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V20 Ghouls & Revenants $14.99
Publisher: Onyx Path Publishing
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by P. B. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 06/22/2016 22:47:53

This book answers a demand that I'm not sure many fans had. Right in the credits, there is a thank you to a group at 'L.A. by Night' whose enthusiasm led to the creation of this book, a book that seems written for a VERY specific audience. If you weren't at the L.A. event, you'll find this adds very little of substance to Vampire: the Masquerade twenty or so years after the still preferable Ghouls: Fatal Addiction.

There is some good here. The fiction and art look great for the most part, and the attempts to get inside the head of a ghoul Bound to a vampire is nicely done, but there is little recommend this book otherwise.

Discussion of running or playing a ghoul-centric chronicle lacks much in terms of persuasive reasoning beyond saying it's a challenge. The mechanics for doing so bog-down in pages and pages of Merits and Flaws that do not really fit in World of Darkness. The ghouls themselves are presented as 'splats' for the respective Clans of vampires that make ghouls, but there is prescious little in the text offer differences between a Gangrel ghoul and a Lasombra ghoul beyond what you'd find as differences between those two Clans. The revenant 'splats' fair little better in presenting dry history and sterile description of fashion. Somehow the D'habi and Bratovich are wrung of anything scary in their write-ups, and the newly elevated Rossellini and shiny new Kairouan Brotherhood come across as, frankly, a little boring. This lack of feeling carries throughout the book.

V20 Ghouls and Revenants is a nearly bloodless stab at making the mortals who accept the blood of Caine into something valuable, but its lack of passion leaves the book difficult to justify. I'd expected more from Onyx Path and the V20 line.



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[3 of 5 Stars!]
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