Deck the Paths With Boughs of Holly! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Well, here we are at the last Monday Meeting of the year! Our Onyx Path crew are taking off next week, so there won’t be a new MM or MMN blog until next year!

Which is fair – this has been a long, hard year as we tried a lot of new things in order to spread the word about Curseborne far and wide; new art styles and artists for Curseborne, Branch Riders, and At the Gates; new layout visuals and styles for all three of those as well as The World Below; and still maintained and pushed forward on all our other game lines!

M20 Forgotten and Forbidden Orders art by Sam Denmark

Our folks here invested so much of themselves; their talent and effort and time, and now we can face this next year tired but proud of all the fantastic fun people are already having with the many projects we’ve released, in various forms, this last year.

So a nice holiday week without meetings is certainly not much to ask for from Santa!

But, as Santa personifies, this is the season for giving gifts, so I’ve asked our crew to send me their ideas for the gifts they’d like to give all of you, our fiendish yet friendly fans! Here are their generously gathered gifts:

Matthew: I’d like to give the fans the gift of subterranean survival via verdant crops of vivid fungi and edible lichen. It’s a harsh world out there, in the Vast Underneath. You need to find gifts in the right cracks and crevasses. Just don’t reach into the ones with eyes inside, otherwise something will make a gift of your hand.

Dixie: I’d like to give the fans all sorts of new playable beasties and badgers this year, and hopefully they’ll enjoy them! I also hope to continue giving fans well-edited books and fun announcements on the Discord! And maybe, like, one corn chip. Each.

Eddy: This year, I want to give the fans something that originally only went to the Pathcast listeners: Rules to play Scions of Primus and Unicron!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8kTxUUx2Lak2Hy2vjIvtdUhz6cs5dEthFNuE89u67A/edit?usp=sharing

LisaT: My gift for the fans is a little peace, a little harmony and a little extra dessert! Happy Holidays!

Travis: I wish the fans a happy, safe, and gentle holiday filled with friendship and fun storytelling! Stay warm and have good games!

Danielle: This year, I’d like to give all my thanks to the fans for supporting At the Gates, Storypath Ultra, Curseborne, and Alchemicals (all books I worked very hard to bring to you). As a gift, here is [the idea for] a card game played all across Everend: Soldier of Fortune, a gambling card game that evolved from storytelling and one-upmanship between soldiers during wartime. It has evolved into a strategy game where you build a deck of adventure cards, stacked to your design for your opponent’s soldier to fight through, and you fight through their deck. Placement and strategy are important, because each card they pass through awards them points based on its difficulty, but if either soldier washes out too soon, you both loose. [Hopefully, Danielle will be able to whip up this cool card game for y’all in 2025! – Editor RichT]

And, of course, a wish for happy holidays and a fantastic new year!

Faces of Magick art by Michael Gaydos

Mirthful Mike: I’d like to give the fans the indescribable joy that comes from a project that was in the works for over a year finally coming to fruition and it being successful. 

RichT: One of the reasons I’ve been doing this blog all these years is so that we could pull aside the curtain and give you folks a chance to see how our teams work together, and that our projects aren’t thrown together by nameless corporate employees, but by creative individuals that face many of the same challenges each and every day that our audience does. Whether you’re a player, a game master or some other title, or like our books to read, or some combination, we want y’all to know that these things you enjoy from us take effort, require concentration and creative energy to make, and are ultimately things we’re making because we too love them.

In other words: we’re all humans bashing our heads against reality and finding distraction, relaxation, enjoyment, even fulfillment, by making and creating these sharable experiences. There are a ton of other distractions out there, and we’re thrilled you’ve chosen something of ours to engage with!

So I’d like to give everybody more TIME. More time to enjoy even more games, but really any media. More time to sit back and savor them and to have some space to really think about them. And more time to share them around the table with others who also have more time to build the stories and experiences that our worlds are just the springboards for!

M20 Forgotten and Forbidden Orders art by Brian LeBlanc

And with that lil’ dose of philosophizing, here’s hoping that everyone reading this has a great rest of their year, and we’ll see each other next year through the portal leading to:

Many Worlds, One Path!


Blurbs!


Crowdfunding!

More To Come in ’25!


Onyx Path Media!

This week: As they talked about previously, the Pathcast crew are taking a break.

As always, back shows of the Onyx Pathcast are on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue!


Also check out our attached abbreviated media schedule for the videos on our Twitch channel this week!

On this week’s Onyx Path News Matthew discusses M20 Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters and Realms of Pugmire 2e! Check it out right here: https://youtube.com/live/Y55c7ZDY3pY

On The Gentleman Gamer’s YouTube channel, we have a new Gentleman’s Guide to the Accursed with his guide to the Gaki family of the Hungry! Check out this official lore drop about the ghost eaters here: https://youtu.be/fqM-pYVPag0

The Gentleman Gamer also provides a new recap of his They Came from [CLASSIFIED]! campaign right here: https://youtu.be/eu9jpNRaxsU


Virtual Tabletop!

