Renegade Game Studios
Renegade Game Studios is a publisher of board, card, and role-playing games founded in 2014. It's best known (at least in the role-playing game scene) for its lines of licensed RPGs like Vampire: the Masquerade and other World of Darkness games. Renegade has been the publishing partner with the rights to Vampire, Hunter, and Werewolf since 2020, and also has licensing deals with Hasbro to produce their Transformers, Power Rangers, G.I. Joe, and My Little Pony RPGs. Renegade also published the Welcome to Night Vale RPG, based on the popular podcast. Renegade also partners with Hunters Entertainment to publish games like Kids on Bikes and its many variants, including Kids on Brooms, Kids in Capes, and Teens in Space. It also produces the popular silent RPG Alice is Missing in partnership with Hunters. Renegade's true claim to fame, however, is more likely in its large library of board and card games than tabletop RPGs, like Lanterns, Clank!, Fox in the Forest, Raiders of the North Sea, and many more.
Popular RPGs by Renegade Game Studios
Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition
Vampire: The Masquerade presents a more dramatic, contemplative world than most tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs). While the average TTRPG experience is a Dungeons & Dragons inspired one (fighting monsters and getting treasure), Vampire is about simply surviving and keeping a piece of yourself intact. Players in Vampire become the titular mythological figure in a version of our modern world. And while near-immortality and superpowers seems cool, they come at the cost of existing in a secret society where hunters and other clans are out to get you. And there’s also the whole hungering for blood thing. In a typical Vampire game, holding onto humanity is just as tough as fending off foes.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition
Gaia is dying. The ices melt, while the seas swell. The heat rises, while the forests wither. Extinction threatens millions, in favor of the few. The Garou — warlike shapeshifters torn between Rage and spirit, between Wolf and Man, and champions of the earth-mother — have failed. The Apocalypse is here. Yet, a new generation of Garou now call upon their Rage to confront the forces of destruction, avarice, and greed ravaging the earth-mother. With tooth and claw the Garou will wrest her from the brink of death — or follow her enemies to the grave. Will you answer their howl? What legends will the Garou sing of you? When will you Rage? In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, you play as the Garou, a creature of flesh and spirit, blessed and cursed with primal rage. Born to fight and die in a desperate war to protect Gaia — the very living earth — you engage in an unequal battle against the greed and power-hunger of human civilization that has trapped the world in a choking web of technology and corruption.
Hunter: The Reckoning
A Storytelling Game of Desperate Measures. You saw what you shouldn’t have, the veil pulled back from the secret world and the monsters who prowl it. You chronicled the tragedies they wrought, these monsters, and the victims upon whom they preyed. You grasped the extent of their influence and witnessed the corruption of the organizations formed to keep them in check. And you vowed to do something about it. Tonight, you act. It’s time for a Reckoning.
Alice is Missing
Alice is Missing is a silent role-playing game about the disappearance of Alice Briarwood, a high school junior in the small town of Silent Falls. The game is played live and without verbal communication. Players inhabit their character for the entirety of the 90-minute play session, and instead of speaking, send text messages back and forth to the other characters in a group chat, as well as individually, as though they aren’t in the same place together.