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White Wolf, Inc. is a gaming company that created the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game out of a live action role-playing game (LARP) that the
founders helped anarchically coordinate among the goth music denizens of Atlanta, Georgia. They took their name from Michael Moorcock's fiction, and went on to become a pretty standard
role-playing game company from these rather unusual roots.
White Wolf publishes a line of several different but overlapping horror games set in the "World of Darkness", a world in appearance like our own, only with a much more sinister bent. In the
World of Darkness, vampires, werewolves, mages and other creatures of the night exist and fight each
other while remaining hidden from normal humans. The company has also begun publishing some d20_system material under the Sword and Sorcery label and revived the Ravenloft Gothic horror world owned by Wizards of the Coast.
To complement some of the company's game lines, there is a LARP system dubbed Mind's Eye Theatre.
The World of Darkness game lines
- Vampire: The Masquerade
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- Mage: The Ascension
- Changeling: The Dreaming
- Demon: The Fallen
- Hunter: The Reckoning
- Wraith: The Oblivion
- Mummy: The Resurrection
- Kindred of the East
- Orpheus
In 2003, the company announced the "Time of Judgment", which
brought an end to their curent series of World of Darkness game lines. A revamped series of World of Darkness games is expected
to launch in August of 2004, beginning with The World of Darkness (a set of core rules, akin to the D&D Player's Handbook) and Vampire: The Requiem.
Historical variants
- Dark Ages: Vampire (formerly Vampire: The Dark Ages)
- Dark Ages:
Werewolf
- Dark Ages: Mage
- Dark Ages:
Inquisitor
- Dark Ages: Fae
- Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade
- Victorian
Age: Vampire
- Wraith: The
Great War
- Werewolf:
The Wild West
Pre-World of Darkness
Other games
see also List of World of
Darkness articles
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