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
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!
One of the earliest Vampire: The Masquerade supplements, dating all the way back to 1991, was Blood Nativity, published by Atlas Games, and is now available in PDF. Now that Atlas has joined DriveThruRPG, all sorts of classic products — like early Ars Magica — are being added, including Blood Nativity.
Now available in PDF and print from DriveThruFiction! Songs of the Sun Each dawn reveals new wonders to Gaia’s shapeshifting children. Each time Helios rises above the horizon, they face a new day of uncovering secrets, unveiling duplicity, and standing strong for the good of Gaia and those she claims as Her own. Songs of … Read more
As I ramp up development and turn words into final drafts, I plan to share more and more content. So here’s a good way to start: Necromancy. This is just the paths. It’s a pretty big chunk of wordcount, though. I felt it deserved a lot of attention, so did Thaumaturgy. Because, you know, Cappadocians, … Read more
Hi everybody! Right now, we’re closing in on a lot of drafts of V20 Dark Ages. Many are in editing. Some are getting some last-stage polish. In the mean time, I wanted to share one of my favorite V20 Dark Ages bloodline writeups: The Lamiae. We have about a dozen bloodlines, and a few transitional … Read more