Mark Rein•Hagen
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| Name: | Mark Rein•Hagen |
| Gender: | Male |
| Born: | 1964 |
Mark Rein•Hagen (often written Rein-Hagen) is a roleplaying, card, computer and board game designer, best known as the creator of the roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade and its associated World of Darkness games, including Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Changeling: The Dreaming and Wraith: The Oblivion. Rein•Hagen is also one of the original two designers of Ars Magica along with Jonathan Tweet. A TV show (Kindred: The Embraced) based on Vampire was produced by Aaron Spelling and shown on Fox TV with Mark Rein•Hagen serving as a writer and producer, but was cancelled after nine episodes when its star Mark Frankel died in a motorcycle accident. A founder and owner of White Wolf Game Studio, in 2007 he sold his half of the company and left the gaming field.
As a side project independent of White Wolf Game Studio, Rein·Hagen founded Atomoton Games and created Z-G, the first collectible action figure game. Despite the high production value and plans for numerous tie-ins, the game failed to find a market and sank the company.
Currently Mark lives Tbilisi, Georgia with his wife and child, and works as an international consultant for the government there.
When asked about the meaning and pronunciation of the dot in his last name, Rein•Hagen once reportedly replied, "It's unpronounceable, and symbolizes how meaningless are the labels that we attach to ourselves." It is interesting, however, that the country he now lives in, Georgia, uses the • as a comma, thereby making it meaning-laden.
Note: There is no relation to Mark Rein, the vice-president of Epic Games.
Mark's official contributions for White Wolf include the following:
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- Vampire: The Dark Ages' Vampire: The Dark Ages Rulebook
- Vampire: The Masquerade's Book of the Damned
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Second Edition
- Wraith: The Oblivion's The Face of Death
[edit] Design
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[edit] Original Concept and Design
[edit] Storyteller Creator and Contributors
[edit] Storyteller Game System
- Aberrant's Aberrant Rulebook (limited)
- Aberrant's Aberrant Rulebook
- Vampire: The Masquerade's Guide to the Anarchs
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse's A World of Rage
[edit] World of Darkness Creation
- Promethean: The Created's Promethean: The Created Rulebook
- Vampire: The Masquerade's Guide to the Anarchs
[edit] Special Thanks
- 1996: Mage: The Ascension's Book of Crafts: Mark "I Did This" Rein•Hagen, for telling it like it is.[1]
- 1996: Mage: The Ascension's Technocracy: Void Engineers: M "Short Hand Luke" R•H, for his conservation efforts.
- 1994/September 16: Mage: The Ascension's Verbena Tradition Book: Mark "Chainsaw Surgery" Rein•Hagen, for his delicate ghost-writing.
- 1994/June 10: MTA: Book of Shadows: Mage Players Guide: Mark "Spitz" Rein•Hagen, for making a huge splash at M.O.C.
- 1993: MTA: Book of Chantries: Mark "Singin' in the Rain" Rein•Hagen, for his Gene Kelly impression.
^ Sort of.
