Thanks everyone who commented on our blog posts last week. Hearing from you was both informative and very helpful. As you might imagine, we spent a fair amount of time during this week’s Monday Meeting discussing the reactions we’ve encountered. End of the day, we’ve tried from the beginning of Onyx Path‘s existence to bring … Read more
The following text is the introductory fiction to Scion: Hero 2nd Edition. Scion 2e can still be preordered via BackerKit. A cloud-darkened sky is only featureless to those who don’t really look. The careful and discerning eye perceives a thousand folds within the gathering storm. One can take any number of lessons from the sky … Read more
In which Matthew and Dixie talk about the interview that Eddy and Dixie had with Eric Zawadzki. Also, so many pop culture references. So many. Eddy isn’t here (he’s still recovering from surgery). But who is the mysterious Editor? Some Buffy, Smallville, and Supernatural discussion Eric started on Paranoia XP Dixie’s first book was the … Read more
Many features of our Storypath games contain similar effects, but go under different names in different contexts. For example, Scion’s Twists of Fate have characters calling on divine energies to twist fate in their favor. The Trinity Continuum’s Dramatic Editing has Talents subconsciously tweaking probabilities in the fabric of reality. I thought it might be fun to check out how They Came from Beneath the Sea! contextualizes the same thing: A Special Case: Directorial Control If you’ve activated a … Read more
Now available from DriveThruRPG: the Stygia Map Poster for Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition! (This is the same map found inside Wraith20.) All the stories they told you about what it would be like after you died? They were wrong. There is no Heaven and there is no Hell. There’s only the Underworld, with the ravening … Read more
Originally posted as yesterday’s update on our Kickstarter for Lunars: Fangs at the Gate for Exalted 3rd Edition. The Lunars are peerless shapeshifters, clothing themselves in the skins of fierce beasts or stolen faces. Their protean power evinces their predatory nature; before a Lunar can take a human’s or animal’s shape, she must consume its … Read more
Warning: This is a short post and I try not to go into any disturbing details, but the overall subject matter itself may be disturbing. It is, and continues to be, important to me that none of our creators feel that they are being put into inappropriate or unsafe working situations. Many of you will … Read more
Friends, this has been a tough week. So we’re going to actually provide you with all the usual material that comes after the Blurbs!, but this upper part of the blog where I try and ramble through some useful stuff; I’m keeping this short. In fact, the topic I’m really writing about this week is … Read more
(A day later than anticipated, apologies. I blame the Hedge.) Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition can be purchased on DriveThruRPG. Michael “Pop art is about liking things, June. Why can’t you just like things?” She threw a decorative museum-store pillow at me. “Warhol was just dodging. I think he liked trying to get interviewers to put words in his mouth. Like it was more fun for them to invent an opinion for him.” … Read more
In which Matthew and Eddy discuss the skills they look for in freelance writers. Where’s Dixie? Diverse Voices Finding the right voice for the game Voice in Pugmire vs. voice in Vampire Voice in Vampire: The Masquerade vs. voice in Vampire: The Requiem Spaces around emdashes How clean should a first draft be? The strength … Read more