The Ides of December [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

This was us all last week, charging from meeting to meeting reviewing the upcoming 2016 White Wolf project schedule ideas. We were determined to get all the suggestions together (and thanks for your outpouring of ideas in the comments of last week’s MMN Blog) in order to have a “first-pass” schedule ready for discussion with the line developers by Dec 15. And we did! Whew! Now we will discuss it all with them.

And the art is of course the cover for Book of Legions by one of our old favorite artists, Guy Davis. Topical for the yelling, but also because we are over 300% funded for the Deluxe Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition– and we still have three weeks to go! Stretch Goals have added some awesome Orpheus material and added Arcanoi powers to the book itself, unlocked an introductory “Handbook for the Recently Deceased”, and Rich Deadguy Dansky is reaching out to the many writers he has connected with over the years to power up a super Wraith Fiction Anthology. Hoping those of you who haven’t been able to join us there will be able to as the holidays come and go.

Most of what Eddy and I talked about today was the “vertical slice” of Pugmire that he has recently completed. This is sort of a very focused prototype of Pugmire that is designed to give a taste of the game and hit as many of the basic play moments as it can. It’s still pre-writing, but it tests a lot of Eddy’s ideas and allows the rest of us to check it out for feedback. One note, for those of you who caught my slight rant about Pugmire detractors earlier, Eddy has actually found that there were a few folks who just totally didn’t get what the game was about, and while they were negative at the beginning, they got on board once Eddy went into more detail about the game. Which is an awesome illustration of how preferring to communicate (rather than gettin’ all verbally violent) can actually make a positive difference.

Now here are a couple of things that are more about the holiday season:

We wanted to suggest to you wonderful folks out there that T-shirts would make cool gifts for your gaming friends, so we checked with our online T-shirt partner at RedBubble, and they actually have a chart on shipping. It’s pretty late right now unless you add Express shipping, but here you go: https://help.redbubble.com/hc/en-us/articles/203263215 Basically, and sorry we only just checked for this, but if you want shirts for the holidays: order NOW!

Finally, next week I’m going to post at least the first part of our 2014 Top Ten List of Onyx Path Awesomenesses! So, then, as this is our blog where we actually share ideas a lot, what do you think should be included on this list? Books we put out, parts of books we put out, a particular piece of art, a Kickstarter…you name it!

And here are much more than ten items we’re working on:

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE (Projects in bold have changed listings)

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

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

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

Cursed Necropolis: Rio (Mummy: the Curse)

Secrets of the Covenants (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition) – In Open Development

Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition

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

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

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

Demon Storytellers’ Guide (Demon: the Descent)

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

“Sardonyx” System Rules (Base rules set for Scion and the Trinity Continuum)

Redlines

Mummy Fiction Anthology (Mummy: the Curse)

Arms of the Chosen (Exalted 3rd Edition)

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

Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition, featuring the Fallen World Chronicle (Mage: the Awakening) – In Open Development

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

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

Second Draft

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

Exalted 3rd Fiction Anthology (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Development

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

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

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

Fallen World Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Mage: the Awakening)

Editing

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

Sothis Ascends (Mummy: the Curse)

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

Development (post-editing)

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

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

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

Exalted 3rd Edition core book- From Holden: “Didn’t quite get the edit implements finished by Sunday , but I am close-” (Exalted 3rd Edition)

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE