Reviews for Bloodlines: The Chosen

The average rating for Bloodlines: The Chosen based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-04 00:00:00 Tracy Gray The majority of this book was written by fan submissions, conceived as a contest to allow readers and players of the game to contribute to the construction of this, the third of the bloodline books. So the interest was kind of mixed. As nice of a concept as these blind Baddacelli vampires are I do wonder two things: 1) Why are they called morlocks? That word is not nearly as old as they are. 2) Why don't they learn the shapeshifting power of Protean? It gives you weapons, allows you to meld with the Earth and lets you transform into a bat with sonar, which one of their powers does as well, so wouldn't that aid it travel? The Duchagne vampires are ok but the concept of vampires being able to manipulate emotions and senses while their own deaden and they need more and more depraved acts is not exactly original. And the rest doesn't speak for much creativity either. While Noctuku are a good concept the power levels of their unique discipline Phagia don't seem to follow an actual pattern. Sure these are nice powers but how did they develop? These Rötgrafen (maybe "Röt" was an older German term for red but I am not sure) are a good concept of seafaring vampires. However in their origin story it's pretty dumb to say that none bothered to explain how the lines founder survived being left for the sun on a ship when the 2nd lever of the power named Protean provides a means by which a vampire could melt with wood to be safe from the sun. These disciplines by the necromantic Sangiovannie look more like rituals than disciplines. Also the artist doesn't seem to have noticed that per description only a few people among them look normal. Sadly we also got some good old romantization of Muslim Spain: In the cities of Córdoba, Granada and Seville, Muslims lived side by side with their Christian and Jewish neighbors, making great advances in the fields of architecture, medicine, astronomy and philosophy. With Christians and Jews being 2nd class citizens of course. Seriously, I hate this romanticizing of the past. Apart from the spelling errors strewn throughout this book, this has a piece of pro-Islamic fanfiction (these vampires are even mostly pretty and often only embrace for looks). When you hear this guy write you could almost think that it was 100% when Spain was conquered. I also really wonder why the author constantly calls these vampires "Moors" when that is not the name they use for themselves. That the book simply states the humans used to make vampires off people as of Asian descent rubs me the wrong way. The line was founded by a 19th century Chinese vampire who is very cultist. Wouldn't such a person clearly favor Chinese people as candidates for vampirism? Or is the statement that most are of American nationality supposed to be an explanation? Despite some hiccups here and there, these California Xiao might be the best written for some time in this book. The entry of the Yagnata was a nice concept of aristocratic Nosferatu, even though that last ritual seemed pretty pointless and the made a mistake in saying the Bolshevik revolution was in the early 19th century. Those first entries on seeking out bloodlines were pretty pointless though, apart from saying which covenant have the most information on them, albeit most probably would have guessed that anyway.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-05-23 00:00:00 Harry Imdo A truly excellent sourcebook on the shadowy antagonist organization of the new World of Darkness' mages - the Seers of the Throne