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Chicago by Night

January 07, 2023

Chicago by Night is a tabletop role-playing game supplement originally released by White Wolf Publishing in 1991 for use with the first edition of their game Vampire: The Masquerade, and released in updated versions for the game's second and fifth editions in 1993 and 2020. As a sandbox-style setting sourcebook for storytellers[a] to use in campaigns, Chicago by Night describes the city of Chicago as it is portrayed within the game's setting, reinterpreted as having a large population of vampires.

Chicago by Night
First edition cover art by Clark Mitchell
Designers
Publishers
Publication
  • 1991 (ed. 1)
  • July 1993 (ed. 2)
  • February 19, 2020 (ed. 3)
GenresTabletop role-playing game supplement
Parent gamesVampire: The Masquerade
SeriesWorld of Darkness
Website
ISBN1-56504-000-7 (ed. 1)

The supplement was originally developed by Andrew Greenberg and Mark Rein-Hagen; Greenberg returned to develop the second edition, and Matthew Dawkins developed the third, which was released by Onyx Path Publishing. Chicago by Night was well received by players and critics, who considered it among the best Vampire: The Masquerade books, and among the best role-playing game settings. Its style and format were influential on later role-playing games and supplements, and it was followed by a series of By Night books for other cities.

Overview

Chicago by Night is a setting sourcebook for the tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, where players take the roles of vampires.[2] The book describes Chicago and gives storytellers[a] information to build a campaign set there,[3][4] with its history and geography reinterpreted for the setting as one of the cities with the largest populations of vampires, and home to some of the most powerful.[3] The vampires and other supernatural beings inhabiting Chicago, and the relationships between them, are detailed as non-player characters for storytellers to use in their campaigns, along with descriptions of the local vampire politics and hierarchies;[5][6] characters include recurring ones from the story "Forged in Steel" in the Vampire: The Masquerade first-edition rulebook and from the adventure module Ashes to Ashes.[7] Chicago by Night has a sandbox-style design,[8] with encounters, intrigues, local urban legends and story hooks for storytellers to use.[5][6][8][9]

The setting is updated between editions to account for the passage of time and for events that have occurred in the overarching narrative in Vampire: The Masquerade: for example, the character Lodin is killed in a werewolf attack on the Chicago vampire community in the 1993 book Under a Blood Red Moon, which is reflected in the second edition of Chicago by Night, which depicts the local vampire community trying to recover.[2][10] The third edition advances the setting further to account for the time that has passed since the previous editions,[6][8] and covers the vampire clan Lasombra's entry into the Camarilla sect in the Vampire: The Masquerade continuity.[11] It also adds Lasombra vampires as playable characters to Vampire: The Masquerade's fifth edition (abbreviated V5),[6] with rules for their game mechanics, including their Oblivion discipline.[11]

Production

First and second editions

 
Mark Rein-Hagen (pictured, 2015) and Andrew Greenberg developed the first edition.

The first edition of Chicago by Night was developed by Mark Rein-Hagen, the designer of Vampire: The Masquerade, and Andrew Greenberg, the Vampire: The Masquerade line developer at the time.[2][12] Rein-Hagen also wrote the introduction for the supplement; Greenberg wrote the history chapter, and co-wrote the chapter on the characters with Stewart Wieck, and the chapter on encounters with Josh Timbrook, Travis Lamar Williams, and Chris McDonough. The geography chapter was written by Steve Crow,[12] with maps by McDonough, Rob Dixon, and Margaux Schaffer; other artists include Tim Bradstreet, Josh Timbrook, Richard Thomas, Ron Spencer, and Craig Cartwright, and cover artist Clark Mitchell.[7] Several of the vampire characters appearing in the first edition were based on characters from Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906).[13]

Greenberg returned as developer and writer for the second edition, Crow again handled the geography, and McDonough, Dixon and Schaffer returned to make the maps. They were joined by René Lilly, who worked as a consultant for the Chicago setting. The art team again included Thomas, who this time served as art director, and Bradstreet and Timbrook, but also Steve Casper, Jesper Myrfors, and Robert McNeil; the cover art was created by Doug Gregory.[14]

Third edition

 
Tomas Arfert's cover segues into the third edition's take on the V5 visual format.

