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.
The end of the year is rapidly approaching! This month’s Onyx Path releases include:
- Curseborne: Accursed Tales (ebook/print)
- Curseborne: Curseborne Rulebook (PDF/print)
- Curseborne: Storypath Tasty Bit: The Invader (PDF)
- Scion: Scion: Dragon Companion (PDF/print)
And from Aegis Studios:
- Scarred Lands: Scarred Lands Player’s Guide (SWADE) Ancestries Preview (PDF)
- Scarred Lands: Creature Profiles: Pilfer Pixie (PDF)
This month’s Community Content, from the Storypath Nexus, Slarecian Vault, and Canis Minor includes:
- Trinity Continuum: The Babel Dossier 2.0
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Bleeding Edge of Style
Crowdfunding Update
The crowdfunding campaign for Infernals: Crowned by Hellfire for Exalted 3rd Edition has launched! As I write this on Saturday, we’re currently at $137,365, or 549% of our original $25,000 goal, thanks to our 1575 backers!
We hit the following stretch goals:
- Infernals Storyteller Screen
- Infernals Companion x7: Charms x2, Gazetteer of the Demon Realm, Treasure-Houses of Hell, Infernal Storytelling, Secrets of the Three Circles, Lords of Hell
- Infernals backer shirt
- Infernals Digital Wallpaper
- Infernals Streaming Overlay
- Infernals VTT Tokens
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: Traps (February 2026)
- Curseborne: The Making of Curseborne
- Curseborne: Seattle: City of Curses
- Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide novellas
- Exalted: Essence Storyteller’s Guide
- Realms of Pugmire: Lair of the Rat Kings
- Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
- Storypath Ultra: SPU Tasty Bit: Titanic Monsters (January 2026)
- Exalted: Sidereals Jumpstart
- Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
- Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
- Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
- At the Gates: Encore: The At the Gates Companion
- Post-Approval Development: If changes are requested from the previous stage, or additional miscellaneous development needs to be done.
- At the Gates: At the Gates Jumpstart
- Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
- The World Below: Secrets of Kalm and Kaos: The World Below Storyguide’s Handbook
- Exalted: Riders from the Sunless Lands: The Abyssals Companion
- Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.
- Curseborne: Toil & Trouble: Curseborne Player’s Guide
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
- Curseborne: Curseborne Jumpstart
- Curseborne: Curseborne Player’s Guide
- The World Below: The World Below Delver’s Guide
- The World Below: Underworld Adventures
- The World Below: Enter the Dungeon Jumpstart
- Scarred Lands: Spiragos Collected Adventures
- 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: Audio Drama
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aether Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars
- Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Leviathan Companion
- Trinity Continuum: Gear and Gadgets
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
- Exalted: Essence: Exalted Essence Player’s Guide
- Exalted: Sidereals Companion
- 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: Accursed Adventures
- The World Below: Ed Greenwood’s Monstrous Ecology of the World Below
- At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook
- Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Rulebook
- Scion: Gifts of the Titans
- Scion: War Games: Titans Rising Origin and Hero Adventures
- Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
- Scion: God Jumpstart
- They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
- They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: They Came from the Danger Zone!
- Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies!
- Exalted: Essence: The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide
- Exalted: Exigents: Champions of the Divine Flame
- Exalted: Infernals (Crowdfunding)
- Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire Unleashed
- In Layout: Typeface, coloration, and art are chosen, added to the manuscript text, and laid out for visual appeal.
- Storypath Ultra Core Manual
- Curseborne: Curseborne Screen
- The World Below: World Below Storyguide Screen
- Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Players Guide Wallpaper
- Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade)
- Exalted: Sidereals Storyteller Screen
- Exalted: Abyssals Storyteller Screen
- Exalted: Alchemicals: Servants of 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.
- They Came From…: Heroes of Action and Wonder!
- 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:
- Curseborne: Curseborne Rulebook: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
- The World Below: The World Below Rulebook: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
- 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: Out of the Ashes: File prep.
- Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course: Quoting.
- Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
- Branch Riders: PoD files uploaded.
- Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau: Moved to the press queue.
- Other projects:
- Curseborne: Storypath Tasty Bit (December 2025): Ready to roll for next month.
- Scion: God: Player’s Guide: Errata stuff.
- Scion: Dragon: Dragon Tasty Bit Compilation
- They Came from the RPG Anthology!: RPG Anthology VTT
- Trinity Continuum: Æon: Fiction Omnibus: PoD proofs ordered
- Exalted: Exigents Storyteller Screen: At Studio2.
- Realms of Pugmire Fiction Omnibus
- Crowdfunded projects: