Pros and Cons (and Kickstarters) [Monday Meeting Notes]

So, it is one month before Gen Con.

Gen Con50th, actually.

You can see on the map above our 20′ x 30′ space, that we are sharing with our associates at Nocturnal Media and White Wolf. Our booth will have all sorts of books and other items for sale, an ongoing demo table that we intend to have a constant run of demos happening on every day that you can sit in on, and a further couple of tables for impromptu demo sessions.

Nocturnal will be right next to us, and they’re bravely trying to arrange demos and they will have products to sell, and White Wolf is next to them, and will have new news about V5 and related products, and I hear they may have other goodies especially for Gen Con.

Back at our Onyx Path booth, you’ll find Boppin’ Bill Bodden and Mike Hollywood running the booth under the baleful eye of Mighty Matt McElroy – they are the guys that with the know how as to what and who is where when it comes our products for sale and the rest of the team.

At different times, Mirthful Mike Chaney, Onyx‘s ever-lovin’ art director will be there helping out, and he has portfolio reviews scheduled if you want us to look at your artwork. Impish Ian Watson, our webmaster and Trinity Continuum guru will also be at the booth a fair amount of the time and he’d love to talk Trinity!

Development producer Rollickin’ Rose Bailey will also be in the booth between developer and translator meetings, and she might just have some Chronicles of Darkness and Cavaliers of Mars wisdom and demos to share with you. Naughty Neall Raemonn Price will be representing for Scion and just about any other of our games as he seems to know them all, and Matthew “Gentleman Gamer” Dawkins also has a wide knowledge of our games to share, particularly V20, as well as his new secret project he’ll be demoing at the booth!

Scarred Lands developer Scott Holden will be there, and we’re hoping he’ll be running demos as well as showing off the advance copies of the printed SL Players Guides and Wise and the Wicked 2. More news on Scarred Lands below.

Look out for Hunter: the Vigil 2nd developer Monica Valentinelli dropping in when she can, as well as other writers and devs who will try and drop by in between their busy schedules at other booths, like Black Hat Matt McFarland, Danielle Lauzon, Bill Bridges, Dixie Cochran, and many more.

Of course, I’ll be popping in and out of the booth talking to folks between panels and meetings. Catch me in a quieter time and I’ll be glad to sign some Magic cards (for a small gratuity). 😉

 

 

V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary art by Michael Gaydos

 

 

Did I say panels? Well, of course we’re doing our famous panels for Gen Con again this year!

 

THURSDAY
*
SEM17109310: Freelancing for Onyx Path
Crowne Plaza Hotel Indianapolis-Dwtn-Grand Central Ballroom C in Indianapolis, Indiana
1:00pm in EDT
FRIDAY
*SEM17109313: What’s Up With Onyx Path’s White Wolf RPGs?
Crowne Plaza:: Pennsylvania Station C in Indianapolis, Indiana
11:00am in EDT
*SEM17109314: What’s Up With Pugmire, Cavaliers, and Scarred Lands?
Crowne Plaza Hotel Indianapolis Grand Central Ballroom A in Indianapolis, Indiana
1:00pm in EDT
*Gen Con 50 Track: The Embrace of Night: White Wolf in 1991
ICC (Indiana Convention Center) RM 105
6:00pm in EDT
SATURDAY
*SEM17109317: What’s Up with Scion and Trinity?
Crowne Plaza Hotel Indianapolis-Pennsylvania Station B in Indianapolis, Indiana
11:00am in EDT

As always, times and rooms are subject to change by the lovable scamps at Gen Con.

And if you want to actually play our games, look out for our Onyx Path gaming room, once again run by the legendary Dave Martin and his dedicated and dangerous Wrecking Crew and associates.

This year, since it will be crazy with all the 50th Anniversary activities and crowds, how about you let us know in the comments here if you’re going? We’ll make sure to do something special for you if you do get to stop in and say hi!

 

 

War Elephants by Melissa Uran for Hundred Devil’s Night Parade

 

 

In the run-down of the booth I did above, I mentioned how Nocturnal Media is bravely going to soldier on as best they can, and of course, I was talking about that in reference to the untimely passing of my good friend Stewart Wieck, Nocturnal‘s founder. His death has unfortunately had ramifications on the many directions he was hoping to take Nocturnal Media‘s game lines, but I understand that a bunch of them will still be available in their booth.

