White Wolf Night Edition Number 5 is a newsletter printed on newsprint and published sometime in the Spring of 1997. It is the only Newsletter that can be downloaded from White Wolf's website using Way Back Machine.
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News, Events and Embarrassing Stuff About White Wolf. Free! Take two, they're small.
It's the Kiss... er... Clan of Death![]
Coming to the shelves of the Library at Alexandria and your local game store this April is Clanbook: Cappadocian for Vampire: The Dark Ages.
The Cappadocian sourcebook is the first to investigate the secrets of the Clan of Death. Clanbook: Cappadocian, part of the popular Clanbook series, contains everything that makes this series so useful: the history of the clan, special powers and new Traits, and handy template characters suitable for use by players and Storytellers. In addition, this supplement features information on the mysterious Lamia, a rare bloodline of the Cappadocians, and the dark foundation of the Giovanni family, which later destroys its Cappadocian sires and steals their blood. Clanbook: Cappadocian also outlines the nascent Discipline of Necromancy and introduces the Road of the Bones, a special Via which espouses the study of death in all its forms.
Learn the true nature of the Cappadocians. They have foreseen their destruction and struggle tirelessly to reach their apotheosis before time runs out.
Check it out or risk diablerie at the hands of the Giovanni! Cover art by John Bolton. Illustrated by Vince Locke. Stock #2805, ISBN 1-56504-280-8, $12.00 U.S.
Libelli Sanguinis[]
We know. You don't want to buy a Clanbook for each the 13 clans in Vampire: The Dark Ages. We're on your side; we gave you this newspaper, didn't we?
Instead of doing individual Dark Ages books for the clans tat have already been covered for Vampire, we're releasing a series called the Libelli Sanguinis (Books of Blood). In each of these volumes, three clans are detailed in a style similar to the Clanbooks, with full attention on what the vampires are up to in the Dark Medieval world. It's all-new stuff from a Dark Ages point of view!
Best of all, each book is only $15! Thar's three regular Clanbooks at half the cost! Check out the first of the series this September with Libellus Sanguinis 1: Masters of the State, which covers the Lasombra, Tzimisce and Ventrue.
Game Stuff[]
March Game Books That Come in Like a Lion[]
They would go out like a lamb... but we ate it.
Skirting the Shadows[]
They wander the shadowed paths of the World of Darkness, playing the most dangerous games: lying to the liars, deceiving the deceivers, and matching wits with centuries-old undead. Outcasts even among the Damned, the vampires of Clan Ravnos have long been reviled and cursed by their Kindred brethren. If the Kindred knew the truth about these Gypsy charlatans, their curses would turn to cries of fear.
In the tradition of the phenomenally popular Clanbook series for Vampire: The Masquerade, Clanbook: Ravnos reveals the inner secrets of this fascinating clan.
Stock #2064, ISBN 1-56504-217-4, 72 pages, $10.00 U.S.
Clanbook: Ravnos Cover by Tim Bradstreet
This Isle! This England![]
At last, discover the land of ancient magic - Britannia! Here is a place steeped in magick and the legends of faerie. Hidden powers, some older than the land itself, exist alongside humankind and have mysterious arcane agendas.
Isle of the Mighty, the long-awaited Changeling: The Dreaming supplement, provides vital information on the changelings and mages of Great Britain. You are finally able to explore the homeland of fae legends and discover the truths behind British covens and Chantries. Isle of the Mighty exposes the vital link between mages and changelings and explains how they have been bound since the beginning of time.
Full color.
Stock #7007, ISBN 1-56504-712-5, 192 pages, $22.00 U.S.
Isle of the Mighty Cover by Adam Rex
These Ain't Your Cartoon Coyotes[]
If all you know about coyotes is from watching that hapless TV cartoon character fall of cliffs, then you have a lot to learn. Following on the heels of Bastet, Nuwisha is the second in the new Changing Breeds series for Werewolf: The Apocalypse. It's the handbook of werecoyote lore, from their story of creation to their list of the Trickster's faces. Within these pages are the ins and outs of the Troublemakers' society, and the wisdom they've gathered from lifetimes of wandering the World of Darkness. Whether you want to surprise your Werewolf players or start a game based on a brand-new type of character, Nuwisha is for you.
Stock #3076, ISBN 1-56504-336-7, 72 pages, $12.00 U.S.
Spring Into April with These Game Books[]
While April showers, spend the month with these new books - and then stomp all over those May flowers!
