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VtM - Review: The Children of the Inquisition
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Who\'s Who
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The Children of the Inquisition
● Review by Mithrandir (30 Sep 93)
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[$16.00] 72 pages, 9.5 x 12.5", an ARTBOOK
Lavishly illustrated by Doug Gregory (of V2 fame), Tony Harris (the horror artist who did the Werewolf
frontispiece) and Tim Bradstreet (a relatively unknown artist *snicker*) Who's Who has no game
mechanics in it. It does, however, have 13 well-illustrated characters, with the full history of their lives
and unlives, and what part they played in the time after the Inquisition which saw the formation of the
Camarilla, the Sabbat, the Tremere, and many other important Kindred structures. (oh, and if you ever
wondered how the Tremere became the Tremere, it's in there....heh heh heh) Oh, yeah. And Vlad Tepes
is in it, too.
Review by Mithrandir (30 Sep 93)
Children of the Inquisition. This dissapointed me so much. The deal in this book is that it presents 13
vampires, minus stats for you to use in your Chronicles. Which is fine. Except for the fact that the
descriptions themselves are far too short and useless. Vlad Tepes takes up a third of the book. Each of the
descriptions wastes about two thirds of it's space telling of the character's life as a mortal and the night of
his Embrace. Which is fine by me. But then the ammount presented of the character's immortal lives is
somewhat pathetic. Montano and Vlad Tepes are the worst cases that spring to mind. Montano is
thousands of years old, we are told. Yet, we learn of his meeting lasombra and the big fight of his
Embrace and so forth. Then, a paragraph describes the next three thousand years of his life. Which is
really cheap, in my opinion. Vlad Tepes' mortal life gets a very thorough run-down by way of practically
copying out history that has been seen in a dozen places and adding bits and pieces about Tzimisces
Kindred being behind it all. Then, once again, a brief skimping about the character's immortal life. (There
is an interesting inconsistency with regard to the Dracula tale. According to CotI, Vlad simply
Dominated Bram Stoker. If so, who is the letter at the start of V:TM from? It's from Vlad to Mina Harker
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