The third edition was developed by Matthew Dawkins, with art direction by Mike Chaney,[15] and was Onyx Path Publishing's third time pitching a Chicago by Night book: they had previously pitched one for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, and one for the canceled Onyx Path Publishing-made Vampire: The Masquerade 4th Edition.[16] Dawkins aimed to make the book a useful tool, and, taking influence from the book's first edition, included a section dedicated to story hooks, something that Onyx Path Publishing would continue with the V5 books they produced after that; Dawkins liked how it made it possible to start playing more quickly.[17][18] He also aimed to create a book that evoked particulars of Chicago, reflecting its diverse range of culture, politics, people, and not just make a generic By Night book.[18] At the same time, a goal was to create a book that was universal and could be used by storytellers to construct other city settings for their own Vampire: The Masquerade campaigns.[19] The book was also written to be a good context for clan Lasombra's introduction in V5.[20]

The characters contributed in large part to the book's length, nearly doubling it from its originally planned 100,000 words: this was in part as the staff felt a need to portray more characters from each vampire clan in a setting as large as Chicago, and in part because V5 focuses more on vampires' former mortal lives than previous Vampire: The Masquerade editions, necessitating expansion of each vampire character's biography.[21] The character Kevin Jackson was written with the character Stringer Bell from the television series The Wire (2002–2008) as an inspiration; Dawkins felt that Jackson's portrayal in the previous editions was stereotypical – a Black man with ties to criminal gang activity – and that he needed more depth. As such, he was turned into more of a white-collar criminal, based on the archetype of "a politician who donates to the right charities".[22]

Klara Horskjær Herbøl, one of the writers on the book, took inspiration from Grigori Rasputin for the Lasombra vampire Aleksandr Malenkov, portraying him as a charismatic but "filthy" and unlikable person. She also wrote him as a counterpoint to Sierra Van Burrace, another Lasombra vampire, having Malenkov represent the argument for why Lasombra should not join the Camarilla, while Sierra represents why they should.[23] Eddy Webb, another writer, wrote the Lasombra character Michalis Basaras as a rabbi: the clan had often been portrayed as linked to faith in previous Vampire: The Masquerade books, but almost always Catholicism, and so he wanted to portray it as more spiritually diverse.[24]

The book was produced to match the visual format of previous V5 books, something new for Onyx Path Publishing, who did not have a photography or costuming department; they ended up using illustrations, with a modified photograph as the cover art used as a segue into their take on the visual format, created by the art director Tomas Arfert at series owner Paradox Interactive. Arfert also gave Onyx Path Publishing advice on the interior art, to make it fit into the format.[25]

Release

Chicago by Night was originally published by White Wolf Publishing in 1991 for Vampire: The Masquerade's first edition, as a 192-page hardcover book;[2][7] they released a second edition of the supplement, for the second edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, in July 1993, as a 200-page softcover.[2][26][27] The Succubus Club, a supplement whose scenarios are largely connected to Chicago by Night, followed the first edition in 1991.[28][29] The first two Chicago by Night editions were reprinted in unaltered form from their original releases in 1996 as part of the Chicago Chronicles line of Vampire: The Masquerade compilations: the first edition was re-released together with The Succubus Club in volume 1,[3] and the second edition together with Under a Blood Red Moon in volume 2.[30] The first and second editions have since been released as e-books,[7][26] as have the Chicago Chronicles compilations.[31][32] The first edition was released in French by Hexagonal in September 1993[33] and in Italian by Das Production in 1994,[34] and the second edition was released in Spanish by La Factoria de Ideas in 1996.[10]