Because the Story Had to be Told[]
There were 11 million of them by the end, 11 million human beings shot, stabbed, gassed, beaten and devoured by the Nazi extermination machine. Yet their memory lives on, and so do their ghosts. It has been half a century since the gates of the camps were closed, but for the wraiths of the Holocaust, the struggle conntinues.
Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah, for Wraith: The Oblivion, is a record of the Holocaust through the eyes of those who perished in it, Detailing what happened, and what continues to happen in the World of Darkness, this book concentrates on consequences.
This is not an easy book to read, and it is not or the easily offended. However, it just might be an important book.
Black Dog. For adults only.
Stock #6903, ISBN 1-56504-651-X, 144 pages, $15.00 U.S.
Clanbook: Cappadocian[]
Didn't you see the cover of this rag?! If you want all the "grave" dirt on these nightcrawlers of Vampire: The Dark Ages, turn back a page!
Stock #2805, ISBN 1-56504-280-8, 72 pages, $12.00 U.S.
Walking the Line Between Life and Death[]
Euthanatos, the next in the series of Tradition Books for GAMA-award-winner Mage: The Ascension, takes a hard look at the most dreaded magickal society. Feared and distrusted, the "death mages" of the Euthanatos follow a twilight Path of reincarnation and rebirth. Most folks see the finality f death; the Euthanatos see a new beginning on the other side. But rebirth is uncertain. Corruption eats at the group's foundations. Who are these mages to play god? What makes them so certain about their cause? And who can be truly sure of destiny? Not even the Euthanatos have all the answers.
Stock #4063, ISBN 1-56504-414-2, 72 pages, $10.00 U.S.
Euthanatos Cover by Michael William Kaluta
Keepers of Truth, Keepers of Shadow[]
Everyone knows the sluagh. They're the nasty, smelly, slimy, creepy, weirdos who know everything about everyone. They spy on all the other kith, hold forbidden revels in cavernous mazes deep beneath the earth, and occasionally sacrifice childlings to whatever dark things they worship. At least what we've been told....
Kithbook: Sluagh, the latest in the character series for Changeling: The Dreaming, reveals the truth about these secretive changelings, the whisperers in the darkness. The book traces the history of the sluagh from the time before they lost their voices through to modern day. So what do you want to know?
Stock #7051, ISBN 1-56504-726-5, 72 pages, $12.00 U.S.
All game books are suggested for mature readers.
Kithbook: Slaugh Cover by Tony Diterlizzi
May - What a Fickle Month![]
The month may promise to be contrary, but these game books are sure to come to a store near you. (Or we may send them to the store farthest from you - so there!)
- Dark Ages: Companion for Vampire: The Dark Ages will be vital aid to all medieval vampires, and to their modern Storytellers!
- Silver Fangs is the next in Werewolf's Tribebook series. Hey, there are only three more to go - or do the White Howlers make four? Hmm.
- Haunters is the Guildbook about wraiths who just won't leave us mortals alone.
White Wolf Fiction[]
Prophetic New Fiction for March[]
Beware the Ides of March. Just stay home and read some new fiction stories. Hey, here are some now.
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 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 in 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./$6.99 CAN
Alternate Fantasy[]
They are extraordinary characters living outside the bounds of reality. But you will recognize them....
Bending the Landscape: Fantasy is about being gay, being straight, falling in love. Its about sorrowful partings, death, and fantastic circumstances. In this groundbreaking anthology, queer writers pen fantasy for the first time, and genre writers explore queer characters. Don't expect the usual fantasy backdrops.
Includes stories by Mark Shepherd, Kim Antieau, Don Bassingthwaite and others. Edited by Nicola Griffith and White Wolf's own Stephe Pagel!
Look for Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction in 1998 and Bending the Landscape: Horror in 1999.
Stock #WW11011, ISBN 1-56504-836-9, Hardcover anthology, $19.99 U.S./$27.99 CAN
My Enemy. My Self[]
"Enemy Mine," by Barry Longyear, was made popular by the 1985 movie of the same name. Oh, the story also happened to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Now it is newly available again in Enemy Mine: The Enemy Papers!
It's a war between races - Dracs and humans. Will hatred prevail when a fighter pilot from each side crash lands on an isolated planet? Survival depends on them overcoming their greatest fears - each other.
Stock #WW10004, ISBN 1-56504-866-0, Paperback, $4.99 U.S./$6.99 CAN
Thawed-Out April Fiction[]
To hell with spring cleaning. Read some new-born fiction instead.
Time is Essentially Relative[]
Strange worlds occupy the infinite multiverse. Visit an Earth where historical fact is turned upside down. Slaver is still practiced in the United States, the Great War is fought from huge airships, and the Russian Revolution fails! These are the alternate realities witnessed by Oswald Bastable, a man out of time.
