Pyramid Review
Ventrue: Lords Over the Damned (for Vampire: The Requiem)
Published by White Wolf Publishing
Written by Russell Bailey, Will Hindmarch, & Chuck Wendig
Edited by Anita Hager
Art by Craig S. Grant, Ed Bourelle, Robert Carter, Miguel Coimbra, Lucas Graciano, Michel Koch, Efrem Palacios, Matt K. Smith, Claudia Sutton, Matias Tapia, Andrew Trabbold, Derk Venneman, & Chad Michael Ward
128-page full-color softcover; $19.99
Those folks who see all vampires as Dracula types -- flashy, debonair, perfectly coifed -- are probably also keen on the Ventrue: Lords Over the Damned when playing White Wolf's Vampire: The Requiem RPG. They are the epitome of the in-control bloodsucker, the imperturbable planners and schemers who sit back and allow their plans to come to fruition over many years. And since there was a World of Darkness reset, there has to be a new sourcebook for all one's haughty needs.
This one is written almost exclusively in the form of a series of interviews. Someone (who exactly is deliberately left in the air, though a couple of suggestions are made) has gone to all the Lords and asked them what they can contribute to a monograph on the subject. Not exactly a history, not precisely a who's who, the material is victim to a Ventrue's natural ambivalence. Comply with the wishes of the interviewer's obviously well-placed sire, or maintain that air of distant distaste for revealing personal information?
As the interrogator walks this fine line the lineage is uncovered, traced . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 23, 2008
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