They have freedom in how they’re going to ‘deal with’ them, but there is enough structure for the chronicle to actually work (yes, it’s possible for the characters to just leave London at the first chance, but that really just means there are bad players in the group who don’t understand that one of their jobs is to make interesting choices). Fall of London handles this issue by coming up with circumstances where the characters almost certainly will take certain general courses of action – they have to find four ancient artifacts, there are four specific vampires who have those artifacts, and the characters are going to have to go deal with those vampires in order to complete their mission.
A Vampire writer usually doesn’t have that luxury, but a lot of early chronicle books just assumed that the characters were going to decide to do exactly what the chronicle needed them to do, in exactly the way the chronicle needed them to do it – even if such a course of action was highly unlikely. This is fairly easy for something like Dungeons & Dragons – it really is overwhelmingly likely that, when presented with an assignment to go help those people or explore that area, the PCs will just go do it, and fight anything hostile. Writing an adventure/chronicle almost inherently requires some assumptions about what the characters are going to do, or it gets blown up. Vampire is a game that tends to have story that’s a lot more fluid. Historically, a lot of Vampire chronicle books have been a bit shaky, because they’re hard to get right. The Second Inquisition is around and is a problem for the vampires in the chronicle, but the chronicle is very much focused on Mithras. Fall of London is set in 2012, and the pitch for the chronicle also talks about how the story will explore the events that led to the fall. In canon, London today is a wasteland for vampires, the Second Inquisition having mostly wiped them out. Something in the woods starts killing the camper and it may have ties to the camper's more than any of them realize.Fall of London is the first chronicle book for the fifth edition of Vampire: the Masquerade. Because Fall of London is a chronicle book that is primarily for storytellers, most of this review is going to be below the ‘spoiler bar.’ But the basics here up top are aimed at players and will not include story spoilers beyond the sort of high-level concepts you might see on the back of the book.įall of London is about a coterie of vampires who were recently awakened from torpor for the purpose of obtaining several mystical relics for Mithras, the millennia-old vampire who once ruled Britain (and hopes to do so again, of course). As they trek further into the forest, they realize that they are being stalked. In Something in the Woods, In the Dark: A husband and wife going through a tough time go on a camping trip with a few friends. Soon, he discovers that his house appears to be 'haunted' by more than one spirit and the creatures begin feeding on Trevor's feelings of anger and guilt. In Familiars: After a painful divorce, Trevor rents a house and tries to rebuild his life. (W) Cullen Bunn (A / CA) Danny Luckert, Leila LeizĬullen Bunn (Harrow County), Danny Luckert (Regression), and Leila Leiz (The Last Book You'll Ever Read) present a brand-new horror anthology flip comic taking place in a haunted comic book shop with a twisted retailer filled with tales of terror sure to leave you with the lights on. JUL220373 – SHOCK SHOP #1 (OF 4) CVR B FRANCAVILLA & MOON – 3.99 SHOCK SHOP #1 (OF 4) CVR A LUCKERT & LEIZ
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