Some Hype, I Hope! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Fresh off the excellent meeting we had with Paradox and White Wolf in Berlin a week or so ago, and a week before we open the tomb of the Mummy: The Curse 2e Kickstarter, I figure it’s a good time to give you a look at some of my thoughts on a bunch of our game lines.

Scarred Lands:

With that lead-in paragraph, I bet you expected WW-IP stuff, but there is just so much happening with Scarred Lands that I wanted to get all that out first. To be honest, the interest in SL has been a real surprise. A great surprise, because there just seems to be a constant stream of folks that remember the setting from years ago and are excited to play and create with our new edition.

Which is wonderfully gratifying. Not only for the love and interest, but because we (I) was slow on the uptake on getting SL back on track after our original Scarred Lands partnership with Stewart Wieck came to an abrupt end with his passing. If I look back, I’m pretty sure I just delayed dealing with it, as jumping in where Stew was originally going to handle things reminded me of my friend too much.

But this year, we made huge strides – in a large part helped by the awesome efforts of all the creators on the Slarecian Vault (SL‘s community content site), our recently finished Creature Collection KS, and next year we’ll be presented monthly releases of Yugman’s Guide to the Scarred Lands, and the Vigil Watch project. There are weekly Twitch actual plays, and the amazing adventures of an awesome ratman (is it not all about him?) by Devil’s Luck Gaming that’s been running for months with all the twists and plot turns you could ever want.

Plus, just today Matt McElroy let us know that we’ll have a “What’s Up with 5e and Onyx Path” panel at Gamehole Con in Madison at the end of the week: https://www.gameholecon.com/events/event/7956 and he is running a “meat grinder” Scarred Lands game after hours at the con. If you’re interested in participating, let him know at our booth.

And then, we also have heard that the Scarred Lands supplement to Expedition, the exciting card and app-based RPG is going on sale the start of November. Here’s a description from Eddy Webb, who has been overseeing the project:

A lightweight, card-based roleplaying game that’s fun for players – and storytellers. Whether you’re playing alone, with a group of friends, your spouse or with your kids – anyone can learn to play in less than 5 minutes! Powered by a free companion app with hundreds of free adventures and new quests every week, there’s always something new to play! For 1-6 players, 20+ minutes, ages 8+

More on this as it’s released! Suffice to say, Scarred Lands has been reborn, and we’re just thrilled with how players have responded to its return!

M20 Book of the Fallen art by Sam Araya

World of Darkness:

We’ll be Kickstarting the traditionally printed and in-stores version of V5 Cults of the Blood Gods soon, and coming out of Berlin, our team has several more V5 projects to get rolling on. While we’ve been finishing the Stretch Goal rewards for several past 20th Anniversary Kickstarters, we also have a few more 20th projects that WW/Paradox is cool with us doing, so keep an eye out for those.

Overall, as WW/Paradox‘s method of handling the licensing of WoD changes as they continue moving to “5th Edition WoD”, we are comfortable with pitching individual projects or whole lines depending on the parameters they use on each line. Right now, if we get an idea we pitch it their way and see if it works with their plans.

Chronicles of Darkness:

Much like with WoD, we pitch interesting CofD projects to Paradox, and they can OK them or not according to their overall plans.

Which works out just fine for us right now, as we’ve got plenty to keep us busy as Dark Eras 2 proofs get finalized and out to backers, which has so many CofD lines in it, and with Geist 2e going to press, and Mummy 2e‘s KS and Hunter 2e‘s not far behind- plus all the attendant KS Stretch Goal projects, plus plus starting a couple of projects not yet on the progress report that WW/Paradox is OK with.

Exalted:

The big books roll along with Lunars and Exigents at different stages and with smaller books/stretch goals also rolling. We’re getting close to wrapping up the two monthly EX3 projects. There’s a very special secret project that we’ve been working on that we’re going to announce at PAX Unplugged in early December, and we’re really looking forward to letting our EX3 audience in on that!

In general, while we know folks might look back at the previous two editions’ release schedules and count the numbers, we are looking at how far our “new” Exalted team has come and the overall quality of the projects seems pretty satisfying. While we’re not aiming to return to the frenetic release pace of old, EX3 looks well positioned to deliver a more regular series of releases in the coming year.