The most direct effect on us at Onyx, on a business level, is that we’ve had to step into Stew’s huge shoes (I mean that literally and figuratively – he was a big guy) and take over fulfilling the Scarred Lands Kickstarter and all the projects we started with that.

For the present, I’ve been delving into how Stew had structured the SL Kickstarter and BackerKit, and working with Steve Wieck and Stew’s family to make sure the printing and shipping of all those projects keeps moving forward. We won’t be able to sell the Scarred Lands books at Gen Con as Stewart hoped he’d be able to arrange, but we’ll have advances and demos, like I mentioned above.

Towards that, we’re releasing the PDF for the Dagger of Spiragos, the second part of our Spiragos adventure trilogy, this week. Our KS backers have already received theirs (if they were supposed to get them), so now everyone can check it out. On a personal level, I loved painting those skeletal gators on the cover! (See below in the BLURBS! for more details).

For the future, since Scarred Lands was always a game world we co-owned and which Stew and I always intended as something we’d have fun working on together, this is kind of a bittersweet experience. But, the world is still one of my favorites, and we still have lots of plans for bringing this new version of SL to a new audience, as well as to our community from the D20 days.

We’ll be announcing some of those plans at and around Gen Con, so keep an eye out!

Finally, I just wanted to shout out to our new friends at Studio2, who are currently packaging and prepping our Pugmire backer rewards ship-out! I’ll tell you more about these folks in a later blog, as I’ll let you in on the very awesome way they are going to work with us in the very near future.

 

 

 

BLURBS!

 

KICKSTARTER!

Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras 2 is funded!


Now, help us decide on which Dark Eras and which game-lines should fill up this Prestige Edition book! We’re starting with The French Revolution for Vampire: The Requiem and Demon: The Descent, The Great War – Western Front for Geist: The Sin-Eaters and Werewolf: The Forsaken, Light of the Sun – Europe 1600s for Deviant: The Renegades and Mage: The Awakening, Seven Wonders of the Ancient World for Changeling: The Lost and Promethean: The Created, Rise of the Last Imperials – China for Mummy: The Curse and Hunter: The Vigil, and One Thousand and One Nights – Islamic Golden Age for Beast: The Primordial and Vampire: The Requiem.

We’re voting on which two game-lines should be featured in the Golden Age of Piracy right now, so yo-ho-ho and grab a cutlass and join us!

ON SALE!

ON AMAZON:

 

We’re delighted to announce the opening of our ebook store on Amazon! You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle. Our initial selection includes these fiction anthologies: Vampire: the Masquerade‘s Endless Ages, Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition‘s Rites of Renown: When Will You Rage 2, Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition‘s Truth Beyond Paradox, Chronicles of DarknessGod Machine Chronicle, Mummy: The Curse‘s Curse of the Blue Nile, and Beast: The Primordial‘s The Primordial Feast!

And now you can get these books in the Barnes and Noble Nook store too!

 

And here are six more fiction books:

 

Andand six more more:

  • Vampire: The Masquerade: The Beast Within Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse: W20 Cookbook (Kindle, Nook)
  • Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows (Kindle, Nook)
  • Chronicles of Darkness: Tales of the Dark Eras (Kindle, Nook)
  • Promethean: The Created: The Firestorm Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)
  • Demon: The Descent: Demon: Interface (Kindle, Nook)

 

 

 

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Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Here’s the link to the press release we put out about how Onyx Path is now selling through Indie Press Revolution: https://theonyxpath.com/press-release-onyx-path-limited-editions-now-available-through-indie-press-revolution/

You can now order wave 2 of our Deluxe and Prestige print overrun books, including Deluxe Mage 20th Anniversary, and Deluxe V20 Dark Ages! And Screens…so many Screens!

 

 

ON DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

Chomping it’s way to you comes the Dagger of Spiragos adventure PDF for Scarred Lands! This second in the Spiragos trilogy for levels 4-6 arrives Wednesday in both 5e and Pathfinder PDF versions on DriveThruRPG.com!

 

 

 

Sailing out of the dark, the V20 Dark Ages Companion PDF and physical book PoD versions are going on sale Wednesday on DriveThruRPG.com! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/211504/V20-Dark-Ages-Companion

Travel the long roads and deep seas in search of power and experience danger, or tackle the wilderness to hunt monsters and face death. Settlements large and small dot the black expanse with the promise of sanctuary, life, and community. These bastions of civilization present cold comfort, when playing host to vampire warlords and sadistic Cainite faiths. Whether led by a Prince, a coordinated belief, or hounded by monsters from without and within — no domain is truly the same as another.

