Rage! Rage, Against the Dying of the Light! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Yes, that’s right: only a few more days before our Deluxe W20 Apocalyptic Record Kickstarter campaign is over! Noooooooooo!

(And all due respect to the poem the title is a play on – it is powerful and beautiful. After all, how could I do otherwise to the legendary Dylan Thomas? The man all American Thomas’ of Welsh descent try and draw a genealogical line to connect with?)

We’ve achieved a couple of our Stretch Goals, and we didn’t load this one up with them, and now backers have a chance to help us create what are likely the last of the W20 books with this goal that we’re getting very close to:

At $85,000 in Funding – Howls of the Apocalypse – A chronicle incorporating plots from the pages of the Apocalyptic Record will be merged with the Ready-Made Characters, transforming it into the Howls of the Apocalypse scenario supplement PDF. All Kickstarter backers receiving the W20: Apocalyptic Record PDF will automatically have this added to their rewards list.

So this and Icons of Rage and W20 Apocalyptic Record itself will all stand together at the end-times of W20! Join your fellow backers and bring more pack-mates and make this a huge howl around the fire that is heard around the world!

V5 Forbidden Religions art by Michael Gaydos

Before we go much further, we thought it would be important to point out a new concern related to all the stories of shipping and printing woes across our industry that I have shared with you these last months: if you plan on ordering a physical book from DTRPG, or IPR during their current sale, or through a local store and Studio2, for delivery Nov/Dec, we strongly suggest you order now!

We’re hearing that the holiday season shipping will be extremely affected by everything going on, and shipping times will be increased accordingly. So USPS, Fedex, UPS, all those sorts of shippers, are liable to face increased quantities of shipping needs without the personnel and supplies they need.

So: SHOP EARLY, folks!

You’ll be glad you took advantage of the October sales now and are reading your books when your friends are still waiting for theirs to get through the holiday shipping bogs. If you’re a PDF reader, the shipping issues aren’t a problem for you, but you’ve still got a great DTRPG sale to participate in! Here are the links:

Halloween Sale on DTRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/halloween.php?manufacturers_id=4261

Halfoween Sale on IPR:
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-and-Specials/

Legendlore art by Gong Studios

Here are a few more items we discussed at the meeting today:

Several years ago, we initiated a monthly release of two sorts of PDFs for Exalted 3rd Edition. One was for Adversaries of the Righteous – basically individuals and groups that would be actual antagonists for the player characters. The other was Hundred Devils Night Parade, which was a monster per entry. All sorts of creatures, some helpful and some harmful.

We had never done a long-term monthly release thing before, and so we let the releases go out at different sizes and prices in order to learn from the experience. Which led to how we did the dual Scarred Lands‘ monthly releases the year after, and now our Tasty Bits (which are for all the Storypath game lines).

Hundred Devils Night Parade had 29 releases, comprising 54 creatures. We ended figuring that we would add a bunch more and then compile and release them all onto DTRPG as we normally do. Wellll, we actually wound up being really literal with the title of the project, and so the now finished book contains 100 creatures!

Here’s Dixie, with some thoughts about that:

We are so excited about Hundred Devils Night Parade going on sale as a full book this week! Every single QC (literally 100 of them) has gorgeous, full-color art, and is ready to use in your Exalted Third Edition game. Prior to this publication, we released 54 of the entries as small monthly PDFs, so here’s a preview of a handful of the (46!) new monsters and creatures you’ll be seeing in the final product.

Beginning with Chapter One: Strange Beasts, we have the beautiful-yet-horrifying Crystalmoth, which can slice with razor wings, along with its progenitor, Gajum-Un, the Living Manse. We also present the curious and enigmatic Scroll, as well as returning (and terrifying) favorite, the Thousand-Forged Dragon.

For Chapter Two: The Dead, the soul-collecting Ankou leads the way, followed by a host of other creepy delights, such as the helpful Grave Messengers and the giant, one-man army that is Keregost. Death-related beasts in this chapter include Festerwings and Scavengers, and many more besides!

In Chapter Three: Spirits, we’ve collected both elementals and demons for your game, from Ahesh the Forgotten and Charnavrix the Unyielding to Oldrasek, Audegar, and Stanewald. Excitingly, there is also an entry for Sibri, the Rampart of Serpents, a Third-Circle demon.

