Where the Shadows Grow Long

We live our days completely ignorant of the true terrors lurking around us. Only rarely do our experiences draw back the veil of shadows and reveal the horror in our midst. These glimpses into the supernatural can cause us to retreat into comforting lies — “There are no such things as monsters” — or stir our morbid curiosity. Only a few, however, can overcome their fear and dare to look deeper.

Abandon Hope All Who Enter

The World of Darkness Rulebook introduces a version of our contemporary world where the supernatural is real. Players join to tell tales of mystery and horror, where theme, mood and plot are more important to a character’s experiences than his weapons or equipment. Inside are rules for character creation, task resolution, combat and any activity your character attempts as he delves into the shadows.

What is the World of Darkness? - It's a place very much like our world, sharing the same history, culture and geography. Superficially, most people in this fictional world live the same lives we do. They eat the same food, wear the same clothes, and waste time watching the same TV shows. And yet, in the World of Darkness, shadows are deeper, nights are darker, fog is thicker. If, in our world, a neighborhood has a rundown house that gives people the creeps, in the World of Darkness, that house emits strange sighs on certain nights of the year, and seems to have a human face when seen from the corner of one's eye. Or so some neighbors say. In our world, there are urban legends. In the World of Darkness, there are urban legends whispered into the ears of autistic children by invisible spiders.

A Darker World

Time to turn down the lights. With the World of Darkness: Setting, Substance, and Secrets Collection you’ll have all the materials you need for a sinister ambiance. Storytellers can add new possibilities to their ongoing campaign with a greater depth of NPC interaction. Send your vampires, mages, and wolves to Chicago—the center of the American heartland and the American "Dark-land". Tell your story from behind the comfort of your own helpful screen.

A three sourcebook collection of popular supplements for all World of Darkness Games

This is a sturdy game screen for Storyteller's to use when running World of Darkness games.

A pad of character sheets for use with the World of Darkness Rulebook.

Your Lucky Dice

Take your character’s fate into your own hands with these special dice made especially for use in the World of Darkness games. Will you achieve great feats or suffer at the whim of chance?

A Play Aid for the World of Darkness™

The Final Chapter

At the end of the world, what will be the fate of its supernatural denizens? Can demons find salvation in the ashes of the realm they created? Can hunters purge the last of the monsters? Can changelings discover enough passion to return to their homeland? Can mummies restore the cosmic balance before it's too late? And can the Kuei-jin avert or accept the coming of the Sixth Age? You decide.

The End is Here

Time of Judgment is the final book for the World of Darkness as you know it, and helps you resolve the stories of five different games: Demon, Hunter, Changeling, Mummy and Kindred of the East. This is the mother of all finales, offering you various scenarios and Storytelling ideas for ending or saving your game world. Are we all doomed, or is there hope for a new beginning?

Deep in the Shadows

The night is not alone. Even those few who see into the shadows of the World of Darkness are surprised and horrified at what lurks there. Not every corpse that walks is a vampire. Not every mortal who chants in reverence to a greater power is a mage. Some of these beings are creatures born of fear and hunger… and some defy definition altogether.

Monsters Know Fear

World of Darkness: Antagonists provides systems and information on beings for use as foes and foils for your Storytelling characters. Zombies, monster-hunters, cultists and stranger things await. Some want only to exist, to feed in their own ways and be left alone. Others exist only to stalk and kill the unsuspecting. Do you stand against them, or do you have something more… devious in mind? Hardcover.

Nothing out there is friendly. Nothing. I mean it. It's the golden rule, my man, the golden rule. "Thou shalt SHOOT the CRAZIES in the HEART BEFORE they come bite the heart out of YOU." It's hard times, man. Hard times. Better be prepared. Hafta be. Now gimme that duct tape and those tinsnips." - Larry Crenshaw, monster-hunter

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You people! You people! Listen to me! I know all about this — I know what is going on here. You aren't healers — you're jailors! They're all terrified of us, so they let you treat us any way you like! But I know what goes on in here, what goes on behind those doors, when the secretaries and the orderlies go home! You think we're the monsters, because we don't think like you do? You haven't seen monsters, until you’ve been in HERE. WITH US!— Red Samuel, Bishopsgate inmate

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A World of Infinite Shadows

The world has a Shadow, an invisible reflection where archetypes are made solid. Too often, the spirits of the Shadow slip unseen through the cracks in the wall between worlds, manipulating or possessing luckless humans to alien ends. Are you willing to look into the broken mirror and see what awaits?

A Setting Book for The World of Darkness™

Nature sinks her teeth into the bodies and souls of people who assume animal forms. From weretigers to spider-folk, these shapechangers each bear a feral heart: the birthright of a human being and the soul of a wild beast! How do they live? Where might they go? And what sorts of legacies do they command in a vast World of Darkness?

