This is going to be a brief one, as I spent all last week ailing with the coughs. The worst part was how tired this cold made me; I’d be talking to someone and realize I was drifting towards sleep. Today, I’m still only summoning bursts of activity and energy, but they are longer bursts, so hopefully the thing is on its way out.
And I felt bad about not finishing up some quote requests, Scion symbols, and the Kickstarter whose title page is featured above, but then I noted that it looks like half our crew was down with something, or at a convention last week. Among the other medical things last week, Fast Eddy Webb had his sinuses purged, and on a good note, freelance writer, Developer, and bon-vivant Matthew Dawkins welcomed a baby boy! Congrats Matthew!
But, we’re catching back up now, so expect us to go live with the Deluxe V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary Kickstarter at 12 noon Eastern US time, this Thursday the 23rd!
I’d like to leave you today with this little ditty that should bring a smile to your faces, even if you’re ailing, inspired by the fantastic world of Pugmire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SORXgMPeOq0&feature=youtu.be
BLURBS!
ON SALE!
Looking for 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/
Correction: Curse of the Blue Nile will not be on sale this week as an error was found in the book. We are putting the PDF and PoD versions of V20 Ghouls and Revenants instead! Sneaky ghouls got in there at the last minute.
Those howls you hear? The pack is on your trail! The Pack for Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd, that is! The final PDF and PoD versions are now on sale at DTRPG.com! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/181760/The-Pack
Alone you die. Together you will feast on the blood of your prey.
This book contains:
- The pack from within and without, including a number of sample packs.
- Other organizations of werewolves, including protectorates and Lodges.
- New systems for pack creation, hunting nature, and pack tactics..
- Three new hunting grounds that show different sides to the pack.
V20 Black Hand: Guide to the Tal’ Mahe’ Ra is now on the attack at DTRPG in PDF and physical hardcover PoD forms! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/179023/V20-The-Black-Hand-A-Guide-to-the-TalMaheRa
The Tal’Mahe’Ra, the Black Hand, plays the long game. They’re fighting a war of millennia, and the stakes could never be higher than they are tonight. They know truths about the Ancients, terrifying truths, dangerous truths, and they know the fight will be long and tireless.
The Black Hand — A Guide to the Tal’Mahe’Ra includes:
- An updated look at the Tal’Mahe’Ra, which brings the ancient conspiracy into the twenty-first century.
- Tricks of the Black Hand’s trade, including new Disciplines, Backgrounds, Merits, and eldritch sorceries.
- Insight into some of the Hand’s sects, including those who hunt the infernal, and the worshipers of Lilith.
Servants of the Damned: the Advance PDF for V20 Ghouls & Revenants is now available at DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/184039/V20-Ghouls–Revenants
Ghouls & Revenants includes:
- Expanded and revised character creation for ghoul and revenant player-characters
- Clan and Sect write-ups for ghouls who serve them
- New revenant families including the Rossellini, Kairouan Brotherhood, and more.
- New rules for ghouls and revenants including new Merits & Flaws, Backgrounds, Discipline Packages, etc.
- A Storyteller chapter for advice on running ghoul-or-revenant focused chronicles.
- …and more!
NOTE: This is the Advance PDF version. A final PDF version and PoD versions will be available at a later date. If you have purchased this Advance PDF, you will be automatically updated to the final PDF and receive a link to enable you to purchase the PoD at a discount designed so that your total price matches our usual PDF and Print combo offer.
There has always been…Darkness. Coming at you through time itself, the Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras PDF and physical book PoD versions are now available at DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/178583/Chronicles-of-Darkness-Dark-Eras
Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras reveals the world throughout its long and storied past. Through sixteen eras, you’ll learn the secret history of the world, from the flame-lit tales of the Neolithic to the drug-fueled rebellion of the 1970s. Delve into the past, and learn that the Chronicles of Darkness began long before the modern nights.