A Nomad of the Time Streams (revised for its first U.S. edition) is the fourth volume in Michael Moorcock's epic The Eternal Champion saga. Join Oswald Bastable, former captain of the 53rd Royal Lancers and Special Air Police, as he is guided through alternate worlds by the Red Republican chrononaut, Una Perrson.
Includes the novels: The Warlord of the Air, The Land Leviathan and The Steel Tsar.
Stock #WW12520, ISBN 1-56504-194-1, Trade-sized paperback omnibus, $14.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
Don't Go Back to Lankhmar[]
One more roll of he dice against destiny as our favorite thieves Return to Lankhmar in The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Volume 3, by Fritz Leiber.
Outrunning enrages creditors, guarding disappearing caravans, crossing burning deserts, wooing beautiful women and searching out magic in frozen wastes are all in a day's work for the legendary duo. Join them as they rollick with their customary flair through every adventure Nehwon can dish out.
Includes The Swords of Lankhmar and Swords and Ice Magic, and sterling new introductions by Neil Gaiman and Raymond E. Feist.
Stock #WW12002, ISBN 1-56504-928-4, Paperback, $21.99 U.S./$29.99 CAN
Time is of the Essence[]
Tales in Time: The Man Who Walked Home and Other Stories, a companion volume to Three in Time, rounds up a fantastic lineup of classic short stories of time travel. Beyond space travel, beyond alien contact, Tales in Time brings together some of the most respected writers of our time to explore a dream that humankind has yet to achieve. Find out just how far we could go... if only our minds could take us there.
Includes stories by Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Charles de Lint, Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, Spider Robinson, Robert Silverberg and others. Introduction by John Clute, co-editor of the popular "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction." Edited by Peter Crowther.
Stock #WW10042, ISBN 1-56504-989-6, Trade-sized paperback, $12.99 U.S./$17.99 CAN
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Check out this bad boy coming out in May. We're told that if we reveal any more about it here, we'll be shot.
The Going Rate for a Dad?[]
The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish is a hardback book written for children and the young at heart. Teaming up once again, comics giants Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean ("Mister Punch" and "The Sandman") have created an unforgettable story that will take you on a lavishly illustrated journey into the quirky mind of a young boy, and the lessons he learns about the perils of striking a bargain.
One day my mom went out and left me at home with just my little sister and my dad. Mt dad sat in front of the television, reading his newspaper My dad doesn't pay much attention to anything when he's reading his newspaper.
My friend Nathan came over to my house. He had a glass bowl with him. There was something in the glass bowl.
"What's that?" I said.
"Two goldfish," he said. "Aren't they neat?"
They were pretty neat.
"I'll swap you them," I said.
"What for?" asked Nathan....
Stock #WW13401, ISBN 1-56504-944-6, Hardcover, $21.99 U.S./$29.99 CAN
Convention Update[]
White Wolf is supporting games at the following conventions:
- Gamemcon, Costa Mesa, CA, March 1-2
- MegaCon, Orlando, FL, March 15-16
- AggieCon XXVIII, College Station, TX, March 20-23
- MidSouthCon 16, Memphis, TN, March 21-23
- Motor City ComiCon, Novi, MI, March 21-23
- GAMA, Reno, NV, March 25-28
- BaltiCon 31, Baltimore, MD, March 28-30
- Dairyland, Beloit, WI, March 28-30, White Wolf guests TBA
- I-Con, Stonybrook, NY, April 4-6
- GameFest, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, April 4-6, Sarah Timbrook-Nugent and gameline developer TBA
- ATSea '97, Cruise in Gulf of Mexico, April 5-12
- Eucon, Eugene, OR, April 19-20
- Rein-Con-action, Hyannis, MA, April (dates TBA)
Check out the White Wolf web site for up-to-the-minute- convention news: http://www.white-wolf.com
Roll Dem Bones[]
You've played the game, now roll the official Vampire: The Dark Ages dice! These purple marble dice are equally good for making Wits + Alertness rolls in your game as they are for imitating the medieval dice games that your character plays. You get 10 awesome dice and a plastic carrying tube. If you're not playing with these dice, what are you playing with?
Available in March.
- Stock #2509
- ISBN 1-56504-257-3
- $5.99 U.S.
How White Wolf Makes a Book[]
Or "I Get Paid For This?"[]
One of the questions most frequently asked of the WW staff is how we go about creating our books. For the most part, folks ask because they want to write or do art for us. Others are just curious, perhaps about how lazy bastards and bastets like us can go from scribbling on character sheets or scribbling short stories to doing the same for an international audience, and getting paid for it.