The Windy City Beckons

Chicago lies at the center of the web that is the American heartland. Tendrils of power, wealth, and reward stretch outward, ensnaring the selfish, greedy, and unwary. Yet, Chicago attracts its predators, too. Creatures that would have the city for their own, spinning their own webs of malice and intrigue. But among the city's towering skyscrapers and wind-swept streets, who is the spider and who is the fly?

A city setting book for all World of Darkness Games

War Is Hell

The service trains you to be strong. It teaches you teamwork, how to rely on others and how to rely on yourself. Which is a damn good thing. You need every edge you can get. You’ll see for yourself when you discover what else is out there in the night… A Chronicle Book for The World of Darkness™. This book includes:

Death Is Not the End

“I see you. You go about your life like nothing ever happened. You think you’re safe now that it’s done, like a problem that you’ve solved once and for all. You’re wrong. I remember what you did. You might have killed me, but I’m not gone. I stayed behind… and I won’t go until you’ve paid.”

A New World of Darkness Begins

Ghost Stories is the first supplement dedicated specifically to mortal characters in the World of Darkness. Glimpse the secrets of the supernatural in five different adventures that lead players and characters into the deepest shadows and unknown places of the brand-new setting. This is your chance to explore the hidden world all over again, using the new Storytelling System.

The World of Darkness Through Innocent Eyes

Monsters don't just lurk in remote forests, nightclubs, slums and the rooftops of the city. They're in your neighborhood, watching you as you walk to school. They're waiting for you in the woods behind your house as you and your friends build your fort. They're under your bed.

Adults have learned to live in the World of Darkness by ignoring the supernatural, by pretending it isn't there and going about the lives they have made for themselves. You don't have that luxury. You see the world through a child's eyes, and that means you haven't learned to look away.

Be careful. Innocence is fragile.

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The roads are lovely, dark and deep…

There are things in the world that no laws account for – things that bestow blessings no man remembers or curses for slights long past. But the things, they do not forget. They wait for the right hand to fall upon them, the right eyes to see their glory, the right heart to recognize their power.

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Realms Foul and Forgotten

Down neglected roads or beyond hidden doors lie places in the World of Darkness that are best left unknown. These mysterious locales, tainted sites and corrupt settings all bear the mark of some unmentionable crime or horrific transgression. Ordinary people go ignorant to the existence of these places, all the better to preserve their mortal, fragile minds. The wary, brave or foolish glimpse the truth and can't turn away, and challenge their very fate by setting foot on unhallowed ground.

Best Left Alone

World of Darkness: Mysterious Places presents nine eldritch and bizarre settings for your Storytelling System chronicle. While designed for exploration by mortal characters straight out of the World of Darkness Rulebook, these places can also be discovered by vampires, werewolves or mages. The question isn't who finds them, but whether they can get out again. Hardcover.

Is the Power worth the price?

There are things in the world that no laws account for – things that bestow blessings no man remembers or curses for slights long past. But the things, they do not forget. They wait for the right hand to fall upon them, the right eyes to see their glory, the right heart to recognize their power.

A gameplay expansion book for the World of Darkness™

Mysterious Powers Made Manifest

Not every entity with supernatural powers is one of a species of creatures that prowl the night. Solitary psychics, crazed sorcerers and doomsaying cultists all share the World of Darkness. This book explores their unique abilities.

A character and setting book for all World of Darkness® Games

Blood, Drugs and Conquest in the New World

They say the blood sacrifices never stopped. They say pyramids underneath Mexico City house vampire cults. They say werewolves prowl the border with the U.S. They say mage society self-destructed there, and now foreign treasure-hunting wizards are plundering the country’s artifacts. They say a lot of things. Find out the truth for yourself.

A setting book for all World of Darkness Games

"You wanna see something that'll turn your hair white, rookie? I'm going to go down these stairs first. You look ahead of me, over my left shoulder. Whatever you do, do not look back. Do not look back until I tell you to. Also, if you hear something that sounds like singing, don't talk to it. It'll eat you." - Lt. Sid Routman, Senior Homicide Detective

For every vampire attack, werewolf rampage, sorcerous outburst, or other strange event, some police station is going to get a call about it. Here, then, is how the law deals with the mysterious and supernatural, from investigation through prosecution.

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Truths From the Tales

We’ve all heard the stories. Alligators live in the sewers. Kidney thieves prowl the cities. Chant “Bloody Mary,” and she appears. These are urban legends. In the World of Darkness, they are real; in fact, they are more than real. The truth behind each legend is more terrifying, strange, sinister, or diabolical than we imagine.

A settings book for The World of Darkness™

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This Thing of Ours

Like the supernatural denizens of the World of Darkness®, the “men of respect” are damned in their own unique way. Beholden to tradition, threatened by ethics and forced by their nature to remain outside the society that sustains him, the modern mobster is every bit as compelling a character as the most monstrous creature of the night.

La Cosa Nostra

Gangster stories are a popular genre and fit perfectly within the World of Darkness. This stylized look at Italian organized crime families allows players to portray members of the gangs and also presents many hooks for Storytellers to introduce these elements into an existing chronicle. The first in 2002’s Year of the Damned™ series.