What is the World of Darkness

White Wolf Gaming Studio has come up with a backdrop for LARPs, as well as a system to resolve challenges which cannot be played out in real life. The first part, the backdrop, is referred to as the World of Darkness. The World of Darkness is a little darker, more gothic world that mirrors our own in most ways.

The stark difference comes down to the focus of most of the stories told within the World of Darkness. For in this world exists, vampires that manipulate every facet of human life (unbeknownst to mortal) referred to as Kindred, half-wolf/half-human Garou that fight to protect their mother earth from evil, and various other fictional creatures that serve to be the primary actors.

Now of course this is not real life, but merely a form of theatre, so there are some things that we cannot do. For example, if one of these characters in the story decides to punch another character we cant have one player decking another to the floor!

Because of the ultimate rule in LARPing to "respect other players" there needs to be another way to resolve who would win the resulting fight. There is also the issue of how to deal with these fantasical characters and the extra-human things they can sometimes do.

All of this is described in several books released by White Wolf designed for Storytellers and players alike to familiarize themselves with setting up a chronicle in this World of Darkness. It may seem a little daunting at first, but we assure you it is quite easy to get used to.