They Came From Beneath the Sea! on Roll20 VTT!
https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/22308/they-came-from-beneath-the-sea

The Scion: Origin and Scion Hero Compendiums are now available on Roll20!
https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/1716/onyx-path-publishing

Scion is just the start! They Came From Beneath the Sea! and other
Onyx Path RPGs are in development for Roll20 virtual tabletop!

The first of our official Scion sheets designed for Foundry VTT are
now available! https://foundryvtt.co

Looking for more virtual tabletop resources? We have a selection of
Tokens, Encounters, and more available now at DriveThruRPG! https://bit.ly/3SnrNJ7


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!

CofD Screens and Pugmire/Mau books, screens, and dice 50% off at Studio 2:
https://studio2publishing.com/collections/onx-onyx-path-publishing

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

As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles in PDF and PoD versions at DriveThruRPG.com!

The Haunted Holiday Sale at DTRPG/STV ENDS FRIDAY! All of our Wraith and Geist PDFs are on sale!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?promo=1000241
https://www.storytellersvault.com/sale.php

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).


On Sale This Week!

The last adventure Tasty Bit of the year for Scion Dragon! The Winding Serpent PDF available Weds at DTRPG!

Also available this Weds, the five card Curseborne Tarot promo deck in PDF and PoD Cards on DTRPG/cards!


Conventions!

Here’s where you can find out more info on physical and virtual conventions we’re going to be involved with!

Game Night With Onyx Path Publishing at StartPlaying is this Friday, the 27th! Come play some Curseborne that night! (But any of our game lines are welcome all day long!)


Here’s a link to give anyone $10 credit to play games on Start.Playing:

https://startplaying.games/referral/clog9y0v10006ju0968iev95m

Please spread the word about GMing games as much as possible! Details on how list a game are at the bottom of the page in the FAQ:

https://startplaying.games/event/game-night-onyx-path


Project Status Updates!

Our full list of projects will be available monthly on our blog! Check out November’s full list report here: https://theonyxpath.com/release-roundup-november-2024/

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM EDDY!

Here are the projects that moved to the next stage of production:

DEVELOPMENT

Trinity Continuum – Steam Wars

  • Matthew: Eddy and I are now in the thick of the Second Steam War! The rest of the world needs to be ready for these damn Prussians!

Scion – Additional Mythic Shard: Lost Time

  • Matthew: Hiromi and Kim tell me Lost Time is now in development, so that’s superb news in time for Christmas!

Branch Riders – Facilitator’s Guide

  • Eddy: The Branch Riders team have been hard at work on the next book for the series!

POST-EDITING DEVELOPMENT

Exalted – Exigents Jumpstart

  • Danielle: Hoping to get this out through proofing and to backers soon!

ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!

In Art Direction

  • SCION Mythic Shards – Got these over to Maria.
  • TC Danger Skies – Sending interior halfs over to Leblanc and pinging Durwin about the cover.
  • TC Aether Jumpstart – Pinging Durwin about the cover.
  • Pugmire 2e Jumpstart. – Sending over to Gong

Layout

  • Trinity Continuum CC 
  • Scion Tasty Bit Combo
  • Ex Essence Pillars of Creation
  • SCION God Storyguide Screen
  • TC With Great Power
  • TCF RPG Anthology 
  • TC Aether Screen
  • SCION God Storyguide Screen
  • World Below Screen
  • TC Anima Jumpstart (Terra Surge) – with Ron Thompson

Proofing

  • M20 Faces of Magick – At Paradox for approval.
  • TC Aegis – Awaiting additional text.
  • M20 Forbidden and Forgotten Orders – At Paradox for approval.

Indexing

At Press

  • Reprints:
  • Scion Origin – At Studio2.
  • TC Core – At Studio2.
  • Ex 3 Exigents – Quoting and press files.
  • Ex 3 Exigents Screen – At Studio 2
  • TC Aether – Quoting and press files.
  • TC Anima – Shipping to backers.
  • TC Anima Terra Surge Screen – Shipping to backers.
  • The World Below – Filling in xxs. 
  • Ex 3 Sidereals – Quoting and press files.
  • Scion: God – Quoting and press files.
  • TC Aether Audio Drama – Going out to backers.
  • Ex Essence Deeds Yet Undone – Waiting on errata.
  • December Scion Dragon Tasty BitThe Winding Serpent PDF – live Weds on DTRPG!
  • Curseborne Promo Tarot Cardslive Weds on DTRPG/cards!

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

It’s the holiday season for lots of folks, and if you’re already celebrating and in that festive mood, that’s super! Be careful how hard you celebrate, but have a great time! And to top it all off, let’s celebrate those folks who can’t celebrate this next week or so, for a lot of reasons it’s not an easy time of year. And by celebrate, in this case, I mean let’s let everybody have the space to deal with both the good and the bad this season!

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