In truth, we're mostly glorified gamers and hacks who got lucky. Now we just make an everyday thing of that luck.
Game supplements and fiction novels are created in largely the same way. White Wolf either has an idea for a book and we approach potential authors with the idea, or we receive a good idea from an author who's also looking to get lucky (at least in publishing). If all parties agree on the project, an outline is drafted up by the developer, managing editor or author in question, and the writer gets to work.
A manuscript usually goes through two or three incarnations before it sees the florescent light of a bookstore shelf. The author produces a first draft that is revised by the developer or managing editor. The WW staffer indicates content and direction changes, but also indicates where writing style can be improved. The redlined manuscript is sent back to the author and a second draft is created that incorporates the required changes. Sometimes a third draft is required, whether by intent... or necessity.
When the finished manuscript comes in, the developer or managing editor pores over it and makes further content changes to improve the quality of the material. That might mean increasing stats, heightening tension or establishing a more evocative mood.
Once a book is developed, it goes to copy editing to make sure all the i's are crossed and t's are dotted.
While the book is in copy editing, art directors hire artists to do illustrations for the book, both cover and interior. After the book is edited, it goes into production, where text files are laid out into what will become finished pages. Art, borders, charts and designs are then placed.
Once everyone in the office is satisfied with (or at least minimally frustrated by) the content and layout of the book, it's sent to the printer. During this time, sales and marketing folks assail retailer and customer ears about the virtues of our creation. Several weeks later, we receive copies of the finished, honest-to-goodness, paper-in-our-hands book. That's when it gets shipped to distributors and retailers, is put on shelves, and hopefully ends up in your hands.
The whole process, from when the first letter is typed on the author's keyboard to when the book dazzles your eyes, takes several months, often as long as a year.
Though the hard part is over on our end, the most intense part remains as we await your reactions. Sometimes you're thrilled, sometimes you're disappointed. Either way, we've done our best. Whether you're excited or bummed by a book, at least you now know what lengths we go to make you feel that way.
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White Wolf Presents: Intern: The Exploitation Comic Strip by Andrew Bates[]
New Stuff Checklist[]
March[]
Games[]
- Clanbook: Ravnos, Stock #2064, ISBN 1-56504-217-4; $10.00 U.S.
- Isle of the Mighty, Stock #7007, ISBN 1-56504-712-5; $22.00 U.S.
- Nuwisha, Stock #3076, ISBN 1-56504-336-7; $12.00 U.S.
- Vampire: The Dark Ages Dice, Stock #2509, ISBN 1-56504-257-3; $5.99 U.S.
Fiction[]
- Bending the Landscape: Fantasy, Stock #WW11011, ISBN 1-56504-836-9; Hardcover anthology, $21.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
- Enemy Mine: The Enemy Papers, Stock #WW10004, ISBN 1-56504-866-0; Paperback, $4.99 U.S./$6.99 CAN
- The Road to Hell, Stock #WW11021, ISBN 1-56504-847-4; Trade-sized paperback, $5.99 U.S./$7.99 CAN
April[]
Games[]
- Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah, Stock #6903, ISBN 1-56504-651-X; $15.00 U.S.
- Clanbook: Cappadocian, Stock #2805, ISBN 1-56504-280-8; $12.00 U.S.
- Euthanatos, Stock #4063, ISBN 1-56504-414-2; $10.00 U.S.
- Kithbook: Sluagh, Stock #7051, ISBN 1-56504-726-5; $12.00 U.S.
Fiction[]
- A Nomad of the Time Streams, Stock #WW12520, ISBN 1-56504-194-1; Trade-sized paperback omnibus, $21.99 U.S./$19.99 CAN
- Return to Lankhmar, Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Volume 3 , Stock #WW12002; ISBN 1-56504-928-4; Hardcover, $21.99 U.S./$29.99 CAN
- Tales in Time: The Men Who Walked Home and Other Stories, Stock #WW10042; ISBN 1-56504-989-6; Trade-sized paperback, $12.99 U.S./$17.99 CAN
May[]
Fiction[]
- The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Stock #WW13401; ISBN 1-56504-944-6; Hardcover, $21.99 U.S./$29.99 CAN
Go online with White Wolf. Check us out at:
- http://www.white-wolf.com;
- alt.games.whitewolf and
- rec.games.frp.storyteller
And yet, there's nothing like the feel of a murdered tree in your hands.
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