Welcome to the Release Roundup! This is where we update you on what we’ve been up to for the last month, from weekly releases to crowdfunding projects to production status updates.
This month’s Onyx Path releases include:
- Curseborne: Curseborne Ashcan Edition (PDF/print)
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Storypath Tasty Bit: Rogue State (PDF)
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Trinity Continuum: Aether Rulebook (PDF/print)
- Chronicles of Darkness: The Contagion Chronicle: Ready-Made Characters (PDF/print)
- Realms of Pugmire: Squeaks in the Deep Companion (PDF/print)
This month’s Onyx Path merch includes:
- Curseborne: Curseborne Moth
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
- Scarred Lands: 100 Hooks and Rumours to Hear in or About Hollowfaust II
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Operation Lavender
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: 100 Hooks and Rumors for Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: 4-page A4 character sheet
- Realms of Pugmire: 100 Birds for Pirates of Pugmire
Crowdfunding Update
The Bodhana Group‘s Branch Riders Kickstarter closed at $11,865, or 237% of their $5000 goal, thanks to 257 backers!
We hit the following stretch goals:
- Branch Riders RedBubble backer shirt
- Branch Riders Exposure Tracker PDF and PoD
- Form-fillable Character Sheet PDF
We’re halfway through the crowdfunding campaign for Scion 2nd Edition’s Mythic Shards on BackerKit! We funded in 12 hours, and are currently sitting at $30,973, or 155% of their $20,000 goal, thanks to 634 backers!
We’ve hit the following stretch goals:
- Mythic Shards RedBubble backer shirt
- Storyguide Reference PDF: After the End, Cyber-Scion
- Add-On: After the End Dice Set
CURRENT PRODUCTION STATUS
Items in bold have changed in status since last month. Early stages, such as proposals, outlines, and approvals, are not shown here.
Development: These stages typically happen first in a project, and concern the words you’re going to be reading.
- First Draft: Writers turn in their initial drafts
- Scion: Dragon Lair 4 (December)
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
- Exalted: Exalted Essay Collection
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- Scion: Dragon Lair 3 (September)
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Exalted: Champions of the Divine Flame
- Exalted: The Exalted Essence Player’s Guide
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- Exalted: Sidereals Companion
- Exalted: Alchemicals
- Realms of Pugmire: Rumble in Riverwall
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual
- Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
- Scion: Mythic Shards
- Exalted: Exigents Jumpstart
- Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
- At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook
- Trinity Continuum: Æon: Storypath Tasty Bit: Diplomacy and Conflict (August)
- Exalted: Sidereals novella
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau Jumpstart
- Realms of Pugmire: The Haunted Village
- Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.
- The World Below: Underworld Adventures
- The World Below: Ed Greenwood’s Monstrous Ecology of the World Below
- The World Below: Enter the Dungeon Jumpstart
- Scion: Rock Gods and Side Quests
- Trinity Continuum: Tasty Bit Compilation
Art Direction: These stages happen concurrently with the final stages of Development, and concern the visual appearance of the final product. Accordingly, some items may appear in both the Development and Art Direction lists.
- Art Notes Prep: Hand-off between production and art. Art notes are collected from developers, projects placed in a holding pattern as artist availability is managed. Sometimes a project might move back from to Prep from active Art Direction. Don’t panic.
- Scion: War Games: Titans Rising Origin and Hero Adventures
- Scion: Gifts of the Titans
- Scion: Wild Hunt
- Scion: Dragon Companion
- They Came From…: Heroes of Action and Wonder!
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave: They Came from Witchford Academy!
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: They Came from the Danger Zone!
- They Came from Beyond the Grave!: Storypath Tasty Bit: Cabin in the Woods (October)
- They Came from Beyond the Grave!: They Came from Camp Murder Lake! VTT Adventure
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis: Aegis Atlas
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Audio Drama
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies! (was Thrilling Tales)
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: DLC
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade)
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: Shattered Seals (Terra Surge)
- Exalted: Exigents: Streaming Overlay
- Exalted: Exigents: VTT Tokens
- Exalted: Exigents: Wallpapers
- Realms of Pugmire: Wallpapers
- Art Direction: Artists are hired according to the needs of the line and book. Art is created and turned in.
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual (Crowdfunding)
- At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook (Crowdfunding)
- The World Below: The World Below Rulebook
- Scion: Mythic Shards (Crowdfunding)
- Scion: Titans Rising
- Scion: Demigod Companion
- Scion: God: Player’s Guide
- Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
- Scion: God Jumpstart
- They Came from…!: They Came from the RPG Anthology!
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Aether Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Player’s Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aether Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: With Great Power
- Mage: The Ascension: Faces of Magick
- Mage: The Ascension: Forgotten and Forbidden Orders
- M20 Victorian Age: Bizarre Tales and Unusual Characters
- Exalted: Miracles of Divine Flame (Exigents Companion)
- Exalted Essence: Pillars of Creation (Essence Companion)
- Exalted Essence: Deeds Yet Undone (Adventure Trilogy)
- Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave
- Exalted: Alchemicals
- Branch Riders (Crowdfunding)
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Jumpstart
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau (Crowdfunding)
- In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
- Scion: Tasty Bit Compilation
- Scion: Path to Apotheosis (Demigod Scenarios)
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Community Content Style Guide
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Record wallpaper
- Proofing: The final book layout is checked over by the art director, creative director, and sometimes the developer to make sure everything appears as it should.
- Scarred Lands: Spiragos Collected Adventures
- Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Player’s Guide
- M20 Victorian Age: Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magick
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire 2e Core Rulebook
- Realms of Pugmire: Threats and Curs
- Indexing: Larger rulebooks have a comprehensive index created.
- Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course
- At Press: The final product is being sent to printers or being prepped for digital release.
- Reprints:
- Scion: Origin: Starting the trip over the seas to Studio2.
- Trinity Continuum Core: Starting the trip over the seas to Studio2.
- Scion: God: Getting PoD files set up.
- Scion: No Gods, No Masters: PoD proofs ordered.
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Proofs signed off on. Should be printing.
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Director Reference Screen: Should have quotes by the end of the week… printer was on vacation.
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Proofs signed off on. Should be printing.
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Director Reference Screen: Should have quotes by the end of the week… printer was on vacation.
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Getting quotes.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Getting through the proofs.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Terra Surge Reference Screen: Should have quotes by the end of the week… printer was on vacation.
- M20 Victorian Age: M20VA Jumpstart: Inputting errata.
- Exalted: Crucible of Legends VTT Tokens
- Exalted: Exigents: Out of the Ashes: Getting quotes.
- Exalted: Exigents Storyteller Screen: Should have quotes by the end of the week… printer was on vacation.
- Exalted: Essence: Tomb of Memory Jumpstart: Inputting errata correx.
- Exalted: Essence: Essence Charm Cards: Getting PoD files set up.
- Reprints: