Mid-Week Sorta [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

This was me, before we set up the booth last week at Gen Con. I was a happy and energized man then, not the broken hulk I am now. 🙂 We had a great con, talked to tons of people and had great panels and demos. Give us a shout out in the comments if you followed our daily posts about how things were going.

And here was our intrepid Onyx Path booth crew (minus Ian whose back is to us in the pic below) minutes before the crowds poured in and bought all the books. If you came by and said hi and read this blog, go ahead and post in the comments and tell us what you think about the booth and our presence there. Did I spill a drink on you, or did we let you fire Neall? Let us know if that was fun.

Seriously. We sold out of V20 Dark Ages PoDs in 49 minutes, and by the time the dust settled Thursday evening we had sold 75% of our inventory. We ran a poll amongst ourselves this week as to what we did well and what not, and the booth design and hand-outs were in the good category, so all those Gen Con meetings all year paid off, and not having brought enough books to sell was in the “gotta do better next year” category. Sorry to anyone who came by and wanted a sold-out book, we really didn’t anticipate the rush after last year.

The collectible buttons each day were also something we needed more of as we were out usually by lunch each day. I just didn’t know they be so popular.

We gave away boxes and boxes of this year’s Onyx Path Brochure (you can get the free PDF version here: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153331/Onyx-Path-20152016-Publishing-Brochure) and I just want to remind everybody that it is a listing of our game lines and new and exciting projects that are coming up. It is not our catalog, nor is it a listing of everything we have coming up. If you have a favorite project and you know we are working on it but it isn’t listed, that does NOT mean we cancelled it. Especially if you can look below to the Updates on this blog and see that it is still being worked on.

Within the brochure, we announced a bunch of amazing new projects, but here are a couple that I want to highlight:

In 2016, we’ll be continuing our 2nd Edition stretch with Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition featuring the Slasher Chronicle. HtV2 will be developed by Mighty Monica Valentinelli, and like all our second editions it will update the rules as well as expand on the setting material including adding the default Slasher Chronicle.

featuring the Slasher Chronicle. will be developed by Mighty Monica Valentinelli, and like all our second editions it will update the rules as well as expand on the setting material including adding the default Slasher Chronicle. The new nWoD game line for 2016 is Deviant: the ??? developed by Dapper Dave Brookshaw. You were human. Once. Now they have changed you, and they hunt you. What they don’t know is that YOU are hunting THEM. We haven’t given this its tagline yet, but a good start might be “The Storytelling Game of Righteous Anger”.

And, in case you missed it, we also announced Vampire: the Masquerade 4th Edition. I posted a separate blog about this a couple of days ago, because it’s a pretty big deal (he said with massive understatement), so you can check out the commentary here: http://theonyxpath.com/vampire-the-masquerade-4th-edition-announced-at-gen-con, but I do want to clarify a few things here:

1- I made the mistake, and this is totally on me, of mentioning the fact that 2016 will be the 25th anniversary of VtM. This does not make V4 a 25th Anniversary Edition or anything like that. We aren’t going to label it that way, nor are we limiting V4 or any other possible 4th Edition of our cWoD lines to coming out on those dates. We’re going to work on V4 until we get it the way we want, and while we are aiming at getting something available next year, it’s more important to us to give V4 the kind of attention and care that it deserves.

2- And expanding upon #1, my thinking on further lines going 4th Edition is that the form that project takes will be based on the information contained in their 20th Anniversary Edition. In all cases our goal will be to create an accessible edition for newcomers as well as our long term fans, and so the comprehensive massive tomes we have seen so far will not be the format the 4th‘s will be in. That format is a wonderland for dedicated fans, as we intended, but so full of info and minutiae that someone coming to them without prior cWoD experience can find them very hard to get into. Not everyone, of course, we’ve had a nice number of folks tell us V20 was their first experience with VtM – in fact, I ran into a fellow at Gen Con who explained how he got his gaming group into cWoD recently.

Finally, I’ll be out next Monday so please welcome Rollickin’ Rose Bailey as she fills in here at the actually Monday Meeting Notes.

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And now, the BLURBS!

Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages is NOW available in PDF and PoD versions at DriveThruRPG.com! This massive full color tome is part of the V20 line but does not require V20 to play and enjoy.

The Demon Translation Guide PDF and PoD versions are on sale now! We take fiendish delight in presenting this devilish guide to transferring your Demon: the Fallen and Demon: the Descent characters from one setting to the other: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151502/Demon-Translation-Guide

The Pugmire Pamphlet we had available at Gen Con is now ready for PDF download. Read about the world of Pugmire from the enthusiastic and optimistic pen of Princess Yosha Pug, as well as notes from the gruff and worldly hunter Pan Daschund: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153518/Pugmire-Gen-Con-Brochure

The sixth and final Pugmire poster for now, Spike Mutt, is on the loose now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150845/Spike-Mutt-Pugmire-Poster-6

The fifth Pugmire poster, Pan Dachshund, is ready now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150844/Pan-Dachshund-Pugmire-Poster-5

The fourth Pugmire poster, Jack Rat-Terrier, is on-sale now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150944/Jack-RatTerrier-Pugmire-Poster-4

The third Pugmire poster, Sgt. Leo Bulldog, is available NOW as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150843/Sgt-Leo-Bulldog-Pugmire-Poster-3

The second poster, Princess Yosha Pug, is available now: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149750/Princess-Yosha-Pug-Pugmire-Poster-2

And the first poster, Sister Picassa Collie, is here: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/148516/Sister-Picassa-Collie-Pugmire-Poster-1

Start spreading the Code of Man!

Dread Names, Red List for V20 is now on sale! This collection of the most dangerous Kindred ever called Anathema is available in both PDF and hardcover PoD versions: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150381/V20-Dread-Names-Red-List

W20 fans can howl for the first new Werewolf the Apocalypse novel in decades! The Poison Tree novel by Mike Lee (long-time White Wolf writer and developer, and internationally famous Warhammer author) now available in PDF, ePub, and PoD versions! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150855/W20-The-Poison-Tree

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And now, new project status updates!: