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Writers | Stewart Wieck |
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Publishers | White Wolf Publishing |
Publication | Q3 1991 |
Genres | Tabletop role-playing game supplement |
Systems | Storyteller System |
Parent games | Vampire: The Masquerade |
Series | World of Darkness |
ISBN | 0-9627-790-7-5 [a] |
Ashes to Ashes is an adventure module published in Q3 1991 by White Wolf Publishing for use with their tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.
Ashes to Ashes is an adventure module connecting to the story included in the first edition of the game's corebook.[2] The player characters are ordered to present themselves to Lodin, the Prince of Chicago, and find themselves involved in deadly vampire intrigue between two competing groups.[3]
Ashes to Ashes was the first adventure module published by White Wolf Publishing for Vampire: The Masquerade, released in Q3 1991.[4] The 80-page adventure was written by Stewart Wieck.[3] In 1996, it was re-released as part of the compilation Chicago Chronicles Volume 3, together with the supplements Milwaukee by Night and Blood Bond.[5] A French edition of the adventure was published by Hexagonal in January 1993.[6]
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Source | Rating |
Arcane | 8/10[7] |
Dragon's Rick Swan called this "an excellent first adventure for the quirky Vampire game." Swan thought the adventure "packed a lot of punch into 80 pages", but found that "the investigations are more successfully staged than the action scenes, and the finale is a bit underwhelming." Nonetheless, he recommended the product, saying that the author had served up "a gallery of the creepiest non-player characters this side of Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu."[3] Saga thought it was a good introductory story, and appreciated how it helps introduce players to the vampire community in Chicago.[8]
Looking back on it in 1997, Backstab called Ashes to Ashes one of the three most essential Vampire: The Masquerade supplements, along with The Players Guide and Chicago by Night,[9] and Dragon called it the best of the early Vampire: The Masquerade material.[10] Casus Belli thought it would be particularly useful together with the books Chicago by Night and The Succubus Club.[11]