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
It’s hard to be Nosferatu. We get that. Who wouldn’t? For V20 Dark Ages, we wanted to give a new, but oddly familiar twist to the clan. Instead of harping on the curse, we’re giving a seed as to where the curse comes from. Where is that? The strange secret in Nosferatu blood, a secret … Read more
Spoiler: Clan Salubri dies off. Sorry about that. So it really sucks to play them, right? Because that puts the Salubri in the role of metaplot vehicles with a foregone future. That’s kind of contrary to the point of a roleplaying game, isn’t it? Roleplaying games are about choices and consequences. As a player, you … Read more
Hi Everyone, For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been showing off some of the new art for Mage 20th Anniversary. This week however, I want to change things up a bit and preview a piece of art from one of the Changing Breeds 20 Kickstarter Stretch Goals. The piece to the right is a Corax … Read more
A lot of Vampire remains essentially unchanged from the modern nights to the Dark Ages. Most of the clans remain the same. Many of the Disciplines are basically similar. But with V20 Dark Ages, one of our biggest goals is to really give you a lot of value for your readership. We want to add … Read more
A new Kindred: The Embraced DVD set is now available on Amazon! Enter the dangerous and sexy world of the undead when vampires clash with mortals — and each other — in modern-day San Francisco. Five clans of urban vampires are known as the Kindred, and in their terrifying embrace, one becomes forever young… forever beautiful… forever doomed. … Read more
One of the most common things we’ve heard as we stepped into V20 Dark Ages was that the Road of Sin didn’t integrate well with games. Many people outright disallowed it in play. So, we wanted to take the Road of Sin, and make it more directly playable. Neall Raemonn Price, our author for the Road … Read more
Hi Everyone, This week we are featuring the artwork of one of my favorite “old skool” White Wolf artists, Mark Jackson. Back in the day, he was in every Mage book…Sons of Ether, Tales of Magick: Dark Adventure, Bygone Bestiary…the list goes on. So when Rich and I were putting together the artist roster for … Read more
Last time, I shared with you a note section based on the Tzimisce voice character. Today, I wanted to share with you a first draft of some text from our own Danielle Lauzon. This is her first draft for the Road of Kings. I don’t have a lot to say in support of this. I … Read more
Hi Everybody, Getting an earlier start today than I did on last week’s blog. This week we are revealing one more of Steve Prescott’s pieces, the Orphans “splat” (pictured to the left). Her description as written by the developer: Vaguely sheltered from a storm stands a dark-skinned Brazilian girl, late teens/ early 20s, with long … Read more
If you’re reading this blog, you’ve probably read at least a few Onyx Path/White Wolf books in the past. You’ve seen the end result of a process. Usually, this process looks something like so: 1) Developer pitches a book. 2) Publisher accepts the pitch. 3) Developer crafts an outline and hires writers. 4) Writers scribble … Read more