Dark Ages Companion includes:

• Domains scattered across the world, from small fiefdoms to massive cities. Bath, Bjarkarey, Constantinople, Rome, Mogadishu, and Mangaluru each receive coverage.

• Apocrypha including plot hooks, new Paths, and mysteries to explore in your games.

• A how-to guide on building a domain within your chronicle, including events and servants necessary to make a domain as functional or dysfunctional as you wish.

• A study on warfare in the Dark Ages period, so combat in your chronicles can gain authenticity and lethality.

 

 

 

From the Primordial to your Chronicles, Beast‘s Building a Legend has risen in PDF and PoD formats on DTRPG.com!

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/212252/Beast-Building-a-Legend

CREATING A CHRONICLE IS REWARDING…

…so why should the Storyteller have all the fun?

The whole troupe should get in on the action, making for a chronicle that reflects the preferences and predilections of all the players.

Building a Legend is a guide for doing exactly that — making a cohesive chronicle, starting with character creation, for Beast: The Primordial. It includes advice on creating Storyteller characters, folding in real world history, and populating the Primordial Dream.

 

 

 

 

From the massive Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras main book, we have pulled this single chapter, Dark Eras: Requiem for Regina (Vampire: The Requiem Elizabethan London 1593). We have shared the world with monsters for millennia. In Elizabeth’s London, vampires built their own empire brick by bloody brick while Elizabeth I cemented her grip on newly Protestant England. Carefully balancing demands from those with Catholic and Lutheran sympathies, she forged a police state. Yet London emerged as a thriving cultural center, and from the crucible emerged a Kindred society forever changed.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/178595/Dark-Eras-Requiem-for-Regina-Vampire-the-Requiem-Changeling-the-Lost

On sale in PDF and physical copy PoD versions on DTRPG!

 

 

 

What dark secrets do the eldest vampires hold? Find out in Thousand Years of Night for Vampire: The Requiem! Advance PDF version available now on DriveThruRPG.com. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/214130/Thousand-Years-of-Night

You may think that with a multitude of people coming, going, dying and running away, we’d be tired, done, or ready to give up.
Instead, I find myself restless, looking for the next thing. 
There’s always a next thing, and I for one am not yet ready to die.

– Elder Kincaid, Daeva Crone

This book includes:

• Detailed instructions on creating elder vampires, including how to base chronicles around them

• A look into the lives of elders, how they spend their nights, who they work with, and why including their roles in both their clans and covenants

• New Devotions, Merits, and Rituals for elder vampires

• The kinds of creatures that pose a threat to elder vampires, including Inamorata, Lamia, Sons of Phobos, a new elder conspiracy, and more

 

 

 

From the massive Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras main book, we have pulled this single chapter, Dark Eras: To The Strongest (Mage Death of Alexander 330-320 BCE). In the rise and fall of Alexander the Great’s Empire, armies marched and cultures clashed. In the birth pangs of Hellenistic civilization, Awakened sorcerers all over the ancient world met, fought, and joined together. In the chaos of Alexander’s assassination and the wars that followed, Cults became Orders amid conflicts still burning in the present day.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/208162/Dark-Eras-To-the-Strongest-Mage-the-Awakening

On sale in PDF and physical copy PoD versions on DTRPG!

 

From the massive Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras main book, we have pulled this single chapter, Dark Eras: Three Kingdoms of Darkness (Changeling and Geist China 220-280). Famine weakens the empire, and war splits it apart. It is an age of ambition and strife, where the hungry dead walk the earth in great numbers, and the Lost must rely on their own kingdoms. Warlords and commoners, ghost-speakers and orphans — who truly serves the Mandate of Heaven?

On sale in PDF and physical copy PoD versions on DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/211949/Dark-Eras-Three-Kingdoms-of-Darkness-Changeling-the-Lost-Geist-the-SinEaters

 

 

From the massive Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras main book, we have pulled this single chapter, Dark Eras: The Wolf and the Raven (Werewolf and Geist Vikings 700-1100). The Viking expansion across Europe comes at a pivotal time in history, as new faiths rose to challenge the old and new ways threatened to sweep ancient tradition aside. The Forsaken sail with raiders and explorers, seeking new lands to claim and new spirits to conquer, while Sin-Eaters walk the battlefields bringing the honored dead to their final rewards. The world grows larger and more dangerous by the day, but there are great rewards for those brave enough to fight for them.

