Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers

Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers is a supplement published by White Wolf Publishing in 1997 for the horror role-playing game Wraith: The Oblivion.

Cover art by John Cobb, 1997

Contents

Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers is the fifth in a series of supplements that describes the history of the Arcanos (wraithly powers) and the societies that surround each. This book covers the Pardoner and Puppeteer Guilds, the former being "ghostly healers" and the latter being "renegade body jumpers".[1] The book is divided into two separate sections, one devoted to Pardoners, and the other to Puppeteers.[2]

Puppeteer Guild

The Puppeteer section begins with a short story, "A Road to Steel and Souls", a continuation of a short story published previously in Guildbook: Haunters. Four chapters then follow:

  1. . "No Strings Attached": An overview of the Puppeteer Guild.
  2. . "The Puppeteers and the Risen": How members of the Guild return to the real world by using a body that resembles a vampire.
  3. . "Pulling Strings": Two new arts available to Guild members.
  4. . "Behind the Puppet Show Curtain": Five pre-generated characters.

An appendix describes four important members of the Guild, and gives a blank four-page character sheet.

Pardoner Guild

The Pardoner Guild section continues the short story "A Road of Steel and Souls", and then is divided into six chapters:

  1. . "Spiritual Exercises": How new members join the Guild.
  2. . "The Pardoner's Tales (history)": An overview of the history of the Guild.
  3. . "True Confessions": Describes the inner workings of the Guild, its structure, and relations with various other Arcanos powers.
  4. . "Secrets": A description of recent events.
  5. . "The Art of Castigation": Eight new powers, and four new artifacts.
  6. . Five pregenerated characters.

The section concludes with a blank character sheet.[2]

Publication history

From 1995 to 1998, White Wolf published a series of six Guildbook splatbooks that described the Arcanos (wraithly powers) and the cultures that form around them. The fifth of those was Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers, a 160-page perfect-bound book written by Jackie Cassada, Elizabeth Ditchburn, Heather Grove, and Nicky Rea, with illustrations by Richard Clark, John Cobb, Fred Harper, Anthony Hightower, Fred Hooper, Matthew Mitchell, Chuck Regan, Christopher Shy, and Ron Spencer, with cover art by John Cobb and Eric Lacombe.[3]

Reception

Rick Swan reviewed Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers for Dragon #244. [1] Swan comments that "There's plenty of useful campaign material, including several new artifacts (soul lantern, hoodoo doll) and merits (storm warning, friends in high places). But what lingers in the mind are the characters: angst junkies, sin eaters, serial killer skin-riders. Creepy stuff. And when it comes to Wraith, the creepier, the better."[1]

References
  1. Swan, Rick (February 1998). "Roleplaying Reviews". Dragon. TSR, Inc. (244): 116.
  2. "Pardoners & Puppeteers". Guide du Rôliste Galactique (in French). 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
  3. "Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers (1997)". RPG Geek. Skotos Tech Inc. Retrieved 2020-09-26.
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