LESS THAN THREE DAYS LEFT FOR THE V5 CULTS OF THE BLOOD GODS KICKSTARTER!
It is, in fact, doing fantastic, with over 2200 backers so far. The comments section, knock wood, has been overwhelmingly positive and energized – which really encourages our team to pop in and answer questions and chat a bit.
So, come over and check it out and as a backer you can check out the text that we’ve released to backers so far. Which is most of it. If you disagree with those 2200 other backers and dislike it, you can bail out before the KS is over. No harm, no foul.
We want our backers to be into the project, and totally understand when some folks don’t dig it. Not every project appeals to every potential backer. It’s why we set up our KSs this way, now. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/cults-of-the-blood-gods-for-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-ed
Most of last week was spent at Mid Winter Convention in a gathering of almost the entire Monday Meeting crew plus dozens of freelancers. And a wonderful group of friends and fans, too. We started with:
THE SUMMIT
This was a day long – well half a day, it took us 12 hours – meeting where we took a look back at 2019, and then mostly looked at our plans for ongoing projects and how we could evolve our processes.
Then we spent the second half of the day looking at how we wanted Onyx Path to grow throughout 2020. What works for us and so should be nurtured and fed with love and effort and money.
If we felt something was no longer working, we didn’t just trash it, we looked at ways to change it or replace it so that our original goal for it was more likely to be met.
It was loud and long and lively, and ultimately we filled three walls with Post-Its filled with our ideas. We’re already working on some of the changes, with more to come of our efforts all through 2020 (and beyond).
Then it was time for dinner, and normally in Milwaukee we’d go to the traditional German restaurant Maders (a tradition going all the way back to when White Wolf ate there during Gen-Con), but then this happened:
So we all ate at a different restaurant, which was perfectly nice, but not steeped in tradition. Sob! Later that night, I joined with our amazing Onyx Pathcast hosts (Dixie, Matthew, and Eddy) for a very silly Pathcast recording that went live last Friday. You can find that on Podbean, or on your favorite podcast venue.
From there on in, we were attending the convention. So:
THE MID WINTER CONVENTION
Here is a run-down with a whole lot of pics taken throughout, as were the earlier ones, by the multi-talented Meredith Gerber.
Thursday was set-up for the booth and some professional seminars and panels designed to help freelancers and aspiring creators with tips on such things as running a Kickstarter (Mighty Matt McElroy, Meredith, and I were that panel), to networking, to Eddy’s Developer Bootcamp where he divides attendees into teams, has them come up with a game concept, and walks them through each stage of creation.
My favorite idea was a game where a cyber-pug is created in parts, with each cyber-part containing one bit of what I believe was an exploded pug’s body. I heard about it second-hand, so I might not be grasping the full nuanced concept.
Friday, for us, was important. This was the day of our Onyx Path Q&A Social, which is a small gathering in a boardroom at the hotel, with snacks and drinks. We’ve found that this works better for us than the traditional panel at this convention.
That was our big group event, but individually everybody still had events they were a part of. In fact, right after the Q&A, Matthew demo’d They Came From Beneath the Sea!. Which I didn’t know about until I heard gales of laughter from the demo area and popped my head in to see what the jocularity was all about.
Besides They Came From Beneath the Sea!, we had other games of ours being demoed throughout the convention, including Eddy playing Pugmire (big surprise, I know), and at least one more panel – which was for V5 Chicago By Night.
Incidentally, mentioning V5 reminds me that not only do we have the Cults KS finishing up, but our friends over at Modiphius still have the pre-order open for Fall of London for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition! You can do that whole pre-order thing for the physical book over there on their website, and get a link for the PDF right away!
But, besides helping out our fellow V5 content creators with a plug, here are some pics of Eddy playing Pugmire, and then the V5 Chicago By Night creators at their panel:
And so, to end our little visual tour of our adventures at Mid Winter in Milwaukee, here is a gorgeous picture taken once again by Meredith Gerber, of Matthew and I in a moment of downtime in our habitual haunt, the Monarch Lounge in the hotel:
Check us out next week, after we’ve fully recovered – we hope! We’ll have lots more talk about our:
Many Worlds, One Path!
BLURBS!
Kickstarter!
V5 Cults of the Blood Gods is in its last few days! Thanks to all of you, the kickstarter has passed $131,000 and 2240 backers, and has trumpeted forward passing through Stretch Goal after Stretch Goal right into the new year!
Next on Kickstarter, we are looking at Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition for Chronicles of Darkness!
Onyx Path Media!
This Friday’s Onyx Pathcast is an in-depth roundtable on the Trinity Continuum with Danielle Lauzon and Ian Watson from the MidWinter Convention in Milwaukee! Check it out direct on Podbean, or your favorite podcast venue! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/
An abbreviated profile of media this week, as Matthew has only just got back from the States and is a little tired.
We’ve a busy week ahead of us on Twitch with Vampire: The Masquerade, Chronicles of Darkness, Pugmire, Aberrant, Changeling: The Lost, Hunter: The Vigil, Changeling: The Dreaming, Scarred Lands and Blood City’s Chicago by Night!
As ever, tune in to twitch.tv/theonyxpath to watch these shows live and subscribe to the channel!
Our YouTube channel will start boosting its content again this week, with more Scion, Pugmire, Scarred Lands, Aberrant, Vampire and more!
Find our YouTube channel on youtube.com/user/theonyxpath and as with Twitch, click subscribe! An Onyx Path News is coming this week!
Here’s Occultists Anonymous‘ latest fantastic Mage: The Awakening shows:
Episode 72: From The Ashes
Before heading to the Yucatan, Atratus visits the soul fragment of a mage in an Atlantean soul stone. The cabal then heads down to Mexico and begins to investigate the ancient pyramid.https://youtu.be/NylE4FsuYfs
Episode 73: This Isn’t Kansas
The cabal investigates the portal atop the Pyramid of the Magician, for beyond it lies another world, and perhaps a clue to the grimoire they are searching for. Wyrd has spotted what seems to be a living Mayan civilization beyond the portal, but what really is out there?https://youtu.be/CETbEGEbrUU
The Story Told Podcast have recently interviewed Onyx Path mainstay Vera Vartanian on the subject of Exalted right here: http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/episode-44-exalted-dragon-blooded-great-houses-part-1-with-vera-vartanian
Red Moon Roleplaying have posted the final episode of The Sacrifice for V5 Chicago by Night, run by the excellent Klara Herbol, but as well, they’re still posting episodes of V5 Cults of the Blood Gods and Changeling: The Lost! Find their content on YouTube, Spotify, or redmoonroleplaying.com
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!
One more week: DTRPG and its affiliated Community Content sites are running the New Year, New Game sale! A huge number of our PDFs are on sale from all of our game worlds, as well as a Big Scion 2e Bundle with 4 PDFs being offered for $13! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/299474/NYNG-Scion-2E-BUNDLE
As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!
On Sale This Week!
This Wednesday, we will be releasing the PDF and physical book PoD versions of M20 Book of the Fallen on DTRPG!
This book deals with extremely disturbing and mature topics as it examines evil within the World of Darkness, and in Mage: The Ascension, in particular. Please be aware of this before making your order.
Conventions!
More conventions will be listed for 2020 in the weeks to come-
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)
- N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
- Contagion Chronicle Ready-Made Characters (Chronicles of Darkness)
- Trinity Continuum: Adventure! core (Trinity Continuum: Adventure!)
- Duke Rollo fiction (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
- TC: Aberrant Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
- RUST (Working Title) (Scarred Lands)
- Under Alien Suns (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
- Mission Statements (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
Redlines
- Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)
- Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Second Draft
- M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
- Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Development
- Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
- Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)
- Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)
- Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)
- Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)
- Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)
Manuscript Approval
- Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)
- Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)
- Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)
- Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)
Post-Approval Development
- Scion LARP Rules (Scion)
- Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)
- Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)
- One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)
Editing
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Geist 2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)
- Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Legendlore core book (Legendlore)
- WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)
- Mythical Denizens (Creatures of the World Bestiary) (Scion 2nd Edition)
- Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)
- Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)
- Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
- Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)
- Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
- Buried Bones: Creating in the Realms of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)
Post-Editing Development
- 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)
- W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)
- TC: Aeon Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)
- Vigil Watch (Scarred Lands)
- Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)
- Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
- Wraith20 Fiction Anthology (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)
- Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)
- Let the Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)
- M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
Indexing
ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!
In Art Direction
- Contagion Chronicle – Last of finals coming in.
- Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
- Hunter: The Vigil 2e
- Ex3 Lunars – Art is in.
- TCfBtS!: Heroic Land Dwellers – LeBlanc working on finals.
- Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed – Finals starting to come in this week.
- Cults of the Blood God (KS)
- Mummy 2
- City of the Towered Tombs
- Let the Streets Run Red – Art notes and contracts finishing going out this week.
- CtL Oak Ash and Thorn – Figuring out art notes.
- Scion Mythical Denizens – Need sketches for fulls.
- Deviant
- Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad – Finals all coming in.
- Vigil Watch – Need one more artist.
- Legendlore (KS) – Starting to gather art needs for KS.
