Pyramid Pick: Blood-Dimmed Tides

Pyramid Pick

Blood-Dimmed Tides

Published by White Wolf

Written by Sean Jaffe, Clayton Oliver, Ethan Skemp and Adam Tinworth

$17.95

A World of Darkness sourcebook has to wear a lot of different masks to be successful. On one side, it should have at least a reference or two to most of the product lines. On another, it should expand the WoD and cover all of the essential rules and modifications that come with the territory it's covering. Blood-Dimmed Tides does both.

In four chapters, Blood-Dimmed Tides covers not only the oceans of the World of Darkness, but also expands many individual WoD titles. There are Gangrel of the Deep for Vampire, while the Werewolf line gets the addition of the Rokea, also known as Weresharks, powerful predators who have not had the difficulties that their surface dwelling cousins have (but they will!). In a similar vein, Pentex, one of the Wyrm's servants, also has their water despoiling hands revealed. The Changeling line gets Merfolk with not only history, but spells, and artifacts. Mage has technocrats down here doing their usual business with the Deepwater project.

The book doesn't leave out the Eastern counterparts though. While not as heavily detailed as other areas, but there is information for the Sea of Japan and the Keike Crabs which guard them.

The book doesn't focus on any one aspect of water bound campaigns. There are tidbits enough in here for the GM who wants to run a gothic epic in a vein similar to "Rhyme of the Ancient . . .

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



Article publication date: June 25, 1999

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