Tell me about VtM when it started

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I really enjoy this thread, but I have nothing to contribute, I only played the Vampire Bloodlines game or what it was called a few years ago, that's my only real exposure to the game. And I might have read some rulebooks? Or was that Exalted?

 

[Piperken]

I want to hear about your experiences before Requiem. How amazing was it? How big was it in your area? Did it bring more women to the table, as the documentary says?

One thing I wanted to add with V:tM's surge in popularity apart from Rice's fans/readership; this wave was transpiring everywhere. There were BBS/IRC channels with over a hundred players were role playing vampires/supernatural characters online.

LARP story games had a big influence, especially with how results from conventions dictated in some ways how the metaplot turned out; people were heavily invested in that (borrowing a page from the Society of Creative Anachronism).