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An Inside Look at Compacts & Conspiracies

Ed Grabianowski — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:42:53 +0000

White Wolf’s Hunter: the Vigil has always offered a twist on the usual World of Darkness dynamic — you’re a human fighting against the supernatural instead of being a supernatural being yourself. Compacts & Conspiracies twists the formula yet again, creating new levels of intrigue and mystery for hunters to unravel (or ravel further). You [...] Related posts:

Five Great Games for Halloween

Ed Grabianowski — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:19:48 +0000

A few years ago, we started a Halloween tradition with our gaming group. Every Halloween, we get together and play an appropriately themed game for a few hours, often with some kind of house rule that lets the players earn the right to eat candy. If we can manage it, we play on Halloween night, [...] Related posts:

White Wolf’s Proverbial Monsters Are Actually Quite Literal

Ed Grabianowski — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:27:54 +0000

Proverbial Monsters is a World of Darkness sourcebook from White Wolf that takes nine oft-repeated aphorisms, wives’ tales, sayings — proverbs, by any other name — and constructs nine fiendish creatures out of them, with nine scenarios for storytellers to drop their hapless players into. Just remember to take anything I say in this review [...] Related posts:

Sin-Eaters Walk the Line Between Life and Death in Geist

Ed Grabianowski — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:19:18 +0000

A close brush with death, a step across the line into the Beyond, a knowing nod to What Lies on the Other Side, an unwanted familiarity with the Underworld, a strange worldwide community of dual souls with one foot in the grave: this is White Wolf’s newest World of Darkness RPG, Geist: The Sin-Eaters. Geist [...] Related posts:

The Testament of Longinus: an Eerie Vampire Bible

Ed Grabianowski — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:25:10 +0000

Things that are forbidden and mysterious hold such terrible allure. Whether you are a vampire or not, you may find it difficult to resist reading this expanded account of the vampire Anti-Christ, Longinus. Can an RPG supplement with no rules or art find a place on your bookshelf? Depends how weird you are. Let me [...] Related posts:

Wood Ingham On the Art and Tragedy of Game Design

Ed Grabianowski — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:14:59 +0000

If you look carefully through the comment threads that accompany some of the reviews of White Wolf RPG supplements here at Robot Viking, you might notice that one of the authors frequently stops in to join the discussion. That author is none other than Wood Ingham, freelance game designer, contributor to many White Wolf games, [...] Related posts:

Hunter: the Vigil Campaigns Go Modular with Collection of Horrors

Ed Grabianowski — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:49:45 +0000

White Wolf has been releasing a steady stream (nearly a deluge, really) of small PDF files designed to be dropped into your Hunter: the Vigil campaign. Each one presents an NPC, group, or location that can act as a major plot thread or just extra flavor, and comes with a cool prop to help bring [...] Related posts:

Hunter vs. Vampire Grudge Match in Night Stalkers

Ed Grabianowski — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:01:27 +0000

Characters in Hunter: the Vigil face all manner of horrific supernatural baddies, but one group of foes presents a far greater threat than all the rest – vampires. The new Night Stalkers supplement allows storytellers to pit hunters against the sprawling, ancient society of evil blood suckers. Night Stalkers differs from other White Wolf books [...] Related posts:

Horror Recognition Guide Provides Nightmare Fuel for Storytellers

Ed Grabianowski — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:00:13 +0000

White Wolf’s Hunter: the Vigil RPG lets you take on the roles of mortals fighting against the encroachment of the supernatural in the World of Darkness. But after reading the Horror Recognition Guide, you might want to pick a safer career path. The theme of Hunter: the Vigil seems somewhat obvious: it’s basically the X-Files, [...] Related posts: