Release Roundup: February 2019

Vampire: The Masquerade: Beckett’s Jyhad Diary (deluxe edition via Indie Press Revolution) Vampire: The Masquerade: Beckett’s Jyhad Diary Storyteller Screen (Indie Press Revolution) Vampire: The Masquerade: Vampire 20th Dice (Indie Press Revolution) Wraith: The Oblivion: Stygia Map Poster (image/print) Changeling: The Dreaming: Changeling 20th Anniversary Edition (deluxe edition via Indie Press Revolution) Changeling: The Dreaming: … Read more

Strains [Dystopia Rising: Evolution]

The main “character class” you choose in DR:E is called a “Strain.” I’ll talk a little about Strain Paths in another update, but I wanted to give you a bit of an in-world explanation of what they are. Just remember — while the people you play may be physically (and in some cases mentally) different … Read more

Third Time’s The Charm! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Thanks everyone who commented on our blog posts last week. Hearing from you was both informative and very helpful. As you might imagine, we spent a fair amount of time during this week’s Monday Meeting discussing the reactions we’ve encountered. End of the day, we’ve tried from the beginning of Onyx Path‘s existence to bring … Read more

Fiction Friday: Grass [Scion: Hero]

The following text is the introductory fiction to Scion: Hero 2nd Edition. Scion 2e can still be preordered via BackerKit. A cloud-darkened sky is only featureless to those who don’t really look. The careful and discerning eye perceives a thousand folds within the gathering storm. One can take any number of lessons from the sky … Read more

Episode 40: Deviant The Zawadzki

In which Matthew and Dixie talk about the interview that Eddy and Dixie had with Eric Zawadzki. Also, so many pop culture references. So many. Eddy isn’t here (he’s still recovering from surgery). But who is the mysterious Editor? Some Buffy, Smallville, and Supernatural discussion Eric started on Paranoia XP Dixie’s first book was the … Read more

Directorial Control [They Came from Beneath the Sea!]

Many features of our Storypath games contain similar effects, but go under different names in different contexts. For example, Scion’s Twists of Fate have characters calling on divine energies to twist fate in their favor. The Trinity Continuum’s Dramatic Editing has Talents subconsciously tweaking probabilities in the fabric of reality. I thought it might be fun to check out how They Came from Beneath the Sea! contextualizes the same thing: A Special Case: Directorial Control If you’ve activated a … Read more

Now Available: Lost shirts and Stygia map!

Now available from DriveThruRPG: the Stygia Map Poster for Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition! (This is the same map found inside Wraith20.) All the stories they told you about what it would be like after you died? They were wrong. There is no Heaven and there is no Hell. There’s only the Underworld, with the ravening … Read more

Shapeshifting [Lunars]

Originally posted as yesterday’s update on our Kickstarter for Lunars: Fangs at the Gate for Exalted 3rd Edition. The Lunars are peerless shapeshifters, clothing themselves in the skins of fierce beasts or stolen faces. Their protean power evinces their predatory nature; before a Lunar can take a human’s or animal’s shape, she must consume its … Read more