The third edition of Chicago by Night was announced at the gaming convention Gen Con in August 2018, as Onyx Path Publishing's first V5 book.[6][35] Its production, and a print run of it for retail stores, was financed through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter,[6][8] which reached its goal of US$40,000 within 24 hours; by the end of the campaign, on November 29, 2018,[6] it had raised over $119,000.[36] The book was released by Onyx Path Publishing as a full-color, hardcover book on February 19, 2020,[4][37] and was also released as an e-book and in a print-on-demand version.[37] The third edition was released in Italian by Need Games on April 3, 2020, at the Modena Play 2020 trade show,[11] and is planned to be released in French by Arkhane Asylum Publishing in 2022.[38]

White Wolf Publishing followed Chicago by Night with a series of By Night setting sourcebooks describing various cities, such as Milwaukee by Night (1992) and Los Angeles by Night (1994).[5] The third edition of Chicago by Night was followed by the book The Chicago Folios, which was released by Onyx Path Publishing on April 1, 2020, and contains mysteries, story hooks, character biographies, and blood sorcery rituals.[39]

Reception and legacy

Reception
Review scores
SourceRating
Arcane9/10 (ed. 1)[3]
Dosdediez      (ed. 2)[40]
Dragon       (ed. 1)[41]

Chicago by Night is the most popular setting book for Vampire: The Masquerade,[42] and was described by Tom's Hardware as a beloved and historical sourcebook;[11] Arcane called it a classic, and among the best and most complete settings for any role-playing game system, recommending it "unreservedly".[3] In 1996, Casus Belli called the first and second editions the best books in the By Night series,[5] in 1997, Backstab called Chicago by Night one of the three most essential Vampire: The Masquerade supplements, along with The Players Guide and Ashes to Ashes;[43] and in 1998, Backstab called it the standard that other Vampire: The Masquerade books should be compared to.[44] By 1999, Casus Belli still considered Chicago by Night the most important Vampire: The Masquerade supplement, and recommended new players to begin with it.[45] In 2000, Dosdediez called it a "must-have", considering it an exemplary book reminding one of the flavor of early Vampire: The Masquerade books.[40] ICv2 and Tom's Hardware considered it an iconic and influential sourcebook, that established a format, style and look that later supplements and role-playing games followed.[4][46]

Arcane found the cast of characters strong, and enjoyed how their complex relations together with the political intrigue opened possibilities for stories to tell and mysteries for players to explore; they wished that the Chicago Chronicles reprint would have corrected the errors in it and updated it for Vampire: The Masquerade's second edition, considering the supplement otherwise "perfect".[3] Saga called it a "brilliant" book, finding its cast, setting and encounters intriguing.[47] The Games Machine found the first edition "very interesting";[34] Computer + Videogiochi called it a masterful work that continues to surprise, with well crafted stories and situations in a detailed setting.[9] Casus Belli called it a model work, praising the detail of the characters, plots, and maps, and particularly recommended it to French players due to how most Vampire: The Masquerade materials published in French at the time were set around the Chicago region; they thought it would be particularly useful together with the supplements The Succubus Club and Ashes to Ashes.[5][28] They liked the second edition as well, and wished that it, too, would have received a French translation.[48] Dragon was more critical, considering the first edition's visuals to look "borderline amateur" in retrospect, compared to later supplements like Constantinople by Night (1996), but still found the writing highly imaginative. They also thought that the second edition was slightly "bloated".[41] Lider liked the second edition, appreciating its characters and descriptions of the geography and the vampire history, and thought that it worked particularly well together with Under a Blood Red Moon,[10] and Dragón thought the scenario it presents of a power vacuum left behind after Lodin's death was interesting.[49]

Nerdist considered the third edition brilliantly written, and thought that its writing and amount of content made it "no wonder" that the crowdfunding campaign was as successful as it was.[8] Casus Belli called it "beautiful", and liked its cast of characters and amount of story hooks.[50] By mid-December 2020, the third edition was the highest selling horror role-playing game book of the year on DriveThruRPG,[51] one of the largest online stores for tabletop role-playing games.[52]

