Starting the New Year Scarred Lands Update!
about 4 years ago
– Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 05:46:07 PM
Hello Scarred Lands backers!
We're starting out this year with the beginning of two projects, Yugman's Guide to Ghelspad and Vigil Watch - both of which detail areas of the Scarred Lands, and the cool stuff you can find there.
The thing with these two projects is that we're going to release a PDF section of each book each month on DriveThruRPG, with January, March, May, July, September, and November featuring Yugman's, and February, April, June, August, October, and December being for Vigil Watch releases. Then, early next year, we'll be combining the PDFs, making some tweaks, and issuing the finished books in PDF and PoD versions on DTRPG. And there will be a discount for those who already bought the bi-monthly PDFs!
So, to start, here's the link to the first part of Yugman's Guide to Ghelspad:
Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad part one
And here's our line-up of Scarred Lands projects in progress:
First Draft
Scarred Lands - RUST (working title) - The details of this project, like the final title, are still under wraps, but we'll be revealing more of this bigger project in the months to come!
Proofing
Scarred Lands - Magic Item Decks
Scarred Lands - Yugman's Guide Support Decks
Monthly Releases
Scarred Lands - Vigil Watch
Scarred Lands - Yugman's Guide to Ghelspad
The Backer PDFs for the Creature Collection for Scarred Lands 5e look like they are very close to being sent out to backers, and the CC BackerKit site is still open if you want to get in on all the excitement! https://scarred-lands-creature-collection-for-5th-edition-rpg.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Plus, keep an eye out for all the new projects showing up on the Slarecian Vault Community Content site on DTRPG!
Finally, our latest Kickstarter:
Starting on Thursday, February 6th at 2pm EST, we are launching the Kickstarter for Hunter: The Vigil 2e for Chronicles of Darkness!
Reminder: Less Than 48 Hours Remain for the Creature Collection Kickstarter!
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 01:37:39 PM
Hello Scarred Lands backers!
Just wanted to remind everybody that there's less than 48 hours left on the Creature Collection Kickstarter! So far, we've gone from a 160 page book to a 204 page book, with over two dozen monsters and two encounters packs added in, plus added items in the digital rewards - all thanks to backers!
Here's your direct link to the SL Creature Collection Kickstarter page! There are plenty of great rewards still available!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/339646881/scarred-lands-creature-collection-for-5th-edition-rpg
Here's a special look at the monsters in the Creature Collection:
Now premiering on YouTube! Matthew Dawkins runs the Scarred Lands meatgrinder (or the gauntlet, if you're posh), using monsters from the Creature Collection currently on Kickstarter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnZbqcABxW0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1bjgrTYRgDRsmq6MP7KCUfwHb7UgaKCL50NHEZldsLHXbN4L6LLzPzNmI
And here's some additional messaging from Handiworks Games!
And hey, don't forget to check out our two free PDF previews of Creatures from the Collection:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/…/Scarred-Lands-Creature-Colle…
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/…/Scarred-Lands-Creature-Colle…
Your Link To the Scarred Lands Creature Collection Kickstarter!
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 12:16:18 AM
Here you go, Scarred Lands backers!
Here's your direct link to the SL Creature Collection Kickstarter page which just went live! There are plenty of great rewards still available!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/339646881/scarred-lands-creature-collection-for-5th-edition-rpg
And here's some additional messaging from Handiworks Games!
Launching! And what's this? A Limited Edition with a Spider Eye Goblin skull??!
And hey, don't forget to check out our two free PDF previews of Creatures from the Collection:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/…/Scarred-Lands-Creature-Colle…
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/…/Scarred-Lands-Creature-Colle…
Creature Collection for 5e Kickstarter Alert!
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:07:55 AM
Hello Scarred Lands backers!
RichT here:
The Creature Collection for 5e Scarred Lands Kickstarter starts at 12 noon Eastern US time on this coming Thursday, the 12th!
The Creature Collection has been designed, written, art-directed, and laid out by Jon Hodgson's company: Handiwork Games! And they'll also be running the Kickstarter on Onyx Path's new Kickstarter page - so keep your eyes open for that!
