Ashes to Ashes
The cover art features an illustration of a fight between two vampire men surrounded by flames.
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WritersStewart Wieck
PublishersWhite Wolf Publishing
PublicationQ3 1991
GenresTabletop role-playing game supplement
SystemsStoryteller System
Parent gamesVampire: The Masquerade
SeriesWorld of Darkness
ISBN0-9627-790-7-5 [a]

Ashes to Ashes is an adventure module published in Q3 1991 by White Wolf Publishing for use with their tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.

Plot summary

Ashes to Ashes is an adventure module connecting to the story included in the first edition of the game's corebook.[2] The player characters are ordered to present themselves to Lodin, the Prince of Chicago, and find themselves involved in deadly vampire intrigue between two competing groups.[3]

Publication history

Ashes to Ashes was the first adventure module published by White Wolf Publishing for Vampire: The Masquerade, released in Q3 1991.[4] The 80-page adventure was written by Stewart Wieck.[3] In 1996, it was re-released as part of the compilation Chicago Chronicles Volume 3, together with the supplements Milwaukee by Night and Blood Bond.[5] A French edition of the adventure was published by Hexagonal in January 1993.[6]

Reception

Reception
Review scores
SourceRating
Arcane8/10[7]

Dragon's Rick Swan called this "an excellent first adventure for the quirky Vampire game." Swan thought the adventure "packed a lot of punch into 80 pages", but found that "the investigations are more successfully staged than the action scenes, and the finale is a bit underwhelming." Nonetheless, he recommended the product, saying that the author had served up "a gallery of the creepiest non-player characters this side of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu."[3] Saga thought it was a good introductory story, and appreciated how it helps introduce players to the vampire community in Chicago.[8]

Looking back on it in 1997, Backstab called Ashes to Ashes one of the three most essential Vampire: The Masquerade supplements, along with The Players Guide and Chicago by Night,[9] and Dragon called it the best of the early Vampire: The Masquerade material.[10] Casus Belli thought it would be particularly useful together with the books Chicago by Night and The Succubus Club.[11]

Notes

  1. ^ Misprinted as 0-96627-790-7-5[1]

References

  1. ^ Wieck, Stewart (1991). Ashes to Ashes. White Wolf Publishing. Back cover. ISBN 0-9627-790-7-5.
  2. ^ Vétillard, Anne (November–December 1991). "Vampire: The Masquerade". Casus Belli (in French). No. 66. Excelsior Publications. pp. 36–38.
  3. ^ a b c Swan, Rick (April 1992). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. No. 180. TSR, Inc. p. 22.
  4. ^ "White Wolf Publications". Casus Belli (in French). No. 65. Excelsior Publications. September–October 1991. p. 17.
  5. ^ "White Wolf". Casus Belli (in French). No. 98. Excelsior Publications. October 1996. p. 8.
  6. ^ "Hexagonal". Casus Belli (in French). No. 73. Excelsior Publications. January–February 1993. p. 12.
  7. ^ Barter, Mark (December 1996). "Chicago Chronicles Volume 3". Arcane. No. 14. Future plc. p. 76.
  8. ^ Demidoff, Nicholas (September 1992). "Vampire: The Masquerade". Saga (in Danish). No. 16. Fafner Spil. pp. 16–20.
  9. ^ "Vampire: The Masquerade". Backstab (in French). No. 1. FC Publications. January–February 1997. pp. 69–70.
  10. ^ Swan, Rick (October 1997). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. No. 240. TSR, Inc. pp. 110–112.
  11. ^ Vétillard, Anne (July–August 1992). "Chicago by Night, Milwaukee by Night, The Succubus Club". Casus Belli (in French). No. 70. Excelsior Publications. p. 17.

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