#onyx path publishing

[impernious]

At the Gates

I'm screaming, crying, throwing up right now. The Backerkit goes live on May 7th. It's real. It's really really real.

If you purchased the Ashcan and enjoyed it. If you didn't purchase the Ashcan because you were waiting for the actual campaign. If you are just now hearing about this game. If you hate me and want to spite me by pledging for a PDF and leaving fart jokes in the comment section.

Please go and sign up to get notified when the Backerkit goes live.

#ttrpg #ttrpg stuff #ttrpg community #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #at the gates #ttrpg design #jrpg #jrpg games

[ghostofcinders]

Dark Fantasy isn't about being edgy. It's not about using all the "-isms", nor subjecting audiences to a neverending stream of terrible people being terrible.

It's about the entropy of a hostile world, wearing everything out. And those who still fight to preverse embers of light.

If you think the power of dark fantasy is in racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., then you're looking at the surface and mistaking elements that aren't even necessary for the whole thing. Which is a mistake many authors do. Yup, calling that a mistake. I don't care, I love dark fantasy too much to pretend that's not the case.

Kentaro Miura knew this, as he created Berserk. The point isn't about the darkness only, no matter how you decide to put that in: it's about what protagonists do to find their place in said dark world, how they rage against it. Whether they fail or not, whether they keep trying or give up.

Look at Dark Souls and Elden Ring, I mean. Hollow Knight. Dark Fantasy is about Darkness and Light, showing how the latter trembles, dies, or endures in the former.

Side note: I look forward to you people seeing what we created for The World Below.

#dark souls #elden ring #dark fantasy #onyx path publishing #the world below

[vtm-nightcity]

Source: Prince's Gambit

#onyx path publishing #kickstarter #vampire the masquerade #wod #sabbat #camarilla #world of darkness #vtm #Onyx Path

[manyworldsofdarkness]

What is CURSEBORNE?

This might be of interest to any World of Darkness or Chronicles of Darkness fans or any fans of Onyx Path Publishing and White Wolf in general. We could be getting a new urban fantasy horror game series soon.

On April 10th, 2023 Onyx Path publishing’s blog brought up a hypothetical of making their own urban fantasy game series. Of course this was in response to their lack of any new WoD or CofD products as they do not own the rights to those IPs and must have approval by Paradox before working on anything. Currently Paradox is more focused on supporting their v5 products with their in house studio, Renegade Games and are no longer contracting other studios to right supplements for them for the foreseeable future. Because of this, the 20th Anniversary World of Darkness games and Chronicles of Darkness lines aren’t getting any new releases and what has already been announced and put into production are the only things to release in the near future. The only way for Onyx Path to make more urban fantasy horror games is to make their own and while they only mentioned this as a possibility, the comments section of this blog post exploded into discussions over this new potential game.

The next few blog posts afterwards continued the discussions asking people what they would like to see in a new potential horror game, such as a Masquerade system or signature characters as the comments sections only further spawned more discussion over this new world. Around this time too, Onyx Path announced their new unified version of their in-house system called Storypath Ultra, which should go without saying but will definitely be the system this potential game will be using. Then about a month later, on May 19th, on the official Onyx Path YouTube channel, this video was released https://youtu.be/fL1VPUzoB_Y?si=cR4ZPeb0wf9Kt6mM

A short seven second long animation of a murder of crows flying against a snowy tree line and the word “CURSEBORNE” forming as they all fly away. A short, mysterious teaser? Well for the next eight months Onyx Path would release a total of 30 videos of similar nature as of writing this post. Strange and short vignettes of classic horror tropes such as fog, spiders and recordings of monsters. Some would even be rereleased with minor differences and even text. I recommend watching some for yourself, there is a really eerie vibe to some. These capture more “modern” horror vibes when compared to WoD or CofD, some even feel inspired by analog horror or urban legends, the “Train” short particular reminds me of Japanese urban legends. Blog posts more or less stopped mentioning this potential game as time went on and mentions were then replaced with a strange picture of a moth, the same one at the top of this post.

On January 31st, 2024, 7:00 EST this website appeared https://www.curseborne.com/

CURSEBORNE, the title in all of those videos. The website has no text, just images of the same moth from the blog just posted all over a black background. Some will slowly fade in. Clicking on them will lead to a new page featuring one of the many teaser videos playing in your browser. Going back to the homepage, you’ll see a moth that appears to be glowing when compared to the others. Clicking it sends you to a Typeform quiz asking “Who are you?”. Answering it gives you a strange title such as “Raptor”, “Gaki”, “Archivist” etc. with a description of how you act. If I’d have to guess, these titles could be the names to new monsters or factions in CURSEBORNE. I’d like everyone who’s interested to please take this quiz and post your results on this post to see how many titles, or “paths” are found.

In short, it looks like Onyx Path is gearing up to make a new urban fantasy game using their own system. It’s not going to be World of Darkness with different names, but its own unique take on the concept.

