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VtM - Review: Clanbook: Salubri
The actual discipline powers themselves are not divided according to Warrior/Healer stuff. We also see
alternative powers for levels 2-4 - bad move (since that opens up a whole kettle of fish). The powers start
making the Salubri out to be Jedi knights (diplomatic powers?). And one high level (7 dots) power just
really confuses me - all that for only 2 dice of aggrevated damage, when I can almost be a God with only
14 freebies/XPs (the Blooded power Blessing of the Name). We also get the level 10 - I-Can't-believe-
I'm-not-Jesus resurrection power. I thought White Wolf dropped the level 10s (to its benefit it is better
controlled/written than before).
The last bit are the merits and flaws. Some nice, some cosmetic, others rather over/underpowered (the
Blooded ones, Scent of Other) and the wonderful (sic) merit Sight of Beyond is totally left for the ST to
deiced what it does (if you are going to deal with the concept in the book, please deal with it, not just
mention it and waffle).
Chapter Five: The Hosts of Heaven
I enjoyed many of the templates. I liked the lawyer one, and the battlefield healer. These are templates
that give the shadow of a third dimension (or maybe by this point it's only a second dimension).
Appendices
I'll keep this part brief. I liked a few of the famous (and dead) Salubri. I felt thatthe warrior-woman
quoted in the second chapter should have been included, and that we really don't need another fanged
Robin Hood clone running around. The last part shows just how unreliable the book is. I won't spoil it for
anyone but it shows just how revisionist this book's author is when it comes to making sure the memory
of the Salubri is one of pure Goodness.
As you can see I was greatly disappointed since so much of the book was either lies told for the benefit
of non-Salubri in some distant future (and not, like other clanbooks, lies told within/for the clan), or
regurgitated information from other sources (notably Dark Ages Companion), nothing new. The author
also refused to take a stand on certain notable issues (what IS the purpose of the third eye, what does it
see/not see, did they ever deal with demons, was there ever any clan they didn't like, why did all their
allies listen to a bunch of greedy upstarts, etc).
Review for darkness.org (21 Aug 1999)
This must be one of the most eagerly anticipated Vampire books of all time. The Salubri are the most
enigmatic and least documented Clans of all of those presented in WW's Vampire games, and the only
subject more obscure and ill-defined would be those illusive masters known as the Inconnu, or the
mysterious state of Golconda. However, although many would mourn the additional loss of mystery that
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