Chapter Four: Creatures of the Wyld has weirdness to fuel a Wyld-touched game, as the storytelling Epochine rises from Creation’s birth, and Kian-Ji, the Heartmirror invites your Exalts to an otherworldly feast. Stumbling from the Wyld, Napaxu infect people and towns, while Siren Towers lure others to their doom.

Lastly, Chapter Five: Animals has creatures to use in your game as mounts, familiars, adversaries, and even Lunar spirit shapes! From Birds of Paradise, Camels, and Dolphins to the stranger Simhatas, Mospids, Siakas, and Sthenurines, we’ve presented a range of interesting animals for all sort of purposes.

As thanks for so many of you who bought the individual monthly PDFs along the way, we’ll be sending out coupons with a range of discounts depending on how many titles you purchased previously. Thanks for believing in EX3 and our efforts!

In order to get your discounts, be sure that your DTRPG account is set up to allow you to receive email from us: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/account_contact_options.php

M20 Rich Bastards Guide art by Michael Gaydos

We received a lovely thank you note from the effervescent Jack Berkenstock of the Bodhana Group for Onyx Path‘s efforts with their recent online SAFe convention. Which was appreciated but really unnecessary as we love to help out such a worthy cause!

Jack adds this for all of you good folks who participated:

The Bodhana Group has relied on the support of the community to help with our mission and vision.  We have enjoyed our collaboration with not only Onyx Path Publishing and their direct team, but all of the fans and friends of Onyx for over 11 years.  Your continued dedication to the mission of therapeutic gaming through sponsorship, donation, panels and many many games helps to spread the word and the good will – bringing our services to people in need.  This year’s SAFe was the biggest yet!

Right back atcha, Jack!

Which pretty much wraps up this Monday’s meeting. Hope to see you all next week: same bat-time, same bat-channel, and batty for our:

Many Worlds, One Path!


Blurbs!


Kickstarter!

The Deluxe Apocalyptic Record for Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition is now in its FINAL WEEK!

We’ve already passed the Storyteller Screen Stretch Goal, the W20 supplement Icons of Rage has been achieved, and now Ready Made Characters was passed, and here we have the latest:

At $85,000 in Funding – Howls of the Apocalypse – A chronicle incorporating plots from the pages of the Apocalyptic Record will be merged with the Ready-Made Characters, transforming it into the Howls of the Apocalypse scenario supplement PDF. All Kickstarter backers receiving the W20: Apocalyptic Record PDF will automatically have this added to their rewards list.


Onyx Path Media!

This week: Tips for great GMing! A Workshop for tips, tricks, and ideas, for those who launch the stories we play!

As always, this Friday’s Onyx Pathcast will be on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

For anyone new to our media section, you can find us running and playing games over on twitch.tv/theonyxpath every day of the week! Plus, if you’d like your games hosted there, just get in touch with Matthew Dawkins using the contact link on matthewdawkins.com

Please check out our attached media schedule for the impressive number of videos on our Twitch channel this week! In particular, keep those eyes open for our Storypath Showcase, where we give an excellent profile of our various Storypath games and how to play them!

HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK: As The Apocalyptic Record Kickstarter advances on its final day, do check out the interview between The Vampire Interprets and writers Michele Masala and Erica Mahoney, who were kind enough to give up their time and enthuse about this book and what makes it fantastic: https://youtu.be/gfBR2LtdwSY

Come take a look at our YouTube channel, youtube.com/user/theonyxpath, where you can find a whole load of videos of actual plays, dissections of our games, and more. Please subscribe and click the bell icon if you want to be notified whenever new news videos and uploads come online! Please check the following videos out:

Storypath Showcase: Trinity Continuum Aeon – Session Zero: https://youtu.be/sQS70s8jgo0

Storypath Showcase: Trinity Continuum Aeon – Session One: https://youtu.be/WTsTaTC0chE

Trinity Continuum Aberrant – The Entelechy Archive: Session Two: https://youtu.be/vV4aWoboZjU

Scarred Lands – Dead Man’s Rust – Sins of Shelzar S2E1: https://youtu.be/pRn-mXKVxlc

Scarred Lands – Dead Man’s Rust – Sins of Shelzar S2E2: https://youtu.be/f_4xxFcBzRs

GenCon Online 2021: Storypath Q&A: https://youtu.be/Vun4EoMOxRM

GenCon Online 2021: What’s Up with Onyx Path?: https://youtu.be/p3OIF3D8HDU

Are you interested in our Werewolf: The Apocalypse Kickstarter? If so, you might want to check out Werewolf: The Podcast’s interview with Leath Sheales and Michele Masala, who worked in different capacities on The Apocalyptic Record! You can check it out right here: https://keepontheheathlands.podbean.com/e/apocalyptic-record-wleath-sheales-and-michele-masala/

