Now in Print: January 24

Classic World of Darkness CTD: Noblesse Oblige: The Book of Houses CTD: Pour L’Amour et Liberté: The Book of Houses 2 World of Darkness CTL: Changeling: The Lost Rulebook Scion Ragnarök Changeling: The Lost and Ragnarok are our first books offered in “Standard Color” as opposed to the “Premium Color” option. It’s a reduced cost … Read more

Storyteller’s Discretion

As you may have gleaned from posts I’ve made on various forums of late, I’m writing the kewl powerz for Demon: The Spearmint. I’m also co-developing, but that’s neither here nor there for purposes of this entry. What I want to talk about here is “Storyteller discretion,” in a very specific context: that of supernatural powers. … Read more

Mid-Winter of our Disk Content

First off, Eddy was one of the guests at the Mid-Winter convention where he spread the word about Onyx Path (including a presentation with Matt McElroy) and was his usual LARPy self. He shared a couple of things that happened there with me besides the overall good things convention attenders had to say about Onyx … Read more

Grappling!

So, someone on RPG.Net asked for spoilers about grappling in the God-Machine Chronicle, and it occurred to me that I had meant to post an extra spoiler or two, but never got back around to it. So what the heck? I’m not opposed to grappling. Grapple To grab your opponent, roll Strength + Brawl – Defense. … Read more

The Choir Invisible

Update: Clarifications and fixes were made on 1/19. — Busy week for Vampire again. I’ve been working with the writers on the last of the Disciplines, and getting together reprinted material for the anthology. We posted a second draft of Protean earlier today. And there are lots of contracts and practical matters to square away! Plus, … Read more

Anarchs Unbound: Redlines and Rewrites

Hey, gang: As the final touches are put on Hunters Hunted II in preparation for Kickstartery, I wanted to offer you a forward-looking peek at some of the Anarchs Unbound work in progress. You can find one of the redlines here. If you’re unfamiliar with our process, a redline is when I as developer take … Read more

Hanging it all Out

Last night we had a three-hour Hangout with myself and the Book of the Wyrm consulting developers. We talked about a whole lot of things, from mechanics of corruption to the Wyrm getting in to payday lending and the return of Günter Häagen•Däaz, the Man With Too Many Umlauts. And at this point, you guys … Read more

Trinity Continuum: What’s in a name?

Hi, everyone. I’m Ian Watson, and I’m overseeing development on the upcoming Trinity Continuum books. I’m what Rich is calling the “uber-developer.” Currently I’m working with Æon developer John Snead and the writing crew he’s beginning to assemble. So what’s with the new name? Long-time fans are doubtless familiar with the troubles we’ve had with … Read more