Showing posts with label Onyx Path. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Onyx Path. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 August 2026

RPGaDAY 2026 25. Familiarity

#RPGaDAY 2026

25. Familiarity

25. One game you want to get more familiar with?

I would like a chance to play Storypath Ultra someday, and try the Quick Play variant too, as they’re streamlined next steps after the version used in Trinity Continuum.

Monday, 8 June 2026

Chicago By Ludonarrative

Ludonarrative Dissidents look at Chicago By Night V5 and how it reflects changes to Vampire: The Masquerade. Positive on the content, concerns on layout decisions, thoughts on playability versus readability. Noting the Beckoning and how many old vampires are still around (which was always a bit much for Chicago, coming first will do that) and the use of the adventure.

Monday, 6 April 2026

Friday, 12 December 2025

Chronicles of Darkness at ten

Chronicles of Darkness came out on this day in 2015.

So if you’re still calling it nWoD we can kill and eat you.

Wednesday, 19 November 2025

Curseborne

Curseborne core rulebook is out now on DriveThruRPG. Having been out to backers for some time, it already has adventures, fiction, Tasty Bits and the like in place, and a Players Guide on the way.

Thursday, 21 August 2025

Tuesday, 12 August 2025

RPGaDAY 2025 12 - Path

#RPGaDAY2025

12 - Path

A path suggests something narrower and perhaps less clearly marked than a road.

Morpheus says “there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path” in The Matrix. The Crow ends with Jane Siberry speaking of how “we walk the narrow path beneath the smoking skies” and City Of Angels ends with Heather Nova singing “I believe there’s a path we follow...” The end of the Tenth Doctor’s era in Doctor Who begins with a hymn that “there is always a path, we walk it all our lives...”

Pathfinder emphasises paths have to be found.

And the Onyx Path heads into the horizon.

All suggest going out past the roads where civilisation ends, possibly going into literal danger and wilderness or possibly seeking wisdom. And that it isn’t easy.

(Of course you can also have a garden path, but work with me here.)

12a - 3, 7, 3
Where, Lucky, Genre

Going in search of mystical answers all gets a bit too metaphysical for the genre you’re in. Buffy didn’t take her vision quests entirely seriously. To be fair, one involved Giles jumping out of a circle of sticks and back in and shaking a magic gourd. Presentation is important when trying to seem mysterious and wise.

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Onyx Path Convention 2025

June 6th-8th, with closer looks at Curseborne, Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars and more.

Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Curseborne Kickstarter

Curseborne is live on Kickstarter, and I believe my pledge put it over the halfway point after eight minutes. Fully funded in thirty-two.

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Friday, 14 June 2024

Curseborne

Curseborne Ashcan launched as of Onyx Path Con.

The Curseborne panel mentioned Mike Flanagan’s Fall Of The House of Usher, Concrete Blonde’s Bloodletting and Unsolved Mysteries when I asked for inspirational media suggestions.

They note that you can rebel against horrible families or lean in. (My takeaway from the Actual Play premiere was that two of the five PCs are annoying people and one is a monster without their monstrous powers. Happy to see this is not a requirement.)

Onyx Path Virtual Con 2024

Tonight at 5pm EST. Curseborne is real!

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Branch Riders

Branch Riders, from the Bodhana Group and friends at Onyx Path, a game of connected universes trying to work together, for players age 8 and up with guides for parents, teachers and others using roleplaying.

Thursday, 23 May 2024

Curseborne promotional pamphlet

A look in and around the Curseborne promotional pamphlet.

An emphasis on modern horror and urban fantasy, suggesting it plays more like creepypasta than Being Human.

Kicking October.

Five Lineages - Dead, Hungry, Primal, Outcast and Sorcerer. Yes, that covers most of the classic WoD splats.

Monday, 6 May 2024

Monday, 29 April 2024

Sunday, 24 March 2024

Demon: The Descent at 10

Demon: The Descent launched ten years ago today. It’s the only Chronicles of Darkness outside of Vampire: The Requiem and a couple of blue book one-shots that I’ve actually run.