If Werewolf: The Apocalypse is your thing, you may also be in the mood for a Werewolf actual play by McStabber Studios! This fantastic team has a great chronicle starting right here: https://youtu.be/qZIj5UwjLtQ

The Exaltcast comes to a close on its regular episode output with a fantastic and insightful Q&A, covering questions such as “What annoys Monica about Exalted maps?” and “What’s Terry’s problematic fav?” and even “Does Chazz curse?” Go give them your support for all the good shows they’ve put out there: https://www.exaltcast.com/2021/10/18/series-finale-qa/

Simulacra TV‘s amazingAberrant actual play – Atomic Youth – commence a new arc, so it’s the perfect time to hop on board! Please check them out and give them some support. Here’s their latest excellent episode: https://youtu.be/NnLQl2e2ozo 

Aberrant: Atomic Youth episodes premiere Wednesdays at 5pm EDT on https://www.twitch.tv/SimulacraTV

ExalTwitch: Academy Season Two follows three young Dragon-Bloods in the aftermath of their school’s destruction. The House of Bells’ fall was blamed on Anathema corrupting the student body, but Oresta, Pyres, and Gale Whispered must clear their names and seek out those actually responsible before the Realm collapses.

Watch ExalTwitch: Academy live every Sunday at 18:00 ET on https://www.twitch.tv/rpgclinic.

And here are the latest episodes of the new season for you! If you’ve missed any, the videos in their back catalogue are easy to find. All you have to do is subscribe.

S02E07: https://youtu.be/k2yIv4oTcpg

S02E08: https://youtu.be/IzZh0mlhKks

S02E09: https://youtu.be/AScafMqH-A8 

S02E10: https://youtu.be/FhMj6MB3-0w

S02E11: https://youtu.be/jmFWaC-TucU

S02E12: https://youtu.be/Zzs05QrjkrQ


Electronic Gaming!

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! The dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is awesome! (Seriously, you need to roll 100 dice for Exalted? This app has you covered.)


Virtual Tabletop!

Jump into the Trinity Continuum with 3 NEW Astral Jumpstarts!

The Trinity Continuum is a vast timeline of adventure, speckled with dramatic points across the past, present, and future. Explore parts of the Trinity Continuum timeline with these three Jumpstarts fully enabled for play on Astral TableTop. Each Jumpstart includes ready-to-play characters and all the rules you need to embark on your Astral adventure.

A Quantum Leap (A Trinity Continuum: Jumpstart)

A group of cultists is playing with matter altering explosives beyond their control. Join forces with 3-5 players to track down and stop them before the universe as we know it is changed forever. 

The Adventures of Teen Tomorrow (A Trinity Continuum: Aberrant Jumpstart)

Bring the superhero action to your table with all the rules you need to assume the roles of Teen Tomorrow and jump right into play! This adventure is designed for 3-6 players.

Quantum Entanglement (A Trinity Continuum: Aeon Jumpstart)

The Stars Await! – Launch yourself onto the galactic stage with this high-flying, interstellar romp. Includes everything you need to run this adventure for 3-5 players. 

Also on Astral TableTop is the Secret of Vinsen’s Tomb for Realms of Pugmire!

Play Now on Astral TableTop!

The Secret of Vinsen’s Tomb module comes with all the maps and encounters, ready to play, along with pre-generated characters and character sheets wired up for automated rolling. It also offers the GameMaster some guidance on playing the scenario on Astral for those GMs new to the platform or entirely new to virtual tabletops (VTT).

Create a free account first, then the Quickstarts will be available on the Home page. If you are getting this via DTRPG, after checkout, look for the link to unlock your adventure on Astral.

