The above is a totally fake cover for Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras 2.

The cover is fake because we haven’t bought any art for the book yet. Nor have we written anything but pitches for the Dark Eras. For other Kickstarters, these two things would be bugs and possibly huge red flags.

But for Dark Eras 2, they are part of a feature: our backers are truly enabling the creation of this book.

The various added in sections from the Reward Tiers, the extra Eras or reclaimed Eras added in that lost out in voting, the voting for game lines and eras; these are all going to come together after the KS is done and the writers and developers will be able to weave all of these KS-based sections together from the beginning, not after the fact and shoe-horned in to already written sections like in the first Dark Eras book.

If you want to know what the Eras will be like, they will be like the Eras in the original Dark Eras and Dark Eras Companion. Except each of the Dark Eras in Dark Eras 2 will have at least two game lines featured in it.

You see, we looked at the creation process of the original Dark Eras and decided we wanted to adjust some aspects to make it run smoother, and faster. To have the Dark Eras hold together more organically from the start. Which is no criticism of the work done on the first Dark Eras itself, it just took a lot more effort and time to achieve it.

To help with that, we have three developers: Monica Valentinelli, who is shepherding the project, Matthew Dawkins, and Meghan Fitzgerald. They will be looking at the overall list of Eras after the KS is over and hiring their writers with an overall eye towards how each contributions will work in the book with all the others.

Although I’m sure they have some ideas on who can deliver awesome Dark Eras writing already!