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
The Deluxe W20 Book of the Wyrm Kickstarter is down to the final 48 hours. Now’s your last chance to get this deluxe treatment of the Book of the Wyrm! (As with all our Kickstarters, the standard edition BotW will be made available in PDF and PoD at a later date.) As of this writing, we’ve received $85,911 from … Read more
Last time, I had a few requests for the character creation chapter. It’s not through editing yet, but it does what it’s supposed to do. Here’s almost 8,000 words of character creation. This doesn’t have the extended traits section afterward, explaining every Attribute, Ability, Background, et cetera. But, it’s got all your basic creation rules. … Read more
Now available from DriveThruRPG in PDF and print! Bad Moons and Silver Bullets It was a time when a silver bullet could buy your life in a way gold couldn’t. A time when the railroads barrelled their way west, and the Umbral skies tore open over them. When Garou warred on Garou, divided by the … Read more
Another preview today, V20 Dark Ages fans. Here’s the combat rules, along with Celerity, Fortitude, and Potence. Again, we’re really looking at offering new options for play, and emphasizing the feel we want to see in the Dark Ages. For example, some of the higher level Disciplines are similar, but not exactly the same as … Read more
Last week, I shared Necromancy and Thaumaturgy’s Path magic. This week, I wanted to show some of Necromancy’s rituals. We’re still not 100% sure how high we’re going with Disciplines in the book, because of space constraints. Turns out, it takes a lot of words to make a ton of vampire clans and bloodlines happen. … Read more
Now available in PDF, ePub, and print from DriveThruRPG! Tear down the tyrants! Paint the streets with the blood of Princes and Archbishops! With Anarch domains increasing their hold over new territories every night, the Kindred can no longer afford to consider Movement an unruly mob of wayward childer. As the doomed tactics of the … Read more
Head over to your local participating retailer and nab a copy of the Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition Quickstart, along with a number of other great freebies! Buy something from them while you’re there! What’s that, you want more? Very well: How about the Mage20 Quickstart Character Sheet? Happy gaming, and don’t forget to … Read more
People wanted setting. So here’s our biggest share yet. Chapter One: A Place in Time. This one comes courtesy Filamena Young. This is just off the hook, it’s not been through editing yet, so don’t bother noting typos and things. This is all about content and world building. From a design perspective, we figure most … Read more
Last week, I showed you Necromancy’s Paths. This week, I wanted to share Thaumaturgy’s Paths, likewise. It’s provided by our own Geoffrey McVey. This skews pretty close to V20, with some new flavor, and some material from Dark Ages: Vampire. When developing this, we’re finding a lot of dials in where to set any given … Read more
The PDFs for the Guide to the Technocracy and the Guide to the Traditions are on sale for 50% off the regular price for the next week!