The Prestige Edition Kickstarter for Beast: The Primordial is now live! All your life, you’ve dreamed of monsters. They pull you into blackened depths, leap at you from shadows, dive at you from the skies, swarm from cracks in the walls, or break you to pieces as you scream for mercy. Then one night you … Read more
_ As is usual right before a Kickstarter campaign, most of our talk is making sure all the parts are working together, and our KS team (me, Rollickin’ Rose, Mirthful Mike, and Impish Ian) as well as the developer(s) are all set to cover our respective responsibilities. Some of those are dictated by the way … Read more
Attainments! Early in the discussions around a new edition of Awakening‘s ruleset, the team expressed a desire to tidy up some of the exceptions and secondary effects built into the system – things like Sympathetic casting, Aimed Spells, Spell Triggers, Counterspell, Summoning. Anything that was magical, but didn’t strictly speaking follow the magic rules. Some … Read more
In previous updates, we’ve mentioned Kinship and the fact that the Children feel that the other creatures in the World of Darkness are their little brothers and sisters. That’s brought out some reaction, some of it receptive, some not, and I want to take a little time to talk about my intent in designing the … Read more
That’s right, Trinity Continuum shirts, at long last! Trinity Continuum: Æon with art by Chris Moeller Trinity Continuum: Aberrant with art by Glenn Fabry We’ve also got a few new Scion shirts, including some long-requested Pantheons: Pantheon: Tuatha Pantheon: Yazata Cover: Ragnarok
So far, some of my favorite stuff about the Second Edition lines has been the appendices for mortal “minor templates”. The ghouls from Vampire 2e, the wolf-blooded from Werewolf 2e, and the Sleepwalkers from 2e add a bunch of fun options to chronicles. I wanted Changeling 2e to be similar in that regard. So, we’re … Read more
Nope, here in the USA it is the Memorial Day holiday, and while I normally force all of the Onyx Path crew to work on Monday holidays because I’m cruel like that, we have enough of our gang with commitments for this one that we’re postponing our meetings until later this week. But that … Read more
Welcome, faithful readers! Bit of a departure from the usual format for Second Edition blogs this week, as we’re firmly into “second drafts are arriving back” phase, and there isn’t really anything to show you that you haven’t already seen in first-draft form, not yet. What we do have, though, is a third draft, for … Read more
Sothis Ascends for Mummy: The Curse is now available in print! You burn to know the significance of the rise of high Sothis, and now that we have dragged ourselves through the arid fullness of time, I will answer thus: What is it that reveals itself under the light of a rising star? When convergence … Read more
For the first time ever, Fast Eddy Webb and I had our Monday Lunch Meeting at my house. So that was different; although it didn’t look very different than this photo from one of our convention panels except we both had sushi in front of us today. With Eddy hanging out here at “Shadow Oaks” … Read more