World of Darkness
The World of Darkness is much like our world, but it is darker, more devious and more conspiratorial — an aesthetic we call “Gothic-Punk”. The dichotomy between the rich and the poor, the influential and the weak, and the powerful and the powerless is much more pronounced than in the real world. Decadence, cynicism, and corruption are common. Humans are unwitting victims or pawns of vast secret organizations of supernatural creatures. Vampires, werewolves, and mages (among others) struggle with internal factionalism and against other species in secret wars of intrigue for control.
The World of Darkness (sometimes “WoD”) was first developed in 1991 with the release of Vampire: The Masquerade. It has reached hundreds of millions of people through thousands of books published in a wide variety of languages, as well as via a prime-time television show, multiple well-regarded video games, and even World of Darkness-focused conventions. Onyx Path Publishing offers dozens of role-playing game, fiction, art, and clothing products for the World of Darkness, as well as helping to re-release hundreds of original books through PDF and print-on-demand.
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Vampire: The Masquerade
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Mage: The Ascension
Wraith: The Oblivion
Changeling: The Dreaming
From The Way of Endings by Bill Bridges: Tom stood up and wiped the dirt from his pants. “Okay, I’ll play along. I assume this is some sort of weird initiation ceremony your ‘tribe’ is putting me through for some reason. But I’m game. So, what’s next?” Maggie pointed at the rabbit painting. “I need to … Read more
Most fun project: Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition. While I was a World of Darkness fan before Changeling came out, when I picked up that book I fell in love with its beautiful stained glass heart almost immediately. It was bright, it was fun, it was joyous and engaging … but under the colorful … Read more
Most fun project: W20 Shattered Dreams was the most fun project I worked on this year. It’s the most ambitious book that we’ve produced for W20 in terms of sheer scope — originally, the book focused on the it looks at the life and wars of the Changing Breeds around the Wars of Rage. The … Read more
Most fun project: The V20 Dark Ages Companion was my first solo development project. To develop and write for a book set in my favourite Vampire era was superb fun. Something I added to the outline for this book was that I wanted the writers to make it the book everyone refers to as “that brilliant … Read more
Now available in PDF and print from DriveThruRPG: Tome of Secrets for V20 Dark Ages! Every occult order worth its weight has a library of mystic truths. But the truly wondrous, truly frightening truths require you look deeper. That you delve in long, lost places. These, my friend, are those long, lost places. — Creidne … Read more
Greetings, fellow Kindred! It’s been a while since we last talked about Beckett’s Jyhad Diary, so I thought it high time to post an update on the book’s status! As those of you who backed the Kickstarter will know, we funded several new chapters through stretch goals, which were as follows: The Way of Three … Read more
What a harvest season we’ve had! An endless bounty of new releases for you came out this month: Books Scarred Lands Players Guide for 5th Edition OGL (PDF) Scarred Lands Players Guide for Pathfinder (PDF) Vampire: The Masquerade’s Endless Ages anthology (b&w print option) V20 Dark Ages’ The Cainite Conspiracies anthology (ebook/print) Werewolf: The Apocalypse’s Shattered … Read more
Now available in PDF from DriveThruRPG: Beast Condition Cards! Did your heart seize up in your chest a little when I said that? It should. Those horrors you’ve dreamed of all your life – the arms dragging you down into the ooze, the thing with fangs and too many legs waiting in the dark, the … Read more
The Cainite Conspiracies for V20 Dark Ages releases later today, so we reached out to some of the anthology’s authors to get an inside look at their chapters: Family is Family Written by Renee Ritchie “Family is Family” tells the story of Zamra, a Brujah elder looking to preserve what positive history exists over Carthage. I wrote … Read more
As the release of the upcoming The Cainite Conspiracies for V20 Dark Ages approaches, we reached out to some of the anthology’s authors to get an inside look at their chapters: Sand and Dust Written by Andrew Peregrine I knew from the start I wanted to avoid a story about the Nosferatu being ugly or finding beauty. … Read more