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Schedule

This schedule indicates intent, and is not a guarantee. As time progresses, circumstances may interfere with our intent. Details subject to change. Keep checking back here for the most up-to-date schedule.

Percentages are based on eight stages: outline, writing, editing, art direction, layout, CCP approvals, print proof, and completion.

May 2013

VTR – Strix Chronicle Fiction Anthology: As with the World of Darkness Anthology, this one contains classic and new Vampire: The Requiem fiction that teases the new Strix Chronicle and provides a richer look at the terror created by the fear of these malevolent spirits. 300+ pages. 6″ x 9″. PDF/PoD/ePub.

62.5%

WTA – The Skinner: An SAS adventure to be playtested and used by the official playtest team The Wrecking Crew at conventions throughout convention season. Features the arch-villian Sam Haight as he was originally: a driven mortal willing to slaughter Garou in order to become one of them by wearing their skins. 40 pages. PDF/PoD.

75%

CWoD/VTM – The Hunters Hunted II: One of the seminal CWoD books, revised and updated for V20, featuring a look at the organizations around the world who hunt, study, hide the truth about the Kindred. 120 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

75%

MTAw/MTAs – Mage Translation Guide: Provides the ability to translate characters from Mage: The Ascension to Mage: The Awakening and vice versa. 50 pages. PDF/PoD.

75%

June 2013

MTC – Guildhalls of the Deathless: This book delves deeper into the factions within the Mummies, the Guilds, with new Merits and powers and detailed background information. Also offers the first “chapter” of a three-part adventure designed to lead from supplement to supplement in a three-part story arc. 160 pages. PDF/PoD.

37.5%

WTA – Book of Changing Breeds: A deeper look at the Fera building on the info in W20. 160 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

62.5%

VTR – Reap the Whirlwind: A quickstart adventure for Vampire: The Requiem for Free RPG Day, showcasing several of the new rules from The God-Machine Chronicle and Blood and Smoke.

July 2013

VTR – Blood and Smoke: The Strix Chronicle: This book combines both setting and rules info to create a default Chronicle for Vampire: The Requiem that still allows the sandbox play that the World of Darkness is known for. The Chronicle focuses on the legends of the Strix — the owl spirits that prey on vampires. A threat unique to Vampire and used to great effect in the historical Rome books, this book will show the effects of a world where the threat of their return has warped vampire society. Will contain default tweaks to the rules and in-depth history and backstory of just such a setting. 264 pages. PDF/PoD/possible Deluxe Kickstarter.

25%

MTAs – Convention Book: Syndicate: As promised, this book is one of those in the Convention Book series that wasn’t finished when cWoD ended and which has been clamored for ever since. 84 pages. PDF/PoD.

50%

DTF/DT? – Demon Translation Guide: Provides the ability to translate characters from Demon: The Fallen to Demon: The ??? and vice versa. 50 pages. PDF/PoD.

MTC – Book of the Deceived: The sixth, Lost Guild that are the dark reflections of the Cursed. Here is where we explore their true history and beliefs and provide all the info necessary for them to be played as characters. Also contains the second “chapter” of the story arc adventure with focus on the Sixth Guild menace. 120 pages. PDF/PoD.

August 2013

DT? – Demon: The ???: A new game line, answering many fan requests; a new look at those creatures of fire and darkness: fallen angels, nightmares from the nether realms, servants of the God Machine or something else entirely? Includes codified rule sets of those rules developed over the last few years including: Shards, SASs, Tiers as well as a rich background for players to immerse themselves in. 320 pages. PDF/PoD Hardcover/ Deluxe Kickstarter.

25%

VTM – Anarchs Unbound: A revisitation of the old Anarch Cookbook, Anarchs Unbound examines the large scale of the Anarch experience (domains, the Movement inside other sects’ domains, overthrowing tyrants) on down through the local and personal scale of the Anarchs (being in an Anarch brood or coterie, “growing up Anarch,” converting from other sects, and maintaining deep cover or nomadic Anarch ideals). 120 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

50%

MTAs – Convention Book: Void Engineers: As promised, this book is one of those in the Convention Book series that wasn’t finished when cWoD ended and which has been clamored for ever since. 84 pages. PDF/PoD.

September 2013

MTAs – Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition: A letter of love to our Ascension fans. In style and philosophy a matching volume to V20. 500+ pages. PDF/PoD Hardcover/ Deluxe Kickstarter.

25%

Exalted – Exalted Third Edition: The new edition of Exalted developed by the current team who have united and energized the fans, and featuring the return of original developer Geoff Grabowski; this edition will rekindle the original excitement of the setting, while the systems will be fine-tuned, balanced, and playtested more rigorously than any White Wolf product ever before. 400 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

50%

October 2013

Exalted – Arms of the Chosen: The definitive tome of artifact weapons and armor for the Exalted. Arms expands and develops the Evocation system introduced in the corebook, by which the Chosen may derive unique Charms from artifacts, giving them a whole new layer of power and themes to explore. The book will feature not only a much wider selection of weapons and armor than the corebook, but it will also have a section dedicated to Warstriders. 64 pages. PDF/PoD.

