So although this article is titled “World of Darkness,” it’s not the entire World of Darkness – you’ll have to go back to Part 1 to read about Vampire: the Masquerade. Second, as noted above, this column is everything White Wolf/Onyx Path that isn’t Vampire: the Masquerade or Vampire: the Requiem. I have PDFs of the 20th Anniversary Editions of Mage: the Ascension and Vampire: Dark Ages but, to my regret, I did not back the Kickstarters for the deluxe physical books. First, because this is a shelf of actual physical books of mine, I can’t put a book on here if I don’t own a physical copy. Here’s what we’re looking at today:Ī couple of notes before I look at the particular books. Some will be more ‘objective’ (to the extent that any opinion on the better book can be objective).

This is the fourth of five Top Shelf articles, each one taking a brief look at quite literally the top shelf of each of those columns – what are the books that I chose to put there, and why? Some of those reasons will be personal. The White Wolf columns are divided into two sections – modern age Vampire (Masquerade and Requiem) and everything else (the historical Vampire books like Dark Ages and Victorian Age, the similar-to-but-not-the-same Kindred of the East, other World of Darkness or new World of Darkness books, and Exalted).

Dungeons & Dragons has a column, Legend of the Five Rings has a column, White Wolf/Onyx Path has two columns, and everything else gets put into the final column (at this point, the plurality of that fifth column is Pathfinder). So, because I want my favorite books to be more readily visible and accessible to me, I sorted things into columns, and then within each column I put my favorite stuff on top, where it’s easier for my tall self to see and reach it (note: I reserve the right to change my preferences at any time without warning this is just how the shelf is arranged right now). Unfortunately, while this worked out well for the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game (published until this year by Alderac Entertainment Group), it meant that anything “White Wolf” or “Wizards of the Coast” was down near the floor (and, in particular, D&D 5E was a pain to get at). I used to sort all of the books alphabetically – first by publisher, then by game, then by book title. But you may also notice an unorthodox arrangement to the books. Just enough to fit into my 5×5 IKEA shelf. I have accumulated a lot of roleplaying game books over the years.

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