V20 Dark Ages: Chapter One

Vampire: The Masquerade

People wanted setting. So here’s our biggest share yet. Chapter One: A Place in Time. This one comes courtesy Filamena Young. This is just off the hook, it’s not been through editing yet, so don’t bother noting typos and things. This is all about content and world building.

From a design perspective, we figure most everyone that reads this book has already read one of the many editions of Vampire: The Masquerade, or Vampire: The Dark Ages. It’d be a waste of your time to just make you set through the same scene setting material, telling you “this is the World of Darkness”. But then again, some new people will be coming to the World of Darkness through this book, so we have to include it. Our answer to this is, we’re providing ideas, alternatives, and examples. Biased narration and alternative translations give you an opportunity to build your own truths within the setting.

Of particular interest in this is the Traditions section. Each Tradition offers an alternative translation of a Book of Nod passage from a translation different than The Book of Nod and The Erciyes Fragments, as well as other material supporting the Tradition from entirely new sources. Over the years, we’ve seen plenty of reference to alternative translations of the Book of Nod. Filamena and I really wanted to hit home with that idea, instead of using a “default translation” from past material.

And hey, wouldn’t a new artifact book -an alternative book of Noddist Lore- be a cool stretch goal for a Kickstarter?

What would you all like to see next? Tell me in the comments.