#Dangerous prey book how to#

If The Whispering Vault were hitting the RPG scene today, most of the material in Dangerous Prey would likely end up as blog entries on the company’s website or something, not a separate book to purchase.Ĭheck out my Facebook, Twitter, or Goodreads. Frankly, a lot of the early sections seem aimed more at a D&D, hack & slash type of gaming and that’s miles away from what I’d want a game of The Whispering Vault to be like. I guess if you’re thinking about running the game and want a whole bunch of monsters and weird powers for your villains to use, OK. Overall, there’s some very handy material, but not as much as I’d like. As the original book was not very long, much of this would have been better added into that to make a larger, more complete game book. There’s even a sample Hunt (adventure) that seems like it would be pretty cool (and would likely work as a Call of Cthulhu investigation without too much work).

#Dangerous prey book how to#

There are lots of ideas about how to actually run The Whispering Vault, which was something the core rule book could have used. The last 30ish pages are the most useful.

The layout borders of Burroughs-esque Cut-Ups. Bits of flavor text are spiced in, with little rhyme or reason. Descriptions of creatures or people appear on one page only to have a box with how-to use them appearing several pages away. It’s haphazard in its organization, with sections beginning and ending with little to no fanfare or explanation. You know how DVDs sometimes have a bunch of random scenes that were cut from the film? Some of them are polished, some extremely raw? This book feels like that, like it’s made of bits that were cut from the core book and not all of them are ready to be shown. Marvelous.ĭangerous Prey is an extremely uneven supplement. Sort of Hellraiser meets Lovecraft meets Quantum Leap. It intrigues the hell out of me and I think has the potential to facilitate some truly intriguing tales. I bought the original book as soon as it hit the shelves back in the early 90s and I’ve read it over multiple times. The Whispering Vault is one of my absolute favorite games that I’ve never played.