Vampire Diary: Masquerade

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Summary: Dirty secrets that only the storyteller should know
Review: A truly fantastic book, that adds incredible depth to the original WOD. But i warn you that this book is for the storyteller and should not be read by players or at least the unexperienced player. The secrets of the sect and how they use the world as pawns, gives the storyteller a new mystery for the players to unfold. But again it is not for players to read. Players that read this book may be unable to distinguish between what they know and what their characters know. The secrets in this book will only be known by a very small group of vampires and unless you have a very brave and creative storyteller, your character is not one of them. But by now your curiosity is probably overwhelming so go ahead and learn all you can, but remember you were warned.

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Summary: Dirty secrets that only the storyteller should know
Review: A truly fantastic book, that adds incredible depth to the original WOD. But i warn you that this book is for the storyteller and should not be read by players or at least the unexperienced player. The secrets of the sect and how they use the world as pawns, gives the storyteller a new mystery for the players to unfold. But again it is not for players to read. Players that read this book may be unable to distinguish between what they know and what their characters know. The secrets in this book will only be known by a very small group of vampires and unless you have a very brave and creative storyteller, your character is not one of them. But by now your curiosity is probably overwhelming so go ahead and learn all you can, but remember you were warned.

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Summary: An Assamite lover gone wild
Review: Before this book my characters could never be anything other than a assamite in the black hand games of the sabbat but intrigued and drawn in further and further into the realm of masquarades most cruel and unusual cloacked division of the sabbat and there strange rituals take you above and beyond being the ultimate evil assamite ever... it takes you into realms you could never imagine....read it ....but only with the lights on

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Summary: Another GREAT Support Volume for V:tM
Review: Dirty Secrets is one of the best support books yet put out. It takes the general city-based scope of most Vampire Campaigns and shoots it out of the water: providing an ancient, world-spanning conspiracy that Storytellers can use to torment their players for years in the future. I'd advise against it if you like to run a smaller-scale set of stories, True Hand Characters are generally much older and more powerful than V:tm characters. that would be my only significant criticism that the Templates in the back are a bit "overstocked" -- there are way too many 7th & 8th gen templates, almost none of 9/10, making the characters in the back suitable more for "deus ex machina" characters and "evil nemeses", rather than standards for PCs.

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Summary: Just something for everyone to remember
Review: Gives players and the storyteller an option for stories beyond anarchs, Sabbatt, and Camarilla. Gives some true insights to how World of Darkness Works.

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Summary: Must have for a compete Vampire Chronicle
Review: Gives players and the storyteller an option for stories beyond anarchs, Sabbatt, and Camarilla. Gives some true insights to how World of Darkness Works.

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Summary: A Must Have
Review: Have you ever wondered who started the Inquisition? Fathomed whether or not the Antideluvians really do exist, and where perchance they might slumber? Ever wonder who created the Sabbat and Camarilla? Who uses them as pawns in a tragic scheme to fight an extraterrestrial crusade, to slack the thirst of the ancients, and protect the most valuable kindred crop available (ie humans). If you have, then you need this book. It is the MOST beautiful collection of storyteller ideas White Wolf has ever put together for Vampire: the Masquerade. If your in need of some juice for your campaign, chronicle, what have you... then this is the book for YOU!

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Summary: Creatively crazy
Review: I thought the way they tied in the shadowlands in was excellent and was very usefull in the chronicle that I have been ruuning. The use of the new background, disciplines and abilities, made this book a must for me. I have been running a vamire chronicle from the dark ages into the Giovanni Chronicles and then into present day leaving my vampire's with little challenge from the undead society. This book brought new twist into this already dark world and in my opion brought it one step closer to a complete alternate reality. The black hand makes the perfect enemy and the perfect "allie". I recomend this book to anyone who is looking to add a new shadow to their world of darkness.

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Summary: Just something for everyone to remember
Review: Most of this book, if not all, white wolf has amended, these are good ideas, but the way they pulled them off was insane and extreanly over powered. From what I can peice togather, there WAS a true Black Hand sect, but it vanished thousands of years ago, there no true brujah, there are no Old Clan Tzi, there is no alein desies the causes Vicc.

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Summary: one of the best vampire sourcebooks around
Review: Simply one of the best sourcebooks around. It details the Black Hand, the sect within the sabbat we all know and love. They are not what they seem with new bloodlines and a lot of surprises. Highly recomended