| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Role-playing games |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Stone Mountain, GA |
| Parent | CCP Games |
| Website | white-wolf.com |
White Wolf Publishing is an American gaming and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant[1] and White Wolf Magazine, and was initially led by Mark Rein·Hagen of the former and Steve and Stewart Wieck of the latter. Since White Wolf Publishing, Inc. merged with CCP Games hf in 2006,[2] White Wolf Publishing has been an imprint of CCP hf. The name "White Wolf" originates from Michael Moorcock's works.
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White Wolf publishes a line of several different but overlapping games set in the "World of Darkness", a "modern gothic" world that, while seemingly similar to the real world, is home to supernatural terrors, ancient conspiracies, and several approaching apocalypses. The company also publishes the high fantasy Exalted RPG, the modern mythic Scion, and d20 system material under their Sword & Sorcery imprint, including such titles as the Dungeons & Dragons gothic horror campaign setting Ravenloft, and Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed series. In order to complement the World of Darkness game line, a LARP system dubbed Mind's Eye Theatre has been published.
White Wolf has also released several series of novels based on the Old World of Darkness, all of which are currently out of print (although many are coming back into availability via print-on-demand).
White Wolf has also ventured in the collectible card game market with Arcadia, Rage, and Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (formerly Jyhad). V:TES, perhaps the most successful card game, was originally published by Wizards of the Coast in 1994, but was abandoned just two years later after a revamped base set, name change and three expansions were published. White Wolf acquired the rights to the game in 2000, even though no new material had been produced for the game in over four years. Since then, several V:TES expansions have been released, and the game was the only official source of material for the Old World of Darkness, until 2011 when the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: The Masquerade was published and the Onyx Path was announced.[3]
Video games such as Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines are based on White Wolf's role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. There are also several Hunter: The Reckoning video games.
On Saturday, 11 November 2006, White Wolf and CCP Games, the Icelandic MMO development company responsible for EVE Online, announced a merger between the two companies during the keynote address at the EVE Online Fanfest 2006. It was also revealed that a World of Darkness MMORPG was already in the planning stages.[2]
The games of this series use White Wolf's Storyteller System. Several games received spinoffs in the form of "historical" games, which were set in past eras such as the Dark Ages.
In addition to those game lines a series of books was produced under the Title World of Darkness. Those books provided stand-alone material or materials for several other game lines with the focus on a specific region or theme like WoD: Blood dimmed Tides (about the oceans), WoD: Combat (Steam-lined alternate combat system), WoD: Tokyo (about the City of Tokyo) or WoD: Mafia (about the Mafia in the World of Darkness).
The games of this series use White Wolf's new Storytelling System.
The majority of the Old World of Darkness games were adapted into the original Mind's Eye Theatre format for live-action roleplaying. Product lines in this era include:
Subsequently, the Mind's Eye Theatre was revamped for the New World of Darkness. A core Mind's Eye Theatre rulebook was published as the LARP analogue to the World of Darkness core rulebook, with several Mind's Eye Theatre adaptations following in suit: The Requiem, The Forsaken, and The Awakening each adapted their respective namesakes to the new system of MET rules.
White Wolf has different imprints under which various books are published, most notably:
Black Dog Game Factory was also a fictional company in the World of Darkness, as detailed in the Subsidiaries: A Guide to Pentex game supplement.