The long-awaited second edition of A World of Darkness covers every continent in the world I except Antarctica. WOD2 expands on North America (including tidbits on New York), the Caribbean, Europe, and adds totally new material on South America, Africa, The Middle East, and the Orient. Like its predecessor, WOD2 gives some mortal history tinged with Kindred history for each area. It also is packed with the politics of the Kindred. (The cover admits this is a Vampire product; there are only short occasional blurbs for the other World of Darkness denizens.)

Overall this is a very good book. I have very few complaints -- not all sections have a bibliography; of those npcs detailed, some got statistics and some did not (I'd have preferred one or the other). I realize that to include other supernatural types would have made this book five times as thick (it's 160 pages as it is) and ten times as costly, but I would have liked a little less British history (which I can look up on my own) an a little more of the authors' minds (which I can't read, despite my many attempts) if even in little blurbs. The Gaki are gone and promised in their stead is a new sourcebook on the Kindred of the East to come out Fall of 1997. Each section seems to give enough to get a storyguide going and each gives many ideas for adventures in that area. on the whole, this is an essential sourcebook for Vampire addicts, and if you haven't already picked it up, one wonder s about your sanity.

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