Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness live-action and role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world. The game uses the cursed and immortal Vampiric condition as a backdrop to explore themes of morality, depravity, the human condition (or appreciation of the human condition in its absence), salvation, and personal horror. The gloomy version of the real world that the Vampires inhabit, called "The World of Darkness", forms an already bleak canvas against which the stories and struggles of characters are painted. The themes that the game seeks to address include retaining the character's sense of self, humanity, and sanity, as well as simply keeping from being crushed by the grim opposition of mortal and supernatural antagonists and, more poignantly, surviving the politics, treachery and often violent ambitions of their own kind. -v v-
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Mark Rein-Hagen
White Wolf Publishing
1991
312 páginas
10h 24m
ISBN-10: 1565042492
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Mark Rein-Hagen
Mark Rein·Hagen (often written Rein-Hagen) is a role-playing, card, video and board game designer, best known as the creator of Vampire: The Masquerade and its associated World of Darkness games. Rein·Hagen is also one of the original two designers of Ars Magica along with Jonathan Tweet. A founder and owner of White Wolf Publishing he sold his half of the company in 2007 and left the gaming field. Rein·Hagen served as a writer and producer for Kindred: The Embraced, a TV show based on Vampire, produced by Aaron Spelling and shown on Fox TV. Kindred was cancelled, however, following the death of its star Mark Frankel. As a side project independent of White Wolf Publishing, Rein·Hagen founded Atomoton Games and created Z-G, the first collectible action figure game. Despite the high production value and plans for numerous tie-ins, the game failed to find a market and sank the company. Following the demise of Atomoton Games, Mark briefly pursued a farming career in central California, raising poultry for export to Asian markets. As of mid 2008 he was purportedly living in Tbilisi, Georgia with his wife and child during the 2008 South Ossetia War, Rein-Hagen was evacuated with other US Citizens living in Georgia and started the now defunct site sosgeorgia.org to help track what was happening. The site can still be viewed using the waybackmachine.org website as of 2011. His work on World of Darkness has influenced the movie-series Underworld, the Twilight-series, True Blood, and otherkin sub-cultures such as Real Life Vampires, and Real Life Werewolves.
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