Notes

  1. ^ a b The person leading the game is called the "storyteller" in World of Darkness games, a role called "gamemaster" or "dungeon master" in other role-playing games.[1]

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Chicago by Night is a tabletop role playing game supplement originally released by White Wolf Publishing in 1991 for use with the first edition of their game Vampire The Masquerade and released in updated versions for the game s second and fifth editions in 1993 and 2020 As a sandbox style setting sourcebook for storytellers a to use in campaigns Chicago by Night describes the city of Chicago as it is portrayed within the game s setting reinterpreted as having a large population of vampires Chicago by NightFirst edition cover art by Clark MitchellDesignersAndrew Greenberg ed 1 2 Mark Rein Hagen ed 1 Matthew Dawkins ed 3 PublishersWhite Wolf Publishing ed 1 2 Onyx Path Publishing ed 3 Publication1991 ed 1 July 1993 ed 2 February 19 2020 ed 3 GenresTabletop role playing game supplementParent gamesVampire The MasqueradeSeriesWorld of DarknessWebsiteOfficial websiteISBN1 56504 000 7 ed 1 1 56504 051 1 ed 2 978 1 950082 42 1 ed 3 The supplement was originally developed by Andrew Greenberg and Mark Rein Hagen Greenberg returned to develop the second edition and Matthew Dawkins developed the third which was released by Onyx Path Publishing Chicago by Night was well received by players and critics who considered it among the best Vampire The Masquerade books and among the best role playing game settings Its style and format were influential on later role playing games and supplements and it was followed by a series of By Night books for other cities Contents 1 Overview 2 Production 2 1 First and second editions 2 2 Third edition 3 Release 4 Reception and legacy 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksOverview EditChicago by Night is a setting sourcebook for the tabletop role playing game Vampire The Masquerade where players take the roles of vampires 2 The book describes Chicago and gives storytellers a information to build a campaign set there 3 4 with its history and geography reinterpreted for the setting as one of the cities with the largest populations of vampires and home to some of the most powerful 3 The vampires and other supernatural beings inhabiting Chicago and the relationships between them are detailed as non player characters for storytellers to use in their campaigns along with descriptions of the local vampire politics and hierarchies 5 6 characters include recurring ones from the story Forged in Steel in the Vampire The Masquerade first edition rulebook and from the adventure module Ashes to Ashes 7 Chicago by Night has a sandbox style design 8 with encounters intrigues local urban legends and story hooks for storytellers to use 5 6 8 9 The setting is updated between editions to account for the passage of time and for events that have occurred in the overarching narrative in Vampire The Masquerade for example the character Lodin is killed in a werewolf attack on the Chicago vampire community in the 1993 book Under a Blood Red Moon which is reflected in the second edition of Chicago by Night which depicts the local vampire community trying to recover 2 10 The third edition advances the setting further to account for the time that has passed since the previous editions 6 8 and covers the vampire clan Lasombra s entry into the Camarilla sect in the Vampire The Masquerade continuity 11 It also adds Lasombra vampires as playable characters to Vampire The Masquerade s fifth edition abbreviated V5 6 with rules for their game mechanics including their Oblivion discipline 11 Production EditFirst and second editions Edit Mark Rein Hagen pictured 2015 and Andrew Greenberg developed the first edition The first edition of Chicago by Night was developed by Mark Rein Hagen the designer of Vampire The Masquerade and Andrew Greenberg the Vampire The Masquerade line developer at the time 2 12 Rein Hagen also wrote the introduction for the supplement Greenberg wrote the history chapter and co wrote the chapter on the characters with Stewart Wieck and the chapter on encounters with Josh