Product Description

"I've watched you ever since the day I was made.
Watched you love, watched you laugh, watched you kill and die.
You're perfect, even though you don't know it. Perfectly wonderful.
Perfectly awful.
Perfectly human.
I've been watching, trying to figure you out.
Trying to figure out how to be you.
I know more about you than you do.
I know more about you than I do about myself."
-The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, Galateid

It's A Cold World

The Pilgrimage is a long and lonely road, but every Promethean must walk it. The Created do not come into the world knowing what steps to take upon this road. They must learn from others of their kind, from their creators and from painful experience. Over time, they might unlock the secrets of their humours, changing their bodies to better survive a world that shuns them. But every discovery leads only to further uncertainty, and all the Created can do is press on, led by the promise of Mortality.

A chronicle sourcebook for Promethean: The Created

This book includes:

Detailed discussion of each of the Lineages and Refinements, including new Transmutations and Bestowments

Thoughtful essays discussing many issues important to Promethean chronicles

"Strangers on the Hill," a new story in the "Water of Life" chronicle begun in Promethean: The Created, set in Boston

Strange Alchemies is a 160 page hardcover supplement for Promethean: The Created

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #808041 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 144 pages

Customer Reviews

Strange Alchemies Review
Strange Alchemies offers up a wide variety of good essays and disccusions on each of the different Lineages, new Refinments, Transmutions, Bestowmentss and new merits for use with Prometheans.

This book definently completes and rounds out a Promeathean the Created Library for must haves.

Strange Alchemies
For players and storytellers of Promethean: The Created, White Wolf's most underrated World of Darkness series, Strange Alchemies is a must-have if you want or need new Bestowments and Transmutations, a deeper look at the Lineages and Refinements, plus essays from various developers on things from Human Experience (Living and doing things as a human) to discovering the world around them for the Player Characters. Considering that Promethean was a limited series of only five books (The core book and four supplements), Strange Alchemies should definitely round out your P:tC collection.

Powerful, but who plays this game?
These Promethean books are well written and very mature. They seem to be the darkest books in the World of Darkness. While I greatly enjoyed reading them, I have to wonder who is playing this game? You can make a real powerhouse character, one that few if any of the other supernatural beings could take down, but the downsides of being so hated and having such a miserable existence seems to out weight any benefit. The opening story is about one of the "beautiful" Prometheans who wants love so much from the object of her affection, kissing and hitting are the same thing to her. I can't imagine role-playing that out with my friends. This is certainly not a game for children and even some adults will find it too intense. But if you like it the main Promethean book, give Strange Alchemies a try.