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 Promo Tarot Cards (PDF/print)
- Scion: Dragon: Storypath Tasty Bit: The Winding Serpent (PDF)
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: Operation: Lost in Reverie, a Classified Jumpstart (advance PDF)
- Mage: The Ascension: Victorian Age: Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters (PDF/print)
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Core Rulebook (PDF/print)
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
- Scion: Dragon A5 Character Booklet
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Heroes of the Sweet Spot
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Quantum Compounds
Crowdfunding Update
Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God wrapped up on BackerKit this month! The Backer Train not only extended the closing time by 16 minutes, but also achieved one last stretch goal! We closed at $160,095, or 534% of our $30,000 goal! Thanks so much to our 1931 backers!
We’ve reached the following stretch goals:
- Alchemicals Storyteller Screen
- Alchemicals Companion x11: The Lost City of Tekun; the Forge of Legends; Beyond the Eight Nations; God-Machinery of Exalted Power; the Ever-Spreading Blight; Industrial Assembly of the Chosen; Romos-Autrama, Riven by War; Servants of the Machine God; Gods from the Machine; Locust Crusades and Grasshopper Diplomacy; Might of the Machine Titans
- Backer T-shirt
- Alchemicals Digital Wallpaper
- Alchemicals VTT tokens
- Alchemicals Streaming Overlay
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
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual Additional Settings
- Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Rulebook
- Exalted: Exalted Essay Collection
- Realms of Pugmire: Expansion of the Realms
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- At the Gates: At the Gates Jumpstart
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Scion: Mythic Shards (Additional Shard: Journey to the Wild West)
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- Scion: Mythic Shards (Additional Shard: Lost Time)
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
- Exalted: Sidereals Companion
- Branch Riders: Facilitator’s Guide
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual
- Curseborne Core Rulebook
- Exalted: Exigents: Champions of the Divine Flame
- Exalted Essence: The Exalted Essence Player’s Guide
- Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
- Curseborne: STB: Curseborne Antagonist 1 (January)
- Realms of Pugmire: The Haunted Village
- Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.
- At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook
- Exalted: Exigents Jumpstart
- Realms of Pugmire: Rumble in Riverwall
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau Jumpstart
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.
- The World Below: Underworld Adventures
- The World Below: Ed Greenwood’s Monstrous Ecology of the World Below
- The World Below: Enter the Dungeon Jumpstart
- Scion: Rock Gods and Side Quests
- Scion: War Games: Titans Rising Origin and Hero Adventures
- Scion: Gifts of the Titans
- Scion: Wild Hunt
- 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!: They Came from Camp Murder Lake! VTT Adventure
- Trinity Continuum: Tasty Bit Compilation
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis: Aegis Atlas
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Audio Drama
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
- 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)
- Exalted: Exigents: VTT Tokens
- 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)
- Curseborne (Crowdfunding)
- At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook (Crowdfunding)
- Scion: Mythic Shards
- Scion: Titans Rising
- Scion: Demigod Companion
- Scion: God: Player’s Guide
- Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
- Scion: God Jumpstart
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Aether Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Player’s Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aether Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies!
- Exalted: Exigents: Miracles of Divine Flame (Exigents Companion)
- Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave
- Exalted: Alchemicals: Servants of the Machine God (Crowdfunding)
- Branch Riders
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Jumpstart
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau
- In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
- The World Below: The World Below Storyguide Screen
- Scion: Tasty Bit Compilation
- Scion: God Storyguide Screen
- They Came from…!: They Came from the RPG Anthology!
- Trinity Continuum: Community Content Style Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Storyguide Screen
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: With Great Power
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: Shattered Seals (Terra Surge)
- Exalted Essence: Pillars of Creation (Essence Companion)
- 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
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis
- Mage: The Ascension: Faces of Magick
- Mage: The Ascension: Forgotten and Forbidden Orders
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire 2e Core Rulebook
- Indexing: Larger rulebooks have a comprehensive index created.
- At Press: The final product is being sent to printers or being prepped for digital release.
- Reprints:
- Scion: Origin: At Studio2.
- Trinity Continuum Core: At Studio2.
- The World Below: The World Below Rulebook: Filling in xxs.
- Scion: God: Quoting and press files.
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Quoting and press files.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Shipping to backers.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Terra Surge Reference Screen: Shipping to backers.
- Exalted: Exigents: Out of the Ashes: Quoting and press files.
- Exalted: Exigents Storyteller Screen: At Studio2.
- Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course: Quoting and press files.
- Exalted Essence: Deeds Yet Undone (Adventure Trilogy): Waiting on errata.
- Reprints: