It is Valentines Day, after all!

But we DO love M20, and all of our many, many game lines – so this is a good day to say it again. To remind ourselves what got us into this wacky biz, and why we keep making new books and settings! And to remind ourselves that we are only one small percentage of all the folks worldwide who love these game worlds!

Diving in specifically, we, of course, find that we’re all loving the M20 Lore of the Traditions Kickstarter – which is in its last few days! We’re hoping that these last few days, always an energized time for our Kickstarters, can propel M20 Lore of the Traditions right past 400% funded, and even more importantly, past the last of the Stretch Goals that allow us to create two more M20 supplements!

There are a ton of Actual Plays and interviews out there, and linked on the KS page, as well as two weeks of Onyx Pathcast roundtables hosted by Matthew Dawkins with as many M20 developers and writers as he could fit! You can tell in these conversations just how much these folk love to work on and play Mage, even when they drift off on a best hamburger tangent for a couple of minutes!

We’ve been thrilled at the response to the more in-depth looks at the Trads that make up this book – as delivered every couple of days to our backers – and how the KS commenters have been by-and-large constructive and creative with their commentary. Thanks, gang!

Now let’s get out there and try and induct new members into your favorite Tradition!

Or, at least introduce more folks to the Kickstarter! 🙂

Speaking of KSs: in our meeting today, I was reminded that tomorrow, Tuesday the 15th, is the 10 year anniversary of our very first Kickstarter campaign!

Yep, for V20 Companion.

So there I was, there I was, there I was…talking to Justin Achilli, who was freelance developing the book, and we were frustrated because my wee lil’ TTRPG publishing company, only in its first months, couldn’t afford to give the book a leatherette and embossed cover that matched V20 itself.

Yet, there was this new, to us, crowd-funding platform that one of our friends from CCP North America loved to back projects on, and which we’d seen a few of our TTRPG pals, like Matt Forbeck, create successful campaigns for. It was still the Wild West over there in Kickstarter-land, but maybe, just maybe, if enough V20 fans were into the idea and pledged…we could make our deluxe cover for the book.

So I dove right in and started the page and did all the building of it with really, very little idea of what we were getting into. Got quotes, figured out a break even point for how many pledges we needed to pay for the covers, and so figured out how to charge for it. Stretch Goals didn’t even exist yet as a concept, I think, and Reward Tiers were really rudimentary.

But we did it, and we went live, and hoo boy! the excitement from the fans, and the angry yelling from CCP. You see, they, as a group, had no idea what Kickstarter was. There were, let us say, “accusations”. It was strongly suggested to me that I prepare a document explaining why Kickstarter was a viable idea, which I did – two and a half pages that focused less on the money, and more on what Justin and I had observed and valued: the way Kickstarter backers became a community.

Now, hilariously, several years later I found myself seated at a party next to one of the loudest and angriest of the execs, who straight up admitted that going to Kickstarter was “brilliant” and he apologized – just a bit – for how he’d reacted before. Which, you know, was very nice.

For Onyx Path, though, it was just the beginning of a part of our efforts that we continue to hone to this day, and which I bet will continue to evolve.

DID YOU KNOW IT’S THE MONDAY LUNCH MEETING?

I’m reminded of this because during our meeting today, Dixie couldn’t answer a question right away because she was eating, which is fair – this Monday Meeting that I pull the blog from was originally the Production Monday Lunch Meeting. So yes, folks can certainly eat during it!

In fact, back when my Production department at White Wolf all gathered around the big table in the game library, it was after we had gone out to Subway to pick up our lunches, and we all sat there gorging on subs while conducting the meeting. We had to have Subway because Josh Timbrook loved his Subba-wubba on Mondays. (We did shoehorn in alternative take-out, but mostly it was Subba-wubba). (And Josh loved them any day, not just Mondays).

What I’m saying is, good for Dixie – upholding the tradition!

Of course, that was way before the start of Onyx Path, but we still meet every Monday at Onyx. For 10 years, in fact!

Which is my incredibly smooth segue into mentioning that we are still celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Onyx Path with a 10% sale this week of Wraith20th and Changeling: The Dreaming20th PDFs. (But not Ghost Hunters, because its KS backers haven’t received their books yet). All week both lines’ PDFs are 90% off, and our friends at IPR continue their 20% sale of physical WoD 20th books. These are the Deluxes and such that were printer overruns from their Kickstarters, so there aren’t a lot left of any of them!

Plus, we’ll be ending the month with Mage20 PDFs on sale, so keep an eye out for that and if you are a M20 Lore of the Traditions backer – be sure that you note James’ updates about the sale! We’re doing these sales so that we have a very focused way to show how much we love our community, we don’t want any backers feeling less than thrilled!

Just a couple of other things this week: we talked about Virtual Cons – in this case our own in June and the Gen Con virtual con. Still looking at what sort of panels we should run, and who can do which ones. We don’t want to just duplicate all our panels, so what should we focus on at each of the cons?

Finally, if you’ve not checked out the bi-weekly Lunch and Crunch (speaking of themes, maybe I should have gone with Lunch as a theme this week instead of Love) on Twitch, featuring our own Eddy Webb and Danielle Lauzon going in-depth over the Storypath System and the games that it powers.

They’ve just posted the YouTube version of their first show, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu8sd8i40d8&t=880s

And their third show focused on “genre conventions” will be Tuesday the 15th at Noon EST. These two absolutely love to talk TTRPG systems, and know Storypath inside and out, but are always focused on how a rule plays, and how it engages with the setting – well worth a peek!

That’s does it for this very special lovey-dovey edition of the MMN blog. Talk to you next week as I have for over:

Ten Years, Many Worlds, One Path!

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BLURBS!

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Kickstarter!

The Kickstarter campaign for the Deluxe Mage 20th: Lore of the Traditions is over in under three days and is racing towards the 400% funded mark! We’ve passed over $118,000 raised so far, and has over 1425 backers and rising! Stretch Goals – including Faces of Magick and Forbidden and Forgotten Orders books – are falling before the power of the Traditions!

Join in at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/339646881/lore-of-the-traditions-for-the-mage-20th-anniversary-ttrpg

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Onyx Path Media!

This week: A Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Chat. In which Eddy, Matthew, and special guest Neall Raemonn Price discuss V20, Bloodlines, Beckett’s Jyhad Diary, and more!

As always, this Friday’s Onyx Pathcast will be on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

Onyx Path Media now has its own blog on Tuesdays! We’ll continue posting our highlight of the week here, but Tuesday will be the day to visit if you want to catch up on actual plays, interviews, deep dives, and other assorted Onyx Path media!

Please check out our attached media schedule for the impressive number of videos on our Twitch channel this week! In particular, keep those eyes open for our Storypath Showcase, where we give an excellent profile of our various Storypath games and how to play them!

MEDIA HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK:

Mage: The Podcast recently performed an interview with contributors to Lore of the Traditions and a review of the M20 Quickstart! This show has always been the one to check out for news and recaps of all things Mage:http://magethepodcast.com/

The Onyx Path News goes live every single Friday to discuss recent and upcoming releases, dive into some of our most anticipated books, and answer questions from the audience. You can find it on our YouTube channel (click the bell to be informed when we go live!):
https://youtu.be/HkKVglktuBs

Come take a look at our YouTube channel, youtube.com/user/theonyxpath, where you can find a whole load of videos of actual plays, dissections of our games, and more. Please subscribe and click the bell icon if you want to be notified whenever new news videos and uploads come online!

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Virtual Tabletop!

The first of our official sheets designed for Foundry VTTis now available!

As they say:
Direct Link: https://foundryvtt.com
“Foundry Virtual Tabletop is a self-hosted roleplaying
platform with support for hundreds of game systems with modern
features and a developer-friendly API. Foundry VTT is a one-time
purchase where your players connect for free using a web browser.”

We’re offering first the character sheet for Scion Origin and Hero, featuring:

• A whole platform as a new place for Storyguides and Players
• Fully integrated and up to date character sheet
• Familiar to users of the paper sheet
• Handles all needed rolls
• Officially created and supported

More VTT offering and projects will be arriving this year!

A Quantum Leap (A Trinity Continuum: Jumpstart),The Adventures of Teen Tomorrow (A Trinity Continuum: Aberrant Jumpstart),Quantum Entanglement (A Trinity Continuum: Aeon Jumpstart),are all on Astral TableTop.

Also on Astral TableTop is the Secret of Vinsen’s Tomb for Realms of Pugmire!

Check out Astral TableTop for two free projects: Scion 2E: A Light Extinguished and Scarred Lands: Gauntlet of Spiragos and this Dagger of Spiragos module for sale: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/336406/Dagger-of-Spiragos-5e–Astral-VTT

On DrivethruRPG, here is the main filter for all of our current VTT content:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing?filters=0_0_0_45317_0

A few highlights of our platform agnostic DTRPG content:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309127/Scarred-Lands-Creature-Collection-VTT-Token-Pack
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/317690/Trinity-Continuum-Hunt-for-the-Red-Widow-VTT
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/340327/Trinity-Continuum-Aeon-VTT-Tokens
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311578/Scarred-Lands-VTT-Separation-Anxiety
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311580/Scion-2e-VTT-Origin-Signature-Tokens
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/311579/Scion-2e-VTT-Hero-Signature-Tokens

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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!

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

Month-long 20% Off deluxe WoD20th Anniversary books and screens at IPR is running now:
https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-and-Specials/

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

Today starts our week-long 10th Anniversary Sale on Wraith: The Oblivion and Changeling: The Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition books in PDF for 10% of the cover price! That’s 90% off!!