Dark Eras includes historical settings for Chronicles of Darkness game lines:
- Vampire: the Requiem
- Werewolf: the Forsaken
- Mage: the Awakening
- Promethean: the Created
- Changeling: the Lost
- Hunter: the Vigil
- Geist: the Sin-Eaters
- Mummy: the Curse
- Demon: the Descent
Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition Advance PDF NOW available at DTRPG.com! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/181754/Mage-the-Awakening-2nd-Edition
You are a mage, one of the Wise. You see, know, and explore what others can’t imagine, from the depths of the human soul to the hidden corners of reality. Armed with your spells, driven by an addiction to Mysteries, you delve into the secrets of the world. Knowledge has a price, and the dangers are many.
This book contains:
- The complete guide to playing a mage in the Chronicles of Darkness.
- Reimagined Paths, Orders, and powers to create your Awakened characters and their allies, including an updated version of the most comprehensive free-form magic system in gaming.
- Five example settings across the world, from Los Angeles to Salamanca, each with a central Mystery.
- A brand-new look at all the strange places of the Fallen World, from the Lower Depths to the Emanation Realms, and what mages might find within.
NOTE: This is the Advance PDF version. A final PDF version and PoD versions will be available at a later date. If you have purchased this Advance PDF, you will be automatically updated to the final PDF and receive a link to enable you to purchase the PoD at a discount designed so that your total price matches our usual PDF and Print combo offer.
You must have your DTRPG account set to accept messages from Onyx Path Publishing before the link messages are sent out, though, so please adjust your settings if you want that discount.
Children of the Unconquered Sun arise!
Exalted 3rd Edition in both PDF and PoD versions is now on sale at DriveThruRPG.com: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162759/Exalted-3rd-Edition
This is your tale. This is Exalted. What legends will they tell of your deeds?
Exalted 3rd Edition depicts both a revitalized and expanded Creation, and the triumphant return of the Solar Exalted—but whether their rebirth will herald the salvation or destruction of the world, none can say. The system redesign takes the best parts of the previous editions and streamlines the mechanics for maximum playability.
Exalted 3rd Edition includes:
- New Fiction – Read a new tale by original Exalted developer and author Geoff Grabowski.
- New Artwork – See the Realm in a new light with stunning artwork by both new and classic Exalted artists working under the direction of Maria Cabardo.
- Expanded Locales – Expand your campaigns with a detailed overview of the sprawling and decadent Second Age of Man. In addition to classic locales such as Chiaroscuro and Nexus, find many new locations not detailed in previous editions, from the treacherous intrigues of Port Calin to the proud warriors of the frigid plains and forests of Medo, held in check only by the iron hand of the Realm.
- Intrigue and Mystery – Discover a revitalized Realm, still standing at the brink of civil war, but more dangerous than ever before; and the Lunar dominions which harry its borders, seeking redress for ancient crimes while pursuing modern ambitions.
- Expanded Character Creation – Create and play Solar Exalted characters and compelling mortal heroes with more information and fleshed out details.
- Combat System – Fight with a new cinematic combat engine, primed to deliver dynamic, exciting, and easily resolved battles between heroes, gods, and armies.
- Charms – Explore a vibrant new Charm set encompassing both classic Solar powers from previous editions and all-new powers to shift the course of Creation.
- …and much, much more!
CONVENTIONS!
Gen Con 2016 Onyx Path events registration has now been posted on the Gen Con site! A LOT of our events have sold out already, so please jump in ASAP if you’d like to attend: https://www.gencon.com/event_finder/Host/Onyx%20Path%20Publishing
These don’t include the demos and playtests we’ll be having at the booth.
And now, the new project status updates!
