Princes and National Coordinators,

We are doing a bit of organizational restructuring here at White Wolf
and trading some responsibilities around. Normally that might be
business-speak for something bad happening at the company but that is
NOT the case.

Nonetheless, as part of this dramatic upheaval there has been a praxis
seizure of the product management role for Vampire: the Eternal Struggle
- the job I have been filling since White Wolf began publishing V:TES
many years ago (rock on VTES!). And who would seize the advantage during
the political flux at White Wolf to stab me in the back and usurp my
title? None other than my own brother (and White Wolf co-founder)
Stewart Wieck. Et tu Brutus!

Ok, only joking of course. There are only bonds of blood and brotherly
love here. In fact Stewart and I are practically a coagulated entity...

As of today, Stewart is now in charge of the V:TES product line and
chairman of V:EKN, while I move over to handle more sales and business
aspects of White Wolf. Stewart is as much of a newbie at V:TES as I was
when White Wolf printed Sabbat War, but like me, he's smart enough to
listen to the wisdom of experts like LSJ, Oscar and all of you receiving
this e-mail. So I hope that you will lend Stewart the benefit of your
feedback and advice in the coming years as you have given it to me in
the past years.

Stewart and I will both be going to Gen Con early to enjoy most of the
Week of Nightmares. Oscar and I are pushing Stewart into the "deep end
of the pool" by letting him learn how to play the game the right way
among some of the world's best players during the Week of Nightmares. I
hope many of you will be there, so that I can introduce you to Stewart
and you can show him "the hard way" how VTES is played by the world's
best!

Stewart will also be attending the European Championship in November.

It has been my distinct pleasure to get to know so many of you over the
past several years and to form friendships that will remain dear to me
on into the future. I sincerely appreciate all that you folks do to keep
V:TES a fun game and a fun community. I hope in the coming year you will
help Stewart and Oscar introduce more and more players to the community.

In my new sales role I will be traveling the world a bit more, so I hope
to crash in on games in more cities around the world. I am also thinking
that since I am no longer directly involved with V:TES products, I can
start playing in the Qualifiers next year. Ben, Christian, Rueben,
Stephane, Jay, etc. you've been warned! ;)

Regards,

Steve Wieck
White Wolf Publishing, Inc



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