Deviant: The Renegades art by Michael Gaydos

Scion:

For a while I’ve been thinking about how there’s really two tracks for Scion: the Mythic track, which contains Scion: Origin, Hero, Demigod, and God, and the projects that talk about The World and our take on how real-world pantheons would work in it like Titanomachy, and then there’s the Expanded track, which looks at ways to add further ideas on what could be considered a pantheon, or a god, or what else could exist alongside or outside the Mythic track. These would include Scion: Dragon, and Masks of the Mythos.

We’re aiming to create projects that provide value to both tracks, even if they are more firmly situated in a single one, and to release those projects so that everyone into Scion will receive a steady stream of excellent material. Having the Storypath Nexus community content site up and being the repository of even more potential Scion goodness is definitely part of the plan.

Trinity Continuum:

Sort of similar to Scion but the key design decision to build everything as a Continuum helps folks understand that we’re not going to stop with just the original eras but expand the potential eras from the past to the far future and eras in-between what we already have. Plus sideways and upways and downways. I’ve taken to considering the TC not as a linear time track alone, but as one with bubbles of eras that run parallel and drift closer or farther together depending on the interests of our players.

To use my favorite example, the hidden ultra-tech city of the intelligent gorillas may exist in a bubble that in your TC:Adventure! game is very close or even touching your TC:Adventure! era, but that same gorilla bubble may be far away and so unreachable in your TC:Aeon game.

So with the Trinity Continuum Core and TC: Aeon books shipping RIGHT NOW to backers, work progressing nicely on the final TC: Aberrant text, and TC:Adventure! on the progress report chart below, we’ve got all sorts of added Stretch Goal projects that are getting ready to come out, plus unannounced projects for both the Core and the TC itself that we’ll let you in on very soon.

They Came From Beneath the Sea!, Dystopia Rising: Evolution, Realms of Pugmire, and Cavaliers of Mars:

These are all verrrry different games, but all share the same publishing philosophy of launching and fulfilling a Kickstarter campaign to get the books into stores, and of working to provide a first wave of releases that support and add to the game line’s core book(s). Mostly via Kickstarter Stretch Goal rewards.

With Cavs and Pugmire, we try and work within the schedules and interests of the creators, Rose and Eddy respectively, so as they come up with ideas we bat those back and forth until a new project forms out of all of it. For They Came From and DR:E, we’re working on getting the core books created, as well as the supplements from their KSs. From there we’ll see if the interest is there for more projects with the line…but it’ll be a few months before those triggers are pulled and we have anything to announce.

Dark Eras 2 art by Luis Sanz

Legendlore:

This is one that I’m really interested in seeing how it hits. If you listen to developer Steffie de Vaan’s deep dive with Matthew and Dixie on last Friday’s Onyx Pathcast, she stresses that this fantasy world that has been around for decades as a comic book series contains a lot of inherent world design that she and her team took and expanded on – always with an eye towards the central premise of the setting: you the player are playing some version of yourself transported to this fantasy world.

This can be a touchy premise for a game, though. A lot of folks who play RPGs are playing to NOT be themselves, but to explore different types of characters. Steffie has that covered too, in much the same way that she has looked at how to make the premise work so that players have options that work for them, for their personal beliefs and ideas as to what sort of character they are comfortable playing.

It’s only one aspect of a rich fantasy world, but it is so intrinsic to the setting (even beyond how important regular character creation is for any game world) that it had to be handled with thought and empathy. If you have the time, take a listen – you’ll also get a chance to hear a lot more about the warring nations, and the skullduggery of appeasing a dangerous aggressive neighboring realm, and that there’s several different types of playable trolls (!), and much, much, more.

There you go – and I’m not even getting into the possible new licenses and other new lines we continue to look into. Truly, we have so:

Many Worlds, One Path!


BLURBS!


Kickstarter!

The Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition Kickstarter arises next Tuesday, Nov 5th, at 2pm Eastern US time. Be there to witness the majesty and terror of this new version of Mummy: The Curse!


Onyx Path Media!

This Friday’s Onyx Pathcast features the recorded Worldbuilding panel from the Save Against Fear convention – Eddy, Dixie, RichT, surprise guest Neall Raemonn Price, and other game creators answer questions from the moderator and the audience as to what challenges creators face in world building for their games. The answers are often surprisingly personal, and no one held back their opinions, that’s for sure!

