catlike features." "It's like potence, but you're hairier when you do it." Considering that Gangrel already have Fortitude and are the only clan intended to use this book, the amount of powers that are reflavored Fortitude abilities is additionally redunant.

With that in mind, this is the single easiest book in the Shadowfall Collection to skip. Not many powers are added to the base discipline and many support the sub-discipline, meaning that you don't get a lot to dip into as an out-of-clan discipline and don't get much added to the base discipline, with most of the sub-discipline being situational or variations upon other existing disciplines. Simply ask your Storyteller if you can put some whiskers or a tail on another Discipline's power or if you can give away a dot to automatically pass some specific environmental challenge for the rest of the chronicle.



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Touchstones
by Lee M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/16/2023 10:11:57

A very nice little book with Touschstone ideas including storyhooks, and non-human Touchstones. It would work very nicely in conjunction with "The Black Hand: Playing the Sabbat". There's a lot of material packed in to a few pages, but with ample cosideration to art and layout too. Definitely a lot of "bang for your buck".



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Targets of the Hunt
by Artemis M. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/15/2023 15:45:20

Double the Amount Of Quarries from the Corebook, with some Extra Spice

Im going to be completely honest and clarify that the initial reason I grabbed this title was because I find the idea of criticizing an author for criticizing an element of a previous narrative they took issue with, and then putting the effort in to add to and expand upon the qualities they enjoyed is bizarre. However, I was pleasantly suprised by what my act of pettiness rewarded me with: A large variety of new quarries that fit right into not just Hunter, but the other World of Darkness games for Fifth Edition as well!

The best part of Targets of the Hunt in my opinion is that they take one of the most important notes from the corebook, in that you're hunting characters instead of just enemies. Each creature in the book has a series of motivations, goals, and spins you can put on them to help them feel at home in your chronicle. Even Quarries that have enough health and damage output to be a serious physical threat to the players are rarely just that, and more often come with secondary goals that will string the players along in mysteries or dramatic encounters that provide far more of a story than simply "We came, we saw, we started shooting."

My particular favorites are The Dream Ghost, who enters into the Hunters dreams to antagonize them there in addition to being a shakey ally in the case that you need to do something truly unique and daring by entering into a more threatening Quarrys dream; and the classic Chupacabra which play as simple animals pushed from their native habitats by human encroachment: offering both a moral challenge to Hunters who may have to be complicit in trophic cascade and ecosystem collapses, a dramatic turn as those believing they were out to hunt a vampire are instead confronted with a pack of lesser predators, and an excellent introduction for new Hunters who want a hunt but not one that will seriously jeopardize their mortality.

Theres also some room to highlight the final pages of the book, which offer some enjoyable, minor entries for some extra threats or common archetypes to throw into a game without needing am major backstory or motives to them. The Animals section in particular is terrific for spicing-up a Quarry's choice of familiars, or giving Hunters that utilize animal companions more options with their own distinct strengths and utilities such as Birds, Cats, Snakes, and something more threatening than every other monster of horror contained in this book: Chimpanzees.

Additionally, Im a major fan of the art! While perhaps extending beyond the text itself, Im so used to soulless stock photos and AI-generated art that seeing hand-drawn illustrations was both a relief, and put me in mind of something an actual Hunter would sketch into their journal as they were taking notes on what they were pursuing.

My criticisms are by comparisons very minor compared to my praise. The first is that Targets of the Hunt has some formatting issues. The corebook was well categorized, clearly delineating the categories of creatures we're hunting as Vampires, Werewolves, Sorcerers, Ghosts, Fairfolk and Stranger Things. While operating on similar principles, this work doesn't have such categories which instead causes a bit of a headache as you go Fairy-Vampire-Human-Magician-Vampire-Creepypasta-Werewolf.

Secondly is that this book continues the formatting of the corebook which was a result of needing to also have a physical version, in that one quarry will often bleed onto the same page as another. Despite not needing to conserve space to save money on a physical copy, this is continued but compounds with the previous lack of categorization and a smaller font size to lead to regularly lead to a Quarry's entry starting at the end of another's, continuing for most of a page, before having the first portion of another Quarrys entry start. The liberal use of page breaks would have been very welcome.

Lastly and most petty is that the tall, and slender man deemed the "Faceless Stalker" was what initially gave me pause in purchasing this title as it is such a blatant "homage" to the internet creepypasta that it made me worried that the rest of the book would be as on-the-nose in simply ripping from pop-horror media and changing names around. Thankfully, the rest of the book is devoid of Eddy Cougars with knives on their shoes or Chasin' Woorhees from Camp Krystal Pond. It's a back-handed compliment and sign of the quality of the rest of the work that every other entry went far enough in making the identities of the various monsters distinct from their potential inspirations that this one entry frustrated me so much.

Altogether, I view Targets of the Hunt as a deal too good to pass up, adding over a dozen more Quarries to chose from that can fit into just about any chronicle and add multiple sessions of inspiration per creature. At its price range and level of effort to make sure that you could appreciate each entry as not just an antagonist, but a full character, I can confidently call this a must-buy for any table!



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Intruders: Encounters With the Abyss
by Christopher [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/10/2023 17:40:52

I wish I could give this product to different star ratings. A 5 for atmosphere and micro-fiction and 1 for everything else.

