The game is probably unlike anything you have played before. It doesn’t have a lot of the usual trappings of games, such as cards, dice or a playing board. It’s far more like the make-believe of childhood or the popular “How to Host a Murder” than what most people think of when they imagine “games.” We call this style of game Mind's Eye Theatre at White Wolf. Other Groups and games have called it live-action roleplaying (or L.A.R.P).

Playing Mind's Eye Theatre is like being in movie. You and your friends are the characters, but there is no script. You don’t sit around a table describing your actions - you get up and do them. There may be a framework or setting that determines the parameters of the world around you, but you and the others around you are creating the story as you play. The “director” of this movie is the Storyteller. The Storyteller creates the stage and the minor characters that the players interact with to tell this story.

Most scenes in Mind's Eye Theatre are played out in real-time - an hour in the make-believe world is 60 minutes in the real world - and always in character. Players always remain in character during the game unless there is a rules dispute.