White Wolf Night Edition Number 4 is a newsletter printed on newsprint and published sometime in the Winter of 1997.
Contents[]
Sobered Up Yet?[]
Crap, it's a new year! The last one went by so quickly we weren't quite finished with it! Fortunately, White Wolf is prepared for 1997 (beyond having numerous hangover remedies), and this installment of Night Edition kicks it off in style. Not only does this issue update you on new releases and events in January and February, it offers a glimpse of what's to come for the whole year. Before you read any further, are you sure you want to know what's coming out all the way in November and December 1997? Can you stand the wait? Well... you'll have to! Swallow that with your January 1st pot of recovery coffee!
Shapeshifters of a Different Stripe[]
If you think the Garou are the only Skinchangers to rule the wild places, think again.
In February, the World of Darkness will be invaded by Bastet. The Nine Tribes of werecats are now fully detailed and updated, and ready to leap claws-first into chronicles across the world. But don't think we're stopping there. in March, the werecoyotes follow on the cats' heels with the release of Nuwisha.
The Changing Breed books take the shapeshifters presented in The Werewolf Players Guide, and flesh them out as fully as the Garou. Bastet will be a huge book, about what you'd expect when dealing with nine tribes. Later books will complement the Garou Tribebooks, detailing the history, society, special tricks and unique viewpoints of each of the shapeshifting races. And with each book comes a new way looking at the World of Darkness: from the Bastet's secrecy to the Nuwisha's killer sense of humor, from the Gurahl's wisdom to the Rokea's savagery, you'll find something different in every Changing Breed book.
Be careful - here's where the wild things are.
Game Stuff[]
Warm Up to These January Game Books[]
City of Black Miracles[]
Montreal by Night is an unprecedented new release for Vampire: The Masquerade. This isn't just another "by Night" book, but a combination of the worst corruption and vileness that word "vampire" encompasses: The book is dedicated to the Sabbat, and is the latest from Black Dog Game Factory! We just couldn't do justice to these enemies of the Camarilla any other way. If you think you've seen it all, that there is nothing new under the moon, head north and learn otherwise - the hard way. Just don't let 'em know who your real allies are, and don't eat the red snow.
For adults only.
Stock #2216; ISBN 1-56504-224-7; 128 pages; $15.00 U.S.
Montreal by Night by William O'Connor
Renfield Never Had It So Good[]
Finally, here are the rules for Mind's Eye Theatre players who have a problem with commitment. You know the ones: the folks who can't decide whether to be alive or dead. Now, with Liber des Goules, you can have the best of both worlds. Yes, as a ghoul you can have vampiric Disciplines and still get a tan! Never mind that silly little addiction to blood; t's not really a concern - for now.
Liber des Goules is the source on playing the servants of the Kindred, whether you're a newcomer or a seasoned live-action roleplayer. Tradeback.
Stock #5006; ISBN 1-56504-507-6; 144 pages; $10.95 U.S.
Ghouls by Guy Davis and Vince Locke
The Oldest Stories Are Still the Best[]
Werewolf legends reach back to the Golden Age of Gaia. And Garou still gather around the campfire to tell them, even as tribe fights tribe and the Wyrm slowly devours the world. Now you can relive some of the greatest Werewolf legends and create some of your own. Werewolf Chronicles Volume 1 combines the original Werewolf chronicle supplements Rite of Passage and Valkenburg Foundation under one, all-new cover. These classics have been out of print for years, and now can't be found anywhere else. Here's your chance to strike back at the Wyrm.
Stock #3207; ISBN 1-56504-321-9; 168 pages; $15.00 U.S.
Home is Where the Quintessence Is[]
Mages work their magic in the darnedest places, and Mage Chronicles Volume 1 proves it! Some mages live unassumingly among the masses, but retreat to amazing secret laboratories in the basements. Others exist and work outside the physical world and beyond human comprehension. No matter where they practice their magick, mages need havens of their own. This book is the ultimate reference on the subject. Mage Chronicles Volume I follows in the tradition of the Chronicle book for Vampire and Werewolf. Volume I includes The Book of Chantries and Digital Web, two of the earliest sourcebooks released for Mage.
Stock #4013; ISBN 1-56504-415-0; 296 pages; $22.00 U.S.
February Books for Cupid[]
Dogs and Cats Living Together![]
For millennia, they have paced the shadows, collecting the darkest secrets of the denizens of the World of Darkness. Now the lore of the most secretive of werecreatures - the great werecats - is revealed in Bastet. The first Changing Breed book, following in the tradition of the Garou tribebooks, is the complete players guide to werecats, from the mighty Khan weretigers to the strange Egyptian Bubasti. Bastet contains everything you need to create a werecat character to Werewolf. Color comic included.
