Dark Alliance: Vancouver

Dark Alliance: Vancouver is a 128-page softcover book designed by Nigel Findley and Geoff McMartin, with illustrations by Jeff Rebner, Dan Smith, and Joshua Gabriel Timbrook, and cover art by Tony Harris.[1]

The book details the tribes of werewolves found in Vancouver, and their war with the local vampires. If the gamemaster desires, this can be used as a crossover sourcebook between Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Vampire: The Masquerade.

The book also covers the city of Vancouver, and includes an 11-page scenario, "War and Peace", which sets up a civil war between werewolves and vampires.[1]

In the May 1994 edition of Dragon (Issue #205), Rick Swan was not a fan of the book. Although he liked the section on the area tribes, "Too much of the book, however, looks like it was cranked out by the Department of Tourism, a dreary run-down of hotels, nightclubs, and landmarks whose descriptions rarely rise above the superficial [...] Little of this is told from a Garou’s perspective, and most of it’s available in any good reference book, so what’s the point?" Swan also wasn't sure about the cross-over aspect of the book, wondering how the referee would simultaneously handle a group of werewolves in one part of the city and a group of vampires in another part of the city. "What's Group A supposed to do while the referee is busy with Group B?" Swan concluded by giving the book a below average rating of 3 out of 6.[1]

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