Wr20!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing/subcategory/8329_30845/Wraith-20th-Anniversary

C20!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/4261/Onyx-Path-Publishing/subcategory/8329_28737/Changeling-20th-Anniversary

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).

Check out the Trinity Continuum: Aeon novella Dawn in the Kindle store starting this Wednesday!

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On Sale This Week!

Get a jump on those spirits! The Longest Night: the Ghost Hunters Jumpstart PDF and PoD goes on sale on DTRPG this Wednesday!

Also! The TC: Aeon novella Dawn comes up like thunder this Wednesday, with its PDF/ebook and PoD versions going on sale at DTRPG and the Kindle version on Amazon!

Remember: the Pre-Order page for Trinity Continuum: Assassins is open on DTRPG! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/379041

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Conventions!

Because dates for physical conventions are subject to change due to the current COVID-19 outbreak, we don’t yet have a list of upcoming physical conventions. Instead, keep an eye out here for more virtual conventions we’re going to be involved with!

Right now, we’re planning our first plans for the 3rd Onyx Path Virtual Con later this year. Can we pull it all together a third time? Wait and see!

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And now, the new project status updates!

Our full list of projects will be available monthly on our blog! Check out January’s full list report here: https://theonyxpath.com/the-all-new-all-different-release-roundup-january-2022/

Development Status from Eddy Webb!

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

First Drafts

TC: Aberrant – Hated and Feared

• Eddy: New TC: Aberrant supplement in progress! This is an examination of the outsiders like the Terat. The writers seem excited to be underway. Can’t wait to see what they come up with!

Final Drafts

Mage: The Awakening 2e – Tome of the Pentacle

• Dixie: I feel like I always say some variation of “I’m so excited,” but I genuinely am! Tome of the Pentacle is shaping up to be an excellent addition to Mage: The Awakening Second Edition and the team is doing a great job moving this ahead again.

Development

Scion – (Tasty Bit) So Now You’re a Hero

• Eddy: Got the draft in my inbox, tickity boo. Should be a quick turnaround.

Manuscript Approval

They Came From! – (Tasty Bit) They Came from Karstein’s Cabinet of Curiosities!

• Eddy: As always, Matthew has crafted a fun Tasty Bit that will be a great addition to Beyond the Grave!

Editing

Pugmire – Squeaks in the Deep Jumpstart

• Eddy: The writer really turned things around in second drafts, making development easy. Now we need to figure out maps….

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Art Direction from Mike Chaney!

In Art Direction

• Ex3 Exigents – I believe we have DAC’s half pagers…
• Ex3 Adversaries of the Righteous – I’m getting Gunship onboard this week.
• TCF Cyclops Cave/Classified – KS Assets Prepped.
• TC Aether – Art rolling. Getting the cover rolling.

In Layout

• TCFBTG Tales of Depravity – Art work AD’d…

Proofing

• Squeaks in the Deep – Wrapping up corrections.
• SCION Saints and Monsters – 2nd proof
• TC Assassins – First Proof and contracting out pieces that devs missed.

At Press

• M20 Technocracy Reloaded – Deluxe printing soon.
• Mummy 2e – Printing soon.
• Mummy 2e Screen – At fulfillment shipper.
• Deviant – Printing soon.
• Deviant Screen – At fulfillment shipper.
• Technocracy Reloaded Screen – At fulfillment shipper.
• TGFBtG! Screen – At fulfillment shipper.
• WoD Ghost Hunters – Printing Soon.
• WoD Ghost Hunters Screen – At fulfillment shipper.
• Legendlore – KS book at fulfillment shipper.
• Legendlore Screen – At fulfillment shipper.
• TC: Aeon Novella: Meridian – PoD proof arrived.
• They Came From Beyond the Grave! – KS book shipping to fulfillment shipper.
• Hunter: The Vigil 2e – PoD proof ordered.
• TC: Prometheus Unbound – Inputting page XXs and prepping PoD files.
• TCFGtG! Heroes in a World of Horror – PoD files uploaded.
• They Came From Camp Murder Lake! – Gathering errata.
• The Longest Night: Ghost Hunters Jumpstart and RMCs – PDF and PoD versions On Sale this Weds on DTRPG!
• TC: Aeon Novella: Dawn – PDF/ebook and PoD versions On Sale Weds. on DTRPG and Amazon!
• Trinity Continuum: Assassins pre-order is live on DTRPG.

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Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Happy Valentines Day! It might only be a holiday made up by a card company, but it’s still nice to get that heart emoji, that extra smile, that bouquet, those couples matching yachts – whatever! And if you haven’t received anything yet, well, here’s a heart from us just for reading this blog: We love ya!