Magickal Kickstarter Fulfillment Time! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting, News

This week, my blog portion (you know, the part you don’t stop at until after you read the project updates!) is going to be a bit shorter than normal. I’ll try and get something to update it out Friday-ish.

This is because we shipped the two Deluxe versions of Mage 20th Anniversary Edition (see the pic above) last week, and boy are my arms tired.

Not really, but my brain does hurt a bit. See, we at Onyx Path don’t actually ship the books, but I do prepare the info for the shippers and then answer and/or forward backer concerns and issues as they come in. So far, we have had six incidents where the package was delivered but the backer didn’t realize it until they asked around, five instances where the shipper didn’t include the M20 Screen, four times the backer realized after the book shipped that they had moved but had never sent us an address change, three times the shipment couldn’t be delivered because of issues with the shipping service, two books damaged pre-shipping, and one purple book without gilding at all (what?).

And eleventy billion backers wanting to know things about their package en route, or where their tracking emails were, or whether we could hold the package because the person they got the book for is at home this week and they need it to come when they are not there in order to keep it a surprise. (True story!)

All of which are important concerns for each person, but which kind of send me into a Hawkeye Pierce mode of triaging which messages I have to answer now and which can wait. So, sorry if you sent me a note I haven’t yet gotten back to you on, but I will try and respond as soon as possible since this next week we continue triage as the later US and Canadian and other International packages make their way towards everybody.

Thanks to everybody who commented positively about the packaging and how beautiful the books and Screen are! Makes my bleary eyes happy to read those sorts of messages.

You’ll note that our art peeks this week are all from the upcoming Scarred Lands Player’s Guide that our partner in SL goodness, Stew Wieck, ran our Kickstarter for in January. Mirthful Mike tossed me a few pics that we thought showed different pieces of art than seen previously, and which continue to come in as the book is pulled together.

Just indicative of ALL THE PROJECTS we are working on and especially some of the bigger books you can see in the Updates below.

Lots of ship outs coming up for me with Deluxe V20 Lore of the Clans headed to the shipper, the Prestige Beast: the Primordial and Deluxe Exalted Third Editions getting traditional printing files prepped, and Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras PDFs going to backers this week!

Tired, but a good kind of tired, like they say.

BLURBS!

ON SALE!

Here’s the link to the press release we put out about how Onyx Path is now selling through Indie Press Revolution: http://theonyxpath.com/press-release-onyx-path-limited-editions-now-available-through-indie-press-revolution/

We’re reaaaallllly hoping to have the Beast: the Primordial PDFs and PoDs on sale on Wednesday on DTRPG.com! We want you to devour them!

The Demon Storyteller Guide has dropped its cover and is on sale as a PDF and a physical copy PoD on DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/170165/Demon-Storytellers-Guide

The Demon Storyteller’s Guide includes:

Expanded information on angels, including a look at how Incarnations apply to them

A extensive look at the spy genre and its permutations and how they apply to Demon

Three “setting hacks,” including an examination of Demon in the Bronze Age

The Chronicles of Darkness Core Rulebook looms out of the shadows, and is now on sale with PDF and PoD versions on DTRPG: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/168428/Chronicles-of-Darkness

Chronicles of Darkness RPG rulebook contains:

A guide to creating characters to explore a world of modern horror, from hopes and fears to psychic powers.

Dramatic rules for investigation, social manipulation, and bone-crunching violence.

Over a dozen monsters straight out of weird fiction and urban legend… plus complete rules for creating your own.

The God-Machine Chronicle, a massive collection of sample characters and techgnostic adventures.

Formerly titled nWoD Core Rulebook 2nd Edition.

The Pugmire Early Access book is for sale in both PDF and PoD formats! Check out the beta-rules for our family-friendly fantasy game of uplifted dogs exploring a world they never made! Lord of the Rings meets Planet of the Apes, but with dogs!

Condition Card PDFs and physical card PoDs for both Chronicles of Darkness http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171574/Chronicles-of-Darkness-Condition-Numina-and-Dread-Power-Cards and Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd Edition http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171573/Werewolf-the-Forsaken-2nd-Edition-Condition-Cards are now up dealt up at DTCards!

CONVENTIONS!

Gen Con 2016 planning has started. We’re starting to plan our booth demo schedule and our 2016-2017 Brochure.

Holden Shearer and John Morke (sorry about the “o”, John) will both also be at AggieCon 47 like Eddy below:

Here are some cons Fast Eddy Webb will be attending! Talk to him about V20 and Pugmire and Sherlock Holmes and Oxford Commas:

AggieCon 47 ( April 1-3, 2016 , Bryan, TX)

, Bryan, TX) ECGC ( April 19-21, 2016 , Raleigh, NC)

, Raleigh, NC) MomoCon ( May 26-29, 2016 , Atlanta, GA)

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE (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)

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

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

CtL fiction anthology (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)

Ring of Spiragos (Scarred Lands)

VtM Endless Ages fiction anthology (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

BtP Building a Legend (Beast: the Primordial)

Scarred Lands Player’s Guide 5E: Ghelspad (Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)

DA V20 Dark Ages Companion (Vampire 20th Dark Ages)

Trinity Continuum: Aeon Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)

M20 Gods and Monsters (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Redlines

Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition

Dagger of Spiragos – Pathfinder Version (Scarred Lands)

EX3 Quickstart (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scarred Lands The Wise and the Wicked (Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)

Second Draft

Arms of the Chosen (Exalted 3rd Edition)

The Realm (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Dragon-Blooded (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Cavaliers of Mars

Night Horrors: Conquering Heroes (Beast: the Primordial)

Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition

Development

W20 Changing Ways (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

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

Beast Ready Made Characters (Beast: the Primordial)

Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring the Huntsmen Chronicle (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)

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

CofD Hurt Locker (Chronicles of Darkness)

Scion: Alpha (Scion 2nd Edition)

Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Editing W20 Shattered Dreams (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Shattered Dreams in-book stretch goals (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

W20 Kinfolk (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Beckett’s Jyhad Diary (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Mummy Fiction Anthology (Mummy: the Curse)

DA Tome of Secrets (Vampire 20th Dark Ages)

Post-Editing Development:

Scarred Lands Player’s Guide: Ghelspad (Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)

Indexing:

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

In Art Direction

W20 Shattered Dreams – Last bits of art should be in this week.

– Last bits of art should be in this week. Promethean: the Created Second



Scarred Lands PG

Dark Eras Companion

Secrets of the Covenants – Last bits of art should be in this week.

– Last bits of art should be in this week. Necropolis Rio – Cover contracted. Working out art buy and contacting artists.

– Cover contracted. Working out art buy and contacting artists. W20 Kinfolk – Sketches coming in… so far so good.

– Sketches coming in… so far so good. V20 Ready Made Characters – Art progress continues.

– Art progress continues. EX3 Backer Charms – Sketches coming in and being reviewed.

– Sketches coming in and being reviewed. Beckett’s Jyhad Diary – Still reading through it before I buy art for it.

In Layout

V20 Ghouls – In progress

In progress WtF2 The Pack – In Progress.

Proofing



Ex 3 core book – From RichT: Waiting for PoD proofs to be orderable.

– From RichT: Waiting for PoD proofs to be orderable. V20 Black Hand – At WWP for approval.

– At WWP for approval. Mage: the Awakening Second – First layout proof with Dave.

At Press

Beast Screen – shipping from printer to shipper.

– shipping from printer to shipper. Lore of the Clans LtD Edition – shipping from printer to shipper.

– shipping from printer to shipper. Lore of the Clans Screen – shipping from printer to shipper.

– shipping from printer to shipper. Beast – PoD proofs coming in.

– PoD proofs coming in. Beast Anthology – PDF version going to backers.

– PDF version going to backers. Dark Eras – PDF version going to backers.

Special- projects on hold in the art and production area until an external factor is resolved

Wraith 20 – Can’t go further until art notes come in, still being developed by Rich Dansky.

Can’t go further until art notes come in, still being developed by Rich Dansky. Pentex Employee Indoctrination Manual – Some added and amended text needs to come in.