- Paperback: 158 pages
- Publisher: White Wolf Publishing; Reissue edition (Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1565043154
- ISBN-13: 978-1565043152
- Product Dimensions: 26.9 x 21.1 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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- #17 in Books > Fiction > Science Fiction > Gaming > Werewolf
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you feel uncomfortable portraying the spirits the werewolves meet in the Umbra, then this book is pretty good. Not great, though. It essentially provides stats and background info on a number of relatively common spirits the characters might meet, but fails to convey the sense of mystery which should be present when dealing with these beings. More like a TSR Monstrous MAnual supliment than an insight into the cosmology of the Umbra. Better job done in some of their other books.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Axis Mundi is of vital assistance to any White Wolf Storyteller running Werewolf. It provides a wealth of information on Spirits and the pantheons of the major Tribe totems.
With a capsule description on all the main spirits the book gives you both colour and game detail to bring your game's spirit world to life.
The main drawback is that, because it's so well laid-out and so logically presented it feels a little antiseptic. The mysterious feel of the spirit world is lost in the black and white structure of the page.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A good book, but not good enough.
7 Mar 2001
Format:Paperback
This is a pretty good book. If you are looking for information on some of the spirits who support the totems of the werewolf tribes, then this book is for you. You won't be disappointed.
However, I was disappointed with this book. The main reason for this is that I thought this book wasn't far reacing enough. According to the Werewolf universe, the Umbra is populated with thousands, if not millions, of different kinds of spirits, each with their own personality archetypes, wants, desires, interests, etc. But this book focuses mainly on the small number who serve the major tribe totems. This small slice of the spirit world is hardly fulfilling.
Another problem is that the book makes no attempt to describe how the spirits interact with each other, how any of the hierarchies of the totems work, or how any other spirits really behave or act out in the day-to-day life of the Umbra. Spirits are described as if their only purpose is to interact with the werewolves and not as if they are each self-sufficient entities.
So this book is good for what it is, but like many other White-Wolf supplements it fails to be all it could be. A much better book would have given more over-arching spirit information on a macro level so us creative-types could use the information they provided to populate our games with interesting individual spirits on a micro level.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
This book wasn't good as I expected...
28 Sep 1998
Format:Paperback
I thought Axis Mundi would be a valuable aquisition to my werewolf stories, but wasn't. The mage storytellers will not understand why, whitewolf told that book would be useful for Mage campaigns. I wasted my money... Don't do the same mistake
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Nice but not for Mage
11 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
As much as I enjoyed reading this book and think it's a nice supplement for Werewolf, I can't see why White Wolf recommended it for Mage. Other than a short little paragraph in an info box, the book made little reference to Mage.
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