White Wolf Adventures Authors: Ken Cliffe, Stephan Wieck, Stewart Wieck. 64 pages. ISBN 0-9627790-4-0 WW1002
Published in early 1991, White Wolf Adventures represents a very special part in White Wolf Games history, before Vampire the Masquerade and the World of Darkness phenomenon. When it was printed, White Wolf was still based in Anniston, Alabama. WW Adventures has the same cover as White Wolf Magazine #8, a painting by Richard Thomas who was a staff artist and later became the first art director for the company. Before this time period, White Wolf had actually been two different companies: White Wolf Publishing, makers of the monthly RPG magazine and Lion Rampart, the publishers of Ars Magica. Lion Rampart was owned by Mark Rein-Hagen. The two companies formed to create White Wolf with Wieck and Rein-Hagen as full partners. WW Adventures was one of the first products that the new White Wolf produced.
WW Adventures contains six campaign scenarios or adventures for fantasy roleplaying. The scenarios are designed for beginning to medium level characters, and could easily be adapted for either d20 games or with a little ingenuity, Exalted. The scenarios themselves are rather clever and extremely well-written, especially for the time period. The book is filled with helpful maps and remarkable, beautiful artwork from Richard Thomas. I was able to get my own copy on Ebay for $2 + shipping.
Prince's Primer Authors: Allan Tower and Michael McLaughlin. 128 pages. ISBN 1-56504-201-8 WW2232
Published in 1996, Prince's Primer is an early Mind's Eye Theatre production that I found even more valuable for my normal table-top game. With a beautiful Timothy Bradstreet cover, Prince's Primer is a small-sized book that serves as a collection of personal papers, quotes, and treatises of vampiric princes on the perils and pitfalls of controlling a domain. The style is eclectic; each is printed with a different font in order to lend itself to the idea that the Prince's Primer is the accumulation of documents. Unfortunately, it lends the book a slipshod appearance and some of the sections are very difficult to read. Its worth tackling any way, because of the remarkable insight those faux documents provide into the Vampire paradigm. The signature characters that are presented include Siegfried the Prince of Vancouver, Dr.Alexander Meuser the Prince of Jerusalem, and the anarch-turned-prince Christian.
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