Bloody Hearts [Vampire: The Masquerade]

“I consider myself a seeker of reluctant information. ‘Scholar’ sounds like academia. Ugh.” Happy (day after) Valentine’s Day, Onyx Path fans! I’m Neall Price, beleaguered freelancer and developer of Beckett’s Jyhad Diary. On this feast day (after) of St. Valentine, let’s talk about two sides of the same coin: love and hate. People love metaplot. … Read more

Dec 26 Open Dev Roundup

It’s been a couple of quiet weeks, but we’ve had a bit more activity of late. In case you missed any, open dev posts from the last week include: Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition: Redlines and Anthologies Promethean: The Created 2nd Edition: Learning How to Be a Person Promethean: The Created 2nd Edition: The Scintillating Flame … Read more

Learning How to Be a Person [Promethean: The Created]

This past week, we got an email from a guy who found a particular resonance in Promethean. He’d been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome (a form of high-functioning autism), and his story of how he’d struggle for years to fit in with people struck us as particularly poignant. You can read the email here. If you don’t … Read more

Redlines and Anthologies [Mage: The Awakening]

Hello everyone! I’m calling a break on the blog for the time being, as Mage has hit the point of me writing up my redlines so that the authors come back from the Holidays and start the final draft. Those of you who came to GenCon saw the first stages of the redlines, in traditional … Read more

Anthology Ahoy! [Promethean: The Created]

Hey, sorry about the hiatus. Here’s all the Promethean news that’s fit to print: Last week, Michelle wrapped up editing of the Firestorm Anthology. This anthology is a little different from the ones for the God-Machine Chronicle and Vampire, and for the upcoming ones for Werewolf and Mage, because unlike those lines, Prometheans doesn’t have a surplus of existing fiction to draw on. Also, … Read more

Beasts Wild and Strange [Cavaliers of Mars]

Cavaliers of Mars is influenced by the kinds of older fantasy and historical fiction of various eras that I’m so fond of — you’ll find some Jack Vance rubbing shoulders with some Arturo Perez-Reverte, just for starters. From Vance and Clark Ashton-Smith, particularly, comes the haunted landscape of a dying world that’s more wistful than … Read more