When Will You Rage? (World of Darkness)

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Summary: Some great fiction in the Werewolf universe
Review: As some of the other reviews have cried about, not all stories in this anthology follow the game or the game mechanics to the letter. Some of them take liberties. If you want something that sticks to the "rules" exactly, read the rule books. White Wolf has always espoused that if you want to change the rules then do so. So why not in the fiction also? After all, this is an anthology of stories by different authors... not a completely in-house book.

This book is chock full of great stories that take place in Werewolf. I remember that one story is continued in the Essential World of Darkness. Some of the stories skirt around the canon of Werewolf, but then again it was written in Wewrewolf's infancy, before a lot of the canon was revealed to the consumers. So the stories need to be taken at face value. If you're an open-minded reader that won't cry over how "faithful" to the rules a story is, then by all means read this book!

Rating:
Summary: Some great fiction in the Werewolf universe
Review: As some of the other reviews have cried about, not all stories in this anthology follow the game or the game mechanics to the letter. Some of them take liberties. If you want something that sticks to the "rules" exactly, read the rule books. White Wolf has always espoused that if you want to change the rules then do so. So why not in the fiction also? After all, this is an anthology of stories by different authors... not a completely in-house book.

This book is chock full of great stories that take place in Werewolf. I remember that one story is continued in the Essential World of Darkness. Some of the stories skirt around the canon of Werewolf, but then again it was written in Wewrewolf's infancy, before a lot of the canon was revealed to the consumers. So the stories need to be taken at face value. If you're an open-minded reader that won't cry over how "faithful" to the rules a story is, then by all means read this book!

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Summary: Non Gamers Beware!!
Review: I bought this novel after reading Dark Tyrants, also by White Wolf Publishing. It was a good, solid vampire anthology that you didn't have to be a gamer to enjoy.

I assumed When Will You Rage would be more of the same. I assumed wrong.

Editor Stewart Wieck assembled a menagerie of stories whose sole purpose seems to be using jargon exclusive to the game, while showcasing the writers' favorite (or their own) game characters. All in all this reads more like a fanzine than a professionally published anthology. Most of the stories are either 'average' or 'so-so' and at best are 'very good'. I would recommend that only players of Werewolf: the Apocalypse buy this novel and that people looking for a well-balanced werewolf anthology look elsewhere.

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Summary: Just a note reviewers probably didn't know
Review: I wrote one of the stories in the anthology, and I can report that at least *some* of the problems with inaccuracy in, say, knowing the correct form to use when describing Crinos, is due to a global search and replace gone horribly awry.
The terms Homid, homid and human all meant different things at the time of 1st edition Werewolf. But a global search and replace was done that turned all instances of "homid" into "human." Since Homids are most certainly not human and a Red Claw can take homid form, you can imagine how much problem this caused.
There may have been other editing errors-- this is the one I noticed in my own story.