Vampire has been a part of the World of Darkness PnP system by White Wolf for many years and was quite successful.
It was a top selling RPG many years before it became a computer game. World of Darkness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's a decent description of the whole shebang including the other games in WOD and details on Vampire.
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