It really is great micro-fiction. There's not much here beyond that. If the authors had just stated up the fiction pieces this would be a classic. The actually stated "intruders" are, forgive me for being blunt, lame. There is no realm of being where a haunted calculator is going to scare me or anyone else. They do not feel like the subjects of full narratives. There's very little meat on the bone. These are add-ons and one offs that I don't feel I could ever use effectively.



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MrGone's Vampire the Requiem Second Edition Character Sheets
by Matthew J. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/07/2023 09:03:27

The sheets themselves are fine, but unfortunately they lack the book-like font from his 20th anniversary editions from Demon:: The Fallen.



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MrGone's Demon The Fallen 1-Page Character Sheets
by Matthew J. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/06/2023 23:26:14

Great resource, but unfortunately the Earthbound character sheet doesn't feature the Earthbound-unique Lores: Violation, Contamination, and Chaos. Major drawback that really breaks immersion and you need to work on that.



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Tribebook: Naghaluu
by Titus [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/05/2023 23:53:47

A blast from the distant past of the dire wolf shifters, warts and all.

Love how the book cleverly reminds me that these are NOT Garou and how different they were from both a priorities and social level, compared to their warrior 'cousins' across the pond. I enjoyed looking at a job that is surprisingly neglected throughout all the mandates of the Fera.

We're always told how in the past the Wyld was a great threat before but strangely there was never a Fera who kept an eye on this raw chaos and it was a shared effort to keep it in line without elaborating.

I enjoy this work because it gave me a reason for 'why and how' you could take Fera from the Pure lands and drop them into Eurasia for a story and elaborated on how difficult it was to keep up with the Wyld and the extreme measures one may need to go through to keep things from getting out of control without being totally consumed by it's overwhelming power.

If you want an enjoyable and contained story for Savage Age and want to try something new I highly recommend.



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Fear, Fangs, and Fury
by Laura D. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/05/2023 14:52:43

Love the flexibility of these chronicles and the ability to weave them all together



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ReVamped: the Fan Errata
by Madison T. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/04/2023 00:54:20

The book was interesting and helpful but I was very disappointed to see AI art in the book since there was no mention that AI art would be used in the description before purchasing. I love to see new and creative fan made content but it's difficult to want to support something that puts artists out of work. I want to read the hard work of what was written but to see AI art taking the place of what could be artists in the vampire community is very disheartening.

In the future, I would like to see content that shares the artistic creativity of our community and not AI which has taken the art from artists without consent. At the very least, a warning on the page so those who care about this issue can make informed donations.



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Creator Reply:
Thanks for the review! I agree, I made this over a year ago using the beta version of Adobe's Firefly, which at that time had been ostensibly cited as being trained on open source photographs and images. In the interim since that time it has come to light that Adobe's system does, in fact, train on copyrighted works by artists. For the 2.0 version of Revamped, all the AI assets will be expunged and I'll be using a lot more stock photos and just less art in general, as this is just a passion project and I don't have the funds to devote to getting custom artwork for a Pay What You Want book, which this book will ALWAYS remain. This is also part of the reason the 2.0 release is delayed, as along with the substantial additions with several new sections and new systems, the entire layout is being redone to account for the change in art design. I hope you remain interested in the project and come check out 2.0!
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Book of Common Magicks
by Mark P. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/03/2023 10:38:52

This book is a steal at twice the price and delivers exactly as advertised: a lucid, clear-cut description of the basic building blocks of the Sphere system - no more, no less. For vampires-to-lawnchairs and other advanced applications, see HDYDT ;)



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Book of Common Magicks
by Carl J. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 12/03/2023 08:30:25

Excellently written and explained. A must-read for those new to this magic sytem, and those that feel they need a better understanding of the fundamentals...



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Night Horrors: The Unbidden
by A customer [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 11/29/2023 17:06:10

The long and short of it is, This supplement is meant to be read, not played.

If you want to play Mage the Awakening as a Storyteller, this book is not for you. You would be better served mining fiction, comics, video games, or watching movies. Listening to HP Lovecraft audiobooks on YouTube would be better. If you really want to get something 'in lore' you will get better horror and antagonist ideas from other 1st edition core books, such as Werewolf or Hunter than from this supplement.

The whole thing reads like a bunch of frustrated novelists who submitted their ideas and got picked by an editor who has never actually played a roleplaying game. The ideas are either too lethal, unworkable, or would be such a short encounter that the pages of details in the book are superfluous.

And that’s the problem here. If you read the main rulebook (Mage 1st Edition), then there’s nothing here that a reasonably competent storyteller with a passion for nerdy fiction, horror, or otherwise couldn’t come up with on their own. Why bother buying this at all? Oh yes, the main blurb about stuff 'between the stars' is all just marketing, flummery, there's none of that.

There are maybe three or four interesting antagonists, but the rest are basically one-use NPCs or encounters with endless text written about them. Is it well-written? Yes. Is it a damn good read? yes as a coffee table book. Is it fit for purpose as a roleplaying game supplement? No.

If you are a supplement reader or collector, get it. It’s very well-written, and the production values are amazing. If you want ideas for your actual roleplaying game chronicle, I’d look elsewhere.



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