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 (advance PDF)
- Scion: No Gods, No Masters (advance PDF)
- Scion: Storypath Tasty Bit: The Sacred Temple (PDF)
- Mage 20th Anniversary: Victorian Age: Séance on St. James Street: A Victorian Mage Jumpstart (PDF/print)
- Chronicles of Darkness: The Contagion Chronicle: Ready-Made Characters (advance PDF)
- Deviant: The Renegades: The Clades Companion (PDF/print)
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
- Scion: The Kaiju Flight
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: The Knights of Sherwood
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: New Constellation [BUNDLE]
Crowdfunding Update
Three weeks ago The Bodhana Group launched Branch Riders on Kickstarter, which we created in partnership with them! They funded in about seven hours, and are currently sitting at $10,075, or 202% of their $5000 goal, thanks to 188 backers!
So far we’ve hit the following stretch goals:
- Branch Riders RedBubble backer shirt
- Branch Riders Exposure Tracker PDF and PoD
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: Æon: Storypath Tasty Bit: Diplomacy and Conflict (August)
- Exalted: Exalted Essay Collection
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- Scion: Dragon Lair 3 (September)
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau Jumpstart
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual
- Exalted: Champions of the Divine Flame
- Exalted: The Exalted Essence Player’s Guide
- Exalted: Sidereals Companion
- Exalted: Alchemicals
- Realms of Pugmire: Rumble in Riverwall/The Ghost Town
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- Exalted: Exigents Jumpstart
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- Exalted: Sidereals novella
- Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
- Scion: Mythic Shards
- Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
- Scion: Rock Gods and Side Quests
- 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
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]: Villain 3 (July)
- 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: Tasty Bit Compilation
- 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: Realms of Pugmire Jumpstart
- 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
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: 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
- Branch Riders (Crowdfunding)
- 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: Path to Apotheosis (Demigod Scenarios)
- Trinity Continuum: Community Content Style Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Player’s Guide
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Record wallpaper
- M20 Victorian Age: Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magick
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire 2e Core Rulebook
- 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
- Exalted: Exigents: ST Reference Screen
- Exalted: Essence: Essence Charm Cards
- Realms of Pugmire: Threats and Curs
- Indexing: Larger rulebooks have a comprehensive index created.
- Scion: God 2e
- At Press: The final product is being sent to printers or being prepped for digital release.
- Reprints:
- Scion: Origin: Printing.
- Trinity Continuum Core: Printing.
- Curseborne: Ashcan Edition: Errata gathering.
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Trying to find some time to go over proofs.
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Director Reference Screen: Sending info to screen printer for quotes.
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Trying to find some time to go over proofs.
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Director Reference Screen: Sending info to screen printer for quotes.
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Going ahead and getting that quote going too.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Pinging printer about cover specs again.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Terra Surge Reference Screen: Sending info to screen printer for quotes.
- Mage: The Ascension: Lore of the Traditions: On the boat.
- M20 Victorian Age: M20VA Jumpstart: Inputting errata.
- Exalted: Crucible of Legends VTT Tokens
- Exalted: Exigents: Out of the Ashes: Getting quotes for trad printing.
- Exalted: Essence: On the boat.
- Exalted: Essence Storyteller Screen: At Studio 2.
- Exalted: Essence: Tomb of Memory Jumpstart: Awaiting errata from devs.
- Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course: Errata gathering and sorting…
- Contagion Chronicle: Ready Made-Characters: Errata gathering.
- Realms of Pugmire: Squeaks in the Deep Companion: Awaiting errata from devs.
- Reprints: