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Onyx Path Publishing is digging up treasure in The World Below

Buried Treasures from Onyx Path Publishing

Buried Treasures is our campaign for two new books to let you delve deeper into The World Below and illuminate some of the darkness. The Delver’s Guide is a Player’s Manual for The World Below. Delvers may be brave, but that doesn’t mean they don’t require help once in a while. That’s what this guide […]

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Onyx Path Publishing is digging up treasure in The World Below

Buried Treasures from Onyx Path Publishing

Buried Treasures is our campaign for two new books to let you delve deeper into The World Below and illuminate some of the darkness. The Delver’s Guide is a Player’s Manual for The World Below. Delvers may be brave, but that doesn’t mean they don’t require help once in a while. That’s…

Midnight Syndicate releases DARKENED CORNERS, an EP of rare tracks

Midnight Syndicate Darkened Corners

Gothic horror instrumental and Halloween music composers, Midnight Syndicate have released an EP of previously unreleased and rare material spanning a period of twenty years entitled DARKENED CORNERS. With album artwork by French artist Pascal Casolari, the EP features music the band has composed f…

Paizo Partners with Titan Forge and MyMiniFactory to Offer Premium STLs and Print-On-Demand Miniatures

In advance of Gen Con 2025, Paizo, Titan Forge, and MyMiniFactory announced a partnership to produce STLs and print-on-demand (POD) miniatures for Pathfinder and Starfinder. These miniatures, sculpted by Titan Forge based on art from Paizo Inc., will be available for purchase as STLs on My Mini Fac…

Paizo Inc. Names Industry Veteran Christian Moore as First Chief Growth Officer

Paizo Inc. today announced the appointment of Christian Moore as its first chief growth officer (CGO). In this newly created role, he will be responsible for driving worldwide revenue growth through his management of the sales, ecommerce, marketing, and licensing teams. A data-first brand architect…

Reviews

Review of Our Brilliant Ruin Horror at Crane Mansion

Our Brilliant Ruin | Horror at Crane Mansion

Our Brilliant Ruin: Horror at Crane Mansion is described as: “upstairs-downstairs drama meets existential horror in this Edwardian-inspired comics tale of high society and creeping dread. Created in collaboration with Studio Hermitage and in association with the Our Brilliant Ruin TTRPG, the comi…

Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition Review

Cultists and Cthulhu 2nd Edition was designed by William Sininger and John Harris, and is illustrated with full-color, entertaining art by Steve Robbins. The cards are full of geek culture references including Meddling Kids, LARP-ER, We Have Cookies, and several nods to popular Cthulhu Mythos tales…

Review of The Citadel: A Fantasy Oracle

Fen Inkwright is a folklorist and illustrator who has designed The Citadel: A Fantasy Oracle, a deck of sixty, copper-foil embossed cards inspired by fantasy myths and legends drawn from novels and tabletop roleplaying games.

Dragon Delves Adventure Anthology D&D Review

Dragon Delves cover art | Dragon depicted with psychedelic colors

The Dragon Delves Adventure Anthology for Dungeons & Dragons (2024) is a collection of ten dragon-themed adventures highlighting ten unique colored dragon types. The 192-page supplement can be run as a campaign, taking players from level 1 to level 12, or as individual adventures that can last…

Blogs

Why I Chose Tarot as a Tool for Authors and Game Masters

Recently, I released Tarot for Storytellers on DriveThruFiction.com. This book is sourced from my personal experiences studying the narrative aspects of tarot and the writing workshops I’ve been teaching. For the past couple of years, I’ve been running a writing workshop called “T…

The tale of the Cringe Wizard that was…

Cringe Wizard Cover

Currently funding over at Kickstarter is Cringe Wizard, a TTRPG-themed isekai story by Paul Matijevic, set in a long-time Dungeon Master’s first, terrible campaign. Today Paul stops by to tell a bit about the inspirations for the book and what helped fill in the tale…

My WorldCon Seattle Schedule

Heya, I will be presenting at World Con: Seattle this year. I’m pleased to share a draft schedule with you. I may have additional panels or other events, but so far these are confirmed.

Love Tarot? And Writing? I’m Releasing my Tarot for Storytellers Draft to Patrons!

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In just a few days, at the Gen Con: Writer’s Symposium, I’ll be running my popular Tarot for Storytellers writing workshop. I’ve ran this workshop at Gen Con and online through Clarion West and the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers. I’ve had a great response and wonderful fe…

Interviews

Curseborne Player’s Guide Secrets and Stories with Onyx Path

The Curseborne Player’s Guide, an expansion for the Curseborne tabletop roleplaying game from Onyx Path Publishing, is funding now on Kickstarter. In Curseborne, which Onyx Path Publishing funded last year, you play as Accursed, descendants of monstrous lineages lurking in a modern world that…

Interview with Rob Heinsoo 13th Age Second Edition

In this TTRPG developer essay, FlamesRising.com contributor Monica Valentinelli sits down with Rob Heinsoo, the developer of 13th Age Second Edition from Pelgrane Press. The new edition was successfully crowdfunded, and you can pre-order 13th Age Second Edition on Backerkit. 13th Age first debuted …

Through the Gates with Onyx Path Publishing

At the Gates Ashcan Edition

At the Gates is a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about burgeoning heroes struggling to survive, fighting for what’s right, exploring dangerous places, and saving the world. Onyx Path Publishing is currently running a crowd-funding campaign over at BackerKit.com. We had a chance to cat…

Return to the Realms of Pugmire with Eddy Webb

Realms of Pugmire

Onyx Path Publishing and Pugsteady have just launched a Kickstarter for a new edition of the Realms of Pugmire RPG. Realms of Pugmire is a fantasy game about evolved pets and other animals with a strong connection to humanity, with dogs as the central characters. These characters live in the ruins…

Fiction

I DISAPPEARED THEM by Preston L Allen Novel Excerpt

I Disappeared Them | A Novel by Preston L. Allen

I Disappeared Them is a brutal, boy meets girl love story that delves into the Periwinkle Killer’s childhood to confront the age-old question, is a serial killer designed or destined? Like Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho and Joyce Carol Oates’s Zombie, Preston L. Allen‘s imm…

Design Diary: Tales of the Changing Breeds

When I was first approached about writing a story for an anthology covering the Changing Breeds, I was intrigued by the possibilities. Changing Breeds refers to White Wolf’s Werewolf: the Apocalypse game: more specifically, Changing Breeds are all the other were-creatures besides wolves: tige…

Read a Full Excerpt of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars | Christopher Paolini

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is an epic novel that follows Kira Navárez, who, during a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, finds an alien relic that thrusts her into the wonders and the nightmares of first contact. Epic space battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest rea…

Pre-Order and Excerpt for The Devil’s Guide to Managing Difficult People

The Devils Guide to Managing Difficult People | Bennis

Flamesrising.com is pleased to present you with an exclusive excerpt of the upcoming book by author Robyn Bennis. The Devil’s Guide to Managing Difficult People will be released on Kindle. You can buy the book before it debuts on May 21st or you can pre-order it now! If you like the author…

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