History TabletopGame / NewWorldOFDarkness

Among the biggest differences between the two is that the [=nWoD=] is highly modular. The ''very first'' "gameline" that came out was about bland and ordinary mortals. This book also served as the core rulebook, creating a unifying (though not always balanced) set of rules for all the following supplements to build on and adhere to. In contrast to the Old World, it lacks a unifying CrossoverCosmology and {{Metaplot}}, so the existence of the supernatural creatures from any other gameline is optional in your game - in fact, if you're playing a "Mortals" game, you could decide that none of the classics exist. The [[GameMaster Story Teller]] can craft his or her own cosmology wholesale from the various toolkits given. Because of this, some see the new setting as a {{Retcon}} of the old, to fix mistakes and imbalances; while no wholesale plot is lifted several themes, clans, institutions and other things are ported over. Many key themes and features of the old games were lost. In the case of ''Changeling'', the [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost new game]] is entirely different from [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming the old]]. The new games are also much more mutually compatible rules-wise, which is important for those who want balanced and easily manageable crossovers.

CCP Games, the folks behind VideoGame/EveOnline and owners of White Wolf since 2006, had announced a World of Darkness MMORPG, tentatively called World of Darkness Online, which would be based on the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness. [[http://www.ccpgames.com/en/public-relations/press-releases/article/77171/ccp-games-halts-development-of-world-of-darkness-mmo/ Sadly, it was cancelled as of April 2014]], with the company liscence eventually being sold to Creator/ParadoxInteractive in October 2015, with White Wold being renamed to White Wolf Publishing-and Creator/ObsidianEntertainment expressing their interest in making their own game.

** And finally, Tremere Liches. [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Two words]]: Soul. Eaters.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Each gameline from the New World of Darkness has a signature color, used on supplement spines; World of Darkness ("Mortals") is Blue, [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Vampire]] is Red, [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken Werewolf]] is Brown/Orange, [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mage]] is Aqua, [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Promethean]] is White, [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changeling]] is Green, [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Hunter]] is Teal, [[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Geist]] is Dark Blue, [[TabletopGame/MummyTheCurse Mummy]] is Sandy Brown, [[TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent Demon]] is Grey, and [[TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial Beast]] is purple.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Each gameline from the New World of Darkness has a signature color, used on supplement spines; World of Darkness ("Mortals") is Blue, [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem Vampire]] is Red, [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken Werewolf]] is Brown/Orange, [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Mage]] is Aqua, [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Promethean]] is White, [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changeling]] is Green, [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Hunter]] is Teal, [[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Geist]] is Dark Blue, [[TabletopGame/MummyTheCurse Mummy]] is Sandy Brown, and [[TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent Demon]] is Grey.

* BeastMan: There are a lot of these, but generally this is the stereotype held against the Beast seeming of Changelings and basically every Werewolf. Oddly enough, the actual Beasts look perfectly normal, unless they are in their Lairs. (At which point it's less Beastman and more EldritchAbomination.)

* BeastMan: There are a lot of these, but generally this is the stereotype held against the Beast seeming of Changelings and basically every Werewolf. Oddly enough, the actual Beasts look perfectly normal, unless they are in their Lairs. (At which point it's EldritchAbomination time.)

* BeastMan: There are a lot of these, but generally this is the stereotype held against the Beast seeming of Changelings and basically every Werewolf.

CCP Games, the folks behind VideoGame/EveOnline and owners of White Wolf since 2006, had announced a World of Darkness MMORPG, tentatively called World of Darkness Online, which would be based on the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness. [[http://www.ccpgames.com/en/public-relations/press-releases/article/77171/ccp-games-halts-development-of-world-of-darkness-mmo/ Sadly, it was cancelled as of April 2014]], with the company lisence eventually being sold to Creator/ParardoxInteractive in October 2015.

CCP Games, the folks behind VideoGame/EveOnline and owners of White Wolf since 2006, had announced a World of Darkness MMORPG, tentatively called World of Darkness Online, which would be based on the TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness. [[http://www.ccpgames.com/en/public-relations/press-releases/article/77171/ccp-games-halts-development-of-world-of-darkness-mmo/ Sadly, it was cancelled as of April 2014]].

* Deviant

** Changelings may or may not experience religious changes as a result of their trauma. Many do become Naytheists, though -- especially those who believe the Gentry are angels that, abandoned by god, have gone mad.

* TheSoulless

%%MODERATOR NOTE: Genius The Transgression has its own article. Since Genius is a fan-made gameline and not an official one, material pertaining to it does NOT belong on this page.

** There are also a range of optional "Outside" or "Other" realms, which range from generic homes for homebrew Lovecraftian horrors to more specific "places" populated by undead [[{{Dune}} sandworms]] and the Men in Black.

* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: Depending on the game, you're sometimes left wondering "okay, how the ''hell'' can they cover ''that'' up?"
** They can't all the time, this is where Hunters come from. Those who don't go Hunter either try to forget what they've seen...or won't shut up about it and get KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.

*** [[TabletopGame/GeistTheSinEaters Sin-eaters]], meanwhile, are similar to werewolves in that their KarmaMeter, Synergy, focuses on their nature as walking geiat-human hybrids and thusly they are far removed from the ordinary concerns of human morality.

* SerialKiller: Any old person and supernatural can be one. Special mention goes to the Slashers from the source book of the same name.

** Futhermore, low-Clarity Changelings may expect some drawbacks in dealing with mortals, but actually ''gain'' bonuses to using their brand of magic. Come to TheDarkSide, indeed.

** Demons have their perceptions of divinity tied in with the God-Machine, and tend to view it and the Judeo-Christian as synonymous. Most are also NayTheists, though Integrators, who want to rejoin it on their own terms, tend to be quite religious.

** On a personal level, the new games are darker and edgier than the old ones, in that the [=PCs=] themselves are generally expected to be darker, edgier and basically more evil. Almost every sourcebook describes the various ways in which each faction of supernatural creatures is full of terrible, terrible people, and the [=PCs=] aren't meant to be any exception.
*** ''On the other hand'', the factions themselves are usually presented as having good ideas but frequently terrible execution, and most of said terrible, terrible people have rational explanations for their behavior that are often quite sympathetic...and when their terrible-ness is public, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork other characters openly acknowledge it even if they work together]]. They're also almost never outright hypocritical, most awfulness flows from bad application of their ideas.