White Wolf, Inc.
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White Wolf, Inc. is an American gaming company, most famous for the roleplaying game. The company was founded in 1991 by Mark Rein·Hagen and Steve and Stewart Wieck. Taking their name from the fiction of Michael Moorcock, they have become one of the world's most successful role-playing game companies.
White Wolf publishes a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness", which generally resembles our world with added supernatural elements, and whose tone is generally described as "gothic punk." In the World of Darkness, vampires, werewolves, mages, changelings, wraiths, 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 their Sword & Sorcery imprint which publishes titles such as the Dungeons & Dragons gothic horror campaign setting Ravenloft, and Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed series.
To complement some of the company's game lines, there is a LARP system dubbed Mind's Eye Theatre. Many grassroots gaming groups have sprung up to play games based on this system.
White Wolf has a mixed record in the collectible card game market with Arcadia, Rage, and (formerly 'Jyhad'). V:TES, perhaps the most successful of the bunch, was originally published by Wizards of the Coast in 1994 but was abandoned just two years later. White Wolf acquired rights to the game in 2000, despite it being out of print for nearly 7 years.
Video games such as Vampire: the Masquerade - Redemption, and Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines, based on White Wolf's role-playing properties have also been developed. There are also video games based on the Hunter: The Reckoning title.
The \"Old\" World of Darkness game lines
In 2003, the company announced the "Time of Judgment", which brought an end to their current series of World of Darkness game lines. A revamped series of World of Darkness games launched August 21, 2004, beginning with The World of Darkness (a set of core rules, akin to the D&D Player's Handbook) and . Later, White Wolf also released "Werewolf: The Forsaken" and "Mage: The Awakening".Historical variants
- (formerly )
Mind's Eye Theatre (
- Laws of the Night (Vampire)
- Laws of the Wild (Werewolf)
- Oblivion (Wraith)
- Laws of Hunt (Mortals)
- The Shining Host (Changeling)
- Laws of Ascension (Mage)
- Laws of the Reckoning (Hunter)
- Laws of Resurrection (Mummy)
- Laws of the East (Kindred of the East)
- Faith and Fire ()
- Laws of the Wyld West ()
The \"New\" World of Darkness game lines
- (to be released August 2006) [link]
Age of Sorrows
Trinity Universe
- Trinity (also known as Aeon; science fiction and psychics)
- Aberrant (near-future superheroes)
- Adventure! (1920s pulp heroes)
Other
See also
External links
- [The official page]
- [Official World of Darkness Wiki]
- [Official Exalted Wiki]
- [Unofficial White Wolf Wiki]
- [Wolf Spoor] - Fan based White Wolf News, Reviews, Forums and more
- [Publication list on Pen & Paper]
- [Pissed Off Gamers] - A role-playing community dedicated to the review and discussion of White-wolf themed gaming online. This site features White-wolf contests, new rules, fan fiction, and more.
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