Robert Place Vampires...should I or shouldn't I? Or is there another vampire deck I should look at instead? I have Vampires of the Eternal Night only.
It is very different from the VotEN so you wouldn't need to worry about redundancy. The Place vampire deck is quite a bit drier and more literary. The VotEN is more swirling and emotional, you're IN the horror and the darkness while with the Place deck you're reading about it and it is safely at a distance.
The Place deck courts are people like Bram Stoker; Ellen Terry, an actress at the theater where Stoker worked; other literary figures and 19th c. fictional vampire characters. The courts took me a long time to appreciate but now they seem to add something to the readings, maybe because most of them are actual, specific people rather than abstractions like "King of Pentacles"
If you go by the book meanings it pretty much follows RWS but the pictures are quite different and can add nuances or even take the interpretation in another direction. I like that about the deck, major plus.
It is an interestingly psychological deck. The book talks about Jungian ideas of the four personality types, the anima and animus, the shadow. In my daily readings, even if I don't pay too much attention to this it seems to speak on a psychological level.
Bottom line, it is a gorgeous and interesting deck, definitely worth having. I am not especially interested in vampires but still find it a great deck. It did take me some time to warm up to it though as it is somewhat dry and reserved.