Timbrook Travis Lamar Williams and Chris McDonough The geography chapter was written by Steve Crow 12 with maps by McDonough Rob Dixon and Margaux Schaffer other artists include Tim Bradstreet Josh Timbrook Richard Thomas Ron Spencer and Craig Cartwright and cover artist Clark Mitchell 7 Several of the vampire characters appearing in the first edition were based on characters from Upton Sinclair s novel The Jungle 1906 13 Greenberg returned as developer and writer for the second edition Crow again handled the geography and McDonough Dixon and Schaffer returned to make the maps They were joined by Rene Lilly who worked as a consultant for the Chicago setting The art team again included Thomas who this time served as art director and Bradstreet and Timbrook but also Steve Casper Jesper Myrfors and Robert McNeil the cover art was created by Doug Gregory 14 Third edition Edit Tomas Arfert s cover segues into the third edition s take on the V5 visual format The third edition was developed by Matthew Dawkins with art direction by Mike Chaney 15 and was Onyx Path Publishing s third time pitching a Chicago by Night book they had previously pitched one for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire The Masquerade and one for the canceled Onyx Path Publishing made Vampire The Masquerade 4th Edition 16 Dawkins aimed to make the book a useful tool and taking influence from the book s first edition included a section dedicated to story hooks something that Onyx Path Publishing would continue with the V5 books they produced after that Dawkins liked how it made it possible to start playing more quickly 17 18 He also aimed to create a book that evoked particulars of Chicago reflecting its diverse range of culture politics people and not just make a generic By Night book 18 At the same time a goal was to create a book that was universal and could be used by storytellers to construct other city settings for their own Vampire The Masquerade campaigns 19 The book was also written to be a good context for clan Lasombra s introduction in V5 20 The characters contributed in large part to the book s length nearly doubling it from its originally planned 100 000 words this was in part as the staff felt a need to portray more characters from each vampire clan in a setting as large as Chicago and in part because V5 focuses more on vampires former mortal lives than previous Vampire The Masquerade editions necessitating expansion of each vampire character s biography 21 The character Kevin Jackson was written with the character Stringer Bell from the television series The Wire 2002 2008 as an inspiration Dawkins felt that Jackson s portrayal in the previous editions was stereotypical a Black man with ties to criminal gang activity and that he needed more depth As such he was turned into more of a white collar criminal based on the archetype of a politician who donates to the right charities 22 Klara Horskjaer Herbol one of the writers on the book took inspiration from Grigori Rasputin for the Lasombra vampire Aleksandr Malenkov portraying him as a charismatic but filthy and unlikable person She also wrote him as a counterpoint to Sierra Van Burrace another Lasombra vampire having Malenkov represent the argument for why Lasombra should not join the Camarilla while Sierra represents why they should 23 Eddy Webb another writer wrote the Lasombra character Michalis Basaras as a rabbi the clan had often been portrayed as linked to faith in previous Vampire The Masquerade books but almost always Catholicism and so he wanted to portray it as more spiritually diverse 24 The book was produced to match the visual format of previous V5 books something new for Onyx Path Publishing who did not have a photography or costuming department they ended up using illustrations with a modified photograph as the cover art used as a segue into their take on the visual format created by the art director Tomas Arfert at series owner Paradox Interactive Arfert also gave Onyx Path Publishing advice on the interior art to make it fit into the format 25 Release EditChicago by Night was originally published by White Wolf Publishing in 1991 for Vampire The Masquerade s