Most fun project: Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition. While I was a World of Darkness fan before Changeling came out, when I picked up that book I fell in love with its beautiful stained glass heart almost immediately. It was bright, it was fun, it was joyous and engaging … but under the colorful … Read more
Most fun project: W20 Shattered Dreams was the most fun project I worked on this year. It’s the most ambitious book that we’ve produced for W20 in terms of sheer scope — originally, the book focused on the it looks at the life and wars of the Changing Breeds around the Wars of Rage. The … Read more
Most fun project: The V20 Dark Ages Companion was my first solo development project. To develop and write for a book set in my favourite Vampire era was superb fun. Something I added to the outline for this book was that I wanted the writers to make it the book everyone refers to as “that brilliant … Read more
So, Hurt Locker’s out. Great stuff, right? One request I got was more on drones. There’s a Style Merit for drone piloting, but we didn’t detail any drones. There were a few reasons for that. One was space. Another was that the drone style just sort of came out of a writer’s idea pile, but … Read more
Now available in PDF and print from DriveThruRPG: Tome of Secrets for V20 Dark Ages! Every occult order worth its weight has a library of mystic truths. But the truly wondrous, truly frightening truths require you look deeper. That you delve in long, lost places. These, my friend, are those long, lost places. — Creidne … Read more
The big news goes up front: as of last week, Cavaliers of Mars is in editing (with Dixie Cochran) and art direction (with Mike Chaney)! The art notes for this book are particularly extensive. We’re building a whole new world, so that means tons of detailed description and reference pictures. A lot of that reference material … Read more
Some notes from meetings, and then the Year In Review. First, talked with Eddy about the state of things with the Pugmire Interactive Audio Drama from Earplay, and things sound like they are really moving. Lots of fascinating thinking with how the decision trees work for the reader/player and how to present their … Read more
Now available in PDF and print from DriveThruRPG: Beast Ready Made Characters! Running a one-night game of Beast: The Primordial? Wanting to start up a new chronicle, but your players aren’t sure what to play? Looking for a fast way to dive into one of Onyx Path’s SAS adventures? Beast: The Primordial Ready Made Characters details … Read more
Funny, it only hit me now after writing it that the blog title means more big-picture, real-world than just Onyx Path’s publishing year. Huh. Actually, next week I’ll be taking a look back at the whole year, but this week I’m just focusing on one thing. Our intrepid archivist, Impish Ian Watson loves to hit … Read more
Greetings, fellow Kindred! It’s been a while since we last talked about Beckett’s Jyhad Diary, so I thought it high time to post an update on the book’s status! As those of you who backed the Kickstarter will know, we funded several new chapters through stretch goals, which were as follows: The Way of Three … Read more