Rating: 
Summary: Good but I'll miss the old one....
Review: First, you have to understand that I liked the old Clanbook Nosferatu so much, I gave a copy to a gaming friend as a gift. Like the original, this is still a very good book. It contains lots of material necessary for working with Nosferatu characters in VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE along with much useful new material. Not all changes were improvements, however.One thing that's missing is the way the art and layout of the original book captured the experience of visiting the Nosferatus' subterranean world. This book seems to have all new artwork and it is definitely top of the line but now the visual theme seems to emphasize more the grotesque horror of the Nos themselves rather than their environment. The humor seems to be mostly gone, too, and efforts to replace it just don't measure up. The new fiction, seems to be the same story as in the original but from the victim's point of view- which softens its impact somewhat. In place of that, there's a lot of text spent on giving the points of view of different political factions within the clan. Unfortunately, parts of this are so long-winded that I got bored and skipped what turned out to be the important part. Editing problems aside, the new details in this book about Nos society- the work on the autarkis Nos, for example- are generally good. Merits and Flaws are included as in the original version- really helpful, I think, in custom tailoring your Nos character's deformities. Missing is something that I would really expect in an update of this series: better intergration of material about the Sabbat. But here in the Nos opinions of other clans they are still just lumped together as "Sabbat". Also, all the character templates (all or mostly new) seem to be for characters with Humanity rather than Paths of Enlightenment. That said, a definite improvement here is the new "Famous Nosferatu" section. This selection of important clan members does a much better job of integrating with existing material- here VAMPIRE: THE DARK AGES and the CLAN NOVEL series- than the old one. Also now included are MINDS EYE THEATER stats.
Rating:
Summary: Good but I'll miss the old one....
Review: First, you have to understand that I liked the old Clanbook Nosferatu so much, I gave a copy to a gaming friend as a gift. Like the original, this is still a very good book. It contains lots of material necessary for working with Nosferatu characters in VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE along with much useful new material. Not all changes were improvements, however. One thing that's missing is the way the art and layout of the original book captured the experience of visiting the Nosferatus' subterranean world. This book seems to have all new artwork and it is definitely top of the line but now the visual theme seems to emphasize more the grotesque horror of the Nos themselves rather than their environment. The humor seems to be mostly gone, too, and efforts to replace it just don't measure up. The new fiction, seems to be the same story as in the original but from the victim's point of view- which softens its impact somewhat. In place of that, there's a lot of text spent on giving the points of view of different political factions within the clan. Unfortunately, parts of this are so long-winded that I got bored and skipped what turned out to be the important part. Editing problems aside, the new details in this book about Nos society- the work on the autarkis Nos, for example- are generally good. Merits and Flaws are included as in the original version- really helpful, I think, in custom tailoring your Nos character's deformities. Missing is something that I would really expect in an update of this series: better intergration of material about the Sabbat. But here in the Nos opinions of other clans they are still just lumped together as "Sabbat". Also, all the character templates (all or mostly new) seem to be for characters with Humanity rather than Paths of Enlightenment. That said, a definite improvement here is the new "Famous Nosferatu" section. This selection of important clan members does a much better job of integrating with existing material- here VAMPIRE: THE DARK AGES and the CLAN NOVEL series- than the old one. Also now included are MINDS EYE THEATER stats.
Rating:
Summary: Good rulewise...
Review: I found this book to be good as far as rules additions go...mostly because the Merits and Flaws are great. The story is a bit lacking to me though and could use a bit of fleshing out. It was a good clanbook but White Wolf has better stuff (note I still gave it a four...it just could've been better).
Rating:
Summary: Good rulewise...
Review: I found this book to be good as far as rules additions go...mostly because the Merits and Flaws are great. The story is a bit lacking to me though and could use a bit of fleshing out. It was a good clanbook but White Wolf has better stuff (note I still gave it a four...it just could've been better).
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent book
Review: I found this good to be extremely good. I am running a campaign and one of my players had decided to play a Nosferatu. I will be giving him this book to read. I love the extra merits and flaws, however I found the information on the Nictuku a little ambiguous. The story of how the Nosferatu came to be was excellent however.
Rating:
Summary: "What do I think of the Toreador?"
Review: I just love the comment about toreador. Whoever wrote it must be a genius! And the one about the camarilla is also REALLY good. In fact the whole book is so good that it hardly exists.
Rating:
Summary: The best Clanbook I've read.
Review: I think any VtM player is going to be a bit bias when it comes to favorite clans and such with their reviewing of the splat books, but to be honest this book made me more interested in the clan while I kind of overlooked them prior. The history is well written and is still laced with mystery for your troupes storyteller to weave in his own personal ideas and fun story twists. The concept character templates in the back are actually fun and well thought out. I find VtM in better hands with Justin Achilli. This book is a good example of why I feel that way.
Rating:
Summary: by far the best history of a clan
Review: I wish the Gangrel clanbook was as inspiring as this oppus. This clanbook provides a coherent history explaing why the nosferatu are cursed as they are as well as many tips on playing a sewer rat. In my opinion the best clanbook of them all.
Rating:
Summary: A improvement, but not a classic.
Review: It have MUCH more information than the first second edition clanbook, but it lacks the organic feel of the original. The new templates are great and the merit/flaws are really cool; however, some of the multiple perspective writing is a bit befuddling. All in all this is a good supplement for the white wolf line, but it's not perfect.
Rating:
Summary: A improvement, but not a classic.
Review: It have MUCH more information than the first second edition clanbook, but it lacks the organic feel of the original. The new templates are great and the merit/flaws are really cool; however, some of the multiple perspective writing is a bit befuddling. All in all this is a good supplement for the white wolf line, but it's not perfect.
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