We have already looked at the DriveThruRPG publisher league (won by Critical Role’s Darrington Press) and the DMsGuild rankings (won by the map-makers at Heroic Maps).
Now, we turn to the World of Darkness.
The Storytellers Vault is often viewed as a community content site, but our 2025 Rankings reveal a different reality. This isn’t just a fan site; it is the battleground for the official partners of the brand – a landscape that shifted dramatically this year.
The table above uses the scoring system below, which awards points only to products added to the Storytellers Vault catalogue this year. It’s the same as the DriveThruRPG and previously published DMsGuild leagues.
- Copper: 1 point
- Silver: 2 points
- Electrum: 5 points
- Gold: 10 points
- Platinum: 20 points
- Mithral: 50 points
- Adamantine: 100 points
The runaway winner is Black Chantry Productions, and they didn’t do it with RPG books. They did it with cards. Black Chantry publishes Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (VTES), the beloved card game originally designed by Richard Garfield. They use the Storytellers Vault to sell print-on-demand single cards. This strategy has turned the Vault into a “Card DLC” store. Every time a player buys a specific crypt card or library action to tweak their deck, it counts as a sale. The sheer volume of these micro-transactions allowed Black Chantry to crush the competition, scoring double the points of their nearest rival.
On DriveThruRPG and DMsGuild, official publishers usually leave the community site to the fans. On Storytellers Vault, the licensed partners are the best-sellers.
- Onyx Path Publishing (44 pts) continues to keep the Chronicles of Darkness and Exalted flames burning.
- Renegade Game Studios (15 pts) uses the platform to distribute digital versions of their 5th Edition books, like the Gehenna War Sourcebook.
The dominance of these licensed partners is particularly poignant given the massive industry news from May 2025: White Wolf has risen again. Paradox Interactive announced they are bringing RPG development back in-house under the revived White Wolf banner. Furthermore, Jason Carl, the brand marketing manager who was instrumental in launching the Storytellers Vault, departed the company in December. This league table, therefore, serves as a snapshot of the “Licensing Era.” Whether Onyx Path and Renegade will continue to dominate the Vault in 2026, or if the new in-house White Wolf team will take over these top spots, remains the biggest question for the coming year.
The Storytellers Vault is unique. It is the only ‘Community Content’ site where the community competes directly with the official licensees. As we move into 2026, with Jason Carl gone and White Wolf back in the driver’s seat, this ecosystem is poised for radical change. But for 2025, the verdict is clear: VTES cards and licensed supplements were the kings of the Vault.