#curseborne #World of Darkness #chronicles of darkness #onyx path publishing #white wolf publishing #TTRPG #Youtube

[theonyxpath]

They Came from [CLASSIFIED]! is the latest in the They Came From… line of tabletop roleplaying games. [CLASSIFIED]! sees characters ranging from talented adventurers and agency quartermasters, to dashing spies and sexy provocateurs, embracing all the excitement, gadgets, and mayhem of the spy movies and detective TV shows prevalent from the 1960s onward. Whether you’re a Moore-era Bond fan, an aficionado of John Steed and Emma Peel’s adventures, or an Austin Powers-esque swinging cat, [CLASSIFIED]! has everything you need for a groovy, espionage-filled story.

They Came from [CLASSIFIED]! uses the Storypath System, which is contained in full in the pages of this book. Available now in PDF and POD at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/461007/They-Came-From-CLASSIFIED?affiliate_id=13&src=OPPTumblr

#onyx path publishing #they came from ttrpg #they came from classified #spy movies #cinematic #tabletop roleplaying #storypath

[samalbro]

Harmonious Jade - "Exalted" Night Caste Solar.

Sketchfab 3D Viewer: https://skfb.ly/oIBwB

#maya #3d art #3d modeling #character model #maya 3d #fan art #exalted #rpg #roleplay #ttrpg #tabletop #toon shading #toon shader #cel shading #white wolf #onyx path publishing

[presidentofbirds]

I've been an RPG freelancer since 2019 and with the typically long publishing process coupled with delays from global events, this is my first project with a publisher to officially hit it's public release! It was the third project I was hired for, my first working on the Chronicles of Darkness, and definitely the hardest one to write.

#ttrpg #ttrpg design #i did a thing #i wrote a thing #onyx path publishing #mage the awakening

[cloudboundcorgi]

Art fight piece! Jade, an Acanthus mage who belongs to https://artfight.net/~orientalkfc

#mage the awakening #acanthus #onyx path publishing #art fight #witch #artfight2023 #ttrpg art

[lazyflux]

So much ttrpg goodness today from video games to gencon. Productivity is tanking.

#ttrpg #indie ttrpg #pf2e #dnd #bg3 #chronicles of darkness #onyx path publishing

[yih]

Showdown with the fair folk Illustration for Onyx Path Publishing's Exigents: Out of the Ashes. Art director: Michael Chaney

#illustration #painting #onyx path publishing #exalted #red head #battle #red hair #scythe #fight #elf #fantasy #magic

[impernious]

At the Gates

If you've missed it until now, At the Gate is a high fantasy game inspired by media like final fantasy and books like the Ryiria Chronicles. We have an Ashcan of it live on DTRPG. Please use your dollars to check it out, which will help a girl get some eyeballs on her work! https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/475586/At-The-Gates-Ashcan-Edition?affiliate_id=245791

#ttrpg #ttrpg community #ttrpg stuff #onyx path publishing #ttrpg dev #at the gates #ttrpg design #jrpg

[ghostofcinders]

The World Below, the brand new dark fantasy game Onyx Path Publishing made and for which I wrote for, is about to go crowdfunding on Backerkit.

I think we created a great game there and I certainly poured a lot of myself and my love for all things dark fantasy in there.

Expect me to talk extensively about it soon! In the meantime, here's a link to the Backerkit campaign so you can get notified when it starts!

(By the way, that big monster who made it to the cover? Yup, happy to say that's an original creation of mine. I knew it would make an impression, even become iconic, but getting the cover is quite the personal achievement)

#ttrpg #onyx path publishing #the world below #dark fantasy

[vtm-nightcity]

You are a vampire; you own the night. And you’re not alone. There are others of you out there, the Kindred as you call yourselves, and your world is one of secret sects and hidden agendas.

Some of you belong to the Camarilla, the aristocracy of the undead, holding yourselves above the mortal world in an ivory tower.

Others of you belong to the Sabbat, a medieval death cult that believes the living are little more than animal to be fed from.

-- Justin Achilli on Vampire: Prince’s Gambit

#Vampire the Masquerade #World of Darkness #Justin Achilli #prince's gambit #camarilla #sabbat #vtm #WoD #onyx path publishing

[theinkedknight]

My 2022 art vs artist with the six games of mine that dropped this year

#ttrpg #scion 2e #onyx path publishing #rpg #tabletop rpg #scion #root rpg #root #osr #osr rpg #writers on tumblr #art vs artist #odesseys and overlords

[theonyxpath]

Happy N-Day! On Mar 23 2018 At 12:18pm GMT, the Galatea orbital station explodes, kicking off the Nova Age!

Explore the Nova Age in Trinity Continuum: Aberrant, available in POD and PDF at DriveThruRPG and at your FLGS!

If you'd like to see Trinity Continuum: Aberrant in action check out our Storypath Showcase on YouTube!

#onyx path publishing #trinity continuum #aberrant #N-Day #superhero #sci fi #tabletop roleplaying

[hiromicota]

It’s a super busy day in RPG fundraising! I know of THREE excellent titles that just launched.

Constellation vol. 1! It’s a RPG zine anthology that collects 12 different games by cool designers!

The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game! It’s based on N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth Trilogy, and you can play the QuickStart that I wrote and developed now!

Realms of Pugmire second edition! It’s a brand new and OGL–free edition of the best fantasy game where you can be good dogs, trying to make the world a better place. 

#TTRPG #ttrpg community #fifth season #Pugmire #hit point press #green ronin #onyx path publishing