Sabbat: The Black Hand – A Vampire the Masquerade Review

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We review Sabbat: The Black Hand, an RPG sourcebook for the Vampire: The Masquared roll playing game system. Published by Renegade Games, this book gives you all the rules to use the Sabbat in your games.

Sabbat: The Black Hand is a supplement for the Vampire the Masquerade role-playing game. This supplement highlights The Black Hand and how storytellers can implement these types of vampires into their campaigns. This hardbound book is 141 pages of information on The Black Hand with full page art and rules.

The Black Hand are what vampires are scared of in the night. A ruthless group committed solely to the destruction of the progenitors and the endless war against the clans they have undertaken. Not only are these vampires ruthless and terrifying, but they are extremely volatile and adhere to a limited social structure, making them one of the most difficult and dangerous enemies players can face. This supplement will allow storytellers to start adventure seeds and flesh out the threat of the Black Hand for their players.

Those unfamiliar with the Vampire the Masquerade role playing game should start with the core rule book. In short, the overall game is about the inner workings of vampire society that entails backstabbing, lying, diplomacy, violence, and war in the vampire world.

Sabbat: The Black hand is a supplement for the role-playing game and explores the Sabbat, the fanatical rogue vampires that don’t belong to the traditional clans but have become a loose collective to try to destabilize the Masquerade and kill off the progenitors of the vampire clans. The Sabbat are who the other vampires are afraid to see when they look over their shoulders in a dark alley.

This supplement looks to make the Black Hand vampires