What a week we have in store for you on the Onyx Path Twitch channel! Matthew has already hosted the Onyx Path News today in a bumper, hour long edition, and we’ve got games of V5, Scion, Pugmire, Hunter: The Vigil, Aberrant, Changeling: The Lost, Mage: The Awakening, and Scarred Lands all to come! Check us out and give us a follow on twitch.tv/theonyxpath

It really helps us to have subscribers on our Twitch channel, and you can do so for free and catch premieres as they go up if you have an Amazon Prime account. Just type Twitch Amazon Prime into Google and you’ll be shown how to subscribe for free.

Do you follow us on YouTube? Well, if you haven’t subscribed to us on Twitch, do not despair, as a couple of weeks after each episode on Twitch we transfer the videos over to YouTube right here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzN5jRB35OvnC-6gxnRY4gQ
We already have episodes of Aberrant and Changeling up, with more to come!

Meanwhile, our fans keep creating excellent content for us, not limited to:

Occultists Anonymous continues with their fantastic Mage: The Awakening game right here:

Episode 54: A Marrow Escape The cabal travels into this strange Atlantean temple and tries to decipher the purpose of the building. The ancient defenses still work though…https://youtu.be/_6asdJMHo00

Episode 55: Judgment Call Shaking the remains of the Temple’s defenses off of themselves, the cabal begins to discover the heart of the Temple and it’s possibly dark purposes…https://youtu.be/S9eSLKTnUR8

Plus, the Story Told Podcast posts another episode of their fantastic Exalted: Dragon-Blooded series right here: http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/episode-17-welcome-to-daric

Do not miss Devil’s Luck Gaming with their superb Scarred Lands content: https://www.twitch.tv/DevilsLuckGaming

Watch Geek & Sundry‘s Eric Campbell discuss his love of Geist: The Sin-Eaters right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7G-P9iou8

Twin Cities by Night continue their fantastic Chronicles of Darkness chronicle right here on Podbean: https://twincitiebynight.podbean.com/

Did you miss the Ragnarok & Roll podcast’s coverage of Scion Second Edition and their actual play spanning first edition’s Hero to Ragnarok? If so, please check them out here: https://ragnarokandroll.podbean.com/

If you want a fresh new take on Chicago by Night, complete with animated opening, please give the fine folks (with superb voice acting) a look at Windy City Kindred right here: www.twitch.tv/wickedstudiosllc

Drop Matthew a message via the contact button on matthewdawkins.com if you have actual plays, reviews, or game overviews you want us to profile on the blog!

Please check any of these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games!


Electronic Gaming!

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is live! Our 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.)


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 get Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Scarred Lands (Pathfinder) books are also on sale at Studio2, and they have the 5e version, supplements, and dice as well!:
https://studio2publishing.com/collections/scarred-lands

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 are available to order!

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

The big Halloween Sale on DriveThruRPG and Storytellers Vault continues until Halloween.

Most of our Chronicles of Darkness PDFs will be on sale on both sites, plus there will be some Halloween Treats (i.e. free PDFs) hidden around the sites.


On Sale This Week!

This Wednesday, we’ll be resplendently releasing our monthly Exalted 3rd PDFs on DTRPG!


Conventions!

GameHoleCon: This week: October 31st – November 3rd in Madison, WI!
PAX Unplugged: December 6th – 8th, in Philadelphia, PA.

2020: Midwinter: January 9th – 12th, in Milwaukee, WI.


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)
  • Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Creating in the Realms of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)
  • Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)

Redlines

  • Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)
  • Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)

Second Draft

  • Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Wraith20 Fiction Anthology (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)
  • Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Development

  • Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)
  • TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)
  • Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)
  • One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)
  • Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Manuscript Approval

  • Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
  • Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

Post-Approval Development

  • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
  • Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)
  • Scion LARP Rules (Scion)
  • Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Editing

  • Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)
  • Let the Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
  • Geist 2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)
  • Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  • Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
  • Legendlore core book (Legendlore)
  • WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)
  • Mythical Denizens (Creatures of the World Bestiary) (Scion 2nd Edition)
  • Vigil Watch (Scarred Lands)
  • Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)
  • M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
  • Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)

Post-Editing Development

  • Chicago Folio/Dossier (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
  • TC: Aeon Ready-Made Characters (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
  • Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)
  • City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)
  • Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)
  • W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)
  • TC: Aeon Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
  • Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Indexing


ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!

