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Look, if you are going to do it right playing anything in the World of Darkness should involve so much despair, misery and darkness it is like your very soul is force fed ashes while wearing only charcoal dust and staring at the abyss until the Abyss gets uncomfortable and goes to complain to HR....

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[Grumpy RPG Reviews]

Welcome to the podcast that takes a critical approach to RPGs. I ran a podcast review show of RPGs and related materials some years ago, and the new show is a variation on that theme.

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Here is my review of the series.

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I like the bleakness of the series. But for me an issue was it just focused on one vampire (for the most part) while VtM is about a group....

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Rio is one of those cities I associate with sunlight, much like L.A or Orlando. But as they said in the recent trailer for “Interview with the Vampire,” in some cities day is when you sleep off the damage from the night before. Rio is also one of the massive cities, which is probably too large for any single prince or Archbishop to rule.

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So, how about 7:30?

She is coming down harder on the series than I do. But at the same time, I don't think she is wrong.

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I was going over the book for Wraith the Oblivion, 20th anniversary edition. And something struck me.

There isn’t really a single section devoted to the shadowlands. At least not in the same way the book gives space to Oblivion, the Tempest, and so on. This strikes me as an oversight, because a campaign will start in the shadowlands, and most attempts to deal with the skinlands involve the shadowlands.

What do you think?