White Wolf Announce Storytellers Vault Content Creators Program

White Wolf have announced the creation of the Storytellers Vault program to allow fans to create, share and sell new content based on their World of Darkness games. The program is being launched at Gen Con, where White Wolf will be sharing a booth with licensee Onyx Path Publishing (Booth 501).

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For more than two decades, World of Darkness fans have aspired to join the ranks of White Wolf’s content creators, and now they can. The Storytellers Vault is White Wolf’s community content creation program where writers, designers and artists get to share their works with the world. The Storytellers Vault program will offer no less than ten different templates designed to look and feel just like a White Wolf product available on the shelf from past eras. This is the perfect time to pull out your old notes on that unique Bloodline you created or to write up your own chronicle as a By Night. You provide the ideas - we provide the tools.

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The Storytellers Vault program will begin with access to create fiction and tabletop supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade (all four existing editions), and will then expand in the future to include historical settings, other game lines and Minds Eye Theatre. In addition to being able to create and share your own Vampire: The Masquerade material, the Storytellers Vault will let you set a price for your product and sell it. You will in turn keep 50% of the revenue from that sale.

While material in the Storytellers Vault is not considered canonical, White Wolf will be keeping a keen eye out for truly exceptional content.

Update from White Wolf's Shane DeFreest "The Storytellers Vault will be almost identical to DM's Guild except we are launching with all 4 editions of VTM and the ability to publish fiction. We will be letting people use our trade dress, where the other programs don’t to the best of my knowledge, so you can make the books look exactly like a real vampire book from a set era. WorldofDarkness.com is a D&D Beyond ish community portal that will start with support for MET and V20. This will give a robust amount of tools for running troupes, chronicles and fan clubs. It’s the Tesla to Grapevine's VW Bug. Gen Con is when the open beta for worldofdarkness.com goes live."

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

The former NWoD is not "WoD" anymore. It's chronicles of Darkness and it's Onyx Path's thing. As far as i know the ST Vault will be a WoD thing (but not just Vampire).

Considering the sentence right under the image above starts with "The Storytellers Vault program will begin with access to create fiction and tabletop supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade (all four existing editions)...."

That sounds like it includes the Onyx Path version to me.

 

[Sean V Wolf]

VtM (WW's WoD) has 4 editions, VtR (OP's CoD) is separate from them and is on their 2nd edition.

 

[TrippyHippy]

That wasn't my impression at all from the playtest material that I read. The setting is pretty much whole-hog old school V:tM, and the rules are not the same as either CoD or classic WoD 1e/2e/3e. As a fan of the CoD setting, there's not much in 5e that looks appealing.

Of course, there's a wide enough spread of what qualifies as "Old School V:tM" that people who like Old School V:tM can still be disappointed in how not like the parts of the old game the new stuff is..

The setting has not been covered much in the playtest so far - one scenario - and the rules are clearly in a formative stage. However, for example, the personality mechanics were lifted from NWoD/CoD rather than Classic WoD in this current draft at least.

 

[PMárk]

Considering the sentence right under the image above starts with "The Storytellers Vault program will begin with access to create fiction and tabletop supplements for Vampire: The Masquerade (all four existing editions)...."

That sounds like it includes the Onyx Path version to me.

Yes, but I responded to a post about NWoD/CofD stuff. WW has nothing to do with those (aside from providing license), thus they aren't a part of the program. Those games are fully under OPP's supervision. The 20th editions of the WoD games are from OPP too, but there is a intersection of interest, since WW want to carry on with the WoD games and acknowledges the 20ths as the 4th edition.

 

[greylurk]

The setting has not been covered much in the playtest so far - one scenario - and the rules are clearly in a formative stage. However, for example, the personality mechanics were lifted from NWoD/CoD rather than Classic WoD in this current draft at least.

*shrug* the play test and it's relationship to the mechanics of CoD is diverging pretty far from the original topic, but using two terms that were used in CoD, but implementing them differently isn't really using significant parts of the CoD rules imho. And the Gen Con alpha test with the return to Prince Lodin, Gary Indiana, and Chicago appears to be a pretty direct call back to VtM 1e/2e.

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[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yes, but I responded to a post about NWoD/CofD stuff. WW has nothing to do with those (aside from providing license), thus they aren't a part of the program. Those games are fully under OPP's supervision. The 20th editions of the WoD games are from OPP too, but there is a intersection of interest, since WW want to carry on with the WoD games and acknowledges the 20ths as the 4th edition.

Hard to tell the difference sometimes. I did not even know there were 4 editions of OWoD til the 5th edition was announced. I had a big gap in my WoD playing, so I thought OWoD was 1st edition and NWoD was 2nd edition. lol

Anyway, I also returned to this thread because I got my email notice saying the Vault is now open for business. I took a peek and there is a lot of stuff already in there, including the 20th anniversary core books from Onyx Path.