Dead. And Loving It! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting, News

Sorta felt last week like that guy up there in one of the fantastic full-page illustrations for Geist 2e by Sam Araya. More news about Geist 2e‘s ongoing Kickstarter in the BLURBS! below, but suffice to say that the Kickstarter’s awesome progress was not one of the issues we needed to deal with last week!

But you will note that there aren’t any visible changes in our Product Status report below, as productivity tends to take a hit during times when social media uproars occur. Fortunately, we at Onyx Path weathered the storm just fine other than to have a bit of a slow down, so no worries on our account. Although, thanks to everyone who sent in messages of concern and support! They are incredibly appreciated!

We’ve been told by our license partners at White Wolf that changes are a’ comin’ to how they’ve been doing things, and the first thing they announced today is a new focus on effective community relations with V5 Producer Jason Carl enlarging his duties to cover community issues, and the hiring of our own Gentleman Gamer Matthew Dawkins as Senior Community Director. Good luck to both of these urbane gentlemen!

But, never fear folks! Matthew is not leaving Onyx Path nor our Onyx Pathcast, but is continuing his role here AND intending to bring a fresh and responsive focus to WW‘s community relations. You’ll continue to hear Matthew interrupt Eddy and Dixie, and continue his development and writing with us as planned – and we’ve planned stuff pretty far in advance.

Certainly beyond this year’s brochure. Which we’ll be revealing the Wednesday before Gen Con as a download, so folks can jump right into our TWO What’s Up With The Onyx Path? panels at the con with questions pulled from reading the brochure. In fact, here’s the cover of this year’s brochure now:

Before I got distracted with showing you the cool cover (a collage of our fantastic art as always by Mirthful Mike Chaney) I meant to tell you about the Onyx Pathcast. Last week’s broadcast was a “Deep Dive into Pan’s Guide and Monarchies of Mau” for Pugmire, and this coming Friday the Terrific Trio of Terror interview with one of our dedicated Exalted 3rd developers: Eric Minton! As always, you can listen to it via your favorite podcast service or direct from PodBean here: https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

And here’s a rare treat: back-to-back gorgeous illustrations in one Monday Meeting Notes blog:

Just a note from Mighty Matt McElroy, our Operations Director, to let everybody know that DTRPG‘s Christmas in July Sale starts this Thursday and you’ll find so many bargains on our PDFs that we can’t even list them all – so go check them out on Thursday. It’s a great opportunity to try out some of our game lines you might be curious about!

Yep! Another piece of art in the blog this week! In case you’re interested (and why wouldn’t you be?), Mirthful Mike sends me the art pieces each week after our Monday Meeting and as I’m writing the blog and I rarely “order” any of the pieces he picks. I just ask for whatever new art he thinks is cool and sometimes I work the art into the text of the blog and other times use the illustrations as extra fun elements that let folks reading enjoy some beautiful work unconnected to the text surrounding them.

This makes the most sense to me, since there are so many projects we’re working on and such a wide selection of beautiful art each and every week. The range of the styles of illustration we use continues to grow as we create more projects set in:

Many Worlds, One Path!

Aw hell, here’s another one, just because you’re great and Mirthful Mike just kept sending me art this week!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

We are midway through the Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition Kickstarter and have achieved seven Stretch Goals so far, even though this period traditionally is a very slow time during our Kickstarters. Thanks to all of our backers out there spreading the word! We are in good shape to be able to make a great looking hardcover edition, and get that into stores, even while we’re giving backers first look at the complete text and other fun benefits: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/geist-the-sin-eaters-2nd-edition

Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition includes all the rules you need to play as one of the Bound: Five Burdens reflecting the cause that pulled you back from the grave, five krewe Archetypes for building your own mystery religion, and the Haunts, Keys, and Ceremonies that provide the Bound with their macabre powers.

It also includes the Chronicle of the Dead, featuring the Sin-Eaters’ struggle against the all-consuming Underworld and a variety of terrifying threats. In addition, for the first time in the Chronicles of Darkness line, ghosts are presented as playable characters.

