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VtM - Review: Clanbook: Malkavian
I mean, it all makes sense when you THINK about it, and that's where most people make the first
mistake. Thinking about it. No amount of self- contemplation will allow you to key into subjective
reality. Things are as we perceive, and contemplation continually changes the melange, so that we see
within it what we're looking for. So connections are quite pointless.
That is, if we lived in a subjective reality.
Which we don't.
But what if we did? What if Henry James and Carl Jung were right? What if we dwell within a
Subjective reality, but because ou 4th grade teaches brainwashed our melons to see things the same way,
we've stabilizes reality, depriving those valiant souls who resisted (of which, thank god, I am one... the
person has not been born who can show me WHY 2 + 2 has to EQUAL 4!) of the chance to have a really
neat trip through life.
After all, those who share a different view of reality are "special," or "deranged."
All this and more will NOT be found in Clanbook Malkavian. Or maybe it will.
Inside are those detestably WONDERFUL archetypes, with no real surprises here. The good things about
the ones in the other books is that at least it made you THINK beyond the stereotype. But this can be
forgiven, for one, simple reason.
Put quickly, Clanbook Malkavian TELLS you how to be Malkavian. None of the other books have done
this. In there attempts to cover all the bases of possible interactions and archetypes, they missed the one
thing that really mattered. The Theory.
Tell me that Gangrel can sometimes pass for Lupines, and you tell me something inherently obvious, for
which you now have to answer how? Tell me that those Gangrel who pass for lupines do so out of an
instinctual calling that cannot be denied, a subconscious trigger that activates Gangrelness when no
decent sire can be found, and you tell LEAPS about the Garou. What is calling out to them? GAIA!
Regaining her lost CHILDREN! Or maybe the Wyrm. The fact is that now you've generated a mystery, a
secret that rolls in the heads of the good little Gangrel children that makes them want to seek out more of
their kind, and even those closest to Gaia. If the calling is strong enough, they will even enter the maw of
death to gain answers.
It's so easy to THINK you're malkavian. Beetlejuice. Act wacky. Act serious. Act wacky. Kill something.
Act wacky. As the book implies, with a back cover that CAN NOT be beat (and yes, I'm OFFICIALLY
TRAGICALLY HIP!!!) Malkavian may seem wacky on the outside, and to those who casually glance,
but to those who take a good hard look, there is a savage depth.
Ultimately, I can say nothing about Clanbook Malkavian, other than that it is the finest book WW has
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