First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)
- M20 Book of Secrets (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
- Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- CtL fiction anthology (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)
- Ring of Spiragos (Scarred Lands)
- VtM Endless Ages fiction anthology (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
- BtP Building a Legend (Beast: the Primordial)
- Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
- Trinity Continuum: Aeon Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
- M20 Gods and Monsters (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
- Scion: Origins (Scion 2nd Edition)
- Scion: Hero (Scion 2nd Edition)
- BtP Mortal Remains (Beast: the Primordial)
- BtP Player’s Guide
- Pugmire Core Book
- Ring of Spiragos (5e)
- Dagger of Spiragos (5e)
Redlines
- Dagger of Spiragos – Pathfinder Version (Scarred Lands)
- EX3 Quickstart (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Scarred Lands Player’s Guide 5E: Ghelspad (Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
- VtR A Thousand Years of Night (Vampire: the Requiem 2nd Edition)
Second Draft
- Arms of the Chosen (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- The Realm (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Dragon-Blooded (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Cavaliers of Mars
- Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition
- V20 Dark Ages Anthology (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
Development
- W20 Changing Ways (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)
- Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring the Huntsmen Chronicle (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)
- Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)
- SL Ring of Spiragos (Pathfinder – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
- SL The Wise and the Wicked (5e – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
- SL The Wise and the Wicked (Pathfinder – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
- SL Dagger of Spiragos (Pathfinder – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
- V20 Dark Ages Companion (Vampire 20th Dark Ages)
- Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition
Editing:
- Night Horrors: Conquering Heroes (Beast: the Primordial)
- W20 Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)
Post-Editing Development:
- The Prince’s Gambit (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
- V20 Lore of the Bloodlines (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
- CofD Hurt Locker (Chronicles of Darkness)
Indexing:
ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:
In Art Direction
- W20 Shattered Dreams
- Dark Eras Companion
- Necropolis Rio
- Beckett’s Jyhad Diary
- CofD Hurt Locker
- Mummy Novel
- V20 DA Tome of Secrets
- V20 Lore of the Bloodlines
- Beast RMCs
- SL Wise and Wicked Update
- Prince’s Gambit
In Layout
- Promethean: the Created Second
- Secrets of the Covenants
- Ex 3 core book – From RichT: Files for both Deluxes are at the printer. Need proofs from them, now.
- Dark Eras Screen
- Gen Con 2016 Brochure
- Storypath Brochure
- Gen Con Materials
- Kinfolk
Proofing
- Mage: the Awakening 2nd – Waiting for errata from DaveB.
- Scarred Lands PG
At Press
- Beast Screen – At shipper.
- Beast Prestige Edition – printing.
- Dark Eras – PDF and PoD versions on sale at DTRPG. Prepping Prestige Edition files for printer.
- V20 Ghouls & Revenants – PoD proofs ordered.
- V20 RMC – Errata being reviewed
- Ex 3 Backer Charm Book – Out to Backers, fixing errata.
- Ex 3 Screen – At the Printer.
- Scarred Lands: Death in the Walled Warren Fiction – Nocturnal Media is handling getting this to KS backers.
- Curse of the Blue Nile – On sale Wednesday.
Special- projects on hold in the art and production area until an external factor is resolved
- Wraith 20 – Art direction and layout can’t go further until art notes come in, still being developed by Rich Dansky.
TODAY’S REASON TO DRINK: I hab a thold…so…Nyquil and bourbon x 2.
Colds suck a lot. I hope you feel better soon.
Thanks, I really do think it is on its way out.
And now for some completely un-doctor advice, Hot Toddy’s. Tea, honey, Bourbon & Lemon, cures what ails ya. Hopefully y’all be better soon
When DaveB finishes the last bits for Mage, is he moving to Deviant or is there a project between the 2?
Thinking this year or next for Trinity Continuum Kickstarter?
With the emphasis on GenCon, when do you start planning out the holiday scheduling?
Rabbit season or Duck season?
Trinity Continuum’s KS will be next year, this year we’re pushing for Scion’s KS after GenCon.
I’m actually okay with the TC kickstarter being next year since I spent the $ I saved on a new tablet. Gives me time to recover.
Ahhhh man, Beast: Prestige Edition is printing. So excited!
I promise not to get impatient: I remember how long it took for the M20 books to get out. I’ll sit here like a Good Dog.
And not to mention Curse of the Blue Nile! Aggggh, so much to be excited about!
Please do more stuff for Exalted. I think we all want to know more about how Exigents and hybrids and such work in 3e, in addition to more about Evocations.
*Breaths Heavily*
After reading about Promethean, I am now overly excited for the new edition to come out. I really appreciate the amount of effort and attention you’ve all been putting into these projects.
Get well soon 🙂
I am really excited about V20 Lore of the Bloodlines’ progress. Can we get some more information about it? Like how much coverage each of the bloodline gets? (Although anything more than a splat will be fine *wink*)
I know, that’s all extra work for you guys and you have to fit it into your timetable somehow, so a ‘No’ is perfectly fine – I’ll just keep gnawing on my finger nails then 😀
Thanks 🙂
Each Bloodlines gets a chapter, and they are: Baali, Daughters of Cacaphony, Gargoyles, Harbingers of Skulls, Kiasyd, Nagaraja, Salubri, Samedi, True Brujah. As per the Lore if the Clans KS stretch goals. Hope that helps!
