How Do You Get To Nashville (by Night)?

Monday Meeting

The answer is: practice!

That’s an old joke told to me by the Prince of Tucker.

I, on the other hand, will be getting to Nashville by plane as I head south this week to visit our Live Action gaming friends and fans, and hang out with some By Night Studios kids, at the Nashville By Night convention. From Onyx Path, Eddy and I will be once again hosting this year’s “What’s Up With The Onyx Path?” panel/Q&A at 10am Friday, Eddy will be doing his world renowned “Your Game Still Sucks!” presentation at 2pm Friday, and I think we are both on Matt McElroy’s “Vampire: The Trivia” panel/Q&A/gameshow at 4pm Saturday. I’m told this will be equal parts trivia and tales of the ol’ White Wolf days. Come on by and see me forget we published WoD: Mafia, again. In fact, just come on by to see us, and if you are there, feel free to come over and chat any time ya’ll see me a sittin’. https://www.facebook.com/MasqueradeByNight

Sorry to be a day late with this week’s blog. We discovered that a thread on our Kickstarters was spiraling out of control on a different forum and I needed to go over and post to explain why we do things like we do with our KSs to the posters there. All very much the sort of conversation it is good to have, but it ate up a bit of my afternoon that is usually devoted to this blog. The other thing was a post I needed to make on the Scion forums here that basically reinforced an idea I have spoken of before on this blog – we’re all fans of our games, so let’s not be mean to each other.

A pretty simple idea, really, but sometimes hard to remember in the savage dog eat dog world of internet posting. One of the things to come out of our big Onyx Path Summit at Gen Con (all of a month ago) was to continue to prioritize tightening up how we do things. This includes the way we run our social media (you might have seen Ian’s new FB pages for our lines), this site (we have the new Mailing List sign up right to the right here), and the forums.

For a while now, we’ve been concerned at the general impression the Scion forums have given new fans who want to post there. At best, they were unwelcoming. Along with the obvious forum complaint posts, I personally got a fair number of private messages expressing how folks felt like they’d been run off, and I had a half dozen people stop in the Gen Con booth to tell me they didn’t know we were doing the 2nd Edition because they’d never read the forum as it was too nasty. Obviously, this is a bad situation for a publishing company, particularly with 2nd Edition coming, but a lot of the regular posters are really good people and loyal fans who kept interest in Scion going when nothing at all was being published, so it is not a simple situation.

After talking with the Onyx gang yesterday and more with Rose and the moderators, I let folks in the Scion forum know that we were serious about stopping thread bullying, and would be watching more carefully, but we expected them to be excellent to each other as fellow Scion fans. As always, with a post like that one, there are the follow up posts to clarify what was meant and to go over things that seem obvious to you but not to someone else reading the post. So that took up another big chunk of time, and here we are.

And here are the Updates:

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

Promethean: the Created 2nd Edition, featuring the Firestorm Chronicle (Promethean: the Created)

Beast: the Primordial core book (Beast: The Primordial)

W20 Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Idigam Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Werewolf: the Forsaken)

Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition, featuring the Fallen World Chronicle (Mage: the Awakening)

Fallen World Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Mage: the Awakening)

M20 How do you DO that? (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 Book of Secrets (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Cursed Necropolis: Rio (Mummy: the Curse)

Sothis Ascends (Mummy: the Curse)

Secrets of the Covenants (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)

Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition

V20 Black Hand: Guide to the Tal’Mahe’Ra (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

W20 Novel by Mike Lee (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Redlines

V20 Lore of the Clans (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Mummy Fiction Anthology (Mummy: the Curse)

V20 Red List (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exalted 3rd Fiction Anthology (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Second Draft

W20 Book of the Wyrm Stretch Goals for Added Content In the Book (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

V20 Ghouls (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd Edition, featuring the Idigam Chronicle (Werewolf: the Forsaken)

Development

World of Darkness Dark Eras- Vampire chapter (WoD Dark Eras)

Exalted 3rd Edition core book- Ongoing art notes and final tuning on Charms as the book nears completion. We’re pushing to get as much done as possible before John goes in to surgery on Wednesday . (Exalted 3rd Edition)

. (Exalted 3rd Edition) Firestorm Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Promethean: the Created 2nd Edition)

Editing

Book of the Deceived (Mummy: the Curse)

Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition core book (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

World of Darkness Dark Eras core book (WoD Dark Eras)

W20 White Howlers (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Development (post-editing)

W20 Umbra (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE

White Howlers – I can probably start on that this week. John said he’s wrapping up the comic this weekend.

– I can probably start on that this week. John said he’s wrapping up the comic this weekend. Book of the Deceived – Got a couple of guys from the B&W pool looking for something to do…and one of my other guys finished his couple of pieces for DA…so I can probably get this thing rolling along. Might just have one of them do the splats and roll with this sucker.

– Got a couple of guys from the B&W pool looking for something to do…and one of my other guys finished his couple of pieces for DA…so I can probably get this thing rolling along. Might just have one of them do the splats and roll with this sucker. DtD Seattle – Still need errata from Dev.

– Still need errata from Dev. DtD Demonseed collection – Done and out to backers.

– Done and out to backers. DtD Interface – Still need errata from Dev.

– Still need errata from Dev. Book of the Wyrm 20 – Screen is done.

– Screen is done. DAV20 – Starting to see some sketches. Looking good thus far. Kieran should be done in the next day or two. Need to start doing page design and maybe layout a few test spreads in the clan section so the kids can get an idea of what we are working on. Also need to figure out what we are doing in regards to the PoD covers as those will pop up before the LtD ones. Pinging Sto about the clan symbols. Working on Kickstarter page and video.

– Starting to see some sketches. Looking good thus far. Kieran should be done in the next day or two. Need to start doing page design and maybe layout a few test spreads in the clan section so the kids can get an idea of what we are working on. Also need to figure out what we are doing in regards to the PoD covers as those will pop up before the LtD ones. Pinging Sto about the clan symbols. Working on Kickstarter page and video. Anarchs Unbound – Still tweaking cover but otherwise at press. Rethinking some of the cover stickers regarding their size. Screen is ready to go whenever.

– Still tweaking cover but otherwise at press. Rethinking some of the cover stickers regarding their size. Screen is ready to go whenever. T-Shirts – Sent around a bunch on Thursday for approval …various cover art shirts, some Pentex logo shirts, new Exalted shirts, and many more.

– Sent around a bunch …various cover art shirts, some Pentex logo shirts, new Exalted shirts, and many more. Umbra – Sketches coming in. Just had a guy drop on me…5 pcs two weeks before deadline. Sent full notes to Borja.

– Sketches coming in. Just had a guy drop on me…5 pcs two weeks before deadline. Sent full notes to Borja. Art O’ The Changin’ Breeds – Managed to get some stuff done on this. Right now roughing in the art placement then I’ll figure out the text to fill it in..

– Managed to get some stuff done on this. Right now roughing in the art placement then I’ll figure out the text to fill it in.. VTR II – Prepping a pdf so Rose can find all the references to the B&S title and swap it out for the new title.

– Prepping a pdf so Rose can find all the references to the B&S title and swap it out for the new title. EX3- Not Mike, but the first 91 pieces are reviewed, reference material is getting assembled, and Mel Uran has her package of art notes, backer characters and other reference, and contracts.

REASON TO DRINK: Nashville. By night.