World of Darkness

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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Busy as a mad thing

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Been quiet. Quiet is good because it means I’m getting stuff done. On the other hand, quiet means no open development, which is less good. So I’ll give you a general update now and work out what I can share for the next post. Book of Changing Breeds is with editing and art notes are … Read more

Hunters Hunted 2 and Anarchs Unbound

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A lot is happening in Vampire-land. First, the outline for Anarchs Unbound has been posted, and awaits your commentary. Feedback on the Hunters Hunted 2 outline was strong and definitely helped us refine the direction of the book, and I’m hoping we can see some similar strength in feedback on the Anarchs outline. The writers … Read more

The W20 Cookbook

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As some of you will have seen in the Kickstarter updates, one of the things that we’re offering as part of the “Holy shit you guys are awesome” level1 of stretch rewards is the W20 Cookbook. In the grand old tradition of W20 stretch goals, we didn’t plan this. I joked about doing it over … Read more

Kickstarter Krazy

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Or something along those lines, anyway. Rich is suffering from a power outage, what with Hurricane Sandy and all, so I thought I’d catch you up with where we’re at with the Deluxe W20 Kickstarter. It’s got another fourteen hours as of this writing to run. We’ve obliterated our original goal of $85K (it took … Read more

Jess on Ajaba

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[I asked Jess Hartley to put together a post about the Ajaba, and some of the changes we’re considering making to a breed close to both our hearts. Take it away, Jess!] Sometimes writing for a project like Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition is pretty straightforward. As a game line develops, decades of game … Read more

One week left on Werewolf20 Deluxe Kickstarter!

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We’re entering the home stretch now, with one week to go in the Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Kickstarter. As I write this, according to the KS tracker in the sidebar to the right, we’re at 289% of our original $85,000 goal, with $246,444 pledged and 1,459 backers. We’ve passed eight different stretch goals … Read more

W20 Writer Jess Hartley Interview

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Here is a transcript of W20 writer (and all-around WW word-smith par excellance) Jess Hartley‘s interview on the Charisma Bonus blog for those of you who might have missed it. Some really interesting questions and answers about classic WoD and new WoD, particularly in regards to Werewolf, and working on W20 and its supplements,  including … Read more