Vampire: The Requiem is a role-playing game published by White Wolf, Inc. for the Chronicles of Darkness setting, and the successor to the Vampire: The Masquerade line. Although it is an entirely new game, rather than a continuation of the previous editions, it uses many elements from the old game, including some of the clans and their powers. In the first edition, it required the World of Darkness core rulebook for use, and was released alongside it in August 2004.
In December 2013, the supplement Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle was released, adding a default world setting and significantly revising certain aspects of the game to bring them in line with the upcoming changes to the core rules of the new World of Darkness. At GenCon 2014, it was announced that Blood and Smoke would be re-branded as Vampire: The Requiem, Second Edition, with a new cover, index, and very minor changes in November 2014. This release in both its forms was a stand-alone game, able to be played with no other books as references.
History
Vampire: The Requiem was released by White Wolf Publishing on August 21, 2004, as a supplement to the simultaneously released book The World of Darkness, giving players rules for playing as vampires. It became the publisher's flagship title, and was in turn supplemented with its own line of supplements; the line developer was initially Justin Achilli, who was succeeded by Will Hindmarch in November 2004. The Resurrectionists (2007) by Hindmarch for Vampire: The Requiem was first adventure released in the Storytelling Adventure System.
Reception
Vampire: The Requiem was met with critical acclaim.
Reviews
- Coleção Dragão Brasil
- Pyramid
- ' #5 (reviews of the core book and City of the Damned: New Orleans expansion)
- ' #6 (overview of the entire system and a review of The Invictus expansion)
- ' #13 (review of the Lords over the Damned: Ventrue expansion)
- ' #16 (reviews of Kiss of the Succubus: Daeva and Savage and Macabre: Gangrel expansions)
- Rue Morgue #42
Other media
New Line Cinema optioned the feature rights to Vampire: The Requiem in 2004, but to date, no script has emerged.
White Wolf released two board games for the Vampire: The Requiem setting: Prince of the City was released in October 2004, and Dark Influences was released in October 2006.
An original Vampire: The Requiem book trilogy was released in 2004, written by Greg Stolze and Lucien Soulban. In 2004, White Wolf conducted a novel writing competition, shortly before canceling their fiction line in 2005. One of the winners, The Silent Knife by David Nurenberg, was eventually published in December 2012.