Stock #3075; ISBN 1-56504-335-9; 160 pages; $18.00 U.S.
Join the Dark Side[]
Everyone has a dark side; wraiths just like to hold meaningful conversations with theirs.
Take a walk on the wild side with Shadow Players Guide for Wraith: The Oblivion. (Yes, come join us.) Learn what it's like to transform into a Spectre, and how it feels to be Castigated. (Some of us even like it.) Take a trip to the other Dark Kingdoms - you might learn something from their Shadows. (Cannibalism can be fun.) There's even a bit of information on the Eidolon (Wimps!) and Doomslayers, the wraiths who hunt Spectres for fun and profit. (We'll get 'em yet.) Shadow Players Guide is the be-all and end-all for making the most Shadowguiding, replete with dirty tricks and nasty surprises to spring. This is your chance to really mess with people's heads.
Stock #6013; ISBN 1-56504-602-1; 144 pages; $18.00 U.S.
Shadow Players Guide by Henry Higgenbotham
Living the Dream[]
From the shadows of the "primitive" world come the shamans with visions before their eyes and anger in their hearts. The latest Tradition Book for Mage: The Ascension, Dreamspeakers presents the shaman's side of the nine-fold debate called the Council of Traditions. From the Tradition's uneasy beginnings to its resurgence in the modern era, the Dreamspeakers have walked a narrow road. To join them, you must put aside your prejudices and follow the Dream Path. Walk it f you dare.
Stock #4062; ISBN 1-56504-413-4; 72 pages; $10.00 U.S.
All game book are suggested for mature readers.
Beware the Ides[]
If you get off on all the game books listed here, get ready for March. Look for these books soon:
- Nuwisha, the next in the Changing Breed series, features werecoyotes!
- Clanbook: Ravnos, the companion to World of Darkness: Gypsies and the next to last in Vampire's clanbook series. Hey, it's only been six years in the making!
- Isle of the Mighty, the long-awaited book that describes the dreams and magick of Great Britain. Changelings and mages are forming alliances and fighting it out to claim the power of Britannia.
White Wolf Fiction[]
Bone-Chilling Stories in January[]
You don't have to go outside to chill your blood. Just curl up with one of these books.
Your Ticket, Please[]
Destination Unknown, is a brand-new compilation of the strangest and most compelling stories by some of fantasy's best authors. But don't take our word for it. Here's how Anne McCaffrey describes the world of Destination Unknown:
"Here are haunted rooms, elevators and mazes, and towns where strange insect life holds sway or office buildings seem reluctant to let people go home. Here, too, are off-beat worlds which exist beneath the risers of a staircase or deep in the bowels of the earth, and alien landscapes where one might invoke the power of the angels, discover long-last magicians or simply commune with deceased relatives... locations rich and strange and bizarre, and all yours for the taking."
Join Charles de Lint, Alan Dead Foster, Lisa Tuttle, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine and nine others for an unforgettable ride into realms above your wildest imagination. Edited by Peter Crowther.
Stock #WW11941; ISBN 1-56504-941-1; Trade-sized paperback; $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
On the Road Again[]
Continue the marvelous journey along The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever. The books in this series collect stories from the earliest days of science fiction to today - and tomorrow. This fourth volume, From Here to Forever, explores science fiction Richard Matheson's 1950 "Born of Man and Woman" to George Alec Effinger's 1988 "Schrödinger's Kitten."
Includes stories by Daniel Keyes, Frank Herbert, Pamela Sargent, Michael Bishop, James Tiptree, Terry Carr and many others. Edited by James Gunn.
Stock #WW11090; ISBN 1-56504-822-9; Trade-sized paperback; $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
Fun Fiction for February[]
No date for the 14th? Valentine's Day stinks, anyway. Why not spend the day cuddled up with something fun?
Packs a Wallop[]
Meet Harry Gainesborough. He wrote a best-selling children's story, Zod Walllop. Then his daughter died.
Now Raymond Story, a patient at Harwood Psychiatric Center and Harry's biggest fan, has escaped - to track down Harry in his remote cabin. Raymond is convinced that the people, creatures and places of Zod Wallop are real. As events transpire, Harry begins to wonder if Raymond is right....
You decide - by reading the book! Zod Wallop is the latest fantasy novel by William Browning Spencer. Charles de Lint calls it "Entirely original, a novel both serious and funny, beautifully written, a delight and a wonder, a true gift...."