Also on Astral TableTop, we have two free projects: Scion 2E: A Light Extinguished and Scarred Lands: Gauntlet of Spiragos and this Dagger of Spiragos module for sale: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/336406/Dagger-of-Spiragos-5e–Astral-VTT

Astral TableTop is the easiest way to play any tabletop RPG online, free. Astral already supports popular systems like D&D and Pathfinder, and Astral can support virtually any tabletop roleplaying game. Get started quickly with built-in support for most popular game systems. Whether you’re brand new to TTRPGs or a veteran tabletop gamer, Astral‘s ease-of-use and built in automation is designed to streamline gameplay.

https://www.astraltabletop.com/

How to guides and FAQ: https://help.astraltabletop.com/

Here is the main filter for all of our current VTT content on DTRPG:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing?filters=0_0_0_45317_0

A few highlights of our platform agnostic content:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309127/Scarred-Lands-Creature-Collection-VTT-Token-Pack
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/317690/Trinity-Continuum-Hunt-for-the-Red-Widow-VTT
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/340327/Trinity-Continuum-Aeon-VTT-Tokens
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311578/Scarred-Lands-VTT-Separation-Anxiety
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311580/Scion-2e-VTT-Origin-Signature-Tokens
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311579/Scion-2e-VTT-Hero-Signature-Tokens


On Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue from which you bought it. Reviews really, really help us get folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these latest fiction books:


Our Sales Partners!

We’re working with Studio2 to provide our traditionally printed books out into your local game stores. Game stores can order via their usual distributors, and can also contact Studio2 directly. And individuals can check out our projects via the links below!

You can pick up the traditionally printed Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau main books, screens, and the official dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

Now, we’ve added Chronicles of Darkness books such as Changeling: The Lost Second Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Scion 2e books and other products are available now at Studio2: https://studio2publishing.com/blogs/new-releases/scion-second-edition-book-one-origin-now-available-at-your-local-retailer-or-online

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

And you can order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e at the same link! And now Scion Origin and Scion Hero and Trinity Continuum Core and Trinity Continuum: Aeon are available to order!

Check out the scaaaary half-off deals at The Return of Halfoween Sale at IPR:

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-and-Specials/

As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!

The Halloween Sale at DriveThruRPG/DriveThruFiction/Storytellers Vault starts on Thursday and most of our horror titles will be 20% – 40%
off, plus there will be free treats.

Halloween Sale on DTRPG:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/halloween.php?manufacturers_id=4261


On Sale This Week!

This Wednesday the long-awaited and Greatly Expanded Advance PDF for Hundred Devils Night Parade for Exalted 3rd explodes onto Creation! And onto DTRPG!

Once a year, the time of Calibration steals the lights from the night sky and weakens the barriers between Creation and otherworldly realms. Monsters and creatures from every hidden corner emerge to claim it all for their own in the eerie, timeless dark. For five days and nights, the world remembers how it once was, when it was newly forged from chaos and humanity was not yet a scrap of thought in the eyes of its titanic makers. Wild and hungry, wondrous and deadly, a menagerie of beast and spirit descends upon Creation in its brief time of dominion to the joy and terror of all.

Blink, and you might miss it.

Hundred Devils Night Parade is a collection of Quick Characters designed for Storytellers to include in their games as antagonists, companions, familiars, and mounts, or to use as examples for creating their own creatures. It encompasses the dead, elementals, demons, things from the Wyld, ordinary animals, and stranger beasts that cannot be defined so easily.


Conventions!

Because dates for physical conventions are subject to change due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, we don’t yet have a list of upcoming physical conventions. Instead, keep an eye out here for more virtual conventions we’re going to be involved with!

GameHoleCon is THIS WEEK and it looks like we have some Scarred Lands and Pugmire games going on at the Noble Knight Games booth. Please do stop by if you’re there and say hi!


And now, the new project status updates!

Development Status from Eddy Webb! (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.)

  • Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)
  • Terat Novella (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Squeaks in the Deep Jumpstart (Realms of Pugmire)
  • Adventure! Addendum (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)
  • Tasty Bit: Polyphemus (Trinity Continuum)

Redlines

  • Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Tome of the Pentacle (Mage: the Awakening 2e)
  • Scion: God (Scion 2e)
  • With Great Power (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Scion: Dragon Jumpstart (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Scion: Dragon Companion (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Squeaks in the Deep Companion (Realms of Pugmire)

Second Draft

  • No Gods, No Masters (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • The Hedge (Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition)
  • Whispers From Darkness (was Masks of the Mythos Companion) (Scion 2nd Edition)

Development

  • Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Wild Hunt (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Bizarre Tales and Unusual Characters (M20 Victorian)
  • Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magick (M20 Victorian)

Manuscript Approval

  • Adversaries of the Righteous (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Trinity Continuum: Aether core book (Trinity Continuum: Aether)

