Customer Reviews
Brilliant - By: L. A. Williamson, 26 Jan 2007 
This book is full of atmosphere & very well writen & illustrated.
There's plenty just in here for many a game, though it's the only Whie Wolf game where i'd say alll the supplements are worth having, purely because they are alll so well writen & full of usefull info.
There's a few gaps in the rules in this book, but nothing to serrious, & if you know Masquerade then you'll be able to fill them in.
This edition is by far superior to the second version, Dark Ages Vampire [released in 2002]. The rules in this edition [despire gaps] work far better in prectice, & the core book & supplements for this edition are far better writen & illustrated, & in amuch more gothic style.
Not to mention that this was one of the last game that the actual creator of the World of Darkness [Mark Rien-Hagan] worked on.
What exactly were WW aiming to do? - By: , 24 Aug 2000 
Dark Ages holds together as a rules system, & has alot to say on the "old" clans, such as Salubri & Caps. It aims the player at attempting an overthrow of the existing order story, or an elders game political chess. However, it is too early in it's setting. I know they wanted a game pre-Pope Innocent, but the world as it stands at that point is not exciting enough. The Age of Reason is too far off & the people no true challlenge to control. The game is an extended backgrounds setting, & there is little there that a good player could not have extrapilated from the main Vampire setting. A great shame, & a chance to play a radical pre-inquisition game, with "lost" powers & traditions squandered.
