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The Crusade Lore: The Storytellers Screen and Book is a sourcebook for Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade that was included with the Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade Screen.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

Voices in the Night...
 
Mages are only the top of the blade in the Dark Fantastic world. Powerful mortals, vampiric conspirators, howling ghosts and angry fae lurk at the fringes of twilight. As the candles gutter and the shadows rise, you may want some assistance in your Sorcerers Crusade chronicle. You need not stand alone.
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Crusade Lore is the essential Storyteller screen for The Sorcerers Crusade. It puts all of the game's important charts and information before you, with a beautifully illustrated face by none other than Larry Elmore. Crusade Lore also follows White Wolf's popular tradition of including a 72-page book with the screen — even more important rules and information for The Sorcerers Crusade that we just couldn't fit in the main rulebook.
Crusade Lore features:
  • A Storyteller's screen;
  • Crossover information on the other World of Darkness games for the Dark Fantastic world;
  • New Traits, Merits and Flaws and story settings.

Contents[]

Introduction: Cuts & Cluttery[]

Chapter I: A World of Shadows[]

Features some tidbits about the setting, including Renaissance "backgrounds" and heavy artillery.

  • Heavy Weaponry Chart
    • Rockets and Incendiaries
      • Hand Grenade
      • Rocket, small
      • Rocket, average
      • Rocket, huge
      • Fire-lance
      • Fire-shield
      • Flame-thrower, small
      • Flame-thrower, large
      • Greek Fire
      • Tar or Oil
    • Siege Machines
      • Ballista, small
      • Ballista, large
      • Battering Ram
      • Catapult
    • War Machines
      • Armored Chariot
      • Clockwork Automation
      • Clockwork Beast
      • Clockwork Tank
      • Corkscrew Tank
      • War Balloon, small
      • War Balloon, Multi-decked
      • Skyrigger

Chapter II: The Play's the Thing[]

Geared toward the player, with Merits & Flaws, new Abilities, character concepts and information about period dress and perspective.

  • New Traits
    • Talents
      • Empathy
      • Carousing
    • Skills
      • Climbing
      • Disguise
    • Knowledges
      • Politics
      • Seneschal
      • Symbolism
  • Merits ad Flaws
    • Code of Honor (1 pt Merit)
    • Noble Bearing (1 pt Merit)
    • Noble Blood (1 pt Merit)
    • True Love (1 pt Merit)
    • Beast Affinity (1-4 pt Merit)
    • Arcane Heritage (2 pt Merit)
    • Faerie Affinity (2 pt Merit)
    • Graceful (2 pt Merit)
    • Honeyed Tongue (2 pt Merit)
    • Innocent (2 pt Merit)
    • Poison Resistance (2 pt Merit)
    • Ties (2 pt Merit)
    • Title (2-5 pt Merit)
    • Luck (3 pt Merit)
    • Well-Traveled (3 pt Merit)
    • Fae Blood (4 pt Merit)
    • Ghoul (5 pt Merit)
    • Age (1 pt Flaw)
    • Bard's Tongue (1 pt Flaw)
    • Craven Image (1 pt Flaw)
    • Family Enmity (1 pt Flaw)
    • Dark Secret (1-3 pt Flaw)
    • Inconvenient Alliance (1-3 pt Flaw)
    • Criminal Marks (1-5 pt Flaw)
    • Curse (1-5 pt Flaw)
    • Disturbing Mannerism (2 pt Flaw)
    • Magickal Rival (2 pt Flaw)
    • Religious Aberrant (2 pt Flaw)
    • Deformity (3 pt Flaw)
    • Lame (3 pt Flaw)
    • Repulsive Practice (3 pt Flaw)
    • Leper (4 pt Flaw)
    • Plague Bearer (4-5 pt Flaw)
    • Dark Fate (5 pt Flaw)
  • A Table of Ranks
    • Men's Titles/Women's Titles/Church Titles

Chapter III: Night-Folk[]

Dances across the fringes of the world, exposing the intrigues of vampyrs, werebeasts, ghosts and faeries, and presenting a handful of Scourge spirits for your... entertainment.

