[RPG]: Damnation City, reviewed by Willow (5/3)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13222.phtml

Willow Palecek's Summary:

Damnation City fails to deliver on playing the true players of the Danse Macabre, but provides a goldmine of useful sites, people, neighborhoods, and city information.

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[Wood]

Then comes another really keen section- about forty real world cities, each with a few paragraphs describing how it might involve Vampires, which are full of rich, bloody, story meat.

I appreciate this, I do, given the disproportionate amount of attention that little section's received... however:

It was to be the holy grail of my Vampire game, a guide to designing a city with the depth, conflicts, and life I desired, and give me the chance to run the game I really wanted: players as Primogen or Prince and inner circle, with the top of the game going down.

Does the book try to be that in its entirety? Is it fair to mark the book harshly because it's not intended (except in small part) to be about games where the players do politics from the top and more about simply creating environments?

[Willow]

Hey Wood-

The whole book doesn't try to be that, no, but two chapters represent themselves as such (Barony and Primacy), and they fall very, very flat. It's clear that this is a design agenda that was there, and not one I picked out of the blue.