Black Dog Game Factory

Black Dog Game Factory was a publishing label founded in 1995 by White Wolf, Inc. for the publication of a number of adult-themed books in their original World of Darkness RPG line.

For that reason, White Wolf created the Black Dog Game Factory imprint, lifting the name from a company mentioned in Werewolf: The Apocalypse (1991).

As game historian Shannon Appelcline noted in 2014's Designers & Dragons, "In many ways, these Black Dog books represented a return to form for White Wolf.

Charnel Houses of Europe: The Shoah (1997) — which adapted the Holocaust for Wraith — and the four-volume, award-winning Giovanni Chronicles (1995–1999) — which traced a family from the 1400s to the modern day — both earned attention and acclaim for White Wolf.

Appelcline explained that "Despite that critical acclaim, Black Dog's smaller audience and the chance that it could still damage the reputation of White Wolf with its more intense and grittier subject matter eventually spelled the end for the imprint.