MTAs – M20 SAS: 40 pages. PDF/PoD

MTC – Sothis Ascends: This book examines the Sothic Turn; the cycle of existence that the Mummies live and die within. Since their creation, there have been five Turns and each is examined: one part historical setting, one part grab-bag of artifacts, powers, and antagonists. Also presents the final “chapter” of the three-part adventure, with thematic content relating to the Turns. 160 pages. PDF/PoD.

WTA – W20 Rage Across the World: Similar in content to the V20 Companion, this book will pull together lose ends and expand on several topics from W20, all based on a “travelogue” that provides deepened backstory to the struggle of the Garou. 120 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

50%

November 2013

VTM – Rites of Blood: In simplest form, this is a collection of rituals practiced among the various Kindred sects. This isn’t just powers, but an examination of the sects themselves and how they use their eldritch mystical arts. There’s room for the major and minor sects: The Thaumaturgy of the Camarilla Tremere, the priestly rites and witchy sorcery of the Sabbat, the creepy and alien practices of the Tal’Mahe’Ra, “street” rituals from the Anarch contingent, and some of the mysterious ways of the Inconnu. And, of course, the sorceries of the Assamites and Setites, and new necromancies for the Giovanni. 120 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

25%

DT? – The Flowers of Hell: 160 pages. PDF/PoD

December 2013

WTA – W20 Book of the Wyrm: Creatures and spirits to challenge the Garou, including revised and collected info and backstory on such things as Pentex and Black Dog Game Factory. 160 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

25%

DAV – Dark Ages: Darkening SkyPDF/PoD

HTV – Monstrous Basterds (tentative title): PDF/PoD

Exalted – The Realm: Covers the Scarlet Empire in the current era. Unlike its predecessors, this book does not end at the shores of the Blessed Isle, but covers Realm satrapies in the Threshold and beyond. It will provide a deep exploration of Dragon-Blooded society and what it means to be a Dynast, including the Immaculate Philosophy, the beliefs and histories that guide the morality of the Realm and unite the Dragon-Blooded host against the avarice of the gods and the power of the Anathema. A large part of this book will be devoted to detailing the houses of the Dynasty, updating and enlivening with intention of making the houses as tantalizing as Kindred Clans in terms of iconicism and player association and appeal. 160 pages. PDF/PoD

January 2014

Exalted – Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought: This book introduces the Dragon-Blooded for the first time in Third Edition, including character creation rules and the Dragon-Blooded Charm set. What Fire Has Wrought is the first indicator of the dynamic new “novel” feel of Exalted, of amped-up Storytelling, with each book as a chapter in the legend of the game. This book will give an iconic view of the Dragon-Blooded, showing their creation as the armies of the Celestial Host and detailing their place in the current era. It will feature some further details of the Realm as well as Lookshy and other locales where Dragon-Blooded are prominent. Overall, it will focus on the legend of the Dragon-Blooded and the fires they have had to walk through to get to where they are, as Creation’s premiere, dominant Exalted. 220 pages. PDF/PoD Hardcover/Deluxe Kickstarter.

Coming Soon

These products will be coming, but due to their creation as Kickstarter stretch goal rewards, have yet to be placed on the schedule.

VTM – The Red ListPDF/PoD

VTM – The Hunters Hunted II Anthology PDF/PoD

VTM – Blood Diaries of the Clans: This volume would revisit the Clans as a collection of mini-clanbooks, with each clan’s subsection arranged in the same format. This title would give many new story hooks, character concepts, history, and clan-specific crunch that pairs rules with setting. In particular, the combo Disciplines, which were not covered in V20 but have been requested again and again. 240 pages. PDF/PoD/Deluxe Kickstarter.

WTA – Tribe Book: White HowlersPDF/PoD

25%

WTA – W20 CookbookPDF/PoD

12.5%

WTA – Making of the Art of W20PDF/PoD

WTA – W20 Novel (Bill Bridges)PDF/PoD

WTA – Houses of the MoonPDF/PoD

25%

WTA – W20 Fiction AnthologyPDF/PoD

12.5%

WTA – Wild West Expansion PackPDF/PoD

MTC – Mummy Fiction AnthologyPDF/PoD

MTC – Cursed Necropolis: DCPDF/PoD

MTC – Cursed Necropolis: RioPDF/PoD

MTC – Ready-Made Player CharactersPDF/PoD

MTC – Dreams of AvaricePDF/PoD

MTC – Mummy NovelPDF/PoD