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 project to production status update.
This month’s Onyx Path releases include:
- Scarred Lands: Vigil Watch VTT Assets (VTT)
- Scarred Lands: Blood Sea: The Crimson Abyss VTT Assets (VTT)
- Scion: Realms of Magic and Mystery (advance PDF)
- Scion: Storypath Tasty Bit: Families and Thunderbolts (PDF)
- They Came from Beneath the Sea!: They Came from Beneath the Sea! (Roll20)
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Terat (Amazon Kindle)
- Exalted: Adversaries of the Righteous (PDF and print)
- Exalted: Facets of Truth: A Lunars Novella (ebook and print)
- Changeling: The Lost: Hollow Courts (Amazon Kindle)
- Realms of Pugmire: Monarchies of Mau VTT Assets (VTT)
- Realms of Pugmire: Pirates of Pugmire VTT Assets (VTT)
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
- Scion: The Woikos
- Scion: Moon Eaters: Pindorama Titanomachy
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: The Chronicles of Dr. Lawrence Wright
CROWDFUNDING UPDATE
Our Kickstarter for the Trinity Continuum Player’s Guide launched this week on Crowdfunding on BackerKit! We’re currently at $24,605, or 164% of our $15,000 goal, thanks to our 541 backers!
So far we’ve hit the following Achievements:
- TCPG backer T-shirt
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: Titans Rising
- Scion: Divine Inspiration
- Scion: Demigod: Storypath Tasty Bit: Village (June)
- Scion: God: Player’s Guide
- Scion: God Jumpstart
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Quip, Cinematic, Twist, and Fiendish Plot Cards
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave: Quip, Cinematic, Fantastic Settings, and Fiendish Plot Cards
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave: They Came from Witchford Academy!
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Player’s Guide
- Exalted: Exalted Essay Collection
- Realms of Pugmire: Tome of Enemies
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Audio Drama
- Branch Riders
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Trinity Continuum: Æon: Storypath Tasty Bit: Spaceship (May)
- Exalted Essence: Tomb of Memory Jumpstart
- Exalted Essence: Adventure Trilogy
- Exalted: Abyssals
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- They Came From…!: They Came From… ?
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- The World Below (Storypath Fantasy)
- Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
- Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
- Scion: God
- They Came from Beyond the Grave!: Storypath Tasty Bit: Graveyard (April)
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
- Trinity Continuum: Community Content Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: With Great Power
- Exalted Essence: Novella 1: What Lies Forgotten
- Exalted Essence: Novella 2: Scoundrelsong
- Exalted Essence: Novella 3: A Murder in Whitewall (Cole)
- Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire 2e Rulebook
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Jumpstart
- Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.
- Scion: Tasty Bit Compilation
- Trinity Continuum: Tasty Bit Compilation
- Trinity Continuum Player’s Guide
- Exalted Essence: Essence Companion: Pillars of Creation
- Indexing: Larger rulebooks have a comprehensive index created.
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 Direction: Art notes are collected from developers, and artists are hired according to the needs of the line and book.
- Scion: Path to Apotheosis
- Scion: Dragon Companion
- Scion: No Gods, No Masters
- Scion: Dragon Jumpstart
- Scion: Wild Hunt
- Scion: God 2nd Edition
- Scion: Once and Future
- They Came from…!: They Came from… ?
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
- They Came from [Classified]!
- They Came from [Classified]: They Came from the Danger Zone!
