Armory Reloaded (World of Darkness) [Hardcover]

Matthew McFarland (Author), John Newman (Author), P. Alexander Scokel (Author), Malcolm Sheppard (Author), Travis Stout (Author), Stew Wilson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 29, 2009

Lock And Load
Sometimes it's about tactics. Sometimes it's about personal skill. Sometimes it's about teamwork. And sometimes it's just about having a big enough gun to kill every last enemy in the room with a few squeezes of the trigger. There are a lot of options for mayhem. Why choose just one?
A Character Book for World of Darkness
o An array of artifact weapons, both blessed and cursed, where each can be used as the focus of an entire story. These weapons are both blessed and cursed
o A new look at Fighting Styles in the World of Darkness: Old styles are reexamined, and several new styles are introduced, each with new rules, histories, and characters to go along with them.
o Rules for future weapons, the high-tech, bleeding-edge armament that characters might bring to bear against the horrors of the World of Darkness.
o A whole chapter devoted to hacking apart the combat mechanics of the Storytelling System and rebuilding them so they suit the needs of your game. Gritty combat? Blood-soaked cinematics? Monster-specific rules tweaks? All that, and more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing (April 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588463621
• ISBN-13: 978-1588463623
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,003 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Armory Reloaded Review, May 14, 2009

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A. E. Terry - See all my reviews
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The first Armory showcased and featured a wide variety of weapons, vehicles, equipment and merits that had me wondering just how Reloaded could meet the hype and expectations or what new it could even offer.

On getting a hold of this book and reading it, I find much of the material presented is best suited in the hands of the ST.

The first chapter features Storied Weapons. All of which can provide hours of fun for a chronicle just centering around one weapon.

Chapter two offers more use for players and STs with new Fighting Styles, taking a look at older ones and new ones with rules and ways that a player can play and design the type of fighting style and fighter character they want.

Chapter three takes a look at Future Weapons in a chronicle. While good, I'd use this sparringly. And the section on bugs and drawbacks of future weapons such as the dead getting back up or strengthening a Spirit can cause players to rethink options with tech always being the answer or solution.

Chapter four covers Hacks. Again, this is mainly for the ST who can use these to provide ways of making combat more or less deadly and certainly more cinematic or realistic.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book - if the focus is interesting for you, August 10, 2009

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Ferdinand Von Schenk "Discobutcher" (Jena, Erlangen) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Armory Reloaded (World of Darkness) (Hardcover)

Howdy !
I baught this book because the section with the new fighting styles seemed interesting. And I can say I'm not disapointed ! The modular structure of different "abstract" fighting styles allows you to map the maneuvers to the "real world" fighting art you want your character to follow.
I haven't spent much time yet on the first part of the book - cursed/blessed/enchanted weapons as story hooks.
It seems to my that there are paralells to "Reliquary", but I havn't read this so this is just a gut feeling.
The second part I liked is the one with "combat hacks". Ideas how you could change combat rules (dmage, healing, hitting, ...) to suit you style of game. It reaches from "Hollywood style weapon knockback" to "faster / slower healing".
The last section "Future weapons" is nice if you have a combat heavy round going. All these items are in prototype / early development phase in the "real world" so these are no Sci-Fi weapons.

Conclusion:
Good book, even though it is not as esential as the first "Armory".