Roleplaying Games | World of Darkness
‘Black Dog Game Factory’ was the Edgy Cool Kid of RPGs
Black Dog Game Factory was an imprint of White Wolf Game Studios that peddled roleplaying game books “for adults only”. Books with so much blood, body horror, and S&M their covers looked like death metal albums.
In the hands of a typical edgelord, the extra blood and gore and boobs added triggering elements without helping the story at all. It just made a game “edgier”. But when used right, Black Dog stuff could add new dimensions of grimdark to a tired chronicle. Black Dog released about 16 books (depending on how you count them), but the first four were the most memorable.
The Giovanni Chronicles I: The Last Supper
Part one of a four-part chronicle about the fall of Clan Cappadocian and the rise of the Giovanni, set in 1444. The player characters begin as “guests” at a dinner party WAY beyond their station, only to become vampire food later on. But when Augustus Giovanni’s plan to drink down an elder vampire goes sideways, the blood bags are embraced to buy the conspirators time to escape.