On sale in PDF and physical copy PoD versions on DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/210621/Dark-Eras-The-Wolf-and-the-Raven-Werewolf-the-Forsaken-Geist-the-SinEaters

 

 

 

Curated by Matthew McFarland, developer of Changeling: the Dreaming Twentieth Anniversary Edition and featuring authors such as Myranda Kalis, Wren Handman, and Peter Woodworth, this C20 Anthology of Dreams is on sale in electronic/PDF and physical copy PoD formats on DTRPG.com! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/209390/C20-Anthology-of-Dreams

We dream, and we tell stories. We dream of love and the sort of person who might complete us. We dream of horror and wake breathless. We dream of magic, of flying through the air, or breathing underwater. We dream of fantastic vistas and amazing monsters.

We dream, and then we wake, and we tell stories. Our dreams create the Kithain, the changelings. Our stories are sustenance.

 

 

Now on DTRPG, the EX3 Tomb of Dreams Jumpstart PDF/PoD jumps up for sale!

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/208891/Tomb-of-Dreams-an-Exalted-3rd-Edition-Jumpstart

Once, in the time before the gods forgot their names, when the world was flat and floated on a sea of chaos, there was an age of gleaming cities, untamed wilderness, enlightened devils, greedy spirits, and mighty heroes. This was the age of the Exalted, champions empowered by the highest of gods.

Tomb of Dreams will jumpstart your group’s Exalted game—all you need to start playing Exalted Third Edition is this book, pencils, and 10-sided dice. Included here are the game’s core rules, five pregenerated characters, and a self-contained scenario that can start a new campaign or that Storytellers can use in an ongoing chronicle. And for groups that already have the Exalted Third Edition main rulebook, Tomb of Dreams will serve as an introduction for new players and a quick reference during play—anyone intimidated by that prodigious volume need only read Part 1 of this book to get started.

What legends will they tell of your deeds?

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONVENTIONS! GenCon IS COMING. August 17th – 20th, Indianapolis. Our booth will actually be 20′ x 30′ this year that we’ll be sharing with Nocturnal Media and White Wolf. We’re looking at new displays this year, like a back drop and magazine racks for the brochure(s). FYI, 4-Day passes have sold out! First time ever! Here’s the map again of where we’ll be:

 

Next week, at RopeCon (the world’s largest volunteer run convention) in Finland, Monica Valentinelli, the Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition developer will be running a game of Doubting Souls, the Hunter Dark Era she wrote for Dark Eras 1 as well as talking about freelancing and game design. Matt McElroy will be running a high-powered Dread Names, Red List V20 game, and they both will be there talking about their work and Onyx Path. https://2017.ropecon.fi/eng/

In November, we’ll be at Game Hole Con in Madison, WI. More news as we have it, and here’s their website: https://www.gameholecon.com/

 

 

 


And now, the new project status updates!

 

 

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

  • Trinity Continuum: Aeon Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
  • M20 Gods and Monsters (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • C20 Novel (Jackie Cassada) (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • The Realm (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Monarchies of Mau (Monarchies of Mau)

 

Redlines

  • Kithbook Boggans (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)
  • C20 Ready Made Characters (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)

 

Second Draft

  • WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)
  • Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)
  • Ex Novel 2 (Aaron Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • DtD Night Horrors: Enemy Action (Demon: the Descent)
  • Dragon-Blooded (Exalted 3rd Edition)

 

Development

  • Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)
  • SL Ring of Spiragos (Pathfinder – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
  • Ring of Spiragos (5e – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
  • Pugmire Pan’s Guide for New Pioneers (Pugmire)
  • Scion: Origins (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Scion: Hero (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
  • GtS Geist 2e core (Geist: the Sin-Eaters Second Edition)

 

WW Manuscript Approval:

  • M20 Cookbook (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

 

Editing:

  • W20 Changing Ways (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • VtR Half-Damned (Vampire: the Requiem 2nd Edition)
  • V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring the Huntsmen Chronicle (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)

 

Post-Editing Development:

  • Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition
  • Book of Freeholds (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • BtP Beast Player’s Guide (Beast: the Primordial)

 

 

Indexing:

 

 

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

In Art Direction

  • Beckett’s Jyhad Diary 
  • W20 Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook
  • Cavaliers of Mars
  • Wraith 20
  • W20 Changing Ways
  • Ex3 Monthly Stuff
  • VDA Jumpstart
  • Scion Origins
  • Ring of Spiragos
  • Ex 3 Arms of the Chosen – Finals rolling in shortly.
  • Beast PG – Sketches coming in.
  • VtR Half Damned – Getting the contracting and what not wrapped up this week.
  • Book of Freeholds

 

Marketing Stuff

 

In Layout

  • M20 Art Book – In progress…
  • Prince’s Gambit – New Cards out for playtesting.
  • Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition) – PoD and Deluxe print files being prepped.

