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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We just finished our Classic World of Darkness panel at Gen Con, where we covered the following: January 2015 VTM – Lore of the Clans: This volume would revisit the Clans as a collection of mini-clanbooks, with each clan’s subsection arranged in the same format. Each Clan gets new story hooks, character concepts, and history. … Read more
Been down periscope a bit. I’m getting art notes in, changing the orders of things, and filling out some word count I didn’t know we’d have. In the mean time, I wanted to show off our version of Daimonion, the signature Baali Discipline. Our own Neall Raemonn Price did levels 1-5, and the Hell Born … Read more
One more chapter for Lore of the Clans before we get ready for Gen Con! Today I have the Followers of Set, written by Joshua Doetsch. Here’s the link to the Google Doc: Edit: Link removed now that open development is closed. Thank you! Joshua’s a couple thousand words under (mainly in the mechanics section), so he has … Read more
Hi everyone! Happy Thursday. I’ve been down periscope a bit. I’m doing some last-minute tweaks to the text before I send it over to layout. This is something I wanted to share to you a bit, partly because I did it myself and it’s good to get feedback, and partly because it shows off a … Read more
Now available in ebook (ePub and mobi) formats as well as print: classic Mage: The Ascension novels Penny Dreadful and Truth Until Paradox Revised! Penelope Anne Drizkowski-Penny Dreadful to her friends-leads an interesting life, but it’s starting to get just a bit too interesting. First off, a young lady has enough trouble fending off unwanted advances, … Read more
First, a quick note: I’ll be closing comments on the Lasombra page as soon as I post this. As I mentioned previously, I’m going to try to keep to about a week’s time of open development so that I can keep things moving. Following the vigorous discussion of Clan Assamite for Lore of the Clans, … Read more
Next on the open development tour for Lore of the Clans is Clan Assamite, written by Alan Alexander. The link to the Google Doc containing his material is here: Edit: Link removed now that open development is closed. Thank you! Alan’s pretty heavily over his word count, so I’m pretty focused on where we can … Read more
Wallpaper for your computer is now available on DriveThruRPG! The Hunters Hunted II Wallpaper Most mortals turn away from the darkness that preys upon them, going about their lives in despair of the Damned and the evils they visit upon the world. But a precious few wage a personal war to shine light on those … Read more
I wanted to give folks a bit of an update on the status of open development for Lore of the Clans. Don’t worry — it’s not dead or anything (well, not any more dead than usual, ha ha vampire joke). However, originally I said I was planning to have open development wrapped up by the time … Read more
Hi everyone following Dark Ages and its development. I wanted to stop by briefly, poking my head up from the final development pass, and share something I thought was super cool. This is V20 Dark Ages’s answer to Koldunism. It’s one of the few truly unique additions to V20 Dark Ages. I felt it hit … Read more