Gilded Cage (book)
Gilded Cage is a sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade Revised Edition. The book details the politics and treachery within the world of the Kindred and how to cultivate power and influence as well as cripple others using it.
Summary
From the White Wolf catalog:
- The Cities are the Kindred's Domain
- The Kindred are hidden masters of cities, growing sated on the blood of the vessels within. Their domains are built on the backs of the mortals they prey upon, their fortunes made by proxies, their havens visited by the famous to the infamous. The night belongs to those who can take what it has to offer.
- Gilded Cage includes:
- Systems and storytelling devices for increasing one's personal influence
- Strategies for the most powerful elder and lowliest neonate alike
- Tricks and tips players' characters can employ to gain power — and that Storyteller characters can use against them
Chapters
Introduction: Power Corrupts
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Chapter One: The Business at Hand
Discusses how the Kindred can make a place for themselves - or put others out - in the world of modern corporate culture.
Chapter Two: Social Climbing
Observes the Damned's unbreakable attachment to the social elite. It also takes a look at society from ots lowest vantages, as well as from the perspective of those outside it.
Chapter Three: On Matters of Governance
Explores the Kindred's connection to the world of government and diplomacy.
Chapter Four: The Streets
Considers unlife and influence among the "forgotten" tiers of society as well as the seedy criminal underside of city life and unlife.
Chapter Five: Outside the Box
Accounts for "everything else," or other realms in which influence can be cultivated.
Chapter Six: Pulling the Strings
Gives Storytellers advice on implementing all of this advice into their stories, how to challenge players with influence and politics, and how to reward them for their own clever schemes.
Background Information
The Ad at the back is for Exalted under the "Age of Sorrows" logo.
Memorable Quotes
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Characters
- Ms. Medea Burae - Venture Primogen
- Jenny - Medea's Secretary
- Mr. Johanssen - Ventrue
- Alexander Grant - Brujah
- Samuel
- Theo
- Douglas Netchurch
- Ambrosio Luis Monçada
- Lucas Halton
- Nathaniel King - Setite
- Adam - Medea Burae's Ghoul
- Thomas Youngblood - Ventrue
Terminology
A Kindred's Guide to Fucking the Elders at Their Own Games by Anonymous (Text), Houston, Texas,
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