Vampire: Bloodlines Designer Diary #1

Troika’s Leonard Boyarsky has written up the first designer diary for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines over at GameSpot, providing a brief history of White Wolf as well as some new information about the upcoming RPG. Check it out:

In this complex game of power, intrigue, and immortality, those who get caught in its machinations meet “final death.” Those who master its rules and challenges may survive for centuries but will pay the bitter price of their humanity. They turn into something other than human–cursed creatures of the night, emotional outcasts who slowly lose their own ability to feel and discern right from wrong. After all, how do you treat normal people if they may end up being nothing more than your next meal? How does one deal with their dark side, the beast, if it suddenly gains control and forces them into acts of violence?