Lords of the Night 1: Gothic Passions

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I love this power, though the entangling effects of the blood should allow for a Ref-save to negate for the creatures in the AoE. What about a power that allows you to essentially create a contingency stored power to reflexively strike back at your foe? Yeah, pretty damn neat! Of course, an occultation-enhancing power would also be here. The best thing about this section remains something different: First of all, the powers had numerous, interesting augments and the wilder-exclusive surge-augments constituted a design-element that actually made me enjoy a class I considered somewhat weak and bland.

This section made me a very happy man, for I seriously hate bashing on awesome concepts due to balance-screws being off — this is not the case here. Kudos and two thumbs up!! Now obviously, the undead have their own need for magic items — sun-negating parasols for the discerning bloodsucking lady, for example. Or what about a blood vault, which allows for the storage of temporary hit points for a later use…but at a certain risk? What about an artifact that can be attuned to a servant — and, upon being slain, the servant dies and turns into…well, you.

Nasty and great for recurring villains! Seriously, putting NPC-classes versus vampire PCs will not yield good results, so personally, I very much welcome this decision. And yes, the builds are pretty solid — nice mini-codex. The locations sketched also fall into this category — from the neutral-ground vampire-pub to the friendly mummy-granny, the panorama drawn here can be considered pretty awesome.

In fact, if this section managed to make me want to see some modules in this setting. Editing and formatting are good on both formal and rules-levels — while there are minor oversight snd types here and there e. The pdf comes fully bookmarked for your convenience with nested bookmarks. When I first read this final version, I was thoroughly surprised — to get that right out of the way: We have failed kitten-tests here, beyond the option to only draw sustenance from intelligent beings.

With a bag of kittens drained by the vampire, quite a few of the options herein can horribly cheesed. This is not intended as an attack, but rather as a rebuttal: It is, of course, a valid interjection to assume that GMs who have an issue with cheesing of abilities like this can easily resolve the issue. Now as soon as a player has an ability that can be cheesed via the kitten-test, the temptation of doing just that will always be there — and if it does show up, both the player AND the GM will be inclined to potentially allow it to e.

Good design does not generate situations like this and hence, I consider kitten-failures as rather serious design-issues. Your mileage may vary, of course. But it could also be read as a campaign overlay or template as suggested in the beginning. And the book excels in this category in a triumphant fashion — first of all, the balance-concerns vanish since the GM can simply make them NPC-only. Secondly, this book not only is a valuable resource for vampire games: The visuals of the new spells and powers and their effects allow you to create a grittier setting when used properly and the book continues to provide solid adversary-watchmen and an inspired vampire society.

The fluff of this book is surprisingly captivating and compelling. Conversely, one can take a page from Vampire and have certain vampires require noble blood, etc. Well, by making this a campaign-overlay. They are not nerfed losers, they are badass, strong and deadly — and hence, the basic assumption is that of a corresponding campaign.

Now mind, you, I playtested this book quite extensively, with the subsystems and my complaints regarding infinite healing and the above issues remained valid in that context. I really am inspired by it. As a private person, I can definitely recommend this…with one caveat:. For one, the veilweaving rules are still in the process of being tweaked. I am convinced infinite essence burning provides significant issues with a system that otherwise is on a great way to becoming an awesome, balanced option -essentially, it makes essence burning infinite Go ahead, look at easily regained temporary essence in Akashic Mysteries — note something?

In the end, this PrC makes an akashic class behave like a path of war class, sans the system-inherent inhibitors and with the greatly escalated power-level that is NOT inherent in AM. To me, inclusion of this PrC would ruin the whole akashic system by undermining its basic tenets and limiting factors. Both components have one thing in common: Again, this may very well be within the paradigm of your campaign.

In short, I do not get, at all, why these options restrict themselves by being more specific than they quite frankly deserve to be. I see a book of great content that could have been the ultimate vampire book for any dbased game and draw my hairs out at these glitches.

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But wait…in a way, it still is by far the best take on the subject matter. I just wish that was not required, that I could unanimously celebrate and praise this. It gets vampires right. There was no way she would encourage this cretin one moment longer. He ran his thumb over her wrist. Lord Martins reminded her of her father in his youth. Extremely overconfident, he relied on his charm to get him by in polite society, with no ambition to do more.

She had no doubt it worked on some people, just not her. Lily wanted no part of it. Only she was powerful enough to sway her father when his mind was set.

Why her father had suggested Lord Martins was beyond her. As far as Lily could discern he held no attributes other than wealth and title. Yet when her father had escorted her into the ball and Nathaniel had immediately joined them, it had been clear the men had reached some sort of understanding, their acquaintance well beyond mere social politeness. Lily glanced at the young lord once again, with his smarmy looks and ruddy face.

She swallowed her dislike, slipping on her social mask.

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Her opinion of him had not changed. She would do nothing to encourage him.

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The dance ended and the ladies were escorted off the floor. She wore a cadmium crepe over a pale sarcenet, trimmed with shimmering pearls. Short sleeves, boasting a shower of glowing gems, fit closely to her slender arms. The material gave only a glimpse of her alabaster skin, before it was once again covered by white kid gloves. Her golden hair hung Roman style with tresses confined at the back of her head in sun-kissed ringlets. His gaze caressed the sprig of vibrant flowers, which had been placed on one side of her head. Her only other adornment came from a single strand of luminescent pearls, framing her exquisitely long neck.

She held an ivory circular fan, waving it swiftly, yet daintily in front of her flushed face. The subtle flick of her wrist indicated a good deal of independence. Richard sucked in a breath. His senses came alive. Every muscle in his body went on high alert, including his cock.

He had to get closer. Did she smell as good as she looked? How would she taste? Richard eased his way through the thickening crowd, greeting old friends along the way, taking great care to appear nonchalant. As he approached, her rose water perfume assailed him, drawing him nearer, surrounding him, taunting like a mistress trying to lure her lover to bed. Her white skin glistened under the flickering candlelight. He swallowed hard, willing his canines to retract.

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