I should say, most of the book has been written, as we are saving a section of the book for direct backer input during this KS. Yes, if you are a backer you'll be able to vote on a selection of creatures, as well as be able to pick Rewards that directly add creatures to the book. So if the current creatures don't include one of your favs - you still can get them added!
Here is a video Handiworks created explaining the book (it has some amazing art in it!):
If you missed this info from the last Update, Jon had this to say about working with Onyx Path on Scarred Lands:
“I’m really excited to get the chance to work with Rich and Onyx Path. We met as Guests of Honor at Gencon a couple of years running, and realised we had a lot in common, and a shared drive to make great games.
Scarred Lands is an extremely cool setting, and I’m delighted to get the chance to work on the latest version of what was such a historic book – the first 3e monster book! I’m pulling together a great team of 5e experts and artists, and we’ll do our very best to delight you with the Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e!”
About Handiwork Games Handiwork Games is a new tabletop games publisher based in Scotland, UK. Led by ex Cubicle 7 Creative Director Jon Hodgson, Handiwork Games is producing it’s own RPG and card games, as well as providing high quality studio services for other publishers.
Handiwork Games website is live at https://handiwork.games/
About Jon Hodgson Jon is known for his work as a creative director, and art director, for his definitive Tolkien art, and his writing for Adventures in Middle-earth 5e, as well as his freelance illustration for games like Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Warhammer Historical, Legend of the Five Rings and many more.
We at Onyx Path are also thrilled to be working with Jon and Handiwork Games. He's assembled an extremely talented crew for both the writing and the art, and I think this is going to be the most useful and most beautiful version of Creature Collection ever. While Jon will be working with Onyx Path, and have access to our writers and artists, he will also bringing another new group of creators into the Scarred Lands, which is going to be great for creators and fans alike!
Meanwhile, our other plans for Scarred Lands continue to come together.
While Handiworks was assembling the Creature Collection, we at Onyx Path have been working to spread the word about Scarred Lands out there into the larger TTRPG community.
First, we have hired Travis Legge as our developer for Scarred Lands, and even before we did so, Travis was already proving his love (and knowledge) of SL by pulling together a huge (by TTRPG scale) team of creators and putting out Vengeance of the Shunned, a set of over a dozen linked adventures and sourcebooks, on the Slarecian Vault. It's the biggest - you might say Titanic - set of adventures ever created for the game.
What is the Slarecian Vault? It is the Scarred Lands Community Content site on DTRPG, where creators can publish their own Scarred Lands material! You can find it here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing/subcategory/8329_29809/Slarecian-Vault
Travis also has mentioned on our forums just what we're working on ourselves this year so far for Scarred Lands: "In addition to the (very) soon to begin Creature Collection 5e Kickstarter, we have had some recent official releases you may have missed with the Spell Cards, GM Screen, and the Blood Sea 5e book, and are currently hard at work on two new sourcebooks: Yugman's Guide to Ghelspad and Vigil Watch, which we will be talking about more soon!"
Finally, we are now hosting a Twitch channel where you can watch actual play of Scarred Lands games! You can also find many of these on our Onyx Path YouTube channel afterwards. For example, here is this week's schedule:
We hope you'll get a chance to check any or all of these Scarred Lands products and programs out, and please, spread the word and let your friends know that Scarred Lands is reborn!
Last Scarred Lands Update ... for 2018!
over 5 years ago
– Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 08:20:55 PM
Hello Scarred Lands backers!
RichT here, and don't worry, we have a lot of great things in store for Scarred Lands and I'll be letting you know all about our new projects throughout next year and beyond!
For now though, here at the end of our rebuilding year of 2018, I am thrilled to announce the Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e!
Last year, when we were planning just how to take the efforts that Stewart Wieck had started and run with them, we knew that a new version of the legendary Creature Collection was how we wanted to lead into Onyx Path's new exciting era of Scarred Lands.
