The Shadow Over Chicago (by Night)[Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting, News

Actually, it’s our shadow over Chicago, and not whatever that is in the art above, as we continue to work with White Wolf to insure that V5 Chicago By Night‘s text is accurate to their vision and as complete as we can make it prior to launching its Kickstarter. We want that text finished so that we can roll right into preparing the book for the Backer PDF and to create the traditional printer and DTRPG PoD files so that physical copies will exist as quickly as possible.

So, better waiting for the KS to go live than waiting for the book to ship to backers! Several of our latest Kickstarters that have been created using this dictum have shipped early: Cavaliers of Mars shipped a year before its estimated date, and Monarchies of Mau will ship next month four months earlier than estimated.

All of which means that we hope that the V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter can start on Tuesday October 30th, but we’ll have to see. We WILL broadcast it all over our social media once we can absolutely say so for sure!

Already, I can tell you that the book contains nearly 100,000 words of characters, some classics, some newly created, spanning a broad array of clans, genders, races, and sexualities. We’ve gone to a lot of effort to ensure every character is connected to at least one other through plot, rumor, or personal connection, in order to make this city sourcebook the biggest source of interconnected plots and secrets we’ve ever presented.

And then, there’s also the mystery of what the Lasombra are up to in Chicago.

Speaking of working on a V5 book, and of White Wolf, reminds that this week on the Onyx Pathcast, the mysterious master of Kindred politics and online streaming, WW‘s Jason Carl, materializes into the studio for an interview! Expect all kinds of V5 and other vampiric goodness, because Jason is an Elder (at least).

(Also, there’s no studio so I’m sure he’ll just call in, but I don’t want to ruin the Gothic atmosphere.)

Last week’s Pathcast was one of our Special Episodes and features Eddy reporting in on the Save Against Fear convention that he and I went to, and I talked about in last week’s blog, and his recording of our game designer Q&A, so you can hear the Pure Genius! of our answers to the audience’s insightful questions.

Pure Genius!, and it’s right here:

Special Episode 4: https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

And yes, if you listen to the audio from the panel it really sounds like the mic is on a moving train, but as Eddy says leading up to it, we didn’t know the table was moving every time one of us leaned onto it. Not so much the Pure Genius!, there, but I do think the conversation and Q&A is worth the weird and annoying extra sounds.

Another new way to get a dose of fun from ones of our game lines is the streaming craze that sweeping the nation, and we have a new Scarred Lands game being presented by Travis Legge (you can check out his work in the Community Content areas for Scarred Lands and D&D 5e) on Twitch:

https://www.facebook.com/Myths andMatchmakers/

And we have the last episode of our Pugmire: Homeward Bound adventure on the Saving Throw Show wrapping up LIVE on Tuesday the 23rd (tomorrow night) at 6pm PST/9pm EST, running on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/savingthrowshow

And if you want to catch up on the first episode, it’s now available on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjOaW8ix5nQ

We’re thrilled to say that our simultaneous release of Cavaliers of Mars physical book via our friends at Studio2 and IPR, and PDF/PoD releases on DTRPG, has been going great! So much so that we’re putting two support projects, the Cavaliers Screen and the Talent and Path Cards up for sale this week! So when you want to start playing this gorgeous book you’ve received, you can jump right in in proper swashbuckler fashion!

Also at IPR, HALFOWEEN is more than half over, but there’s still time to save 50% off World of Darkness and Chronicles of Darkness prestige and deluxe editions and storyteller screens until 10/31 midnight, while supplies last. indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-an…

Finally, just a word about our Onyx Path Forums.

We love them, we love the community that has built up over the years – many of our forumites came over from the old WW forums – and we love that in recent years we been able to make sure they are places where, despite an occasional outbreak of trying to win the internet and getting intense about it, folks can come and actually talk about all of our games.

So this isn’t meant as a rebuke to every single person who posts on our forums. I say that ahead of time, with the lead-in paragraph above, so you know that what I’m talking about isn’t pointing a big finger right at you personally, even if you may have done what I’m about to talk about.

I’m not yelling at you personally.

Promise.

We have our general threads, and then, over the years, we’ve found it really helpful to have two other types. The first is the “Ask the Devs” type of threads, of which we have two going right now, I think: for Exalted and for Scion. Then there are the “Errata Threads” we do for almost all of our projects where we ask anyone in our community who got either the Backer PDF or the Advance PDF, depending on the project, to help us out and post any slip-ups.

It’s really important that when posting to either of these two kinds of threads that folks remember the purpose of that thread. One is questions for the Devs, the other is to bring errata to our attention for that project. Neither type of thread is there for discussions – that’s what all the rest of the forums are for, and we encourage anyone who wants to discuss something further to please start a new thread in order to do that.

Along the same lines, please don’t answer the questions posed in the Ask the Devs threads, those are posed so the devs can answer them, and in the Errata threads, please don’t try and explain or clarify someone’s posted errata – even if you know it is not actually errata. Our devs will figure that out, and the nature of collating one of these threads into a useful form in a timely manner means that anything not errata gets caught like sand in the gears.

Thanks for your consideration in following these guidelines, because they really help us sort through and publish all these:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

Lo the darkness that lies like a pall over Chicago. The V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter arises in October! We’re still hoping to hit October the 30th! We’re also working on the Kickstarter for They Came From Beneath the Sea! (TCFBtS!), which has some very different additions to the Storypath mechanics we’ll be explaining during the KS. They take an excellent 50’s action and investigation genre game and turn it to 11!

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.

And our latest, the dice for Werewolf: The Forsaken 2e:

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

And we’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

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:

First there was Cavalier of Mars last week – and now this Wednesday we are releasing both the Cavaliers of Mars Screen, and the Cavaliers of Mars Talent and Path Cards on DTRPG!

Ha ha haa! Welcome to our red planet…and en garde! Cavaliers of Mars swashes its PDFs and buckles its PoDs at DTRPG this Wednesday!

Return now to dying Mars in its last age of glory. A world of flashing swords and choking sands, of winking courtesans and lantern-lit canal cities. Mars, where romance and heartbreak are two sides of the same obsidian chit.

Cavaliers of Mars includes:

• A vibrant setting with cultures, careers, characters, and dozens of locations, all organized to get you right into the world of Mars!

• An all-new system combining your character’s motivations, history, and beliefs with strategic swashbuckling action!

• Astrology, crafting, psychic powers, and much more!

CONVENTIONS! Matt, Monica, Bill, Crystal, and other Onyx Path writers and

developers will be at GameHoleCon in Madison, WI November 8th – 11th

running demos of Pugmire, Scarred Lands, and more!

https://www.gameholecon.com/ Rich, Lisa, Matt, Eddy, Dixie, Danielle, and other Onyx Path writers

and developers will be at PAX Unplugged in Philly, November 30th –

December 2nd running demos of Scion, Monarchies of Mau, Exalted, and

more!

http://unplugged.paxsite.com/