Vampire: The Requiem
Horror (Supernatural) Modern History (Ancient) History (Europe)
Progression Tree (Skills, professions, magic abilities, etc.) Race Based (Player Race/Species affects gameplay) Skill Based (buy or gain skills) Trait / Aspect Based (personality affects gameplay) Attribute/Stat Based (STR, CON, PER, etc) Dice (Primarily d10) Dice Pool (Roll multiple dice vs target) Point Based (allocate points to get skills, powers, etc)
Vampires: blood-drinking creatures of the night. Horrors born of darkness, whose sole purpose in life - unlife, actually - is to slake their unholy thirst on the blood of the living. Without doubt, vampires are monsters.
Monsters, though, need not always be unthinking, unfeeling terrors empty of remorse, or even compassion or other human traits. Indeed, vampires can exceed their deathless curse, themselves becoming antiheroes or even heroes.
This is the purpose of Vampire: The Requiem. It is a Modern Gothic Storytelling game, a roleplaying game that allows you to build chronicles that explore morality through the metaphor of vampirism. In Vampire, you "play the monster", and what you do as that monster both makes for an interesting story and might even teach you a little about your own values and those of your fellows.
