One new game line was released per year, ending with 1995's Changeling. These games were released as Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Ascension, Wraith: The Oblivion, and Changeling: The Dreaming.
Hagen originally dubbed Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Ghost, and Faerie. The original concept for the World of Darkness had five games, which Rein White Wolf was quickly launched to the top tier of game companies, where it has largely remained in the 20 years since. The design and presentation of the game was unlike anything gamers had seen before to that point, and was a smashing success. The new White Wolf Game Studio continued to publish both Ars Magica and White Wolf Magazine, but made its entry onto the scene with its new identity with 1991's Vampire: The Masquerade. This was the foundation of the World of Darkness. Instead, after another aborted ("cursed") game called Inferno, he decided to expand upon the world of Ars Magica in the modern day, where magi were only one of several supernatural creatures kept hidden from modern humans. Hagen had designs to expand the world of Ars Magica to describe its knights in a game to be called Shining Armor, but the continued success of Pendragon deterred him. December 1990's edition of White Wolf Magazine included an announcement: it would be merging with Lion Rampant to form a new company, called White Wolf Game Studio. As the two companies had become quite friendly since that 1989 issue, and because the two companies were now located in adjacent states (WW Magazine was in Alabama), they made a decision. White Wolf Magazine, however, were doing well. They could produce, but needed the cash to start the production flow. Lion Rampant fell on some financial hardship, and after a move to Georgia to attempt to restart production, were forced to admit they were losing the battle. Hagen and other Lion Rampant employees, Jonathan Tweet and Lisa Stevens, describing the background of the magi of Ars Magica. The Origins 1989 issue of WW Magazine included much praise of Ars Magica from Stewart Wieck, earning a stellar review. His initial goal was to release a game about wizards done right, to be called Ars Magica. His inheritance had paid for a Mac, on which all books were laid out. Hagen and his friends began Lion Rampant as a basement operation, largely on a volunteer basis. With the glossy-paged issue 8, the title changed from "White Wolf" to "White Wolf Magazine." The first issue of White Wolf Magazine was published in August 1986, and with successive issues, circulation and sales increased further. Deciding that the name was too similar to D&D's Unearthed Arcana sourcebook, they chose a name based on Michael Moorcock's eponymous hero, Elric of Melniboné, also known as the White Wolf. Although circulation was minuscule, response was favourable enough that they decided to expand operations. In June of 1986, brothers Steve and Stewart Wieck sold 30 copies of a gaming-specific magazine, Arcanum Magazine.
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