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Dark Alliance: Vancouver

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Dark Alliance: Vancouver
Cover by Tony Harris
Designers
Illustrators
PublishersWhite Wolf Publishing
PublicationOctober 1993
GenresTabletop role-playing game supplement
SystemsStoryteller System
Parent games
SeriesWorld of Darkness
ISBN1-56504-059-7

Dark Alliance: Vancouver is a tabletop role-playing game supplement published by White Wolf Publishing in October 1993. It is part of the World of Darkness series, and is intended to be used with the games Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

Contents

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Dark Alliance: Vancouver details the tribes of werewolves found in Vancouver, and their war with the local vampires. If the gamemaster desires, this sourcebook can be used as a crossover between Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Vampire: The Masquerade.[1]

The book also covers the city of Vancouver, and includes an 11-page scenario, "War and Peace", which sets up a civil war between werewolves and vampires.[2]

Production and release

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Dark Alliance: Vancouver was designed by Nigel Findley and Geoff McMartin, with illustrations by Jeff Rebner, Dan Smith, and Joshua Gabriel Timbrook, and cover art by Tony Harris.[2] The book was released by White Wolf Publishing in October 1993 as a 125-page softcover book,[2][3] and reprinted in 1996 as part of the second volume of Rage Across the World, a line of Werewolf: The Apocalypse compilations, together with Rage Across Australia.[4] Both the stand-alone version and the compilation have since been re-released as e-books.[1][4]

Reception

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Review scores
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Dosdediez[3]
Dragon[2]

Rick Swan of Dragon was not a fan of the book. Although he liked the section on the area tribes, "Too much of the book, however, looks like it was cranked out by the Department of Tourism, a dreary run-down of hotels, nightclubs, and landmarks whose descriptions rarely rise above the superficial [...] Little of this is told from a Garou’s perspective, and most of it’s available in any good reference book, so what’s the point?" Swan also wasn't sure about the cross-over aspect of the book, wondering how the referee would simultaneously handle a group of werewolves in one part of the city and a group of vampires in another part of the city. "What's Group A supposed to do while the referee is busy with Group B?"[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Dark Alliance : Vancouver". Guide du Rôliste Galactique (in French). Association du Guide du Rôliste Galactique. 2009-05-08. Archived from the original on 2020-10-27. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  2. ^ a b c d e Swan, Rick (May 1994). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. No. 205. pp. 99–100.
  3. ^ a b Dombríz, Jonathan (January–February 1994). "Dark Alliance Vancouver". Dosdediez (in Spanish). No. 2. La Factoria. p. 24.
  4. ^ a b "Rage across the World - Volume 2". Guide du Rôliste Galactique (in French). Association du Guide du Rôliste Galactique. 2009-05-08. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
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