I’m really excited about that book too. From what I remember of the Kickstarter each Bloodline will be laid out in a similar way to the Clans in Lore of the Clans (a mix of lore and mechanics) but with each one getting a lower word count than the Clans did.
You are quite correct! I wrote Kiasyd and Harbingers of Skulls for that upcoming book. I think players, Storytellers, and readers will all have a reason to be cheerful when they get a chance to look at it.
That’s reassuring to hear, I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
I hope whatever’s got ahold of you clears up soon. I recently had something that took about a week and a half to clear up.
Something I thought of at work last night after reading your comment regarding the Scion KS: the post-KS survey always asks what stretch goals/add-ons we’d be interested in. I for one would always be interested in a translation guide (in this case, bringing Scion 1st edition up to 2nd edition).
That’s about what this is timing out to, I think. Aaaaand, good idea on the Translation Guide.
Get well soon. 🙂
Thanks, Y!
Product idea. Mental Condition Cards. Simply a port of the mental Derangements of 1st edition/Asylum to 2e. I don’t think Asylum needs a reprint, but having conditions like Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Multiple Personalitiy, etc would be nice (and I think some of these are valid in more than “mentally ill”).
Hope you feel better Rich, I like a little corn whiskey and ginger beer when I’m under the weather myself.
Have you talked to Phil recently about the M20 books? Seems like they have been in frist draft phase for a while now.
We can’t move them forward until he gets all the material out of that phase, so with him doing a lot of the primary writing, it takes a while.
I’m hoping since he’s doing most of the primary writing there will be less time spent in the redline and dev stages. I seem to remember that being how things went for HDYDT and M20, but I could be remembering those phases fondly. I mean BoS is a pretty beastly tomb (appropriate given the size of M20). It and Wraith are the two projects I check first every Monday. I suspect in both cases once they move from their current phases things will be pretty exciting. At least that’s my MMMN manta.
Mage 2nd Edition is going great so far. Very excited for the print edition; players find the new creative spell system much easier to understand and more encouraging of developing a unique magical style for each character.
Under Redlines, it says, “Dagger of Spiragos – Pathfinder Version (Scarred Lands)”
Under Development, it says, “SL Dagger of Spiragos (Pathfinder – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)”
Are bits of it further along than others? This is a case where, IMO, the more detailed explanations given for some items would come in handy.
Also, what’s the current status of the Cavaliers of Mars quickstart and/or the Scion alpha slice? They haven’t been on the update list for a couple of whiles now.
Here on the Onyx forums and Reddit site, I’ve been talking with a lot of fellow gamers and we’d really love to see a V20 version of Chicago By Night. It was such an archetypal piece of vampire lore and perfect for the social interaction and low-key adventuring which was the game’s signature personal horror.
The 2nd Edition lost some of the originals’ quirkier loser Kindred but it’d be awesome see a toolbox version containing an updated description of the city, the original classic NPCs, and maybe some fixes (like the fact some of them had Humanity 0 but carried on normal lives).
Besides, what is any vampire edition without the Succubus Club?
Any luck with the Mirthful One?
Becketts sounds awesome. Any thoughts of doing this for mage (porthos view) or werewolf? Totally unrelated, any idea on if/when we will see a print on demand for Adventure! ?
Or Wraith? Man is love to see a diary of the Skeletal Lord. See what it’s like as each new Wraith “promoted”to the position is subsumed by the mask. That would be amazing.
Ugh. This is what I get for posting from my phone. Autocorrect hates me.
Can you refresh my memory on what stage of the process ‘Development’ is? Asking for a friend ;p
Super excited about all of this CoD 2.0 stuff in the works!
Development actually occurs all through the writing process, but the specific stage takes place after the final writing drafts are turned in and the developer makes sure the various authors’ text is as required. Formatting, confirming word count, and overall tone, are all things that could be part of the development stage.
Awesome thanks for the update.