First up: Scion 2e‘s Kickstarter is in it’s last week, and we’ve been overwhelmed by the support and interest in our little project! Above, you’ll find one of the new pieces of art (this one by artist Kayla Woodside) we’ve already commissioned for the book, and we’ll have a few more previews out before the KS is over on Saturday!

During an interview with developer Neall Raemonn Price and myself that you can find here: http://mithicalentertainment.com/please-gods-interview-richard-thomas-neall-price-scion-2nd-edition/ I gave this answer:

“With just under a week left, do you have any last minute plans/offers for driving the final stretch goals?”

RT: Why yes we do! We have more stories for the anthology, more sections for the Companion, and more creatures for the Bestiary. As soon as we get back approved designs and pricing for the Scion 2e Dice, we’ll offer that as a Stretch Goal unlock for adding on to your pledge, we have another dice/character sort of thing that isn’t like those dice in the offing, and if we get to a certain pledge level, there’s a little community content idea I’ve been interested in putting forward. And what better place than during this KS?

Just gonna leave it there, because there are several things in there that we’re going to unpack during these last exciting and wild days of the Scion 2e Kickstarter that will have an impact on how Onyx Path is set to deliver our worlds to ya’ll.

(Sorry, I lived in Atlanta for over a dozen years total, and ya’ll is a really useful word and shorter than my native Philly “youse guys”.)

 

It is October, and we are nigh approaching the scariest time of the year, I’m told. Well, this year we’re doing our part to add to that aura of macabre menace with the V20 Endless Ages fiction anthology.

This is a project Fast Eddy Webb and I cooked up when we were discussing what the next edition of Vampire: the Masquerade should feel like, and we started in on how each previous edition had it’s own feel, themes, and issues it wanted players to explore. Eddy leaped up (I mean, we were on the phone so I assume that noise was him jumping up) and immediately pitched an anthology wherein we’d present a story or two specifically written to evoke each edition of VtM.

There are 18 stories divided into four sections that correspond to Vampire: the Masquerade 1st, 2nd, Revised, and V20 editions, and Mirthful Mike Chaney subtly laid out each section using the header fonts of that era, on top of a beautiful layout already. A perfect way to revisit those times, and to prepare for Halloween and someday… 5th Edition.

 

 

We’ll be releasing excerpts and commentary all next week up to Halloween, and releasing the book on Weds the 26th in PDF and PoD formats, so keep an eye out!

And as a teaser, here’s some art from Justin Achilli’s The Prince’s Gambit casual card game that is currently in position to be our first card game Kickstarter later this year.

 

 

 

Finally,  here is just a bit of a peak at the artist reference I’ve been drawin’ up for our Pugmire artists as the Mirthful One prepares to assign the art out. This is only a selection of the Backer Reward NPCs that we’re including both in the art and in the world of Pugmire itself, but I think it shows a fair bit of the range of dog society (and one cat).

(So please, PLEASE, don’t message me wondering where your guys are in the picture – there are still A LOT of dogs and cats not in this line-up that will be pictured as per your backer Reward Tiers. Thanks!)

And with that, I’m out of here – see you in the comments section!

 

 

 

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER!

The KS campaign for Scion 2nd Edition currently has 3244 backers and $258, 238 in pledges. Besides the Scion 2e Companion, filled with additional pantheons, expanded or alternative rules, and other goodies, and the Scion 2e Fiction Anthology, we’ve also started using the Stretch Goals to create a Scion Bestiary of creatures and antagonists, with the first section being all about giants! Plus see above for some hints as to even more Stretch Goals we have planned here in THE LAST WEEK!

 

 

ON SALE!

 

Looking for our 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/

 

 

 

Tilt Cards to go with the Chronicles of Darkness Condition Cards are now for sale at DriveThruCards! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/194464/Chronicles-of-Darkness-Tilt-Cards

Tilts are a unified way of applying circumstances to both characters and scenes during violent encounters. Tilts are mechanically similar to Conditions, but they affect characters and scenes in combat only. Outside combat, use Conditions instead.