first edition as a 192 page hardcover book 2 7 they released a second edition of the supplement for the second edition of Vampire The Masquerade in July 1993 as a 200 page softcover 2 26 27 The Succubus Club a supplement whose scenarios are largely connected to Chicago by Night followed the first edition in 1991 28 29 The first two Chicago by Night editions were reprinted in unaltered form from their original releases in 1996 as part of the Chicago Chronicles line of Vampire The Masquerade compilations the first edition was re released together with The Succubus Club in volume 1 3 and the second edition together with Under a Blood Red Moon in volume 2 30 The first and second editions have since been released as e books 7 26 as have the Chicago Chronicles compilations 31 32 The first edition was released in French by Hexagonal in September 1993 33 and in Italian by Das Production in 1994 34 and the second edition was released in Spanish by La Factoria de Ideas in 1996 10 The third edition of Chicago by Night was announced at the gaming convention Gen Con in August 2018 as Onyx Path Publishing s first V5 book 6 35 Its production and a print run of it for retail stores was financed through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter 6 8 which reached its goal of US 40 000 within 24 hours by the end of the campaign on November 29 2018 6 it had raised over 119 000 36 The book was released by Onyx Path Publishing as a full color hardcover book on February 19 2020 4 37 and was also released as an e book and in a print on demand version 37 The third edition was released in Italian by Need Games on April 3 2020 at the Modena Play 2020 trade show 11 and is planned to be released in French by Arkhane Asylum Publishing in 2022 38 White Wolf Publishing followed Chicago by Night with a series of By Night setting sourcebooks describing various cities such as Milwaukee by Night 1992 and Los Angeles by Night 1994 5 The third edition of Chicago by Night was followed by the book The Chicago Folios which was released by Onyx Path Publishing on April 1 2020 and contains mysteries story hooks character biographies and blood sorcery rituals 39 Reception and legacy EditReceptionReview scoresSourceRatingArcane9 10 ed 1 3 Dosdediez ed 2 40 Dragon ed 1 41 Chicago by Night is the most popular setting book for Vampire The Masquerade 42 and was described by Tom s Hardware as a beloved and historical sourcebook 11 Arcane called it a classic and among the best and most complete settings for any role playing game system recommending it unreservedly 3 In 1996 Casus Belli called the first and second editions the best books in the By Night series 5 in 1997 Backstab called Chicago by Night one of the three most essential Vampire The Masquerade supplements along with The Players Guide and Ashes to Ashes 43 and in 1998 Backstab called it the standard that other Vampire The Masquerade books should be compared to 44 By 1999 Casus Belli still considered Chicago by Night the most important Vampire The Masquerade supplement and recommended new players to begin with it 45 In 2000 Dosdediez called it a must have considering it an exemplary book reminding one of the flavor of early Vampire The Masquerade books 40 ICv2 and Tom s Hardware considered it an iconic and influential sourcebook that established a format style and look that later supplements and role playing games followed 4 46 Arcane found the cast of characters strong and enjoyed how their complex relations together with the political intrigue opened possibilities for stories to tell and mysteries for players to explore they wished that the Chicago Chronicles reprint would have corrected the errors in it and updated it for Vampire The Masquerade s second edition considering the supplement otherwise perfect 3 Saga called it a brilliant book finding its cast setting and encounters intriguing 47 The Games Machine found the first edition very interesting 34 Computer Videogiochi called it a masterful work that continues to surprise with well crafted stories and situations in a detailed setting 9 Casus Belli called it a model work praising the detail of the characters plots and maps and particularly