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So far, every published story from WWGS that I have seen has needed work by individual Storytellers. This is no exception.

Unlike my other reviews, I will not be reviewing this book chapter by chapter, since every chapter is part of the story. And if I did that, it'd spoil it.

What is this book: This is the story that was meant to be in Jerusalem by Night, but that book had too much stuff in it. So they expanded the story, and put it in it's own book.

The Good: Well, the Characters can fail without dying. In fact, if someone ran this as a One-Shot but the characters failed, there'd be temptation to turn it into a full Chronicle. Show them what they have done by failing so to speak. Also, there aren't that many fights. Just 2 or 3 (Unless your Players like to attack anything they want to).

The Bad: The expanding of it. While I do not know what was added, I can guess. There are parts of it that you really have no idea how you could get your Players to go there (Especially the Apothecary, who it doesn't give a reason anywhere in the book to go there). Plus, the Players have to /guess/ on what to do at some points. While nice at points, they have to guess at the end, without any real clues to help them along. Much better chance of failure I think.

The Ugly: Well there are very few Nosferatu in this story... But seriously, WWGS' Vampire lines has been loving to show really powerful vampires in distress lately. It was neat before, but it's just getting overhanded.

The story is a good idea, explaining the Weeks of Blood etc. But Ree just didn't pull it off. Especially concerning the fact that the Weeks of Blood were in 1099, the game is set in 1197, with no explanation of why it took so long for the events here to take so long.

Style: 2 (Needs Work)
Substance: 2 (Sparse)

Fountains of Bright Crimson
Author: Ree Soesbee (with Richard E. Dansky, Jen Clodius, and Todd Satogata) Category: game Company/Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio Line: Vampire: The Dark Ages Cost: $7.95 Page count: 32 ISBN: 1-56504-270-0 SKU: WW2825 Capsule Review by Alan DeHaan on 09/03/99. Genre tags: Historical Horror Vampire Gothic	So far, every published story from WWGS that I have seen has needed work by individual Storytellers. This is no exception. Unlike my other reviews, I will not be reviewing this book chapter by chapter, since every chapter is part of the story. And if I did that, it'd spoil it. What is this book: This is the story that was meant to be in Jerusalem by Night, but that book had too much stuff in it. So they expanded the story, and put it in it's own book. The Good: Well, the Characters can fail without dying. In fact, if someone ran this as a One-Shot but the characters failed, there'd be temptation to turn it into a full Chronicle. Show them what they have done by failing so to speak. Also, there aren't that many fights. Just 2 or 3 (Unless your Players like to attack anything they want to). The Bad: The expanding of it. While I do not know what was added, I can guess. There are parts of it that you really have no idea how you could get your Players to go there (Especially the Apothecary, who it doesn't give a reason anywhere in the book to go there). Plus, the Players have to /guess/ on what to do at some points. While nice at points, they have to guess at the end, without any real clues to help them along. Much better chance of failure I think. The Ugly: Well there are very few Nosferatu in this story... But seriously, WWGS' Vampire lines has been loving to show really powerful vampires in distress lately. It was neat before, but it's just getting overhanded. The story is a good idea, explaining the Weeks of Blood etc. But Ree just didn't pull it off. Especially concerning the fact that the Weeks of Blood were in 1099, the game is set in 1197, with no explanation of why it took so long for the events here to take so long. Style: 2 (Needs Work) Substance: 2 (Sparse)

Fountains of Bright Crimson