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<blockquote data-quote="Walking Paradox" data-source="post: 5345163" data-attributes="member: 96011">Wraith: The Oblivion by White Wolf and HöL both qualify in that regard for me. I've played in a couple of really good Vampire games and one awesome HöL game, but it's a lot easier to read those books for fun than it is to play a game that actually takes place in those settings.Special mention needs to be made of the &quot;Shoah: Charnel House of Europe&quot; sourcebook for Wraith. It's a vivid history lesson in a book and very well-written, but that setting is not playable. I remember one passage in which Holocaust survivors were being described and the writer said something along the lines of &quot;it is the testimony of these people which made this White Wolf book possible&quot; and I thought my head was going to explode; I could just imagine some SS officer giving a fiery speech to his men before commanding them to commit an atrocity, and ending it with &quot;and remember, in 60 years, White Wolf will have a book about this.&quot; That made me laugh, but I don't think it's a playabe RPG setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Walking Paradox, post: 5345163, member: 96011"] Wraith: The Oblivion by White Wolf and HöL both qualify in that regard for me. I've played in a couple of really good Vampire games and one awesome HöL game, but it's a lot easier to read those books for fun than it is to play a game that actually takes place in those settings. Special mention needs to be made of the "Shoah: Charnel House of Europe" sourcebook for Wraith. It's a vivid history lesson in a book and very well-written, but that setting is not playable. I remember one passage in which Holocaust survivors were being described and the writer said something along the lines of "it is the testimony of these people which made this White Wolf book possible" and I thought my head was going to explode; I could just imagine some SS officer giving a fiery speech to his men before commanding them to commit an atrocity, and ending it with "and remember, in 60 years, White Wolf will have a book about this." That made me laugh, but I don't think it's a playabe RPG setting. [/QUOTE]

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