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White Wolf Publishing has a series of role-playing games set in the World
of Darkness (abbr. WoD). A role-playing game should be familiar to veteran gamers but, for the majority of people who are
unfamiliar with the concept, it is a game that is played with your imagination. As children many of us played house, doctor
or some make believe game that involved us pretending to be someone else. A role-playing game (abbr. RPG) is the same game
of make believe but with a rule system and themes for us grown ups. The enjoyment from the game comes not from winning
but socializing with new people, the mental exercise of politics, being able to be someone else for a while and being
able to do things that otherwise you would never be able to do, physically, legally or otherwise.
For those of you who are familiar with the old WoD, this is a brand new world. It is not a post Gehenna game nor does it
have any correlation with Vampire: the Masquerade.
The World of Darkness is the title for what can be described as our own real world but darker. The streets are more unsafe,
the crime rate is higher, the poor are poorer, the rich are richer and overall the mortal throngs of people just don't care.
To make things even more interesting; vampires, werewolves, mages, fairies, ghosts and everything else that goes bump in the
night are real. However these creatures keep themselves well hidden from the tides of average humans. Most mortals have a
total disbelief of the supernatural and the supernatural wants to keep it that way.
So what of the supernatural? What lurks in the shadowy alleys and smokey nightclubs that your character may stumble into or
be hunted by? Here is your introduction to the Requiem. The nightly intruge of Vampires is likened to this dark music, each
note haunting and woven into it's place in the symphony.
This site is to provide an introduction to this World of Darkness in compliment to the books you can purchase here.
