Vampire: The Masquerade (Hardback, Chessex) 1992

Description

Vampire is a game of make-believe,
of pretend, of
storytelling. Although Vampire is a game, it is
more about storytelling than it is about winning.
If you've never done this kind of thing before, you may be
confused by the whole premise of a storytelling game. Once
vou catch on to the basic concepts, however, you'll find that
it isn't all that strange, and is, in fact, eerily familiar.
You, along with some of your friends, are going to tell
stories of madness and lust. Tales of things that go bump in
the night. Tales of peril, paranoia, and sinister, shadowy evil.
Tales from the darkest recesses of our unconscious minds.
And at the heart of these stories are vampires.
These stories will capture your imagination far more
readily than any play or movie; likewise, they are of a darker
nature than the children's fairy tales you might remember
(although those too were rather grim if you think back). This
is because you are inside the story and not just watching.
You are creating it as you go along, and the outcome is alway
uncertain.