Release Roundup: October 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.

Hope you’re all having a great Halloween! This month’s Onyx Path releases include:

And from Aegis Studios:

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

Merch

Crowdfunding Update

As you’re reading this, the crowdfunding campaign for the Curseborne Player’s Guide has finished! We closed at $65,636, or 219% of our original $30,000 goal, thanks to our 1099 backers!

We hit the following stretch goals:

  • Curseborne Fiction x2: Two short stories
  • Curseborne Digital Wallpaper
  • Curseborne backer shirt
  • Curseborne Scenario
  • Curseborne VTT Tokens

And our friends at Aegis Studios are running a Kickstarter for a Savage Worlds version of the Scarred Lands Player’s Guide. They’ve got two weeks remaining, and are currently at $5600, or 187% of the original $2000 goal!

They’ve hit the following stretch goals:

  • Power and Edge Cards
  • Adventures x3: Adapting adventures from the Festering Fields, Leoni, Lokil, and Mansk sections of Vigil Watch 5e; adventures from Wilderness & Wastelands, Vigil Watch: Warrens of the Ratmen, and Vigil Watch: Secrets of the Asaatthi

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 (January 2026)
    • Curseborne: The Making of Curseborne
    • Curseborne: Seattle: City of Curses
    • Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide novellas
    • Exalted: Essence Storyteller’s Guide
    • Exalted: Sidereals Jumpstart
  • Redlines: Developers make notes and desired changes to writers
  • Second/Final Draft: Writers turn in second drafts based on developer redlines
  • Development: Developers tie everything together and make any desired final changes.
    • Storypath Ultra: Discord Dice Bot
    • The World Below: The World Below Delver’s Guide
    • Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire Unleashed Appendix
  • Manuscript Approval: The developed manuscript goes to Content Leads, In-House Developers, and the Creative Director for final approval.
    • Curseborne: Toil & Trouble: Curseborne Player’s Guide
    • 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
    • Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars: Leviathan Companion
    • Exalted: Infernals
  • Editing: Editors check for typos, nomenclature, and formatting errors.
    • Curseborne: Storypath Tasty Bit: Invader (November 2025)
    • Curseborne: Storypath Tasty Bit: Unwoven (October 2025)
    • The World Below: Secrets of Kalm and Kaos: The World Below Storyguide’s Handbook
    • Exalted: Riders from the Sunless Lands: The Abyssals Companion
    • Branch Riders: Facilitator’s Guide
  • Post-Editing Development: Additional approval and minor fixes from developers.

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
    • Curseborne: Tangled Webs
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Jumpstart
    • The World Below: Ed Greenwood’s Monstrous Ecology of the World Below
    • The World Below: Enter the Dungeon Jumpstart
    • Monster Kingdoms: Monster Kingdoms Rulebook
    • Scarred Lands: Spiragos Collected Adventures
    • Scion: Gifts of the Titans
    • Scion: God Jumpstart
    • Scion: God: Divine Inspiration
    • 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: Steam Wars
    • Trinity Continuum: Gear and Gadgets
    • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Best At What I Do
    • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: Hated and Feared
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aethernaut Collection
    • Exalted: Exigents: Champions of the Divine Flame
    • Exalted: Essence: Exalted Essence Player’s Guide
    • Exalted: Sidereals Companion
    • 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
    • Realms of Pugmire: Pugmire Unleashed
  • Art Direction: Artists are hired according to the needs of the line and book. Art is created and turned in.
    • Storypath Ultra Core Manual
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Player’s Guide
    • Curseborne: Accursed Adventures
    • The World Below: Underworld Adventures
    • At the Gates: At the Gates Rulebook
    • Scion: War Games: Titans Rising Origin and Hero Adventures
    • They Came From…: Heroes of Action and Wonder!
    • They Came from the Cyclops’s Cave!: Jumpstart
    • They Came from [CLASSIFIED]!: They Came from the Danger Zone!
    • Trinity Continuum: Aether: The Aether Companion
    • Trinity Continuum: Adventure!: Danger Skies!
    • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant: From the Shadows
    • Exalted: Essence: The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide
    • Exalted: Infernals (Crowdfunding)
  • 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
    • Trinity Continuum: Trinity Continuum Players Guide Wallpaper
    • Trinity Continuum: Anima Jumpstart: alt-AR (Cascade)
    • 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.
    • Curseborne: Curseborne Fiction Anthology
    • Realms of Pugmire Fiction Omnibus
  • 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: Errata stuff.
      • 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: Quoting.
      • Exalted: Sidereals: Charting Fate’s Course: Quoting.
      • Exalted: Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave: PDF and PoD versions on sale.
      • Branch Riders: Backer PDF on the way to backers this week.
      • Realms of Pugmire: Curious Cats of Mau: Moved to the press queue.
    • Other projects:
      • Scion: God: Player’s Guide
      • Scion: Dragon Companion: With backers.
      • They Came from the RPG Anthology!: RPG Anthology VTT
      • Exalted: Exigents Storyteller Screen: At Studio2.

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