World of Darkness
The World of Darkness is much like our world, but it is darker, more devious and more conspiratorial — an aesthetic we call “Gothic-Punk”. The dichotomy between the rich and the poor, the influential and the weak, and the powerful and the powerless is much more pronounced than in the real world. Decadence, cynicism, and corruption are common. Humans are unwitting victims or pawns of vast secret organizations of supernatural creatures. Vampires, werewolves, and mages (among others) struggle with internal factionalism and against other species in secret wars of intrigue for control.
The World of Darkness (sometimes “WoD”) was first developed in 1991 with the release of Vampire: The Masquerade. It has reached hundreds of millions of people through thousands of books published in a wide variety of languages, as well as via a prime-time television show, multiple well-regarded video games, and even World of Darkness-focused conventions. Onyx Path Publishing offers dozens of role-playing game, fiction, art, and clothing products for the World of Darkness, as well as helping to re-release hundreds of original books through PDF and print-on-demand.
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The Werewolf20 Kickstarter is officially over, with 2,108 backers and just a hair over $380,000 pledged, which is an incredible 446% of our original goal! Amazing! Thanks so much, everyone! We’ll have more news for you soon, once Rich gets his power back. Thanks for being awesome. Give a big howl for yourselves! Check … Read more
Or something along those lines, anyway. Rich is suffering from a power outage, what with Hurricane Sandy and all, so I thought I’d catch you up with where we’re at with the Deluxe W20 Kickstarter. It’s got another fourteen hours as of this writing to run. We’ve obliterated our original goal of $85K (it took … Read more
[I asked Jess Hartley to put together a post about the Ajaba, and some of the changes we’re considering making to a breed close to both our hearts. Take it away, Jess!] Sometimes writing for a project like Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition is pretty straightforward. As a game line develops, decades of game … Read more
We’re entering the home stretch now, with one week to go in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Kickstarter. As I write this, according to the KS tracker in the sidebar to the right, we’re at 289% of our original $85,000 goal, with $246,444 pledged and 1,459 backers. We’ve passed eight different stretch goals … Read more
Here is a transcript of W20 writer (and all-around WW word-smith par excellance) Jess Hartley‘s interview on the Charisma Bonus blog for those of you who might have missed it. Some really interesting questions and answers about classic WoD and new WoD, particularly in regards to Werewolf, and working on W20 and its supplements, including … Read more
The Werewolf20 Deluxe Kickstarter is on! Check out our amazing reward tiers and stretch goals here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/deluxe-werewolf-the-apocalypse-20th-anniversary-ed For easier resharing (and for subtitles for the hard of hearing) we’ve also added the Kickstarter video to YouTube here:
The community outlining session of Anarchs Unbound at Atlanta by Night was a massive success. The group of players in attendance had a nonstop stream of great ideas, which we added to my basic skeletal outline. I didn’t know what to expect going into this Open Development session, but the assembled players certainly didn’t disappoint. … Read more
Here’s a quickie, while I’m working on HH2 and getting ready for Atlanta by Night this weekend. Click here to take a look at the raw-text opening fiction for Hunters Hunted 2, by Matthew Sanderson (who should also be at Atlanta by Night).
I’m not sure how many of you tuned in to the Darker Days Radio interviewcast-thing that we did on Saturday. If not, you might want to go give it a watch/listen. In it, I touched on something that’s got a lot of people excited about Changing Breeds—the presence of the Lost Breeds, and how they … Read more
I’ve been in the pelt-mines working on Skinner this weekend. It’s running on some audacious ambitions, I think. I want it to be up to my personal standard of a story in that it needs to be adaptable. I’m a huge believer that a story’s plot should never be a script, and therefore the scenes … Read more