[Meta] Why Giovanni, Anyway?
(C) White Wolf: art by Joshua Gabriel Timbrook. They had me from the Revised edition splat art . I mean... phwoar. (Also, I'm a Warhammer guy. Vampires should do necromancy.) (Also, I like Guy Ritchie's films.) They're not just bankers. They're not just necromancers. They're not just gangsters. They're not just war profiteers. They're not just Venetian aristocracy. They're all of these things at once , and going back into their history to knit all that together is how I make them sing. I also correlate them with eighteenth-century Gothic novels, full of black magic, incest and villainous Italians as they are: those novels gave me a structural co-ordinate or two to build off, with their themes of family secrets, sins of the father, the breaking down of guilt and shame through sensation... My chronicles have two secret spines. One is "the Bahari were right all along," which has never been the focus of a game but has been essentially true since my...