Editing Storytelling System (section)

== History ==

While on the road to [[Gen Con]] '90, [[Mark Rein-Hagen]] came upon the idea of a new game design that would become ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]''. [[Tom Dowd (game designer)|Tom Dowd]], co-designer for ''[[Shadowrun]]'', worked with Rein-Hagen to adapt the core mechanics from his previous game success to use [[Pentagonal trapezohedron|d10]] instead of [[Dice|d6]] for calculating probability.<ref name="history1">{{cite web |url=http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory11.phtml |title=A Brief History of Game #11: White Wolf, Part One: 1986–1995 |access-date=2007-09-16 |author=Appelcline, Shannon |date=2007-02-01 |work=RPGnet |publisher=Skotos Tech Inc}}</ref>

Over the next few years, several games were published under this rule set. The [[World of Darkness]] games exclusively used this ruleset, as did ''[[Street Fighter (role-playing game)|Street Fighter: The Storytelling Game]]'' (1995),<ref>{{cite book |last=Wieck |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Wieck |title=Street Fighter: The Role-Playing Game |year=1995 |publisher=[[White Wolf, Inc.]] |isbn=1-56504-118-6 }}</ref> ''[[Trinity (role-playing game)|Trinity]]'' (1997),<ref>{{cite book |last=Bates |first=Andrew |author-link=|author2=Baugh, Bruce  |title=Trinity |year=1999 |publisher=[[White Wolf, Inc.]] |isbn=1-56504-622-6 }}</ref> and ''[[Exalted]]'' (2001).<ref>{{cite book |last=Grabowski |first=Geoffrey C. |author-link=Geoffrey C. Grabowski |title=Exalted |year=2001 |publisher=[[White Wolf, Inc.]] |isbn=1-56504-623-4}}</ref>

The ''Storyteller System'' was discontinued in 2003 after completing the metaplot building up since ''Vampire: The Masquerade''. It was replaced by the ''Storytelling System'', a more streamlined rule set.  The ''Storytelling System'' premiered in ''The World of Darkness'' in 2004.<ref name="history2">{{cite web |url=http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory12.phtml |title=A Brief History of Game #12: White Wolf, Part Two: 1993–Present |access-date=2007-09-16 |author=Appelcline, Shannon |date=2007-02-07 |work=RPGnet |publisher=Skotos Tech Inc}}</ref>