White Wolf

White Wolf Game Studio is a gaming company that created the Vampire: The Masquerade roleplaying game out of a live-action roleplaying game 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 nine different but overlapping horror games set in the "World of Darkness", 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 live action roleplaying (LARP) system dubbed Mind's Eye Theatre.

Table of contents

1 The World of Darkness game lines

1.1 Historical variants
1.2 Pre-World of Darkness

2 Other games

The World of Darkness game lines

In 2003, the company announced the Time of Judgment, which supposedly brings an end to their modern-day game lines in the World of Darkness.

Historical variants

Dark Ages: Vampire (formerly Vampire: The Dark Ages)
Dark Ages: Werewolf
Dark Ages: Mage
Dark Ages: Inquisitor
Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade
Victorian Age: Vampire
Wraith: The Great War
Werewolf: The Wild West

Pre-World of Darkness

Exalted

Other games

Trinity (also known as Aeon, science fiction and psionics)
Aberrant (near-future superheroes)
Adventure (1930's pulp heroes)
Orpheus

White Wolf is also a famous campground at Yosemite National Park in California.