Running parallel to that, one of my favorite creators in tabletop RPGs, Jon Hodgson, artist and creative director, was putting together his own game studio after his long years at Cubicle 7. Jon did just about everything over there, and as we talked, I realized that he had the experience and awesome artistic taste to take a project from concept all the way through to printing - including running a Kickstarter for it.
A project, like, say... our Creature Collection!
So, you fantastic folks are hearing it first here: the Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e will be written, art-directed, and laid out by Jon Hodgson's company: Handiwork Games!
Here's the "press release" sort of info:
Jon had this to say about working with OPP on Scarred Lands:
“I’m really excited to get the chance to work with Rich and Onyx Path. We met as Guests of Honor at Gencon a couple of years running, and realised we had a lot in common, and a shared drive to make great games.
Scarred Lands is an extremely cool setting, and I’m delighted to get the chance to work on the latest version of what was such a historic book – the first 3e monster book! I’m pulling together a great team of 5e experts and artists, and we’ll do our very best to delight you with the Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e!”
About Handiwork Games Handiwork Games is a new tabletop games publisher based in Scotland, UK. Led by ex Cubicle 7 Creative Director Jon Hodgson, Handiwork Games is producing it’s own RPG and card games, as well as providing high quality studio services for other publishers.
Handiwork Games website is live at https://handiwork.games/
About Jon Hodgson
Jon is known for his work as a creative director, and art director, for his definitive Tolkien art, and his writing for Adventures in Middle-earth 5e, as well as his freelance illustration for games like Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Warhammer Historical, Legend of the Five Rings and many more.
We at Onyx Path are also thrilled to be working with Jon and Handiwork Games. He's assembled an extremely talented crew for both the writing and the art, and I think this is going to be the most useful and most beautiful version of Creature Collection ever. While Jon will be working with Onyx Path, and have access to our writers and artists, he will also bringing another new group of creators into the Scarred Lands, which is going to be great for creators and fans alike!
I've already sent him the compiled list of all your Creature Collection suggestions from our comments sections, so he is starting out already knowing what our dedicated SL backers want. From there, it is going to be exciting to see what other creatures show up - either through Handiwork's plans for the book, or through the entries that backers will be able to add during the Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e Kickstarter.
Speaking of the CC Kickstarter, Jon is planning it for early 2019, so expect that we'll be reaching out to you about it pretty soon. Handiwork is slated to run it on Onyx Path Publishing's brand new Kickstarter set-up. So Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5e has the place of honor as our inaugural Kickstarter there!
Meanwhile, our other plans for Scarred Lands continue to come together. In fact, how about I take this opportunity to sound you out about what you're looking for in Scarred Lands projects? Let me know here in the comments just what you'd love to see us do with Scarred Lands in the years to come.
And just a note to let you all know that you can find Vigilant, the Scarred Lands novel, in PDF, epub, and physical copy PoD versions on DrivethruRPG.com, as well as Kindle and Nook versions on their respective stores.
Over on Fantasy Grounds, they continue to release classic Scarred Lands material like the Creature Collection Revised and the first Serpent Amphora adventure for use on their online gaming platform. Check it out! https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.php?id=OPPFGPFCCR
AND NOW, IN A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD:
The Kickstarter for They Came From Beneath The Sea! is now live!
They Came From Beneath The Sea! is a new tabletop RPG from Onyx Path, encompassing the wonder, horror, thrills, and hilarity of 1950s science fiction. This game evokes all that is great in the B-movies of decades ago, and provides a dynamic, fun experience at the table.
The players, as humans, live in a world under increasing attack. The attackers? Aliens from beneath the sea, obviously!
Adventures can range from the one-shot defense of small coastal town, to the lengthier liberation of a cruise ship invested with gill-kin, all the way to a campaign in which characters seize an alien submarine and ride it all the way down to the sea bed to take the fight to the invaders.
Put down your malt shakes, turn on the jukebox, and prepare your harpoons! You don’t want to be caught unawares when it’s revealed that They Came From Beneath The Sea! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/they-came-from-beneath-the-sea-a-tabletop-roleplay