  • The Demon Undead
    • Fledgling Vampyr - Stats
    • Prince of the Undead - Stats
    • Wild Vampyr - Stats
  • The Skinchangers
    • Urban Werewolf - Stats
    • Caern Defender - Stats
    • Ceilican Rogue - Stats
    • Ratkin Cutthroat - Stats
    • Corax Spy - Stats
  • The Restless Dead
    • Lemure Usurer - Stats
    • Vengeful Spectre - Stats
    • Anacreon - Stats
  • The Kindly Folk
    • Troll Warrior - Stats
    • Nocker Tinkerer - Stats
    • Satyr Shepherdess - Stats
  • Scourgelings
    • Glittergaze - Stats
    • Hexawoodle - Stats
    • Implico, the Vanity-Bane - Stats
      • Charm: Tweak Humours
    • The Night-Mare - Stats
      • Charm: Endless Ride, Summon Past Visions
    • Ompnir, Scribe of Flames and Conflagrations - Stats

Background Information[]

  • Although he's not mentioned on the credits page, fantasy artist Larry Elmore is responsible for the art on the screen itself.
  • The ad at the back of the book is for Vampire: The Masquerade Revised.

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

  • André - Order of Hermes Mage, Tytalan
  • Duke Levitas - Vampyr, Lasombra
  • Lord Peter
  • Stiria - Vampyr, Lasombra
  • Caine
  • Belial - Demon
  • Baphomet - Demon
  • Tezghul the Insane - Demon
  • LeRoi - Mage
  • Claudette - Died
  • Garm - Werewolf
  • Monsignor Graffanino - Died
  • Gaetti - Cook
  • Charon
  • Sir Edward - Mage, Knight
  • Dalila - Fae
  • Meerlinda
  • Wyndgarde - Witch-Hunter General
  • Gregori - Mage's True Name

Terminology[]

Anacreon, Anarch War, Arcadia, Art, Artificers, Austria, Avalon (CTD), Banality, Bastet, Black Forest, Black Furies, Black Sabbat, Blood, Blood Oaths, Bone Gnawers, British Isles, Bunyip, Burning Times, Caern, Camarilla, Cantrips, Carpathia, Ceilican (Devil-Cats), Ceoris, Changeling, Changing Breeds, Childer, Children of Gaia, Conspiracy of Isaac, Corax, Court, Dark Fantastic, Dark Kingdom, Deathlords, Dictum Mortuum, Dreaming, Elder, England, Europe, Fae/Faerie, Far Shores, Ferrymen, Fetter, Fianna, Fledglings, Florence, France, Freewraiths, Garou, Garou Nation, Germany, Get, Gift, Giovanni, Glamour, Glastonbury Circulus, The Glastonbury Compact, Glastonbury Tor, Gnosis, Guilds, Gurahl, Haunt, Hierarchy, Holland, House Liam, House Scathach, Inquisitors, Italy, Kinfolk, Kithain, Klaive, Nocker, Lasombra, Legions, Lemure, Oblivion, Pack, Passion, Pathos, Prince, Psyche, Pure Ones, Ratkin, Red Talons, Renegades, Risen, Rome, Russia, Sabbat, Satyr, Scotland, Scourge, Scourgeling (Spirit), Seelie Court, Seeming, Shadow, Shadow Court, Shadowlands, Shadow Lords, Shattering, Shroud, Sidhe, Silent Striders, Silver Fangs, Sire, Skinlands, Spain, Spectres, Spirit, Stargazers, Stygia, Sunless Sea, Toreador, Transcendence, Transylvania, Tremere, Tribe, Troll, Tzimisce, Underworld, Unseelie Court, Usurer, Vampyrs, Ventrue, Vienna, Warders, War Form, The War of the Heretics, Wereravens, Werewolf, Wraiths, Wyndgarde's March,

References[]

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