In Art Direction

  • Contagion Chronicle – Sent out contracts.
  • Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
  • Hunter: The Vigil 2e
  • Ex3 Lunars – Contracted.
  • TCfBtS!: Heroic Land Dwellers
  • Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed
  • Ex3 Monthly Stuff
  • Trinity RMCs – Finals in.
  • Cults of the Blood God (KS) – Mark finals rolling in.
  • Chicago Folio – Finals rolling in.
  • Mummy 2 (KS) – Ready for KS.
  • City of the Towered Tombs – Contracted.
  • Let the Streets Run Red – Figuring out probable page count.
  • CtL Oak Ash and Thorn – Awaiting artnotes.
  • Scion Mythical Denizens
  • Deviant
  • Trinity Continuum Aeon Jumpstart

In Layout

  • They Came from Beneath the Sea! – Template created… system chapter done.
  • Trinity Continuum Aeon: Distant Worlds
  • VtR Spilled Blood
  • Geist 2e Screen – Putting it together.
  • Pirates of Pugmire

Proofing

  • M20 Book of the Fallen – At WW for final approval.
  • Memento Mori
  • Dark Eras 2 – First dev pass ready to go back to designer.

At Press

  • Trinity Core Screen – At Studio2 – shipping to backers.
  • TC Aeon Screen – At Studio2 – shipping to backers.
  • Trinity: In Media Res – PoD proofs coming.
  • Trinity Core – At Studio2 – shipping to backers.
  • Trinity Aeon – At Studio2 – shipping to backers.
  • V5: Chicago – Printing.
  • Aeon Aexpansion – PoD proofs ordered.
  • W20 Art Book – On sale next week.
  • W20 Auspice Gift Cards deck – Backer PDF out to backers, PoD proofs ordered.
  • Geist 2e (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition) – Getting print files ready.
  • DR:E – Getting print files ready.
  • DRE Screen – Getting print files prepped.
  • C20 Cup of Dreams – Backer PDF with backers.
  • DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties – PDF out to backers.

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Eight years ago, I let the ever-optimistic Impish Ian Watson know that Onyx Path had purchased the Trinity IP from White Wolf/CCP. And that we were going to bring it back and he was going to be as involved as he wanted, after all his years of keeping the flame lit. Today, Ian received his KS copies of the Trinity Continuum Core, and Trinity Continuum: Aeon. Took longer than either of us expected, but the dream is now real!


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44 responses to “Some Hype, I Hope! [Monday Meeting Notes]”

  1. Atavist Avatar
    Atavist

    Sounds like big news. I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for some cool new Werewolf stuff. I’ve been trying to get the word out as much as I can.

    Also I got my Aeon and Trinity core books today, another fantastic job from Onyx Path, and I’m glad that Ian ascended to developer with it.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Thanks! We’re very thrilled and proud of those books!

  2. Mateus Luz Avatar
    Mateus Luz

    “Some” Hype? Come on, it’s hype for everyone, Oprah Style:
    You get Hype! You get hype! Everybody get hype!

    Congratulation to the ever-optimistic Ian Watson! Your dream is mine, and I have to thank you for this great job (even not getting any physical copies because of distance).

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      That’s what I was hoping for with the post! Look under your seats!

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

    Thank you, all. 🙂 I’m excited to hear about the Trinity Continuum games you’re all running!

    1. Ben Rogers Avatar

      Well hopefully our AEon game will come off it’s hiatus (real life issues stepped in the way) soon but you can check out our story so far on the campaign blog:

      https://trinitycontinuumaeonodysseus.blogspot.com/

      1. richt Avatar
        richt

        Awesome – hope you can get back to playing real soon!

  4. neil Avatar
    neil

    will hunter the vigil 2e get a kickstarter

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Still the plan!

  5. Guido Avatar
    Guido

    „…we also have a few more 20th projects that WW/Paradox is cool with us doing, so keep an eye out for those.“

    I will and are very much looking forward to it!

    1. The_Bob Avatar
      The_Bob

      Yeah, this has me pretty excited. Would LOVE to see some more V20 stuff.