recommended it to French players due to how most Vampire The Masquerade materials published in French at the time were set around the Chicago region they thought it would be particularly useful together with the supplements The Succubus Club and Ashes to Ashes 5 28 They liked the second edition as well and wished that it too would have received a French translation 48 Dragon was more critical considering the first edition s visuals to look borderline amateur in retrospect compared to later supplements like Constantinople by Night 1996 but still found the writing highly imaginative They also thought that the second edition was slightly bloated 41 Lider liked the second edition appreciating its characters and descriptions of the geography and the vampire history and thought that it worked particularly well together with Under a Blood Red Moon 10 and Dragon thought the scenario it presents of a power vacuum left behind after Lodin s death was interesting 49 Nerdist considered the third edition brilliantly written and thought that its writing and amount of content made it no wonder that the crowdfunding campaign was as successful as it was 8 Casus Belli called it beautiful and liked its cast of characters and amount of story hooks 50 By mid December 2020 the third edition was the highest selling horror role playing game book of the year on DriveThruRPG 51 one of the largest online stores for tabletop role playing games 52 Notes Edit a b The person leading the game is called the storyteller in World of Darkness games a role called gamemaster or dungeon master in other role playing games 1 References Edit Allison Peter Ray 2020 02 06 Shedding light on World of Darkness the gothic punk universe of RPG Vampire The Masquerade Dicebreaker Gamer Network Archived from the original on 2020 07 13 Retrieved 2020 09 04 a b c d e Appelcline Shannon 2014 Designers amp Dragons The 90s 2nd ed Evil Hat Productions pp 7 52 ISBN 978 1 613170 84 7 a b c d e f Barter Mark August 1996 Chicago Chronicles Volume 1 Arcane No 9 Future plc p 75 a b c Dohm Sanchez Jeffrey 2019 10 15 Chicago by Night Resurrected for Vampire The Masquerade 5E ICv2 GCO Archived from the original on 2020 10 15 Retrieved 2020 10 23 a b c d e Colin Fabrice Lhomme Tristan April 1996 Vampire La gamme aux dents longues Vampire A thirsty and ambitious line up of games Casus Belli in French No 93 Excelsior Publications pp 36 38 a b c d e f g Bunge Nicole 2018 10 31 Chicago by Night Joins Vampire The Masquereade 5E ICv2 GCO Archived from the original on 2020 10 21 Retrieved 2020 10 23 a b c d Chicago Guide du Roliste Galactique in French Association du Guide du Roliste Galactique 2009 05 08 Archived from the original on 2020 10 28 Retrieved 2020 10 30 a b c d e Heinz Rick 2019 11 04 Vampire The Masquerade s Revival is Great for Gaming Nerdist Nerdist Industries Archived from the original on 2020 10 18 Retrieved 2020 10 23 a b Torriani Massimo March 1994 Chicago by Night Computer Videogiochi in Italian No 35 Gruppo Editoriale Jackson p 142 a b c Chicago Nocturno Chicago by Night Lider in Spanish No 55 Joc Internacional September 1996 p 14 a b c d Vincenzi Davide 2020 02 25 Need Games annuncia le uscite per Modena Play 2020 Need Games announces their releases for Modena Play 2020 Tom s Hardware in Italian Future plc Archived from the original on 2020 10 08 Retrieved 2020 10 23 a b Chicago by Night 1st ed White Wolf Publishing 1991 p 2 ISBN 1 56504 000 7 Episode 93 V5 Chicago by Night Deep Dish Dive Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2020 02 28 Event occurs at 00 21 30 Retrieved 2020 10 31 Chicago by Night 2nd ed White Wolf Publishing 1993 p 4 ISBN 1 56504 051 1 Chicago by Night 3rd ed Onyx Path Publishing 2020 p 1 ISBN 978 1 950082 42 1 Thomas Rich 2018 10 29 My Kind of Town Chicago Is Monday Meeting Notes Onyx Path Publishing Archived from the original on 2020 11 01 Retrieved 2020 10 30 Episode 171 Hooking your Stories Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2021 09 03 Event occurs at 00 22 07 Retrieved 2021 09 05 a b Watson Ian A A 2018 11 06 What to Expect in V5 Chicago by Night Vampire The Masquerade Onyx Path Publishing Archived from the original on 2020 