The Masquerade (role-playing game)
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| Publisher | White Wolf Publishing |
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Publication date | 1994 |
The Masquerade is a 1994 live action role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing.
Shannon Appelcline relates that "Besides their five RPGs, White Wolf also expanded the World of Darkness in another direction: live action roleplaying games, starting with the Vampire-focused Mind's Eye Theatre: The Masquerade (1993). Mark Rein•Hagen had been thinking about LARPs since Ars Magica, but this was the first time his ideas saw print."[1]: 15 Appelcline explained that LARPs were disconnected from the tabeltop role-playing hobby for many years, but "That changed in the ’90s, a fact that many attribute to White Wolf ’s Mind's Eye Theatre LARP, The Masquerade (1994) — a Vampire-based live action game. Certainly, The Masquerade was wildly successful and introduced a whole new generation of players to the roleplaying community, including a much larger proportion of women than had been seen before."[1]: 372
The adventure The Elder's Revenge was published in 1995, and the sourcebook Liber des Goules: The Book of Ghouls was published in 1997.[citation needed]