Post-Approval Development

  • Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Editing

  • Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • The Book of Lasting Death (Mummy: The Curse 2e)
  • Dead Man’s Rust (Scarred Lands)
  • M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • The Clades Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)
  • CtL2e Novella Collection: Hollow Courts (Changeling: The Lost 2e)
  • Dystopia Rising: Evolution Fiction Anthology (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)
  • Legacies of Earth (Legendlore)
  • Scion Fiction Anthology (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • TC: Aeon Novella: Meridian (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
  • Exalted Essence Edition (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Proteus Nova Compendium (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • They Came From [Classified]! Jumpstart (They Came From…!)
  • Realms of Magic and Mystery (was Terra Incognita) (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Vigil Watch: The Kelder Mountains (Scarred Lands)
  • The Paranormal Investigator’s Handbook (WoD 20th)
  • Once and Future (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Apocalyptic Record (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • M20 Lore of the Traditions (Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Panopticon Novella (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)
  • They Came From the Cyclops’s Cave! core book (They Came From…!)
  • TC: Adventure! Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)
  • Tasty Bit: New Team (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Post-Editing Development

  • Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Squeaks In The Deep (Realms of Pugmire)
  • Novas Worldwide (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • They Came From Beneath the Sea! Jumpstart (They Came From…!)
  • Saints and Monsters (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Trinity Continuum: Assassins (Trinity Continuum Core)
  • Prometheus Unbound (was Psi Orders) (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
  • Ghost Hunters Jumpstart w/RMCs (WoD 20th)
  • The Devoted Companion (Deviant: The Renegades)
  • Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)
  • They Came From Beyond the Grave! Jumpstart (They Came From…!)
  • Heroes in a World of Horror! (They Came From…!)
  • Mission Statements (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
  • Tasty Bit: Dracula’s Tomb (They Came From…)
  • Tales of Depravity! (They Came From…!)
  • Trinity Continuum: Anima
  • They Came From [Classified]! (They Came From…!)

Indexing


Art Direction from Mike Chaney!

In Art Direction

  • Scion: Dragon – Getting Gong on board for the Flights.
  • Masks of the Mythos – Mirko and crew on pantheon art. Working ideas for border designs.
  • TC: Adventure! (KS)
  • M20 Victorian (KS)
  • Dead Man’s Rust – Working with Travis on art buy.
  • Exalted Essence – Art buy figured.
  • TC Mission Statements
  • TC Aberrant N!WE – Sketches coming in.
  • M20 Technocracy Dossier/Companion – Going.
  • Squeaks In The Deep (KS)
  • Realms of Magic and Mystery
  • Saints and Monsters – Contracted.
  • TC: Anima (KS) – Working on KS assets.
  • TC: Assassin – Interior art rolling.
  • Legendlore: Legacies of the Earth
  • Novas Worldwide – Artwork in progress with Digital Chefs.
  • W20 Apocalyptic Record (KS) – KS ends this Thursday!
  • Mage20 Lore of the Traditions – KS art AD’d
  • TCFBtG! Monsters From the Crypt
  • TCFGtG! Heroes in a World of Horror – Leblanc’d.
  • They Came From [CLASSIFIED]! and They Came From the Cyclops’s Cave – Need confirmation on [CLASSIFIED] fulls for KS.
  • Ghosthunters Jumpstart/Ready Made Characters – Ken Meyer Jr. Nuff said.
  • Paranormalist’s Handbook – With Maria, full contracted.
  • Kith and Kin – Art buy figured.

In Layout

  • They Came From Beneath the Sea! Jumpstart
  • Aberrant VTT
  • Scion: Demigod
  • Squeaks in the Deep Screen
  • Squeaks in the Deep
  • TC Prometheus Unbound – Going over to Josh
  • TC Aeon Novella: Dawn.
  • TGFBtG! Screen
  • HtV 2e Screen

Proofing

  • Hunter: The Vigil 2e – Errata input.
  • Spiragos Collected Adventures
  • They Came From Beyond the Grave! – Backer PDF errata being input.
  • V5 Forbidden Religions – At Paradox.
  • M20 Technocracy Jumpstart – At Paradox.
  • TC: Aberrant Storypath Nexus materials
  • They Came From Camp Murder Lake! – Final proof.
  • They Came From Beyond the Grave! Jumpstart

At Press

  • M20 Technocracy Reloaded – Deluxe getting ready for press.
  • Mummy 2e – Getting ready for press.
  • Mummy 2e Screen – Files sent to printer.
  • Deviant – Press proofs back to printer.
  • Deviant Screen – Files sent to printer.
  • Technocracy Reloaded Screen – Files sent to printer.
  • WoD Ghost Hunters – Trad printed book files going to printer.
  • WoD Ghost Hunters Screen – Prepping for printer.
  • Hundred Devils Night Parade – Advance PDF on sale Wednesday!
  • M20 Rich Bastards Guide
  • Legendlore – Press and PoD files being prepped.

