Days of Fire

by Greg Stolze

Book by Stolze, Greg

Genres: World Of Darkness, Role Playing Games

128 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Greg Stolze (born 1970) is an American novelist and writer, whose work has mainly focused on properties derived from role-playing games.

Stolze has contributed to numerous role-playing game books for White Wolf Game Studio and Atlas Games, including Demon: the Fallen. Some of Stolze's recent work has been self-published using the "ransom method", whereby the game is only released when enough potential buyers have contributed enough money to reach a threshold set by the author.

Together with John Tynes he created and wrote the role-playing game Unknown Armies, published by Atlas Games. He has also co-written the free game NEMESIS, which uses the One-Roll Engine presented in Godlike and the so called Madness Meter derived from Unknown Armies.

Reviews

[Yuutousei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Days of Fire is a flavor book that ties into the Demon: The Fallen and Time of Judgement lines from White Wolf's classic World of Darkness (cWoD).

For someone who followed the End Times, it gives great insight to a pivotal plot device. My group RPed ToJ and finding a copy of Days of Fire and trying to figure out what was going on and possibly how to stop the end of all things became a big part of the plot (something that I'm trying to recreate for my own group that I ST for now).

If you've never played or heard of the cWoD though, it will be either a frustrating or interesting read (it matters how much you enjoy end of the world prophecies). Having knowledge of the world of cWoD makes a lot of things make a lot more sense (or a lot less sense, YMMV) and I at least know that I had to reread Days of Fire with an analysis to catch everything.

Greg Stolze did an excellent job writing this piece and I'm planning on looking into his short stories.

Just reading through it again makes me nostalgic for days gone by.

[Costan Sequeiros · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, so. Some good ideas and writing here, but also little usefulness as far as gaming campaigns go. A good deal of the book is a long prophecy but most of it is recounting events that already happened and which you won't really understand unless you know other WoD games (like Cain becoming a vampire). Most of this is cool, but you can do nothing with it, and when it comes to the three paths on how to deal with the end of the world, it is pretty vague and generic, so if you want to delve into those topics you're better off just making your own prophecy for your table.

Then we have an exchange of mails, news clips, and so on, on the events that are happening during that end of the world. Again, not too interesting, but they make good material to hand out to your players if you want them to have something more tangible. You could even maybe make a plot or a story surrounding those events, but it's in no way done in the book, you'd have to connect all details, characters and so on by yourself.

So, in general, this is a good book as far as ambiance and mood goes, but with little intrinsic usefulness to it. To quote Cyberpunk 2077, all style and no substance.

[Francisco Becerra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Straight to the point: the only thing I hated about this book is not being commented as the Book of Nod, requiring from the reader to know an incredible amount of WoD lore from other games. Otherwise this is as incredible, amazing and inspiring as the said Book of Nod. Fantastic in-play accesory, beautifully illustrated, and with the perfect language and content for a Demon game.

[Burt · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a disjointed bunch of rambling meant to give flavor and background to the Demon: the Fallen line of RPG books. What they did was try to fit too many cosmologies into one book and it suffers for it. Not really all that much to add to the genre for which it was made. the novels that got written do far much more to give a feeling for the world of Demon: the Fallen.

[Anthony · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is bananas. I am sure there is good stuff in here, but I don't need my Master's in OWOD Demon Lore.