*OSI Vampire Bloodlines 3 The Chosen (Vampire: The Requiem (White Wolf)) [Hardcover]

Roger William Barnes (Author), Ty Bjarnason (Author), Adriano Bompani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 27, 2007 | Series: Vampire: The Requiem (White Wolf)

"This is the third book in the bloodline series, where vampires develop new disciplines and custom devotions. In this book, the bloodlines only mentioned in passing in the core book, Vampire: The Requiem have been developed and are ready to add new excitement to the night."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: White Wolf Publishing (June 27, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588462692
• ISBN-13: 978-1588462695
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,079,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent bloodlines supplement, September 3, 2007

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J. Burgos "I <3 Books & Comics" (West Hollywood, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: *OSI Vampire Bloodlines 3 The Chosen (Vampire: The Requiem (White Wolf)) (Hardcover)

I bought this book primarily for one reason, the Sangiovanni Bloodline. Being that in old world of darkness the Giovanni were one of my favorite clans I wanted to see how they were treated in the NEW world of darkness. I have to say, this is the only bloodlines book I've bought and I love it (I've read or borrowed the others, but never felt compelled to buy them). It has taken some of the old clans and re-invented them as bloodlines that make the originals seem like kiddie vamps. This book gives you the following bloodlines:
The Agonistes (Mekhet historians and keepers of memories of elders)
The Baddacelli (blind Nosferatu monsters of purest night)
The Duchagne (sensual Daeva power climbers)
The Noctuku (Nosferatu monsters who hunt the kindred)
The Rotgrafen (Ventrue sea explorers and voyagers)
The Sangiovanni (incestous, inbred necromancers of the undead)
The Taifa (Iberio-arabic gangrel hunters)
California Xiao (eastern Daeva bloodline)
Taipan Xiao (eastern Deava bloodline)
The Yagnatta (Russian Nosferatu bloodline)

Also a treatment of bloodlines in the Vampire Requiem game.

Overall I think this is the best bloodline book published yet.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good writing, intriguing themes, April 9, 2008

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ASTATLIS (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: *OSI Vampire Bloodlines 3 The Chosen (Vampire: The Requiem (White Wolf)) (Hardcover)

This is a great supplement. I am a fan of the Bloodlines books,and looked forward to reading this for that reason, but also because it is written by fan submissions chosen from a writing competition. I was very pleased with the writing and felt it to be on par with the other books in the series, as well as the entire game setting. I found it to be very cohesive, and didn't seem as though written by the many different authors that in fact did contribute. As far as content, the intriguing nature of most of the Bloodlines generally appealed to me, including a few I found particularly fascinating, such as the necromancers. Recommended for fans of the series and the setting itself.

2 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Failed Experiment, January 30, 2008

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The Game Maester (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: *OSI Vampire Bloodlines 3 The Chosen (Vampire: The Requiem (White Wolf)) (Hardcover)

I wanted to like this book. I really did. When I heard the publisher's gimmick -- that it would let fans write up those bloodlines the game's authors introduced in the corebook -- I crossed my fingers. I knew that the possibility existed for either a landmark RPG supplement or one of the bigger disasters in White Wolf publishing history. Unfortunately, what we got is closer to the latter than the former. Not a complete disaster, but ultimately underwhelming.

Some of the individual ideas are intriguing, but I'm left wondering what the authors who actually created these bloodlines had in mind when they created them. It's clear that nobody involved with this effort so much as consulted the creators, and I think it's evident that the book suffered greatly for it. The corebook had been out for over three years by the time this book hit stores, and for those who were already working with their own ideas of what these bloodlines might be like, my advice is to take a pass on this book and continue using what you've been working with. You won't be missing much.