Vampire: The masquerade is a role-playing game set in the so-called World of Darkness.

It was created by Mark Rein Hagen as the first role-playing game of the company White Wolf Game Studio (it is an American company that is dedicated to the publication of role-playing games).

The company was founded in 1991 by Mark Rein Hagen, Steve Wieck and Stewart Wieck, as a result of the union of the company Lion Rampant and the White Wolf Magazine, taking the name of White Wolf. The company became one of the most successful companies in the role-playing games business. In 2015 Paradox Interactive acquired the seal, along with all its intellectual property.

The game is about the existence of vampires in a modern neo-Gothic world. The subtitle of the game, "the masquerade" refers to the attempts of the secret organization of vampires (the Camarilla) to hide their existence in human society.

Vampire: The masquerade takes place in the world of fiction known as World of Darkness (it is the name given to three fictional universes that although they share a name and some similarities are editorially different, although they were all created to create different editorial series of role-playing games to the adult public), in which there are different beings like werewolves, fairies, demons, etc.

The game's author, Mark Rein Hagen, created a role-playing game that broke with most of the common styles within the genre. In it, players experience the life of a supernatural being in a world dominated by evil and in which humans are unaware of reality.

The game is about the personal conflict that involves trying to retain one's humanity when the character has been converted into a being that eat humans. In addition, players must survive the incessant power struggles between the old and more powerful vampire clans.

Vampire: The masquerade uses the original game system of White Wolf, the Narrative System (it is the game system that White Wolf created for World of Darkness).

This vampiric and dark universe is surprising, without a doubt it is the perfect choice to start in modern role-playing games.

I give a note of 9/10.

Greetings, PinErloco.

(Excuse my english, I am Spanish and I did the translation with a lot of effort but I can make mistakes.)