 

Proofing

  • CtL Huntsmen Chronicle Anthology – wrapping up this week.
  • C20 Jumpstart – Inputting Corrections.

 

At Press

  • Beckett Screen – Shipped to shipper.
  • Pugmire – At fulfillment shipper, making rewards packages.
  • Pugmire Screen – At fulfillment shipper, making rewards packages.
  • Pugmire Cards & Dice, Pins At fulfillment shipper, making rewards packages.
  • Wise and the Wicked PF & 5e – Printing.
  • Dagger of Spiragos (5e) – PDF out on DTRPG this week.
  • Dagger of Spiragos (PF) – PDF out on DTRPG this week.
  • Monarchies of Mau Early Access PoD proofs coming.
  • Dark Eras: Lily Sabre and Thorn – Wrapping up and getting files uploaded. Got super sidetracked by errata inputs and Gen Con prep.
  • M20 Book of Secrets – PoD proofs arriving.
  • VTR: Thousand Years of Night – Wrapping up errata input.
  • Storypath (Trinity Continuum) Brochure – At press.
  • Gen Con 2017 Brochure – At press.

 

 

 


TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE: One month to Gen Con!


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43 responses to “Pros and Cons (and Kickstarters) [Monday Meeting Notes]”

  1. Tim Flannigan Avatar
    Tim Flannigan

    Any idea when the EX3 storyteller screen might be showing up on IPR?

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Once we’re sure that every backer has gotten their rewards.

      1. SamuraiMujuru Avatar
        SamuraiMujuru

        Any chance of a pdf showing up on DTRPG?

  2. Chaossmurf Avatar

    Changeling 20 print being prepped? Eta on seeing them orderable?

  3. Ian A. A. Watson Avatar
    Ian A. A. Watson

    Note that in previous years we’ve been just to the right of the central hall doors, around aisle 11 or 12 depending on how they arranged things. This year we’re way over near the leftmost doors, next to the giant Paizo area. We have Weta Workshop to our right, which should be fun.

    1. Greg Davis Avatar
      Greg Davis

      Lucky! Say hi to any Kiwis at the Weta Workshop stand for me. You should throw together a WoD film script treatment quickly, see if they’ll pass it on to Peter. Or maybe an animated T.V. show? Put your best people on it.

  4. Tyler Perry Avatar
    Tyler Perry

    I will be there. Mark the day well. I’ll even bring swag.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Awesome- we will see you there!

  5. WuseMajor Avatar
    WuseMajor

    Arms of the Chosen wasn’t listed under Editing or Post Editing Development. Was this an oversight or has the text been finalized?

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      No oversight, we just need the final art in and layout can start. Woot!

  6. Dean H Avatar
    Dean H

    I don’t mean to be a bother, but is there any kind of update on where Signs of Sorcery is at? I am sure you guys would love to get this book done just as much as we would love to hold it in our hands.

    1. Ian A. A. Watson Avatar
      Ian A. A. Watson

      Signs of Sorcery is listed above at the development phase.

      1. Dean H Avatar
        Dean H

        Yep, I realize that, but it has been in the development phase for over a year and I was just curious if there was anything new on it since then that I may have missed.

  7. Gretchen Avatar
    Gretchen

    Looking forward to seeing you all at Gen Con! So hyped to see what you guys are working on. I’m really interested in hearing what you have in store for Scion. Hopefully I’ll see you there and at Save Against Fear in October! The Bodhana guys are good friends of mine!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      That would be great, and Jack and Bodhana are fantastic folks! I just arranged with Jack to provide them with some Pugmire books to play with the kids they’ve been working with.

  8. Johan Solh Avatar
    Johan Solh

    Blog title had me worried for a sec, then I got the joke..

    Super excited for GenCon! I’m gonna get to try both Cavaliers of Mars and Monarchies of Mau for the first time!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Fantastic! They are both really fun games we’ll be demoing. Looking forward to seeing you there- thanks!

    2. Rose Bailey Avatar
      Rose Bailey

      I’d love to demo Cavaliers for you!

