It’s the Chicago Way! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting, News

Or at least, that’s what they say in The Untouchables.

For us, the Chicago Way is the way our V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter is charging into its last few days and making a real run to top $100k in pledges. That’s great for a city book, even CbyN, and is just from the over 1500 Kickstarter backers we have currently! Thank you everyone who has supported us so far in this, our first chance to create a book for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition.

We’ve had a few folks message us with concerns as to whether the content will be to their liking. For various reasons. And all we can say is, we set up this Kickstarter so that anyone can back it, for as little or as much as they want, and get pretty much the full text, approved by White Wolf, to read through.

We think the writing is fantastic, and a lot of posters online are agreeing, but if you disagree, it is easy to drop your pledge. No harm, no foul.

We’ll be following the Chicago Kickstarter with one for They Came From Beneath the Sea!, which is a very different kind of tabletop RPG for us. The addition of play elements to the same Storypath System that powers Scion 2nd Edition and the Trinity Continuum and Dystopia Rising: Evolution, really show the flexibility of Storypath.

What play elements you ask? Well, let’s just say that they add the choice of adding drops of sarcasm all the way through to buckets of hi-larious quips to a regular game set in a world of 1950s sci-fi and horror movies.

Developer Matthew Dawkins is currently putting the finishing touches on a They Came From Actual Play vid he shot this weekend, but before we show that off, we’re going to be revealing a teaser for the game that is like no teaser ever created for any tabletop RPG evah!

But that will have to wait until after we’re back from PAX Unplugged in my home town of Philadelphia, PA this week. We’re in booth #2133 and we’ll be hanging out, selling books and stuff, and we’re running a lot of demos and playtests all through the convention.We have two separate tables in the demo area, so there should be lots to sit in on.

In fact, Mighty Matt McElroy missed our meeting today because he and Bill Bodden were loading up the van with book boxes and headed out from Wisconsin on their way to Philly.

I’ve got a bunch of folks scheduled to pitch me their ideas for new games at the con, but I’ll still be at the booth, along with Eddy, Dixie, Matt, Bill, Lisa, Danielle, and I hear even Neall may pop his ginger head in, for a good bit if you want to come by – we’d love to talk about our game lines or just stuff in general!

I hear that we may even get some Onyx Pathcast recording accomplished while there, so expect something to pop up later in December. This Friday on the Pathcast, the trio are making Scion Origin characters and walk through the process so everybody can get the hang of it.

And, as I mentioned last week, last Friday’s Onyx Pathcast was an interview of Jacqueline Bryk, who is not only an excellent writer, but someone who has stepped forward to assist gaming companies with providing safety rules and methods in their TTRPGs and LARPs. For anyone who is interested in how we can have safety and inclusive policies in our hobby along with mature topics and roleplaying, this is a fantastic interview.

Dixie does gives us a heads-up warning about the content before the actual interview, because this is a pretty in-depth look at the topic and they both go into the real-life reasons for why these sorts of rules are important.

Finally, just a reminder that is only good for a few more hours, but with Matt on the road he asked me to remind folks, and he’s been and will be working so hard to make PAX Unplugged great for us, so how can I say no? We still have a few hours to go, as I write this, on two DTRPG sales:

Cyber Monday “doorbuster” deals:

– https://www.storytellersvault. com/featured.php?promotion_id= CyberVault-2018

Plus 390 other PDFs 33% off:

– https://www.drivethrurpg.com/b lackfriday.php?manufacturers_i d=4261

So that’s it, as we have a short week of work here – but a much longer one at the convention, so I need to get back to prepping my monthly Kickstarter Updates. There’s a lot of them still, even with our Kickstarter Concierge James handling our most recent KSs. Which is a nice reminder each month that we have:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

Lo the darkness that lies like a pall over Chicago. The V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter has passed 1500 backers and continues to knock through Stretch Goals here in its LAST FEW DAYS! Congrats to the whole team and all our backers, as we continue to build the Chicago Folio with Cam, Anarchs, and Independent sections and the Let The Streets Run Red Chronicle Collection, as well as activate additional projects too! We’d be thrilled if you’d give it a look here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/chicago-by-night-for-vampire-the-masquerade-5th-ed/description And here is a Q&A Matthew and several of his writing team held on his Gentleman Gamer YouTube channel that goes into a lot of their thinking about Chicago By Night and then they answer questions from the chat: https://youtu.be/v8YbbzEPuiI Next up, we’re 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! Our current plan is to start on Dec 18th but run it extra long into January!

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:

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:

This Wednesday creeps up on us and pounces!

The PDF and physical book PoD versions of Monarchies of Mau release at DTRPG!

And we continue our monthly Exalted 3rd Edition PDF releases with:

Cockatrice and Black Hollow for 100 Devils Night Parade and Peremuz, Rogue Homunculus for Adversaries of the Righteous, also on DTRPG!

CONVENTIONS! THIS WEEK! 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/

Start getting ready for our appearance at MidWinter this January in Milwaukee! So many demos, playtests, secret playtests, and Onyx Path Q&As you could plotz!