A not-so-indepth overview of 3 fairly popular Chronicles of Darkness fanbooks, Chapter 1: Ocean Man...

Leviathan! This game started as a joke, riffing on the idea of a “Creature of the Black Lagoon” TTRPG, much like Promethean is a Frankenstein game. You’ll notice this is a bit of a pattern: jokes being taken too far. Frankly, I’d be surprised if some official World of Darkness stuff weren’t jokes taken too far, too; how else can you explain Insert gameline you don’t like here? The game cold opens with its backstory, which has been mentioned above, and the core themes of the game. Mainly that of Puberty (fitting for a Shadows over Innsmouth-inspired book, I suppose) and Stagnation, the idea that the Leviathan tribes are stuck retreading the same old ground over and over again. Then there’s a big glossary; I’ll skip it for now and talk about these terms when they come up, but I’ll keep the page open while writing, just in case. The Leviathans have, say it with me now: A long, extended ancient history that dates back to ancient biblical times. Specifically, the very start of the…