Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game created by Mark Rein·Hagen. It was the first of White Wolf Publishing's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world.[1] The title of the series comes from "The Masquerade", referring to the Camarilla's attempts to hide vampirism from humans and their governments, but is also a double entendre referring to vampires' efforts to convince themselves that they are not tr …