Advantages: Introduces radical changes in the Vampire the Masquerade universe Disadvantages: Sadly, these changes might limit the Story Teller's and group's choices
...It would be very easy to tear this rather flimsy product apart. After all as I was reading through it on the first night after I bought it, my girlfriend turned to me and said, with more scorn than I have ever heard her use before or since, "You read a load of crap, don't you?"
Well, I do, Time Of Thin Blood is not one of White Wolf's higher brow products and to make even the slightest of cases for it you have to be something of a White Wolf aficionado. So - the dilemma, wade in with boots flying or try and point out why a White Wolf fan might want to buy the book? Well the former is too easy and even though I'm not the biggest Vampire fan I do play it enough to be interested in some of the contents.
Time Of Thin Blood is White Wolf's "Year Zero" for Vampire and is something of a teasing tart of a book, threatening to detail...
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Advantages: Expands the World of Darkness Disadvantages: Can't see that many uses for the rules
...The final nights are approaching and thin blooded vampires are becoming more common. This book provides details on how to use these Thin Bloods, from allowing PC's to play them, to having them in your current campaign as NPC's.
The book details a couple of variations of the Thin Bloods, some can walk in the day, while it has been know that others can produce offspring (as detailed in the short story, which is a very good read).
Also in the book is information on what happened in India and with the death of Ravnos. It gives information on how to run these events in your campaign and how they would effect your Ravnos Player Characters.
This book is preparing you for the Final Nights. We will just have to wait and see exactly what happens within these FINAL NIGHTS....
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Billed as a crime thriller, the emphasis needs to be on the ‘thriller’ aspect. Although this is definitely a novel about terrible crimes, the action is more suited to an espionage story and could easily be made into an action movie. In fact, much of the... more