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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Moving right along on Lore of the Clans, we present the Ventrue, written by Alan Alexander. Here’s the link to the Google Doc: Edit: Link removed now that open development is closed. Thank you! Alan tried some new things, and as a result ran way over on wordcount. As such, I have to cut heavily, and there’s … Read more
Next up for Lore of the Clans are the Tremere, written by Andrew Peregrine. Here’s the link to the Google Doc: Edit: Link removed now that open development is closed. Thank you! Andrew ran out of wordcount just about everywhere, and has left notes on topics he thinks he should cover. I have some thoughts on … Read more
Happy Tuesday! I just got finished handing off essential documents for V20 Dark Ages over to Mike for layout and art direction. Boy are my arms tired. But my next development project right now is V20 Black Hand. Not settled on the name yet. I’m thinking, “Dark Conspiracy: V20 Guide to the Tal’Mahe’Ra”. We’ll see. … Read more
Next up for Lore of the Clans are the Ravnos, written by Ree Soesbee. Here’s the link to the Google Doc: Edit: Link removed now that open development is closed. Thank you! Two notes: 1) I’m aware of a few instances of the word “gypsy” within the document. There were some tense discussions about the validity of the … Read more
I’m back! Gen Con was busier than I expected, and then there was a lot of post-Gen Con catchup work to do. But now things are back on track for Lore of the Clans. Today is Clan Giovanni, written by Christopher Wilde. Here’s the link to the Google Doc: Edit: Link removed now that open development is closed. … Read more
Due to the issues we’ve had with displaying PowerPoints in the past, which Rich talks about during the panels, we didn’t do any this year. As such, the three panels have no accompanying video or imagery. Thanks to Eddy Webb and Dave Brookshaw, who recorded the audio. August 16th, 10am: What’s Up With the New … Read more
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