Vampire: The Masquerade began as the table game Vampire, in which a small group of players gathered to listen to a storyteller and periodically stopped action to interact, the consequences of the player’s acts being determined by the throw of the dice. Thus, most stories concern the jockeying for power among the players. The more visible society is highly politicized and power is the valued commodity.
There is an organized vampire society whose power is held by older vampires, the majority of whom have withdrawn into their solitude. However, mostly they move among themselves. Since they closely resemble humans, and thus have little problem passing as such, they can come out at night and co-mingle, especially when they are in search of food.
In the world of this role-playing game, there is a community of vampires who exist incognito within the space otherwise inhabited by humans. Players of Vampire: The Masquerade enter the fantasy world by creating a character (numerous suggestions are given in the literature published to support the game), a vampire, or possibly a werewolf or ghoul minion, and during the game they assume and act as that character along with all of the other characters who inhabit the local vampire community. As the story unfolds, the players become active participants and their actions have consequences for winning and losing. Role-playing games are built around a storyteller, who begins a story in which all of the players are characters. The popularity of the game, however, has allowed for its expansion and the development of different aspects of the fantasy world in great detail. From the beginning, the game presented a complete alternate worldview, the fantasy into which the player enters, a world in which vampires and other creatures of horror such as ghouls and werewolves populate the landscape.
It quickly challenged the popularity of Dungeons and Dragons, the original role-playing game, and itself became the basis of several other horror role-playing games based on the Werewolf and Wraith, and a role-playing card game, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (originally named Jyhad). Vampire: The Masquerade is a popular role-playing game introduced in 1991 by creator Mark Rein-Hagen of White Wolf Game Studio. Two of the vampires who inhabit the world of the Camarilla in the game Vampire: The Masquerade.
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