According to a new Variety report, Paradox Interactive has struck a deal with Hivemind, the production company behind The Witcher, to develop a new TV and film project based on the World of Darkness RPG setting.

For those who don't know, World of Darkness is an RPG franchise launched by White Wolf in 1990, featuring supernatural creatures, vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and the like, who live on the border of the real world. Several video games based on the same setting, at least one of which is "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines", are highly acclaimed and well-liked.

CCP Games, the studio behind EVE Online, acquired White Wolf in 2006 as part of a larger plan to create a WoD MMO, which unfortunately fell through in 2014. Unfortunately, the project also failed, at least temporarily, as developer Hardsuit Labs was forced out of the project and put on "indefinite hold" in February.

Christine Boylan, writer of "Castle," "Constantine," "Cloak & Dagger," and "Punisher," signed on to the project, as did Eric Heisserer, showrunner and executive producer of "Shadow & Bone." [Jason Brown, president and co-founder of Hivemind, said, "Eric and Christine are two of the finest creators working today. They are gamers who have been playing WoD since its inception. It's rare to find an opportunity where the connection between storyteller and story is so deep, and that's the alchemy that has created many of our favorite and most culturally resonant franchises."

I confess to a certain hesitation on the matter. I love "Bloodlines" and it's one of the best RPGs I've ever played, but it's also an exception to the rule established by the other totally unremarkable "World of Darkness" games on the street: if Netflix can take an obscure story of a Polish monster hunter and turn it into If the production company behind Paradox and The Witcher can turn it into a gold mine on the small screen, who's to say that they can't do the same with World of Darkness?

Specific titles and release targets have yet to be announced, but are expected to be revealed "within the next year." Hopefully there will be some kind of announcement about "Bloodlines 2" by then.