02 17 Retrieved 2020 10 30 Episode 93 V5 Chicago by Night Deep Dish Dive Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2020 02 28 Event occurs at 00 24 30 Retrieved 2020 10 31 Episode 93 V5 Chicago by Night Deep Dish Dive Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2020 02 28 Event occurs at 00 52 00 Retrieved 2020 10 31 Burke John Dawkins Matthew de Vaan Steffie Horskjaer Herbol Klara 2021 07 05 OnyxPathCon Vampire The Masquerade 5th Edition Onyx Path Publishing Event occurs at 00 21 00 Retrieved 2021 07 08 Episode 93 V5 Chicago by Night Deep Dish Dive Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2020 02 28 Event occurs at 00 41 00 Retrieved 2020 10 31 Burke John Dawkins Matthew de Vaan Steffie Horskjaer Herbol Klara 2021 07 05 OnyxPathCon Vampire The Masquerade 5th Edition Onyx Path Publishing Event occurs at 00 26 00 Retrieved 2021 07 08 Episode 93 V5 Chicago by Night Deep Dish Dive Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2020 02 28 Event occurs at 00 44 00 Retrieved 2020 10 31 Episode 93 V5 Chicago by Night Deep Dish Dive Onyx Pathcast Podcast Onyx Path Publishing 2020 02 28 Event occurs at 00 30 30 Retrieved 2020 10 31 a b Chicago Guide du Roliste Galactique in French Association du Guide du Roliste Galactique 2009 05 08 Archived from the original on 2020 10 28 Retrieved 2020 10 30 White Wolf Dragon in French No 12 Hexagonal July August 1993 p 83 a b Vetillard Anne July August 1992 Chicago by Night Milwaukee by Night The Succubus Club Casus 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By Night Vampire The Masquerade 5th Edition Onyx Path Publishing Archived from the original on 2020 08 10 Retrieved 2020 10 30 Onyx Path Casus Belli in French No 28 Black Book Editions December 2018 p 31 a b Watson Ian A A 2020 02 19 Now Available Chicago by Night for Vampire 5th Edition Onyx Path Publishing Archived from the original on 2020 04 16 Retrieved 2020 10 04 Clement Julien 2021 10 22 Un plan remis au carre Di6dent in French Plansix Archived from the original on 2021 10 22 Retrieved 2021 10 28 Watson Ian A A 2020 04 01 Now Available Chicago Folios DB fiction and Wreck Em Rich Onyx Path Publishing Archived from the original on 2020 04 16 Retrieved 2020 10 04 a b Perez P Eliseo June 2000 Chicago Nocturno Chicago by Night Dosdediez in Spanish No 14 La Factoria p 20 a b Swan Rick October 1997 Role Playing Reviews Dragon No 240 TSR Inc pp 110 112 Lemon Marshall 2015 02 06 Rise Kindred Vampire The Masquerade Arrives on Bundle of Holding The Escapist Enthusiast Gaming Archived from the original on 2020 10 08 Retrieved 2020 10 23 Vampire The Masquerade Backstab in French No 1 FC Publications January February 1997 pp 69 70 Jouane Christophe January February 1998 Liber Constantinopolis Backstab in French No 7 FC Publications p 36 Rosenthal Pierre May 1999 Choisir son premier supplement Choosing your first supplement Casus Belli Hors Serie in French No 25 Manuel Pratique du Jeu de Role Excelsior Publications p 9 Colombini Silvio 2019 10 18 Vampire The Masquerade 5E annunciata una nuova espansione Vampire The Masquerade 5E A new expansion is announced Tom s Hardware in Italian Future plc Archived from the original on 2020 10 11 Retrieved 2020 10 23 Demidoff Nicholas September 1992 Vampire The Masquerade Saga in Danish No 16 Fafner Spil pp 16 20 White Wolf Casus Belli in French No 97 Excelsior Publications September 1996 p 11 Miquel Alex November 1996 Chicago nocturno Chicago by Night Dragon in Spanish No 26 Ediciones Zinco p 61 Onyx Path Casus Belli in French No 33 Black Book Editions April May 2020 p 27 Girdwood Andrew 2020 12 15 The best selling horror RPGs of 2020 Geek Native Archived from the original on 2020 12 17 Retrieved 2020 12 17 Carter Chase 2020 11 16 Indie RPG seller Itch io is waiving its cut of game sales for Black Friday Dicebreaker Gamer Network Archived from the original on 2020 12 17 Retrieved 2020 12 17 External links EditOfficial website at the Wayback Machine archived January 28 2021 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chicago by Night amp oldid 1127869677, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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