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Not really a reason the celebrate, particularly at the time, but certainly the big impetus for creating Onyx Path: tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the mass firing of CCP employees that included many old White Wolf veterans. Most of those good folks have moved into much better situations, but the reason for that movement is still a cold sting. To the better times you have had since, my friends!


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18 responses to “Rage! Rage, Against the Dying of the Light! [Monday Meeting Notes]”

  1. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    100 entries for Hundred Devil’s Night Parade?!?

    That’s huge, can’t wait for Wednesday! (plus that cover art is far more literal a
    than expected, but I love it)

    1. Samuraimujuru Avatar
      Samuraimujuru

      Given where they got the name from and it’s enduring affect on culture/pop-culture the cover art checks out.

  2. Doc Steve Avatar
    Doc Steve

    If the M20 Rich B*stards Guide is at press, when can we expect to see the PDF available to those who pre-ordered it?

    1. Eddy Webb Avatar
      Eddy Webb

      Printing, like shipping, is also affected by COVID. And we generally wait to release the PDF when we discover if there’s anything we need to correct for the printing process. So it’s really hard to even estimate.

    2. richt Avatar
      richt

      When it goes live or shortly before, and then everybody can also fill out our Advance PDF errata form if they are so inclined, so we can tweak the files before the final PDF and the physical book PoD are made available to everyone. Thanks!

  3. Troy Avatar
    Troy

    My eagle eyes spot Lore of the Traditions is getting KS art!!! So you have Anima, [Classified]/Cyclops, and Lore of the Traditions in the works for KS. My wallet is going to need an ice bath after all that!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      That’s gonna be one wet wallet!

  4. Ted Avatar
    Ted

    Is there going to be an Advance PDF and errata gathering for the M20 Rich Bastards Guide? The pre-order on DriveThruRPG says that will be the case, but I’m not getting that impression from these Monday Meeting Notes.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Yes there are. The only change is adding the Pre-Order part to the front of our usual sales process. No worries!

  5. Phil H Avatar
    Phil H

    Just received the discount coupon for the HDNP. I only bought six of the individual releases so I didn’t expect any discount. It’s absolutely appreciated though.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Glad to hear it!

  6. Berto Avatar
    Berto

    I see a lot of novellas in the pipeline above–any chance some or all of these will be compiled and turned into audiobooks? I know you all don’t own the complete rights to *all* of the stuff you develop for or print, but the stuff you DO own… can we expect any of its fiction in our ears some day? In my (inexpert) mind, if you’re already writing, editing, and printing books, audiobooks would increase revenue regardless of the margins.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      So, yes there’s a chance. But bear in mind that there’s still a lot of work involved in making an audiobook beyond the work making the original game project.

  7. JackM Avatar
    JackM

    Tome of the Pentacle has been in redlines for almost a full year now. Can you share any info on what’s going on with this book?

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      It’s being worked on and is currently in the redlines stage, as you note. I’ve talked a lot about how the events of the past couple of years didn’t suddenly stop once we got to January 1, 2021, and some projects were affected more than others as our creators dealt with personal issues arising from the events of 2019-2020 including the pandemic. Hope that helps put that time in redlines in perspective, thanks!

  8. THE Donnie Avatar
    THE Donnie

    I buy all the Scion stuff and the Trinity stuff that comes out. I love these two lines. I am also getting the They Came From line as well.

    I am worried, though. There is a LOT of products out there. I am worried that the writers and devs can get burned out. Can we get them to focus more on Tasty Bits stuff or something?

    I do not ask for my wallet. I ask because I want to see longevity of the lines I love.

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

      By and large, it’s different teams from project to project. So the people working on Trinity Continuum: Aether aren’t the same team working on Trinity Continuum: Anima (or, even if they are on both books, their work on Anima ended long before writing started on Aether).

      We trust our freelancers to know their own capabilities, so if we offer them too much work, they’re free to turn it down.

      While individuals may overextend themselves from time to time — it happens, and we try to keep an eye out for it — there’s no threat of teamwide burnout.

      Thanks for your concern!

  9. Chris Avatar
    Chris

    Can’t wait to get Demigod and the Proteus compendium in my hands!