Chapters include:

The Quick and the Dead: the five Burdens (the reason a Sin-Eater comes back from the dead and what draws a particular geist to them) and krewe Archetypes (the common cause that draws a krewe of Sin-Eaters together).

The Road Back: On death and coming back, and why Bound make the Bargain, including possible consequences.

One Foot in the Grave: Character creation, with sections on both geist and krewe creation, Anchors, Merits, Synergy, Plasm, Abilities, Haunts, Keys, Ceremonies, and Mementos.

Old Laws: the core Chronicles of Darkness rules, with special rules for playing Sin-Eaters, as well as information on subsystems for krewes, ghosts, and the Underworld, including Avernian Gates.

rules, with special rules for playing Sin-Eaters, as well as information on subsystems for krewes, ghosts, and the Underworld, including Avernian Gates. Antagonists: villains for your Geist chronicle, including Reapers, Eaters of the Dead, necromancers, enemy Bound, and Kerberoi.

chronicle, including Reapers, Eaters of the Dead, necromancers, enemy Bound, and Kerberoi. The Quiet Places: Setting information and story hooks for playing your Geist chronicle in specific times and places in history., from 16th-century Brazil to modern-day Edinburgh, Scotland to Mobile, Alabama in 1910, as well as information on Dominions.

chronicle in specific times and places in history., from 16th-century Brazil to modern-day Edinburgh, Scotland to Mobile, Alabama in 1910, as well as information on Dominions. Ghost Stories: Storyteller advice and information for running a Geist chronicle, including designing Remembrances, how to set theme and mood, story seeds, and various ways to play out the end of a game.

chronicle, including designing Remembrances, how to set theme and mood, story seeds, and various ways to play out the end of a game. Appendix: The Absent: This Appendix details the Absent, playable ghosts, including Memories, new Merits, and a collection of possible ghost characters to expand on and use in your chronicle.

Appendix: Conditions and Tilts: Geist-specific Conditions and Tilts, including ephemeral Influence Conditions and Manifestation Conditions for ghosts, as well as Haunt Conditions and Tilts.

ELECTRONIC GAMING:

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is now live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is both rolling and rocking!

Here are the links for the Apple and Android versions:

http://theappstore.site/app/1296692067/onyx-dice

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onyxpathpublishing.onyxdice&hl=en

Three different screenshots, above.

ON 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).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue you bought it from. Reviews really, really help us with getting folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these fiction books:

Vampire: The Masquerade: The Endless Ages Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Rites of Renown: When Will You Rage II (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Mage: The Ascension: Truth Beyond Paradox (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Chronicles of Darkness: The God-Machine Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Mummy: The Curse: Curse of the Blue Nile (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Beast: The Primordial: The Primordial Feast Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Vampire: The Masquerade: Of Predators and Prey: The Hunters Hunted II Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Poison Tree (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Songs of the Sun and Moon: Tales of the Changing Breeds (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Vampire: The Requiem: The Strix Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Werewolf: The Forsaken: The Idigam Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Mage: The Awakening: The Fallen World Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Vampire: The Masquerade: The Beast Within Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Werewolf: The Apocalypse: W20 Cookbook (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Exalted: Tales from the Age of Sorrows (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Chronicles of Darkness: Tales of the Dark Eras (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Promethean: The Created: The Firestorm Chronicle Anthology (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Demon: The Descent: Demon: Interface (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Scarred Lands: Death in the Walled Warren (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) V20 Dark Ages: Cainite Conspiracies (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Chronicles of Darkness: Strangeness in the Proportion (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Vampire: The Requiem: Silent Knife (Kindle, Nook)

(Kindle, Nook) Mummy: The Curse: Dawn of Heresies (Kindle, Nook)

OUR SALES PARTNERS:

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the Screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there!

https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

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

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/

And you can now order Pugmire: the book, the screen, and the dice! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=296

DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

This Wednesday, we will release a set of Tradition Journals on our RedBubble store so that you can write your own arcane musings within these volumes with covers featuring the full page art from Mage 20th Anniversary Edition!