

If you’re tired of his history lesson, know that eventually the 20th Anniversary of Vampire: The Masquerade resulted in a re-release of the line by Onyx Path Publishing. A sequel for the tabletop game called Vampire: The Requiem was released but I never got into that. This was close to the height of its popularity thanks to the release of the cult classic video games Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines. It was also years before the urban fantasy boom that may have been inspired by the World of Darkness where monsters existed in the shadows of the modern world.Įventually, Vampire: The Masquerade wrapped up in a way that few franchises do and its creators destroyed the setting with the apocalyptic Gehenna supplement. This was years before Twilight and vampires still had some cachet as scary monsters. Before A Song of Ice and Fire, it was a fascinating world of moral ambiguity (even moral decay) where the protagonists were all monsters. In the Nineties, I loved my weekend sessions of Vampire: The Masquerade.