  6. Jean Mendes Avatar
    Jean Mendes

    I am really hyped for the Cult of the Blood Gods, can’t wait for the KS to begin to guarantee my copy 🙂

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Awesome! Glad to hear it – I’m assuming you were already in on Chicago?

  7. Yodo Avatar
    Yodo

    As much as I look forward to learning what v5 will have in the future, I’m really glad to hear you guys have more 20th Edition stuff on the way. Those books encapsulate The Story So Far really well, and make great reading for newbies like me.

    I’m also really curious to see some of the new Scion ideas you guys can come up with. Scion: Yokai? A set of character templates for every member of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts? A wacky sitcom where a tanuki, a leprechaun and Reynard try to one-up each other’s worst tricks? I, for one, will be on the edge of my seat as more information is made available!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      There’s just so much room to keep going with Scion. The hardest part is to pick ones that build Scion as a whole thing, because we’d love to run off and publish every idea!

  8. Dominic Parent Avatar
    Dominic Parent

    Wow! So MUCH hype I don’t know what to do with it. I can’t afford all of that and all those I don’t even know about, but, that is the best problem to have.

    And those teases. Gosh. So much delicious teasing. Looking forward to hearing more. 🙂

    And to answer your question, I fully intend to try Legendlore. It sounds amazing. I do share your concerns, however. But, heck, if playing yourself isn’t for a particular troupe I’m sure it’s possible to work around that and enjoy what seems to be a truly fascinating setting.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Well, like any of our Kickstarted projects, backers will get a chance to read and comment on the rules, so you should get a much clearer picture of how it all works then. Pretty sure you won’t be disappointed!

      1. Yiodan Avatar
        Yiodan

        Indeed. Just based on friday’s deep dive it already sounds like the team has got all angles covered.

  9. Eric Crabtree Avatar
    Eric Crabtree

    Can’t wait for HtV 2.0, Cults, Book of the Fallen.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      They’re all a-comin!

  10. Loki_Ashaman Avatar
    Loki_Ashaman

    Special secret Exalted project?!? Is it December yet??

    Also, crossing fingers for Werewolf W5.

    1. Dominic Parent Avatar
      Dominic Parent

      Agreed on W5. I am dying to see the art direction and how it changes. If V5 is any indication I should love it. My love for this game cannot be properly expressed.

  11. evolved_lupus Avatar
    evolved_lupus

    Quote: “While we’ve been finishing the Stretch Goal rewards for several past 20th Anniversary Kickstarters, we also have a few more 20th projects that WW/Paradox is cool with us doing, so keep an eye out for those.”

    So, WW/Paradox isn’t cool about Tribebook:Bunyip for W20, because W5 MAY BE “just around the corner” (i.e. may be published before 2025), but for the time being, M20, Wr20, C20 and VtDA20/V20DA products are safe? Très uncool, WW/Paradox, très uncool.

    Anyway, glad that there is some stuff being developed in secret (for now). Always something to look forward to.

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

      “There are 20th Anniversary projects they’re cool with us doing” doesn’t mean those projects will be for Werewolf or Vampire. Some stuff has already crossed the line into 5th Edition territory, so there won’t be any further 20th Anniversary material for them.

    2. richt Avatar
      richt

      Well, there’s no telling what W5 is going to be like and whether there’ll be a place for books that detail things like the Bunyips. As for the other 20th lines, like I said, it’s a project by project process not really line-by-line. Not really a question of favoritism.

  12. Phaolan Avatar
    Phaolan

    As I avidly watch for ANY news of what Paradox/White Wolf are doing with Vampire: The Masquerade – not to mention all of the World of Darkness – I do find other than what I’ve seen from y’all at Onyx Path, I’m kinda unimpressed. I mean, mileage varies and such, please don’t think that *I* don’t know that. However, I’m glad that your pitches are still heard by White Wolf. I don’t need World of Darkness 5th Edition to be EXACTLY what I’ve seen before, but while I look forward to surprises, I’ll hope that Onyx Path can be part of the tabletop part of the process!

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      As much as I appreciate the sentiment – and agree that we do the best RPGs! – I don’t think anybody has really seen what Modiphius or the various companies creating V5 TTRPG books can do yet. Let’s hope everybody brings their A-game!

