Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers
Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers is a tabletop role-playing game supplement released in October–November 1997 by White Wolf Publishing for use with their horror game "", and is part of the "World of Darkness" series. Contents. "Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers" is a sourcebook intended to be used with the tabletop role-playing game "", where players take the roles of wraiths. It is the fifth in a series of supplements that describes the history of the Arcanos (wraithly powers) and the societies that surround each. This book covers the Pardoner and Puppeteer Guilds, the former being "ghostly  healers" and the latter being "renegade body jumpers". The book is divided into two separate sections, one devoted to Pardoners, and the other to Puppeteers. Puppeteer Guild. The Puppeteer section begins with a short story, "A Road to Steel and Souls", a continuation of a short story published previously in "". Four chapters then follow: An appendix describes four important members of the Guild, and gives a blank four-page character sheet. Pardoner Guild. The Pardoner Guild section continues the short story "A Road of Steel and Souls", and then is divided into six chapters: The section concludes with a blank  character sheet. Production and release. "Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers" was written by Jackie Cassada, Elizabeth Ditchburn, Heather Grove, and Nicky Rea, with illustrations by Richard Clark, John Cobb, Fred Harper, Anthony Hightower, Fred Hooper, Matthew Mitchell, Chuck Regan, Christopher Shy, and Ron Spencer, with cover art by John Cobb and Eric Lacombe. It is part of the "Guildbook" line of books, but is at 160 pages longer than previous ones, as it covers two guilds. The book was released by White Wolf Publishing in October–November 1997 as softcover book, and has since been re-released as an e-book . Reception. Rick Swan reviewed "Guildbook: Pardoners and Puppeteers" for "Dragon" #244. Swan comments that "There's plenty of useful campaign material, including several new artifacts (soul lantern, hoodoo doll) and merits (storm warning, friends in high places). But what lingers in the mind are the characters: angst junkies, sin eaters, serial killer skin-riders. Creepy stuff. And when it comes to "Wraith", the creepier, the better."