| From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Vampires ( & Mages ) |
| Date: | Mon, 4 May 1998 22:29:26 -0400 |
At 06:17 PM 5/4/98 -0400, Erik wrote:
>I'm somewhat curious to tell the truth now. If I were only to
purchase one
>book for Vampire info and one book for Mage info, what should I buy?
>Especially if I didn't want to deal with a lot of game mechanics
nonsense,
>just background materials that could be mined for Shadowrun purposes.
Gah. I'm somewhat familar with WoD, and you're asking for a tall
order. The core rulebooks for each game paint a broad swipe across the
particular game universe each describes. Unfortunately, the river that
runs wide does not run deep. At most, you just get surface details,
with little specifics. (That's how they hook you into buying their
sourcebooks)
Usually, to get a fairly large pile of source material, you need to
plunk down for the Core Rulebook, The Player's Handbook, and at least
a few other books.
If you're just looking for the most background/source material for
your buck, the Vampire: the Masquerade CD-ROM should be your best bet.
It contains the full texts to six important Vampire rulebooks. (Plus,
there's a 3-D mapcreator program that could make cityscapes just as
easily for SR as it does for V:tM)
It's about $50, but the Sourcebooks it contains would run you close to
$100.
Unfortunately, there's not a similar product for Mage, and the good
background material is spread between so many books, I wouldn't know
where to begin to reccomend.
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