*OP On A Darkling Plain (The World of Darkness) [Paperback]

Richard Byers (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 395 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing (December 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156504844X
• ISBN-13: 978-1565048447
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #941,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the very best WoD novels, February 7, 2000

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This review is from: *OP On A Darkling Plain (The World of Darkness) (Paperback)

Richard Lee Byers returns to give us yet another excellent novel, which I bought immediately after having read his book Netherworld. Someone is roaming the streets of a calm city in the South, draining humans recklessly and thereby endangering the Masquerade. At the same time, the local kindred find their financial assets under attack, their art all over the world is being destroyed, and their Prince has mysteriously fallen ill. The Toreador elder Elliot Sinclair must get his act together and take charge of his city before it is too late, for all of this is only meant to weaken the kindred before the final attack... In one chapter you get to follow the respected Toreador elder, and in the next a Caitiff neonate, both fighting for the same cause but still enemies who don't meet until the end of the story. What nobody knows however is that this is part of a battle between two Methuselahs, and in the end the stakes are higher than anybody could have imagined.

I strongly recommend this book, it has everything you could ask for in a V:tM novel. Byers doesn't fall for the temptation of creating characters with powers they shouldn't have (common in WoD literature), which only makes it more interesting. The kindred act just the way a member of this or that clan should, and even the most noble of them have to struggle against their bestial nature. In short, this book can be used as inspiration for your own roleplaying, or simply for the joy of reading a great story.