Release Roundup: April 2025

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Welcome to the Release Roundup! This is where we update you on what we’ve been up to for the last month, from weekly releases to crowdfunding projects to production status updates.

This month’s Onyx Path releases include:

This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:

This month’s RedBubble merch designs include:

Crowdfunding Update

The Exalted Essence Player’s Guide funded in just under an hour and wrapped up last week! We finished with $112,105, or 561% or our original $20,000 goal, thanks to our 1592 backers!

We unlocked the following stretch goals:

  • Essence Extended x7: Exalts of Creation: Solars, Sidereals, Lunars, Dragon-Blooded. Exalts of Other Realms: Infernals, Abyssals, Liminals, Getimians, Alchemicals. Exigents Expansion: four new Exigents. Universal Charms Expansion.
  • RedBubble Backer Shirt
  • Essence Player’s Guide Desktop Wallpaper
  • Essence Player’s Guide VTT Token Pack
  • Essence Novella 1
  • Essence Novella 2
  • Essence Streaming Overlay

CURRENT PRODUCTION STATUS

Titles in bold have changed production stages since last month. Early stages, such as proposals, outlines, and approvals, are not shown here.

Development: These stages typically happen first in a project, and concern the words you’re going to be reading.

  • First Draft: Writers turn in their initial drafts
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Fiction Anthology
    • Curseborne: Toil & Trouble: Curseborne Player’s Guide
    • Exalted: Riders from the Sunless Lands: The Abyssals Companion
  • Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
    • At the Gates: At the Gates Companion
    • Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Leviathan Companion
    • Exalted: Infernals
  • Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
    • Storypath Ultra Core Manual Additional Settings
    • Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire and Beyond (was Expansion of the Realms)
  • Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
    • Storypath Ultra: Discord Dice Bot
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Jumpstart
    • At the Gates: At the Gates Jumpstart
  • Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
    • Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Rulebook
  • Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
  • Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
    • Curseborne: Tangled Webs
    • Curseborne: STB: Symbol of Murder
    • Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars Rulebook
    • Trinity Continuum: Gear and Gadgets
    • Exalted: Sidereals Companion
    • Branch Riders: Facilitator’s Guide
  • Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Core Rulebook

Art Direction: These stages happen concurrently with the final stages of Development, and concern the visual appearance of the final product. Accordingly, some items may appear in both the Development and Art Direction lists.

  • Art Notes Prep: Hand-off between production and art. Art notes are collected from developers, projects placed in a holding pattern as artist availability is managed. Sometimes a project might move back to Prep from active Art Direction. Don’t panic.
    • Storypath Ultra Core Manual
    • The World Below: Underworld Adventures
    • The World Below: Ed Greenwood’s Monstrous Ecology of the World Below
    • The World Below: Enter the Dungeon Jumpstart
    • Scarred Lands: Spiragos Collected Adventures
    • Scion: War Games: Titans Rising Origin and Hero Adventures
    • Scion: Gifts of the Titans
    • Scion: God Jumpstart
    • Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
    • Scion: God: Player’s Guide
    • They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: They Came from the Danger Zone!
    • They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave: They Came from Witchford Academy!
    • They Came from Beyond the Grave!: They Came from Camp Murder Lake! VTT Adventure
    • Trinity Continuum: Aegis: Aegis Atlas
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Player’s Guide
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aether Companion
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: Audio Drama
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
    • Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
    • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
    • Exalted: Exigents: VTT Tokens
    • Exalted: Exigents: Champions of the Divine Flame
    • Realms of Pugmire: Wallpapers
    • Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Jumpstart
    • Realms of Pugmire: Rumble in Riverwall
    • Realms of Pugmire: The Haunted Village
    • Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau Jumpstart
  • Art Direction: Artists are hired according to the needs of the line and book. Art is created and turned in.
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Rulebook
    • At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook
    • Scion: Rock Gods and Side Quests
    • Scion: Dragon Companion
    • They Came From…: Heroes of Action and Wonder!
    • Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies!
    • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
    • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
    • Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade)
    • Exalted: Alchemicals: Servants of the Machine God
    • Exalted: Essence: The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide (Crowdfunding)
    • Exalted: Exigents Jumpstart
    • Exalted: Exigents: Miracles of Divine Flame (Exigents Companion)
    • Branch Riders
    • Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire and Beyond (was Expansion of the Realms)
    • Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau
  • In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
    • The World Below: World Below Storyguide Screen
    • Scion: Mythic Shards
    • Scion: Tasty Bit Compilation
    • They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether Jumpstart
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Storyguide Screen
    • Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave
    • Exalted: Essence: Essence Novella Omnibus
    • Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Guide Screen
  • Proofing: The final book layout is checked over by the art director, creative director, and sometimes the developer to make sure everything appears as it should.
    • Scion: Demigod Companion
    • Scion: God Storyguide Screen
    • Scion: Wild Hunt
    • Trinity Continuum: Anima: DLC
  • Indexing: Larger rulebooks have a comprehensive index created.
  • At Press: The final product is being sent to printers or being prepped for digital release. Statuses in bold have changed since last month.
    • The World Below: The World Below Rulebook: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
    • Scion: God: Printing.
    • They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: The Lost City of the Oracle’s Amulet: PoD proof ordered.
    • They Came from…!: They Came from the RPG Anthology! Rulebook: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
    • Trinity Continuum: Aegis: Trinity Continuum: Aegis Rulebook: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: Trinity Continuum: Aether Rulebook: Printing.
    • Exalted: Exigents: Out of the Ashes: Quoting.
    • Exalted: Exigents Storyteller Screen: At Studio2.
    • Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course: Quoting.
    • Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire Conversion Doc: Prepping PoD.

2 thoughts on “Release Roundup: April 2025”

  1. So, you decided finally to remove the Exalted: Exalted Essay Collection from your development cycle? It means it will definitely not happen?

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