Stock #WW11064; ISBN 1-56504-870-9; Paperback; $5.99 U.S./$7.99 CAN
That Darn Multiverse[]
Corum, the Prince in the Scarlet Robe, is last of the Vadhagh, an enlightened, cultured people. Michael Moorcock's Corum: The Coming of Chaos chronicles the prince's exploits as he seeks vengeance against the Mabden, the destroyers of his kind. However, cataclysmic war between Law and Chaos thrusts him through myriad dimensions of the multiverse, version after version of our own Earth. In the end, Corum will challenge even the gods themselves.
Corum: The Coming of Chaos, The Eternal Champion Volume 7, includes "The Knight of the Swords", "The Queen of the Swords" and "The King of the Swords."
Stock #WW12508; ISBN 1-56504-182-8; Hardcover; $21.99 U.S./$29.99 CAN
Life What You Make It[]
According to Silicon Karma, by Tom Easton, reality will soon be what you make it - really. Scientists predict that people will be copied into computerized virtual realities where they can live forever, fulfilling their dreams. But at what price? The computer will have many residents, some with dark and greedy dreams.
Join Rose Pilock as she becomes one with the machine. What does she find there? A cyberspace love triangle, for one, but in a place where reality had no meaning.
Stock #WW11818; ISBN 1-56504-818-0; Trade-sized paperback; $11.99 U.S./$16.25 CAN
Trible Threat[]
Time travel tantalizes us as a powerful, unrealized dream, and is inspiration for some of our most spectacular science fiction. Three stories, each extraordinary in its own way, comprise White Wolf Publishing's first Rediscovery Trio, Three in Time. This exciting new series is dedicated to bringing enduring classics of science fiction to a new generation of readers. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Contains "The Winds of Time" by Chad Oliver, "The Year of the Quiet Sun" by Wilson Tucker, and "There Will Be Time" by Poul Anderson. Edited by Jack Dann, Pamela Sargent and George Zebrowski.
Stock #WW10041; ISBN 1-56504-985-3; Trade-sized paperback; $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
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Here's some fiction that you won't be seeing until March, but we wanted to taunt you. We're just like that.
All Roads Lead to Hell[]
Boldly go where no mage has gone before. In The Road to Hell, by Robert Weinberg, the battle for reality itself ignites as mages of all stripes vie for the fabled Horizon Realms, the dimensions juxtaposing Earth. A villain from the heroes' past returns to claim his legacy, embroiling Earth's mages i a struggle for survival and dominance of all known creation.
Based on Mage: The Ascension from White Wolf Game Studio. The Road to Hell is the first part of the Horizon War Trilogy, by the author of The Masquerade of the Red Death Trilogy.
Stock #WW11021; ISBN 1-56504-847-4; Trade-sized paperback; $5.99 U.S./$7.99 CAN
Auntie Trace's Meddling Match-Maker Madness[]
(Actually, it's the Convention Update. They said if I wanted to go through with this theme, I'd have to work it into my usual column.)
Love-life, or lack of it, got you down? Tired of the same old lines, the same old excuses? Take some advice from Auntie Trace: Get out and meet new people! Take a chance on a charming smile, and just let love rule, baby. Have trouble meeting people, you say? Go to a Convention. You can't miss. Check out these shows, and remember that on Valentine's Dat, nothing says "I love you" like an autographed copy of Wraith: The Oblivion.
Arisia, Boston, MA, January 15-17[]
See the enigmatic WW employees in their natural environment! Meet our resident Dead Guy, Wraith Developer, Richard Dansky, and his lovely and talented sidekick, Trace O'Connor, Events Coordinator extraordinaire.
- Sun Quest Orlando, FL, January 2-5
- ATCon, Austin, TX, January 24-26
- E-Con, Eastern Michigan Campus, MI, February 1
- Con of the North, Minneapolis, MN, February 1
- Legends & Legions, Tallahassee, FL, February 14-16
- Radcon, Tri Cities, WA, February 14-16
DunDraCon XXI, San Francisco, CA, February 14-17[]
Features the White Wolf Interactive Pacific Demo Team. Hooray for our side!
- Gamicon, Iowa City, IA, February 21-23
- Total Confusion, North Chelmsford, MA, February 20-23
- Con-Dor, San Diego, CA, February 21-23
- Astronomicon 6, Rochester, NY, February 28-March 2
Visit the White Wolf web site at http://www.white-wolf.com to get up-to-date convention information and the check out our fan registry. You may even catch an inspirational glimpse of Trace's engagement ring! Whoo-hoo! If you're interested in demo teams, sanctioned fan clubs or bringing White Wolf to your event, contact Trace O'Connor, Events Coordinator at *@* or *@*.
