We managed to squeak a bunch of books through just before the end of the year! V20 Lore of the Clans, a new all-in-one clanbook for the V20 line, covering all 13 clans. M20 How Do You DO That?, a practical guide to Sphere magick Chronicles of Darkness: Revised Storytelling System Rulebook is definitely the big … Read more
Last time, I kicked off Hunter the Vigil 2E featuring the Slasher Chronicle’s Open Dev by diving into Ashwood Abbey and how this compact might be presented in the 2nd Edition corebook in my post titled Slashers and Ashwood Abbey. First and foremost, I want to thank everybody for commenting and participating in the discussion … Read more
Squeezing in one last release for 2015, Mage20’s How Do You DO That? is now available in PDF and print-on-demand via DriveThruRPG! A Practical Guide Mage: The Ascension’s flexible and ambitious Sphere system has provided many questions and debates for over 20 years. Here, now, in this book, we answer the eternal question How Do You DO … Read more
Hey all, It’s been a while. I’ve been away. Been busy. Been dealing with things. All that. Anyway, I’m just about to wrap on Hurt Locker, and Changeling: The Lost – Second Edition. I’m basically in the phase of Hurt Locker where I’m knitting drafts together, filling in blanks, applying some notes from my play testers, and … Read more
On Dec 12th, we announced that we were changing the nWoD brand title to Chronicles of Darkness. Which was not really that long ago, when you think about it. I (and the rest of the Onyx Path crew) have talked a fair bit about this change, from the initial announcement through to an AMA we did, … Read more
The jingle of bells, the baking of Christmas cookies, the stomping of reindeer hooves outside your bedroom window… These past twelve days have been a lot of fun, and we’ve really enjoyed all of your entries for our first-ever 12 Days of Onyx holiday-themed Condition Card contest. Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve finished … Read more
Following up from yesterday’s post, Chris is back again with Shadow and Wolf Gifts. As a means of preamble, I’ll point out that the City Gift (updated below) was the first thing I ever wrote for Werewolf: The Forsaken — it’s neat to get turnabout like that. Over to Chris: Designing Shadow Gifts A Shadow Gift … Read more
A little bit of red (blood) and green (marble) for the holidays! Lore of the Clans is now available in PDF and print-on-demand via DriveThruRPG! My sire always told me, “There’s no instruction manual for being dead, strákur.” I believed her, because she was older and smarter than me, and we value knowledge if nothing else. … Read more
Ho! Ho! WOW… Yesterday, we checked in to choose a new Condition Card and were blown away by the number of entries for the 12 Days of Onyx Contest. As of this morning, we’ve received over 70 ideas for holiday-themed Condition Cards. Ranked by theme, the Chronicles of Darkness fills over half of the ideas. … Read more
Chris Allen, the mastermind behind our re-working of Gifts in the 2nd edition of Werewolf: The Forsaken, asked if I’d give him some space on the blog to talk about his design philosophy. He’s gone quite in-depth, highlighting how Gifts work in Forsaken 2e. I’ve split what he has to say into two pieces. The first covers general Gift … Read more