Kevin Hassall

I never thought I'd be impressed with a game where you play vampires until I saw this. And, while admittedly the prospect of playing blood-sucking fiends still hasn't completely won me over, I definitely like this book.

For one thing much of the art has that sketchy, black and white, thick lined quality that I so enjoy.

Also, the modern setting game "Vampire: the Masquerade" portrays vampires as slick and decadant or punkish and countercultural, which somehow doesn't appeal to me. By contrast the "Dark Ages" places these monsters more interestingly in a world that is already harsh and brutal, and in which their beastial appetites seem less out of place.

- Peter K.… (more)