The Masquerade (role-playing game)

The Masquerade is a 1994 live action role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing.

Publication history

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). 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 remained distanced from the 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.

Reception

Derek Pearcy reviewed The Masquerade in Pyramid #4 (Nov./Dec., 1993), and stated that "Overall, the game was executed very well. The graphic design is consistent with the feel of previous Vampire products, and playing the game with the right people is a good experience. At conventions, where you can get several hundred people playing at once, all scheming and conniving, it can be exhilarating. And okay, so you don't like the rules? Like their rulebook says, don't use them."[2]

Reviews
gollark: Nope! I was originally gollark, but I got an h in a giveaway.
gollark: I don't even have a soldering iron, so probably not.
gollark: Though the USB-C port, which is also degraded a bit, probably can't be replaced without... very tricky soldering?
gollark: I see. Well, if I can obtain batteries and stuff, that's cheaper than buying a new one.
gollark: I don't even have screwdrivers for the weird tiny... hexagram... screws it uses.

References
  1. Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '90s. Evil Hat Productions. ISBN 978-1-61317-084-7.
  2. http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=478
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