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:
- Storypath Ultra: Storypath Ultra Tasty Bit 02: Treacherous Traps! (PDF)
- Curseborne: Curseborne Tasty Bit Omnibus (PDF/print)
- Curseborne: Curseborne Streaming Overlays (Image)
- Curseborne: Curseborne VTT Tokens (VTT)
- Scion: Gifts of the Titans (PDF/print)
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!/[CLASSIFIED]!: Heroes of Action and Wonder! (PDF/print)
And from Aegis Studios:
- Scarred Lands: Creature Profiles: Tree Giant (PDF)
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
Crowdfunding Update
The Buried Treasures Crowdfunding Campaign for The World Below launched on Backerkit yesterday! This campaign is to help create The Delver’s Guide and Secrets of Kalm & Kaos. Thanks to your help, we funded in just two hours! We’re currently at $13,290, or 266% of our original $5000 goal, thanks to 231 backers!
We’ve unlocked the following stretch goals:
- Advent of the Silt x1: Exploration and cave delving
- New World Below RedBubble design
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
- Storypath Ultra: SPU Tasty Bit: Pinfalls and Bodyslams (April 2026)
- Storypath Ultra: SPU Tasty Bit: Dangerous Environs (May 2026)
- Curseborne: Next Big Project
- Curseborne: Solo Play
- Curseborne: The Making of Curseborne
- Realms of Pugmire: Lair of the Rat Kings
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- Curseborne: Peel Back the Bark (Curseborne novella 2)
- Exalted: Essence: Even the Heavens Will Burn (Essence Player’s Guide novella 2)
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Curseborne: Seattle: City of Curses
- Exalted: Essence: For the March Lords (Essence Player’s Guide novella 1)
- Exalted: Alchemicals Companion: Avatars of Brass and Shadow
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Jumpstart
- They Came from…!: Archetype All-Star Special!
- Exalted: Essence Storyteller’s Guide
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- 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.
- Storypath Ultra: SPU Tasty Bit: Parallel Lives (March 2026)
- Exalted: Sidereals Jumpstart
- Exalted: Infernals: Crowned by Hellfire
- Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.
- Curseborne: Toil & Trouble: Curseborne Player’s Guide
- At the Gates: A Daemon’s Bargain: An At the Gates Jumpstart
- At the Gates: Encore: The At the Gates Companion
- Exalted: Riders from the Sunless Lands: The Abyssals Companion
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.
- Curseborne: Tangled Webs
- Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Rulebook
- The World Below: The World Below Delver’s Guide
- The World Below: Enter the Dungeon Jumpstart
- Scarred Lands: Spiragos Collected Adventures
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave: They Came from Witchford Academy!
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis: Aegis Atlas
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Player’s Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Audio Drama
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aether Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Leviathan Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
- Exalted: Sidereals Companion
- Exalted: Exigents: Champions of the Divine Flame
- Exalted: Infernals: Crowned by Hellfire (Crowdfunding)
- Branch Riders: Facilitator’s Guide
- 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: Next Big Project
- Curseborne: Curseborne Player’s Guide
- Curseborne: Curseborne Jumpstart
- Curseborne: Accursed Adventures
- At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook
- The World Below: Underworld Adventures
- The World Below: Secrets of Kalm and Kaos: The World Below Storyguide’s Handbook (Backerkit)
- Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: They Came from the Danger Zone!
- They Came from Beyond the Grave!: They Came from Camp Murder Lake! Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Gear and Gadgets
- +Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies!
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
- Exalted: Essence: The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide
- Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire Unleashed
- In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
- Curseborne: Curseborne Screen
- The World Below: World Below Storyguide Screen
- Scion: God Jumpstart
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: CLASSIFIED Tasty Bit Dossier
- Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Players Guide Wallpaper
- Exalted: Sidereals Storyteller Screen
- Exalted: Abyssals Storyteller Screen
- Exalted: Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God
- Realms of Pugmire: Realms of Pugmire Guide Screen
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau 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.
- Curseborne: Community Content Support
- Scion: Pandora’s Box of Knacks, Birthrights, and Boons
- 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.
- Crowdfunded projects (including screens). Disappears from this list once both PDF and crowdfunded versions are released:
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual: Wrapping up… just need to do some tweaks to the character sheet.
- Curseborne: Curseborne Rulebook: Getting together some printer quote stuff.
- The World Below: The World Below Rulebook: Out to backers.
- Scion: Mythic Shards: Quoting.
- 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.
- Exalted: Exigents Storyteller Screen: At Studio2.
- Exalted: Exigents: Out of the Ashes: Shipping to fulfillment shippers.
- Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course: Quoting.
- Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
- Branch Riders: PDF and PoD now available on DriveThruRPG!
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau: Moved to the press queue.
- Other projects (including stretch goal projects). Disappears from this list once released on DTRPG:
- The World Below: Ed Greenwood’s Monstrous Ecology of the World Below: Prepping PoD files.
- They Came from the RPG Anthology!: RPG Anthology VTT: I’m setting this and some other VTTs Travis had ready up to go.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade): Errata collecting.
- Crowdfunded projects (including screens). Disappears from this list once both PDF and crowdfunded versions are released:
Where is the actual Realms of Pugmire book on this list? I see 8 or so other books, but not the new core book.