Storytellers handbook of the sabbat11/9/2023 ![]() ![]() It starts off with a discussion about how Vampire is intended to be played (a subject revisited again and again later on) and then moves onto a nice (if not staggeringly comprehensive) FAQ. The book has a reasonable amount of information in it. Some sections were excellent, but others were quite dry and failed to keep me awake late at night (something the previously mentioned Guides or The Erciyes Fragments had no trouble doing). The writing is, like the art and layout, not up to par with earlier works, on the whole. In my opinion, several of the chapters should have been re-arranged and shifted around as they often seemed to cross over and then forget to take everything with them. I would have preferred more text, myself. I was amazed that the pieces like those on page 135 or 175 made it to print. However, the book also has some of the worst art I've seen in a Vampire book, barring James Cobb. Guy Davis and Vince Locke both contributed excellent pieces, as did others like Joshua Timbrook and Mike Danza. Truly a beautiful screen, this is something that could stand up to the toughest of projectiles that players might throw at you during a game. Nice, simple and black, it is built from really sturdy backing and has all of the information what was in the screen that came with the Storyteller's Companion. One welcome surprise with the limited edition is one of the best Storyteller's Screens I have ever seen. I might be the only one who has this problem, but I find it more trouble that it is worth to deal with the slipcases, so I just ditch them and put the raw books on my shelf. The limited also comes in the same rather annoying slipcase that the limited copies of the basic book and the Guide to the Camarilla and the Guide to the Sabbat came in. When I moved on to The Erciyes Fragments, I kept reaching for it. As I said, it comes with a nice green cloth bookmark to keep your place, and I have to say that each time I read a book with one, I am reminded of just how useful they are. My limited edition copy looks like damn fine piece of workmanship, although I must say that I detest the cover for the unlimited version. It was what kept me entertained over much of my Christmas visit with my family, although I must admit that it was at times very slow going. There is just something about that simple black cover and nifty bookmark that drives me wild.Īnyway, the book is finally here, and I'm sure many fans have also purchased it and raced through it already. ![]() I wanted the information on all of the bloodlines and disciplines and sects that had been ignored in Revised books until now, and I got it, and in a nice leather-bound edition too. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.This is a book that I have been anxiously waiting for ever since I heard that White Wolf intended to put it out. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. ![]() We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. ![]() It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. ![]()
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