1997: Year of the Ally[]
Don't go into the night alone in 1997. There are mortals in the World of Darkness who know who - and what - you are. Don't worry, though - they're dangerous, but they're on your side. They're your friends, companions, sidekicks - your allies.
The Year of the Ally is a series of Storyteller books that details the mortals who stand by the sides of vampires, Garou, mages, wraiths and changelings. There's one book in each Storyteller game line, and one for The Masquerade - seven in all.
Allies may be mortal, but they aren't mundane... and that 12-gauge helps.
Look for these Year of the Ally titles in '97:
- Liber Des Goules: The Book of Ghouls for Mind's Eye Theatre (January)
- Ghouls: Fatal Addiction for Vampire: The Masquerade (June)
- The Enchanted for Changeling: The Dreaming (June)
- Liege, Lord and Lackey for Vampire: The Dark Ages (July)
- Mediums: Speakers with the Dead for Wraith: The Oblivion (September)
- World of Darkness: Sorcerer for Mage: The Ascension (October)
- Kinfolk for Werewolf: The Apocalyse (November)
Black Dog[]
When it appeared in 1991, Vampire: The Masquerade cast aside conventional gaming and took the roleplaying world by surprise. No longer were statistics and treasure important; storytelling was essential.
Now gaming is turned on its ear again. We know you're mature, and we know that you take your games beyond the limits of what their rules and supplements provide. There's a line of books specifically for you.
The Black Dog Game Factory imprint artistically pursues these and issues that gaming has never been allowed to address. These books bare the unexplored, and detail the World of Darkness to a depth and horror that no previous books have been able to.
We know your gaming has evolved beyond our designs, and now we pay tribute to your gaming.
Look for these Black Dog books in 1997:
- Montreal by Night for Vampire: The Masquerade (January)
- Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah for Wraith: The Oblivion (April)
- The Mad Masque for Mage: The Ascension (November)
How the West Was Won![]
Wild Ages and Dark West?[]
In 1996 we released the first in a series of Storyteller games set outside the modern World of Darkness. Vampire: The Dark Ages got the ball rolling, and is already supported by a handful of supplements, like Book of Storyteller Secrets.
In 1997 we lost it. Not only are we releasing Werewolf: The Wild West, but both games will be supported by a number of books. Justin Achilli, our new D.A./W.W. developer is already at work on a bunch of rockin' releases for both games. Look out for Clanbook: Cappadocian and Vampire: The Dark Ages Companion in the coming months.
White Wolf:[]
- Tragically Hip?
- Pretentious?
- Arrogant?
- Maybe, But Buy Us A Drink and We'll Pretend To Be Your Friends.
White Wolf Presents: Intern: The Exploitation Comic Strip by Andrew Bates[]
New Stuff Checklist[]
January[]
Games[]
- Liber des Goules; Stock #5006; ISBN 1-56504-507-6; $10.95 U.S.
- Mage Chronicles Volume 1; Stock #4013; ISBN 1-56504-415-0; $22.00 U.S.
- Montreal by Night; Stock #2216; ISBN 1-56504-224-7; $15.00 U.S.
- Werewolf Chronicles Volume 1; Stock #3207; ISBN 1-56504-321-9; $15.00 U.S.
Fiction[]
- Destination Unknown; Stock #WW11941; ISBN 1-56504-941-1; Trade-sized paperback; $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
- The Road to Science Fiction: From Here to Forever; Stock #WW11090; ISBN 1-56504-822-9; Trade-sized paperback; $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
February[]
Games[]
- Bastet; Stock #3075; ISBN 1-56504-335-9; $18.00 U.S.
- Dreamspeakers; Stock #4062; ISBN 1-56504-413-4; $10.00 U.S.
- Shadow Players Guide; Stock #6013; ISBN 1-56504-602-1; $18.00 U.S.
Fiction[]
- Corum: The Coming of Chaos; Stock #WW12508; ISBN 1-56504-182-8; Hardcover; $21.99 U.S./$29.99 CAN
- Rediscovery Trio: Three in Time; Stock #WW10041; ISBN 1-56504-985-3; Trade-sized paperback; $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
- Silicon Karma; Stock #WW11818; ISBN 1-56504-818-0; Trade-sized paperback; $11.99 U.S./$16.25 CAN
- Zod Wallop; Stock #WW11064; ISBN 1-56504-870-9; Paperback; $5.99 U.S./$7.99 CAN
Go online with White Wolf. Check us out at:
http://www.white-wolf.com; alt.games.whitewolf and rec.games.frp.storyteller
Hey, whatever happened to that "Net Punk" guy?
3-D Scarab O' Pain by Matt Milberger
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