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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shawn Kehoe" data-source="post: 9668273" data-attributes="member: 16682">Paradox bought some of the original White Wolf IP from CCP (World of Darkness, "new" World of Darkness, Exalted) and created a new White Wolf to develop VtM 5 and publish it with Modiphius.The release year for VtM 5 had a variety of bad press:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The quick start had a character which some folks equated with a pedophile.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A rules-in-play example was accused of hiding a white supremacist dog-whistle.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The clan write-up for the Brujah noted that some Brujah end up in the alt-right and Neo-Nazi movements, which some people felt was an endorsement for player characters to do those things.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Finally, the Camarilla expansion book suggested that the real-life genocide of LGBT people in Chechnya was a vampiric ruse to hide that vampires ruled the country openly.</li> </ul>The last point caused some press in mainstream outlets, and Paradox killed the White Wolf brand and fired a couple of the managers. They pulped the entire Camarilla and Anarch print runs and delayed publication for months to change the content.After that, Paradox started using the World of Darkness brand exclusively, and partnered up with various RPG companies to publish WoD books. Onyx Path designed Chicago By Night and Cults of the Blood God, then Modiphius was the exclusive TTRPG licensee but only managed to publish the Fall of London, and finally Renegade became the exclusive licensee for TTRPG. They have published a half-dozen supplements for V5 and the entire output of the modern Hunter and Werewolf lines. Notably, Werewolf had a tortured development where Hunters Entertainment developed the first take on the new edition, but it was scrapped and the final edition was developed in-house by World of Darkness, and published by Renegade.</blockquote>

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