Citybook V: Sideshow

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Citybook V: Sideshow is a 1991 role-playing supplement published by Flying Buffalo.

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Citybook V: Sideshow is a supplement in which 19 different business are described for the quarter of the city inhabited by non-humans. [1]

Publication history

Citybook V: Sideshow is part of the Catalyst fantasy supplement series. [1]

Reception

Christopher Earley reviewed Citybook V: Sideshow in White Wolf #30 (Feb., 1992), rating it a 4 out of 5 and stated that "At any rate, Citybook V: Sideshow is both a coherent product as a whole, and easily torn apart for use in a broad cross-section of FRPG campaigns." [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Earley, Christopher (February 1992). "Capsule Reviews". White Wolf Magazine . No. 30. pp. 67–68.
  2. https://rpggeek.com/rpgissuearticle/413903/duck-her-it-comes-product-reviews