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VtM - Review: Storyteller's Handbook to the Sabbat
Remember the Player's Guide to the Sabbat, that awesome book that was produced a few eons ago in
February? Well Neonates, tremble in your bootsies!! The ST's Guide is , in it's own view, THE BOOK
needed to run real, up to the punch Sabbat Chronicles. Is it good? yes. AS good as the Player's Guide?
No. BUt still well worth it. It takes a look at what really goes on behind the scenes, with several sections
about the deviousness of Sabbat politics and how to get your players into SO MUCH trouble. For
example, the Sabbat uses a Prestation system like the Camarilla does. So you can be Royally Shafted
when dealing with that Lasombra friend of yours. The section on how to set about Crusades, the nonviolent
game and so forth are useful. Not exactly brilliant, but useful nonetheless. Then comes the Ghoul
Families. There's one sdmall niggle in that department. How long do Revenants live? It doesn't say, but
you can pretty much figure it out for yourself (about 4 centuries, I reckon). The shit hot section is really
the Path of Evil Rev's stuff like Dark Thaumaturgy and Demonic Investements and so forth. They are
good. Damn good. A bit hackneyed, but oh so evilly useful against those players.
In sum, I liked this book reasonably well. Not as ground-breaking as it's companion book, but then again,
how could you seriously hope to do another Player's Guide.
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