W:tA is one of the first roleplaying games I got into, although I have struggled to play or run in any ongoing games. The basic concept of playing werewolves in a doomed struggle against the corrupt and powerful Wyrm is such a powerful concept that it resonated with me from the start. Then I started playing Rage, the spinoff collectible card game ( Read more... )

Some books I've read and don't want to review properly. Because they're not worth it.

Transylvania By Night (White Wolf, WW2808, 1997)
Jerusalem By Night (White Wolf, WW2821, 1999)Two different Dark Ages setting books for Vampire written by different authors and different developers yet they get the same review ( Read more... )

Many years ago now I designed Bead werewolf, an alternative live system for Werewolf: the Apocalypse.

For the sake of clarity, let me go back to basics. I first came across using beads for live games when  a friend ran an Ars Magica game. Then the concept was simple: you have a standard bag of "beads" containing some good and some bad. During a test ( Read more... )

Tribebook: Uktena (White Wolf, 2003)
Uktena Tribebook (White Wolf, 1998)
I've been catching up on some of my reading, which included the revised TB: Uktena (for Werewolf: the Apocalypse).  I mistakenly thought I hadn't read the original but even realising my mistake I thought it would be fun to compare them.

( Read the review. )

Book of Spirits (White Wolf, 2008)
Umbra (White Wolf, 2001)
It was interesting reading these books back to back, since they are in almost every way the equivalents of each other between the new and old World of Darkness. Yet there are real differences between them, not least because Book of Spirits falls under The World of Darkness line, while Umbra ( Read more... )

Tribes of the Moon (White Wolf, 2008)

Tribes of the moon is the first Werewolf: the Forsaken book under the guiding hand of Chuck Wendig, taking over from the longstanding Ethan Skemp.  It shows, and seems to be a return to form for Werewolf which, largely, failed to shine after the core rulebook.

Content:
The book is a look at each of the five ( Read more... )

I'm cheating here - this is actually a review I wrote shortly after the book was released (albeit slightly edited for better sense).

While I would love to do a proper review of Apocalypse RPG-Net style, I really don't feel up to that.  But now I have read the whole thing I can at
least do what I can to sum up the good and bad points about each ( Read more... )

Werewolf: the Apocalypse.  (White Wolf, 1992 - 2004)Setting

The second of the original World of Darkness lines, W:tA is set in a "gothic punk" setting.  To put it another way, it's a world identical to our own with added gloom, angst and supernatural creatures around every corner.  The werewolves of the story are the 'heroes' of the World of ( Read more... )