A list of the various settings and game lines in development.
Last time, I kicked off Hunter the Vigil 2E featuring the Slasher Chronicle’s Open Dev by diving into Ashwood Abbey and how this compact might be presented in the 2nd Edition corebook in my post titled Slashers and Ashwood Abbey. First and foremost, I want to thank everybody for commenting and participating in the discussion … Read more
Squeezing in one last release for 2015, Mage20’s How Do You DO That? is now available in PDF and print-on-demand via DriveThruRPG! A Practical Guide Mage: The Ascension’s flexible and ambitious Sphere system has provided many questions and debates for over 20 years. Here, now, in this book, we answer the eternal question How Do You DO … Read more
Hey all, It’s been a while. I’ve been away. Been busy. Been dealing with things. All that. Anyway, I’m just about to wrap on Hurt Locker, and Changeling: The Lost – Second Edition. I’m basically in the phase of Hurt Locker where I’m knitting drafts together, filling in blanks, applying some notes from my play testers, and … Read more
The jingle of bells, the baking of Christmas cookies, the stomping of reindeer hooves outside your bedroom window… These past twelve days have been a lot of fun, and we’ve really enjoyed all of your entries for our first-ever 12 Days of Onyx holiday-themed Condition Card contest. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve finished … Read more
Following up from yesterday’s post, Chris is back again with Shadow and Wolf Gifts. As a means of preamble, I’ll point out that the City Gift (updated below) was the first thing I ever wrote for Werewolf: The Forsaken — it’s neat to get turnabout like that. Over to Chris: Designing Shadow Gifts A Shadow Gift … Read more
A little bit of red (blood) and green (marble) for the holidays! Lore of the Clans is now available in PDF and print-on-demand via DriveThruRPG! My sire always told me, “There’s no instruction manual for being dead, strákur.” I believed her, because she was older and smarter than me, and we value knowledge if nothing else. … Read more
Ho! Ho! WOW… Yesterday, we checked in to choose a new Condition Card and were blown away by the number of entries for the 12 Days of Onyx Contest. As of this morning, we’ve received over 70 ideas for holiday-themed Condition Cards. Ranked by theme, the Chronicles of Darkness fills over half of the ideas. … Read more
Chris Allen, the mastermind behind our re-working of Gifts in the 2nd edition of Werewolf: The Forsaken, asked if I’d give him some space on the blog to talk about his design philosophy. He’s gone quite in-depth, highlighting how Gifts work in Forsaken 2e. I’ve split what he has to say into two pieces. The first covers general Gift … Read more
I mentioned in my Hunter the Vigil 2E developer announcement that I wanted to use OpenDev as a way to introduce how I’m addressing gameplay, structure, and the three tiers in the context of the Slasher Chronicle. This will be an experiment, for both you and for me, that will help us understand how discussions … Read more
Hang those stockings and grab that nog, ’cause we’ve got a “nice” contest update for you! So far, we’ve got over two dozen entries into the 12 Days of Onyx Contest. By far, the most popular holiday-themed Condition Cards you’ve created are for the newly-released Chronicles of Darkness rulebook. In terms of specific games, we’re … Read more