A review by arthurbdd
Blood and Smoke: the Strix Chronicle by N. Conte, David A. Hill Jr., Rose Bailey, Elizabeth Greenberg, Audrey Whitman, Stew Wilson, Alec Humphrey, Wood Ingham, Filamena Young, David Brookshaw, Joshua Alan Doetsch, Susann Hessen

4.5

Vastly superior update to 1st edition Vampire: the Requiem, revising the game to be playable with just the single core book (no more cross-referencing with the core WoD/CoD rules!) and creating more thematic and aesthetic distance between it and Masquerade. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/the-owls-are-not-what-they-seem-redeeming-the-requiem/