- Technocracy Reloaded (KS) – Artwork for KS in progress.
- Scion Companion – Working on art notes for that.
- TC: Aeon Terra Firma
In Layout
- Trinity Continuum Aeon: Distant Worlds
- Pirates of Pugmire – With Aileen.
- Wraith20 Anthology – First Proof.
Proofing
- Dark Eras 2 – Backer PDF going out to backers this week.
- Trinity Continuum Aeon Jumpstart
- They Came from Beneath the Sea! – Backer PDF almost ready to send to backers.
- VtR Spilled Blood – 2nd proof with dev.
- Chicago Folio – First proof.
At Press
- V5: Chicago – Shipping labels for backers being created, should start shipping rewards soon.
- Geist 2e (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition) – Shipping to fulfillment shippers.
- Geist 2e Screen – Being printed.
- DR:E – Shipping to fulfillment shippers.
- DRE Screen – Being printed.
- DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties
- Memento Mori – Awaiting errata for input.
- M20 Book of the Fallen – PDF and PoD version go live on Wednesday on DTRPG!
Today’s Reason to Celebrate!
Almost our entire Monday Meeting crew made it to Milwaukee and back safely, and had a great and productive time at our Summit and the convention. I got stuck for a while in Milwaukee’s airport with a delayed plane, and Ian had a bunch of flights cancelled out from under him, but we’re all home now. Which is, for us, a pretty great trip!
Any word on which day the Dark Eras 2 PDFs might be going out? Official releases seem to be on Wednesdays but Kickstarter PDFs can be whenever.
Well, you pretty much answered your question like I would have. 😉
Mission Statements I don’t remember, what book is that one again?
That’s brand new, never talked about. That’s all I know… and I am curious…
Any info?
Was the Aeon organizations book. Whether that was announced either, I’m not sure.
No, we hadn’t announced it yet.
Man, I wish I knew what the Panel said about Chicago by Night. Alas, I was taking care of the wife with her severe flu.
I’m curious if the potatoes were passed… Matthew would know.
Let the man drink, Mike.
I‘m a little bit sad, that there are no new X20 Projects announced. I know it lies with Paradox but an old fan can hope nonetheless…
But I am looking forward to the announced stuff.
„It came from the grave“ could be really funny.
Six of the nine books under 1st draft are continuum related. I LIKE IT!
Oh! Book of the Fallen! Yay!
“My favorite idea was a game where a cyber-pug is created in parts, with each cyber-part containing one bit of what I believe was an exploded pug’s body. I heard about it second-hand, so I might not be grasping the full nuanced concept.”
No, that… that was basically the pitch I received. It also involved the phrase “unfortunately leveling up.”
I feel bad for laughing at “unfortunately leveling up.” But laugh I did.:)
I begin to wonder if we’ll have the Lunars pdf before the Exigents kickstarter
When is the Exigents KS?
What happened to “Shattered Masks” for VtM? It disappeared from the Open Development List, and is also not listed here. Have you scrapped the project?
Sorry I meant VtR of course, not VtM.
At this point, only the Progress report each week is truly indicative of our schedule. Anything we might have listed elsewhere or in an earlier brochure isn’t real or dismissed unless it shows up there. Thanks-
“And so, to end our little visual tour of our adventures at Mid Winter in Milwaukee, here is a gorgeous picture taken once again by Meredith Gerber, of Matthew and I in a moment of downtime in our habitual haunt, the Monarch Lounge in the hotel:”
That is indeed a gorgeous picture. Meredith really knows her stuff!
I can’t help but think that you are the Vampire that noticed the Werewolf and is pointing at the Ventrue so he will get gacked first…
I might be the werewolf.
And I’m the Pentex operative.
Ah, alas, I was supposed to play TCFBtS! with Dawkins on Saturday, but bailed when they were predicting the snowpocalypse (that never came) for that day. Still got to try out V5 when my Deviant game got canceled and, some twenty years after reading the rulebook, finally got to play Changeling: The Dreaming.
Where did you guys go instead of Mader’s? (I’m local and curious).
Glad you got some gaming in, though. Don’t remember the name of the place, it was a Lyft ride away, but it was a brewpub and quite good.
When will KS for Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition commence?
Keep an eye out on the Monday Meeting Notes blog and we’ll announce it when it’s time- thanks!
Congratulations to 2 successful Vampire V5 Kickstarters!!
Just curious, do you have an estimated idea when LTSRR and C Folio will be complete?
Thanks! Very glad to see so many folks are excited about Cults! Keep an eye on the Progress section of this blog, and you’ll see when both projects go to backers, go through errata, and are released to the public.