Pyramid Review: Mind's Eye Theatre Journal

Pyramid Review

Mind's Eye Theatre Journal

Published by White Wolf Game Studio

Edited by Ken Cliffe (Issue #1) and Lindsay Woodcock (Issue #2)

$7.95

Mind's Eye Theatre Journal is White Wolf's quarterly magazine for its live-action line. Two issues are now on sale [Editor's Note: a third issue is now out, but not covered by this review.] at your local gaming shop. Should you pick up a copy? Well, are you looking for a live action gaming magazine, or are you looking for a Mind's Eye Theatre supplement?

Mind's Eye Theatre (MET) has produced over a dozen rulebooks adapting the World of Darkness from tabletop to live-action, a process that mostly consists of translating the mechanics from a 10-sided dice pool system to rock-paper-scissors. Of course, these books only cover the major points of the setting, passing over the more exotic bloodlines, shapeshifters, and rituals. It is the goal of the MET Journal to fill those gaps. Additionally, it gives White Wolf a forum to publish fixes for some of the more glaring errors in the MET system. Overall, it accomplishes both, but raises the question of its nature -- is it a live action gaming magazine, as advertised, or is it a quarterly supplement?

The regular features include several normal magazine-type articles, such as editorials from the current line developer and two past line developers, a FAQ, a calendar of events, a fiction piece, and a section of an adventure. The insight provided by not one, but three, line developers is interesting, . . .

This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.



Article publication date: August 27, 1999

Copyright © 1999 by Steve Jackson Games. All rights reserved. Pyramid subscribers are permitted to read this article online, or download it and print out a single hardcopy for personal use. Copying this text to any other online system or BBS, or making more than one hardcopy, is strictly prohibited. So please don't. And if you encounter copies of this article elsewhere on the web, please report it to webmaster@sjgames.com.