White wolf
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| legal form | Aktiebolag |
| founding | 1991, 2015 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Seat | Stockholm , Sweden |
| Branch | Publishing |
| Website | www.white-wolf.com |
White Wolf Publishing AB is a pen and paper role-playing game and novel publisher based in Sweden . He is best known as the creator of the very successful RPG series World of Darkness . Sword & Sorcery , Black Dog Game Factory and Arthaus were imprints of White Wolf.
history
White Wolf was founded in Georgia in 1991 as a merger of the small RPG publisher Lion Rampant , which was in financial difficulties, and the RPG magazine White Wolf Magazine . The merger should enable the game makers at Lion Rampant to obtain a loan from printing companies in order to be able to finance the production of further copies of their games. The claims were then met with the proceeds from the copies.
White Wolf developed the world of darkness scenario and the storyteller system , which characterizes several of the in-house games, shortly after it was founded . In addition to its role-playing games, the publisher also published novels and trading card games set in the world of darkness . White Wolf used DriveThruRPG as its exclusive distributor. New publications appeared as PDF - Download and possibly as print-on-demand version. Older books, which had long been out of print , were gradually added to the print-on-demand offer.
In 2006 White Wolf merged with CCP Games , a manufacturer of MMORPGs . At the same time it was announced that an MMORPG on the world of darkness was planned. Development on this was stopped in 2014 without it being published.
At GenCon 2012 it was announced that CCP Games is discontinuing the production of pen & paper role-playing games. Onyx Path Publishing , a company founded specifically by the former Creative Director of White Wolf, Richard Thomas, has received a license from CCP Games to produce books on the world of darkness ( classic and new ). The company also acquired all rights to the Trinity , Adventure! and Aberrant and Scion . However, Onyx Path does not have a license to release Mind's Eye Theater . A Mind's Eye Theater license was later granted to By Night Studios .
In October 2015, the rights to the White Wolf brand name and related intellectual property were sold by CCP Games to the Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive . This founded White Wolf as a subsidiary in the form of a Swedish stock corporation. The contracts with the licensees will be retained, but the new company will coordinate the strategic and content-related further development of the products. In addition, White Wolf will publish new novels himself. The sales model last used by White Wolf via the print-on-demand service DriveThruRPG will be retained.
Products
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- Exalted
- Scion
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Classic World of Darkness , consisting of the RPG series
- Changeling: The Dreaming
- Dark Ages (includes medieval versions of the other game series)
- Demon: The Fallen
- Hunter: The Reckoning
- Mage: The Ascension
- Mummy: The Resurrection
- Orpheus
- Vampires: The Masquerade
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse
- Wraith: The Oblivion
- "New" World of Darkness , consisting of the RPG series
- Mind's Eye Theater , a series of LARP implementations based on content from the Classic World of Darkness and the new World of Darkness
- Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game, a licensed product for the Street Fighter video games with a set of rules similar to World of Darkness .
- Trinity Universe, consisting of three games set in different times
- Adventure! ( Pulp Magazine - Heroes of the 1920s)
- Aberrant (superheroes of the near future)
- Trinity (science fiction)
Sword & Sorcery Imprint
- The role play implementation of EverQuest
- The pen-and-paper role-playing game from Warcraft , later World of Warcraft
- d20 -compatible rules for the Ravenloft campaign world
- English version of the role play angel , by Feder & Schwert
Web links
- White Wolf (English)
- Sword & Sorcery ( Memento from March 25, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (archive integrated into white-wolf.com from 2005)
- White Wolf in the Luding games database
Individual evidence
- ↑ A Brief History of Game # 10: Lion Rampant on rpg.net
- ↑ CCP Games : Gaming Industry Innovators CCP and White Wolf to Merge ( English ) 11. November 2006. Archived from the original on April 4, 2010. Accessed March 14, 2011th
- ↑ CCP Games Halts Development of World of Darkness MMO ( Memento from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ a b What is the Onxy Path? Panel from GenCon on YouTube
- ^ Onyx Path Publishing at White Wolf Wika
- ↑ White Wolf: White Wolf Homepage ( English ) October 26, 2015. Accessed November 4, 2015.
- ^ The Onyx Path Products on DriveThruRPG