Tilts do not give players Beats when they end, but the effects of a Tilt can easily cause a Condition. For instance, a character in a fight gets a handful of road salt flung into his eyes and receives the Blinded Tilt. When combat ends, this shifts to the Blind Condition.

These Tilt Cards are a handy and elegant way to keep track of and incorporate Tilts into your Chronicle with each of the 21 cards featuring a single Tilt.

 

 

 

With a howl, W20 Kinfolk: A Breed Apart‘s Advance PDF is now on sale on DTRPG! Awooooo! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/194952/W20-Kinfolk-A-Breed-Apart

Born to Run

The Garou are born of two kinds: humans and wolves. These are their Kinfolk — those “of the blood.” These special people — whether of two legs or four — carry in them the hope of the Garou: the promise of future generations. Although Garou are born to Kinfolk, nobody knows they’re different until they undergo their First Change. Until such a blessed (or cursed) time, they are just like their more mundane Kin. Most live as humans, suffering the foibles of humanity, all the while hoping they’re secretly special, that they harbor the wolf within. Even though that wolf will never howl for the majority of Kin, they’ve still got a vital role in the war, aiding the effort from behind the lines.

Kinfolk: A Breed Apart contains:

• Overview of the Kinfolk, both kenning and callow, including some of the Fellowships founded by Kinfolk to aid the Garou cause — and to protect themselves from their cousins’ Rage.
• Character creation for playing Kinfolk, including new Skills, Backgrounds, Merits and Flaws, as well as special Kin rites, Gifts, and fetishes.
• Guidelines for running Kinfolk chronicles, as well as in-depth information on the Kin-Fetches, the unique spirits used by Garou to watch over their distant cousins and warn the tribes if one of them should undergo the First Change.

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.

 

 

NOW the long awaited opportunity to own Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition as a physical book is at last at hand! 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.

 

 

Now available from DriveThruRPG in PDF: Mage: The Awakening Condition and Numina Cards.

Part of the new Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition rules, Conditions add an additional layer of consequence and reward to certain actions in the Chronicles of Darkness.

Various things within the course of a game can cause Conditions. These include exceptional successes, supernatural abilities, and really any situation where the Storyteller thinks they can be used to heighten the drama of a game.

Also available in this deck are brand new Numina cards featuring these rules from the Mage: The Awakening 2nd Edition rulebook for ease of reference at the table.

 

 

On sale NOW from DTRPG: the Promethean Dark Eras chapter A Handful of Dust in PDF and PoD versions! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/178800/Dark-Eras-A-Handful-of-Dust-Promethean-the-Created

The Great Depression and the black blizzards of the 1930s turned the American Midwest into a wasteland. For the better part of a decade, thousands of people experienced deprivation and alienation right alongside the Created. They also clung to the faint promise of hope, that the rains would come and restore the land.

This is a single chapter from the larger work, Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras.

 

 

A Festival of Blades, the swashbuckling new Jumpstart advance PDF for Rose Bailey’s Cavaliers of Mars available on DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/191678/A-Festival-of-Blades-A-Cavaliers-of-Mars-Jumpstart

Live, fight, and love on Mars, a world of red death and strange mystery, a world of savagery and romance.

Includes: 

• A complete adventure set in one of dying Mars’ greatest remaining cities.
• The innovative DEIMOS rules, for high-flying, swashbuckling adventure.
• Four pre-generated player characters, ready to get into the heart of the action.

 

 

 

CONVENTIONS!

Onyx Path will be at Mid Winter Con 2017 in January in the lovely city of Milwaukee. Come brave the cold wastes to game and cavort with us! Please keep an eye out on the MidWinter site for announcements as to our very special beta test and Play With The Creator special events! http://www.midwintergamingconvention.com/

 

 

 

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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)

• Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)
• CtL fiction anthology (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)
• Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
• Trinity Continuum: Aeon Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
• M20 Gods and Monsters (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
• V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
• M20 Cookbook (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
• M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
• VtM Beckett’s Jyhad Diary (Stretch Goal Content)
• GtS Geist 2e core
• VtR Half-Damned (Vampire: the Requiem 2nd Edition)
• CtD C20 Anthology (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

 

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