So it’s taken us a year to get to it, but genre police is going to finally look at the genre that inspired its name. The Police procedural is perhaps the most popular television genre of the last thirty years, without thinking I could list upwards of twenty shows that fit the pattern. And yet, […]
Roleplayers react to the annexation of White Wolf
White Wolf will no longer be developing the World of Darkness and, as a company, no longer exists. The publisher’s owners, Paradox Interactive, have stepped in to take control. White Wolf will only continue as part of Paradox, will support third-party publishers wishing to publish World of Darkness products but will no longer develop and […]
Onyx Path Publishing to publish Chicago by Night a Vampire 5e supplement
White Wolf is publishing World of Darkness products again and Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition launched at Gen Con this week. But what of the company that kept the franchise alive for the last few years? Onyx Path has established itself through a series of very successful Kickstarters and quality products that fans appreciated. There’s […]
Chronicles of Darkness bundle
Here’s a chance to scoop up a load of first edition World of Darkness RPGs from White Wolf. A US $17.95 spent gets you $66 of DRM-free PDFS. You can check out the offer here. The Player Collection is the World of Darkness Rulebook 1e, World of Darkness: Armory, Armory Reloaded and Skinchangers. Beat the […]
Genre Police: Go Mythic, Or Go Home!
Welcome to Genre Police, a new series of articles where taking a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. Each column, I plan to give a small toolset so that if you feel like adding a genre style or feel […]
Mark Rein•Hagen returns to Vampire
At Gen Con White Wolf announced that Mark Rein•Hagen, creator of Vampire: The Masquerade first edition, is coming back to the title. He’s joining the team developing the 5th edition of the iconic roleplaying game. The 5th edition of Vampire is due out in early 2018 and produced under the auspeces of White Wolf’s new […]
White Wolf launch the Storytellers Vault
White Wolf have teamed up with DriveThruRPG to launch Storytellers Vault. This isn’t just a specialist site to download World of Darkness products. This is also a platform to create and sell your own non-canonical supplements. Here’s what the deal includes; Self-publishing platform. Storytellers Vault allows creators to publish tabletop RPG material or stories tying […]
A dark future: The art of Mitchell Mohrhauser
Mitch Mohrhauser is a fantastic concept artist. He’s worked for CCP before on titles like EVE: Online and World of Darkness and is currently a freelance at Square Enix. He shares his art on Facebook and, very rarely, on his blog. The sample gallery below shows a dark future where robots are casting a shadow […]
A Great Game to Read: A Review of Exalted, Third Edition
I don’t have any experience with Exalted’s previous editions, so I can’t really comment on what’s changed. All I know is this: by the time I finally finished reviewing all of Exalted: Third Edition (EX3)’s 650+ pages, I was stunned. Not just by the monumental size of this game, but it’s scope and execution. EX3 […]
The One World of Darkness is White Wolf’s future
It’s only been a few weeks since Paradox bought White Wolf from CPP and announced they would review all licensing deals. Now we know Onyx Path and fans can breathe easier as they’re named as a future partner. Lead Storyteller Martin Elricsson and CEO Tobias Sjögren took the stage to share their plans for the […]