      1. Yiodan Avatar
        Yiodan

        That’s a pretty solid point right there. I don’t know if the comparison is relevant (could be a vastly different teams) but I’ve read pretty most of the Star Trek Adventures content and immediately fell so in love that I started to run a game (I know… my schedule hates me) but I can tell you that this is one of my favorite games I’ve ever run.

        So, yeah, I’m definately willing to wait and see.

      2. Cardul Avatar
        Cardul

        I think the greates flaw with what is going on on the WW/Paradox side is..we really have no idea what they are doing next and how they are planning. Other than you were told not to do Tribebook: Bunyip because they were “right around the corner” from W5, we have heard nothing about W5, or M5(though, since that was one of their two games, it should be up first, right?) or pretty much anything. Be nice if they would give the fans of the other lines something to be excited about, you know?

        1. Troy Avatar
          Troy

          WW/PDX announced W5 at PDXcon recently.

          1. Yiodan Avatar
            Yiodan

            They did? Nice! I had a feeling they might have based on vague posts but could find anything concrete. Do you have any links or article to find out what’s been annouced?

  13. Major Avatar
    Major

    Any chance for the Risen to ‘rise from their graves’ in the future?

    Just rewatched The Crow (the first one) and it got me wondering.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Anything is possible…

  14. Aldo Montoya Reynaga Avatar
    Aldo Montoya Reynaga

    I would love to hear that “the secret project that they’ve been working on”is to get a traditional print run of the Exalted books. Not that I don’t like the collector’s editions, they are gorgeous, but very unusuable in MHO for games and the PoD cost are exorbitants Ex3 cost 120 great quality, or 60 for a normal that’s too much.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      For a book that size? No, we price them as reasonably as we can based on the limit of the costs from the printer to create the PoD. I don’t think you’d see a price you like much better for a traditionally printed version of the Ex3 Core.

      1. Aldo Montoya Reynaga Avatar
        Aldo Montoya Reynaga

        No idea Richt, maybe what I understand for “print run” could be different from what OPP has plans for. For example Pathfinder 2E is about the size of Ex3 Core and cost 59.99 usd or 79.99 deluxe, I do understand that it’s printed in China so if you print them in USA the price could be higher. Don’t know how much higher, that’s information only you guys have.

        I wasn’t a backer for Ex3 so getting a PoD form the Core is really expensive for me. Let’s say 120 usd and it was the price of the Deluxe in KS. None the less, I’m a backer of DB and Lunars and with the coupon I would get the PoD a bit cheaper although I would like to see the books in the stores.

        Anyway, I would love to see a print run for Exalted line (Cores and Splats). You could check Numenera’s KS from MonteCookGames. They usually do a KS for 3 printed splat books (cost benefits. maybe). Just my 2 cents and dreama for the Ex3 line

  15. Bruce Avatar
    Bruce

    “C20 Cup of Dreams – Backer PDF with backers.”
    Does that mean that the backers can expect the pdf soon?

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      Already sent- check the Digital Downloads section of your C20 BackerKit page!

  16. nico144 Avatar
    nico144

    not sure where to put this, but with Moons of Madness just released, i’d really love to see what OPP could do with The Secret World license from Funcom combined with the Storypath system!

    that world seems really right for the Path! 😀

    keep up the great work!

    1. Yiodan Avatar
      Yiodan

      It really, really would.

  17. Possessed Avatar
    Possessed

    Any hope to get a EU friendly shipping for at the least WW lisenced kickstarters through them? Paradox is situated in EU and they propably have contacts here.

    International postage is really killing me. I already had to resort to PoD version of Aberrant and Deviant because the postage is more than the book itself. For Exalteds special editions I have had to bite the bullet for now but it is devastating my finances each time.

    1. richt Avatar
      richt

      We continue to work on solutions to bring down the costs of shipping, both with and without our international business associates. Also, I’m assuming you’re referring to Kickstarter shipping costs, and that you want to help with the KSs – so big thanks for that – and just to be clear, both the books you mention were KS’d to get them into stores, where shipping shouldn’t be an issue.

  18. Joshua Avatar
    Joshua

    Huge fan of your content, can’t until the Kickstarter for Cult of the Blood Gods.