In Wite Wolf the world as it is portrayed is just a short step sideways form our own. They refer to it as Gothic Punk. Gothic: Because its a little darker, the shadows really do hide secrets, and the buildings are towering structures with gargoyals and archwork. And every once in a while it almost seems one of them moves. Punk: Because coruption and decay are rampant all government is corupt living high in the deep pockets of industrial giants who want to take our world rip it open suck it dry and toss it in the trash. It is a world where the myths and monsters of legend walk umong us, secretly following thier own agendas. Fighting wars that will shape the future of a world that would sooner disect them or burn them at the stake that accept thier phantom hand in the history of the mortal world.

There are books published for the World of Darkness (WOD) that alow players to take the role of

- Vampires -
Tragic imprtals caught in the centuries old power strugle of thier elders, the real question is which take them out first, the scheams of elders, a rival clan, or thier own iner bestial nature trying to consume every shred of what once made them human.

- Were Wolves -
Magical creatures, with a wariors birthright. They use thier incredable physical resilience and ability to shift between the forms of man and beast, and the spirit gifts what power thier magic in a was against the Wyrm, a godlike supernatural destroyer gone mad.

- Other Shape Shifters -
Other changing breeds cousins to the wolves but far rarer as many changing breeds were all but exterminated centuries ago by the wolves in a lycanthroic civil war.
Bastet (cats) - seeres who seek new secrets to turn against the darkness of the Wyrm.
Gurhal (bears) - Healers and travelers, there anger is hard to stir but when it is few can stand before it.
Corax (ravens) - Messengers all they gather the whispers on the wind and spread them to better the war.
And Many others

- Mages -
People with the power to bend reality itself to their will, fighting afgainst a rouge order called the technocracy that seeks to control the sum of existance. Structuring it to thier static unchangeing mechanical philosophies.

- Mummies -
Made Trully imortal by an ancient secret called the great right, they wander the world a product of one mans crusade against the vampire lord Set. Strugling to retain thier memories of themselvs and who they are and to come to terms with a world not thier own, these imortal wanderers can never truly die, only temporarily their soul can be sent to wander the lands of the dead till it has strength to restore their physical bodies.

- Wraiths -
The restless souls of the dead who could not let go of thier lives the wander a shadow world, ruled by an opressive government, and suffering from gross overcouding few last against the tempest (a hugh soul destroying storm), slavers, and other hasards to even reach the protection of Stygia. Those that do are not necesarily better off.

- Changelings -
Creatures of dreams, the decendents of the Fae. These earth bound farie folk reincarnate prepetualy through human forms, the live on "glamor" the essence of creativeity and joy. And stugle to hold of the opression of Banality till they can find a way to return to Arcadia thier home in the land of dreams.

- Hunters -
A recent addition, Humans "imbued with powers that let them fight back against the supernatural. Gifted with perceptions to find them a resistance to the ingraind fear many of them generate. Hunters may be Humanity's greates champion or worst enemy, we will likely not know untill it is discovered what brings about the imbuing.

- And More -
There are many other suplements such as rules for mortals with knowledge of "hedge magic": herbalism, spirit conjouring etc.
Also there are many online suplements