- They Came from [Classified]!: Jumpstart
- They Came from Beyond the Grave!: They Came from Camp Murder Lake! VTT Adventure
- Trinity Continuum: Aether
- Trinity Continuum: Aether Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Adventure! Addendum
- Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Player’s Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Assassins: Jumpstart VTT Adventure
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: With Great Power
- Trinity Continuum: Anima
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade)
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: Shattered Seals (Terra Surge)
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: DLC
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Icons of Rage
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Howls of Apocalypse Scenario Book
- Mage: The Ascension: Faces of Magick
- Mage: The Ascension: Forgotten and Forbidden Orders
- M20 Victorian Age: M20VA Jumpstart
- M20 Victorian Age: Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magick
- M20 Victorian Age: Bizarre Tales and Unusual Characters
- Exalted: Sidereals
- Exalted: Exigents
- Exalted: Across the Eight Directions
- Chronicles of Darkness: Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters
- Mage: The Awakening: Tome of the Pentacle
- Deviant: The Renegades: The Clades Companion
- Legendlore: Legacies of the Earth
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire 2e Core Rulebook
- Realms of Pugmire: Squeaks in the Deep Companion
- In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
- Scion: Community Content Guide
- Scion: Demigod Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies! (was Thrilling Tales)
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Adventure! Addendum
- Trinity Continuum: Assassins: Jumpstart VTT Adventure
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Apocalyptic Record
- Mage: The Ascension: Lore of the Traditions
- Exalted: Crucible of Legends
- Exalted: Many-Faced Strangers: The Lunars Companion
- Changeling: The Lost: The Hedge
- Hunter: The Vigil: Hunter Jumpstart
- Hunter: The Vigil: Tending the Flame
- 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: Vigil Watch: Kelder Mountains
- Scarred Lands: Spiragos Collected Adventures
- They Came From…: Tasty Bit Compilation
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Stampede of Justice Jumpstart
- At Press: The final product is being sent to printers or being prepped for digital release.
- Storypath Ultra Brochure: At press.
- Scarred Lands: Dead Man’s Rust: KS rewards shipped.
- Scion: Realms of Magic and Mystery: PoD proofs ordered.
- Scion: Demigod: KS rewards shipped.
- Scion: Demigod Screen: KS rewards shipped.
- Scion: Dragon: At KS fulfiller.
- Scion: Dragon Storyguide Screen: Shipping to fulfillment shipper.
- Scion: Masks of the Mythos: At KS fulfiller.
- Scion: Masks of the Mythos Storyguide Screen: Shipping to fulfillment shipper.
- They Came from Beneath the Sea!: Community Content Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Dropping in the Index.
- M20 Victorian Age: At KS fulfiller.
- M20 Victorian Age ST Screen: Shipping to fulfillment shipper.
- Exalted: Dragon-Blooded Novella 2: Surface Truths (Lauren Roy) : Out to KS backers for errata.
- Exalted: Essence: Awaiting errata.
- Exalted: Essence: Streaming Overlays: Going out to backers.
- Deviant: The Renegades: The Devoted Companion: Out to KS backers for errata.
Really looking forward to the release of The Hedge!
A quick query, which you may or may not be able to answer… A friend and I were discussing Chronicles of Darkness as an IP the other day, and noticed that, while there are certainly several products coming down the pipeline, there’s been nothing new added to the board since The Hedge in 2020.
Obviously, there’s been a LOT going on the past few years, but it got us to wondering – is there a reason that there’s nothing “new” being added? We came up with four possibilities, while also recognising none of them (or all of them!) my be a contributing factor.
i) Due to the global situation, a decision was made to clear the board of existing CoD products in development, before beginning new ones;
ii) Ideas have been pitched to Paradox, but nothing has been cleared thus far;
iii) Paradox have made the decision to shutter CoD, given their focus on WoD 5, but it hasn’t been formally announced yet, so as not to affect reception of titles in development;
iv) Certain lines in the IP simply don’t need further expansion at present, and with the current workload with other IPs, fewer (or no) pitches are being made to Paradox at present.
Obviously I understand if you can’t give a detailed answer here,but I was wondering if some indication as to the future of the IP could be given?
Many thanks for all the amazing work you guys are doing, in every corner of the Onyxverse!
We answer this question regularly — I think one of the recent Mailbag episodes of the Pathcast tackled it — but in brief: right now we can only discuss what’s on our release schedule. Anything else, like business decisions, is largely covered by NDA, so it’s not something we can legally discuss until we’ve been given the okay by Paradox to talk about it. This applies to all our licensing partners, not just Paradox, of course. That’s just the nature of the business.
Much appreciated! You are, of course, right – this has been addressed multiple times in the past, and I have read it previously; it just slipped my mind, for some reason!
Many thanks for your response, and your patience!