      1. Johan Solh Avatar
        Johan Solh

        Yes please, that would be so cool! Should I just poke at you if I see you at the Onyx Path booth?

  9. PookaKnight Avatar
    PookaKnight

    This’ll be my first Gen Con! Can’t wait to see everyone!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Looking forward to seeing you, too!

  10. CW Avatar
    CW

    Deviant isn’t on the Development Status list. Everything OK? I follow it’s progress since I know DaveB is also doing Signs of Sorcery, which I’m most excitedly waiting for. Thanks.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Writers have not yet started writing, and it does not get on the list until that happens. No worries!

      1. perverseness Avatar
        perverseness

        Is there a Starbucks fund we can chip in on? Actually no, need some real coffee for real writing. Something thick and black that looks like an Ooze decided to nestle down into your cup. Make it a Venti All-the-shots of PURE POWAH!!

        1. richt Avatar
          richt

          Sounds like you got to the caffeine before us! 🙂

  11. Matt Avatar
    Matt

    Every year, it seems that fate conspires to keep me away from GenCon, and this year is no different. That said, looking forward to reading all about it in the weeks that follow. Also, even though you guys don’t really have any control over this, I was glad to see that the official CofD character sheets are finally complete (added 2nd ed. verions of Mage and Promethean, as well as Demon and Beast). They all work beautifully. Now, if we could just get a Roll20 CofD Compendium, my life would be complete. Well… not complete, just in a better place.

    1. Matt Avatar
      Matt

      Meant to say the Roll20 character sheets are finally complete, sorry.

    2. richt Avatar
      richt

      Very glad to hear that the Roll20 sheets are getting out there and, hopefully, that means folks are playing there!

      1. Shawn Gates Avatar
        Shawn Gates

        I’ve been doing the updates to them. There is a thread on the forum here about it. Could use more testers though I don’t have a Pro account.

  12. Ryan Avatar
    Ryan

    Super minor ask, but can you guys add an anchor to the Comments link from the main page? Currently, it is just another link to the main article, rather than a link that goes straight to the comments.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Ian?

    2. Ian A. A. Watson Avatar
      Ian A. A. Watson

      Remind me after Gen Con.

  13. TOM NELSON Avatar
    TOM NELSON

    Whats the likelyhood of us nocturnal fans getting a creature collection kickstarter soonish?

    1. Matt Avatar
      Matt

      Just FYI, Onyx Path and Nocturnal are two separate companies that create products for the same IP. OP has no control over what or when Nocturnal kickstarts.

      1. richt Avatar
        richt

        Well, it’s not quite like that when it comes to Scarred Lands. Stewart (Nocturnal) and I (Onyx Path) co-own Scarred Lands, and we worked continually together on the SL projects you are seeing so far. That’s why you’ll see them listed in the project progress listings here each week. Stew ran the SL Kickstart because I had way too many KSs already on my plate, and he had time in his slate of KSs. Now as for everything else Nocturnal Media Kickstarted, you are absolutely right: we here at Onyx Path had nothing to do with those. Other than my backing most of them!

    2. richt Avatar
      richt

      We’ll answer that soon, certainly by/at Gen Con!

  14. Irioth Avatar
    Irioth

    Err, Beast Player’s Guide had been marked as just entering post-editing development last week already.

  15. welverin Avatar
    welverin

    “Redlines
    Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)”

    Yay!

  16. Mr Bony Hands Avatar
    Mr Bony Hands

    So excited to be coming out to Gen Con this year, was able to make it out in 2015 and it was a blast. Almost the whole party I’ve been playing Exalted with for past 10 years is coming as well! Looking forward to seeing/meeting you all!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Fantastic! Looking forward to saying hi to your whole group!

  17. Ryan-O, Lord of the Thunderbats Avatar
    Ryan-O, Lord of the Thunderbats

    Is there any other info that can be given about the status of W20 Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook? Just noticed that we’re nearing a year that it’s been in Art Direction, and I don’t recall reading any word on what’s been going on with it for well over a year now (apologize if there has been, and I happened to miss it).

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      I don’t know that we specifically went into detail. We had the book in AD while text was being rewritten as part of the normal development process, and simply left it in ADing as some art was being worked on. Now that all of the art is actually being created for it to match that text, you should see some movement, or at least notes, as the art gets finished up.

      1. Ryan-O, Lord of the Thunderbats Avatar
        Ryan-O, Lord of the Thunderbats

        Great to hear! This is one of the ones I’ve been anxiously awaiting. Thanks for the update!