richt Yes, as hard as it is to believe, we are 3 days away from the end of the Exalted: Essence Kickstarter! What a fantastic ride it has been! Starting with it breaking our record for fasted funded KS project, right through to achieving something like twenty-seven Stretch Goals so far, and with it steadily rising … Read more
The full quote is “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king,” which is from Hamlet. But the reason for my using that quote in our title this week is to highlight both the amazing Exalted: Essence Kickstarter, and the fabulous 2021 Onyx Path Virtual Convention which ran the last three … Read more
…leads to the palace of wisdom? Actually, this week it leads to the 2nd Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention! And our lead-in to the con is the awesomely amazing Kickstarter for Exalted: Essence (one of the abbreviations that are used for it is ExEss, hence this week’s MMN blog title) which we’re not even two … Read more
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! That’s just me, still over-awed by the great reception to the Exalted: Essence Kickstarter! We went live on Thursday and funded in 13 minutes! I’m told by our Master of the Records, Impish Ian Warson, that this was in fact our fastest funding EVAH- beating the original EX3 KS by five minutes! We’ve also … Read more
BECAUSE THE EXALTED: ESSENCE KICKSTARTER IS THIS WEEK! Ahem. Sorry for shouting. I’m just so thrilled to finally be able to give everyone the time for the Exalted: Essence KS: May 27th at 2pm Eastern US time! We’ll get into more detail on what’s in EX:Essence in the weeks to come, and, as usual with … Read more
We’re almost exactly a month out from our second Onyx Path Virtual Convention, and things are not so much convoluted – unlike our poor friends’ path here in this illo from Squeaks in the Deep – as they are starting to get fun and exciting as the convention gets firmed up. Which is why I … Read more
Although our illustration above, by long, long-time WoD artist Ken Meyer, Jr., isn’t really all that funny or punny, and only sort of a mime, that’s kind of the point today. A lot of our game lines are pretty serious. They’re about catharsis and dealing with (un)life in an unfair world. We have extended that … Read more
Since we’re between Kickstarters, I just wanted to use this break and mention how we’ve been handling conventions all last year and through this one. Usually, I make a lot of noise throughout the year as we attend con after con, but then 2020 happened. And the effects of that continue to affect us. Which … Read more
And no, that’s not a reference to what might be our next crowd-funded project; it’s a reference to today’s Monday Lunch Meeting where we had Matthew out, Mirthful Mike with a bad arm after his 2nd Covid shot, and Eddy coming in later after he took his dog to the vet. So we had some … Read more
…and to pledge for your own copy of the Trinity Continuum: Adventure! beautiful hardcover book! We’re down to the last couple of days, the last few dozen hours even, with a couple of super Stretch Goals including this one: Exploring Alternate Timelines! – Discussion and guidance on the timelines created by Max Mercer each time … Read more