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:
- Curseborne: Storypath Tasty Bit: The Living Epoch (pdf)
- The World Below: The World Below Rulebook (pdf/print)
- The World Below: The World Below Storyguide Screen (pdf)
- The World Below: The World Below VTT Assets (vtt)
- The World Below: The World Below Streaming Overlays (image)
- Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Tasty Bit Compilation (pdf/print)
- Trinity Continuum: Aegis: Trinity Continuum: Aegis Rulebook (pdf/print)
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
- Scarred Lands: Kocho’s Guide to Redemption: Spider-Eye Goblins
- Scion: Origin: Pantheon Branded Character Sheets
- Scion: Healer’s Guide to Ascension
- Scion: Hero: Pantheon Branded Character Sheets
- Scion: Demigod: Pantheon Branded Character Sheets
- Scion: God: Pantheon Branded Character Sheets
Crowdfunding Update
The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide launched on BackerKit last week, and funded in just under an hour! We’re currently at $67,760, or 339% of our $20,000 goal, thanks to 997 backers!
We unlocked the following stretch goals:
- Essence Extended x4: Exalts of Creation: Solars, Sidereals, Lunars, Dragon-Blooded. Exalts of Other Realms: Infernals, Abyssals, Liminals, Getimians, Alchemicals
- RedBubble Backer Shirt
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: Toil & Trouble: Curseborne Player’s Guide
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Leviathan Companion
- Exalted: Exalted Essay Collection
- Exalted: Riders from the Sunless Lands: The Abyssals Companion
- Exalted: Infernals
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- Storypath Ultra: Discord Dice Bot
- At the Gates: At the Gates Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Gear and Gadgets
- Realms of Pugmire: Expansion of the Realms
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual Additional Settings
- Curseborne: Curseborne Jumpstart
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- Curseborne: Tangled Webs
- At the Gates: At the Gates Jumpstart
- Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Rulebook
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: The Lost City of the Oracle’s Amulet
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- Exalted: Sidereals Companion
- Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual
- Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
- Curseborne: STB: Curseborne Antagonist 4: Quisivore (April)
- Scion: Mythic Shards
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars Rulebook
- 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 from 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: God Jumpstart
- Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
- Scion: God: Player’s Guide
- They Came From…: Heroes of Action and Wonder!
- 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
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
- Exalted: Exigents: VTT Tokens
- Exalted: Exigents: Champions of the Divine Flame
- Exalted: Alchemicals: Servants of the Machine God
- 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: War Games: Titans Rising Origin and Hero Adventures
- Scion: Gifts of the Titans
- Scion: Wild Hunt
- Scion: Mythic Shards
- Scion: Demigod Companion
- Scion: Dragon Companion
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: They Came from the Danger Zone!
- Trinity Continuum: Aether Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies!
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade)
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: DLC
- 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: Curious Cats of Mau
- In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
- Scion: Tasty Bit Compilation
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: Aether Storyguide Screen
- Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave
- 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: God Storyguide Screen
- Scion: Titans Rising
- 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.
- Reprints:
- Scion: Origin: Starting shipping to backers.
- Trinity Continuum Core: Starting shipping to backers. PoD files uploaded.
- The World Below: The World Below Rulebook: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
- Scion: God: Fixing some stuff printer spotted.
- 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: Fixing some stuff printer spotted.
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: With Great Power: Advance PDF almost ready to go on sale in April.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Trinity Continuum: Anima Rulebook: Shipping to backers.
- Trinity Continuum: Anima: Terra Surge Reference Screen: Shipping to backers.
- Trinity Continuum: Æon: Æon reprint: PoD proof ordered.
- Exalted Essence: Pillars of Creation (Essence Companion): Awaiting errata.
- 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: Files uploaded to DTRPG.
- Reprints: