Good To The Last Drop [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

Like our friends in the illustration from V20 Ghouls above by Lawrence Van Der Mewe, it seems like we are waiting for so many things to get to that next stage. Drop by drop…

Hang in there, true believers!

Mirthful Mike has four books in layout, we have several major projects being edited, we are banging at the gates of the M20 PoD printer, and Exalted 3rd‘s PDF is headed towards CCP for their OK after we made the changes they needed.

You folks are going to have a cornucopia of game book choices to make between now and the end of the year.

Meanwhile, to mock our impatience at nothing having changed this week from last week, our Onyx Path Monday Meeting was reallllly long. We had two main items on the agenda, and both required more than an hour to discuss.

The first was our plans for October, and the Halloween treats we expect to share with you every single day of that month.

Then, we took a serious look at how Onyx Path deals with and compensates our freelance developers, writers, and editors. This was a conversation we started earlier in the year, discussed at Gen Con, and which some of our devs and writers have also been discussing with us post-Gen Con. It’s an important thing, and one that I think we are now able to review with a few years of publishing under our belts. Most of the freelance processes we have been using we inherited from our years with White Wolf, and Onyx Path‘s business model (while based on the many things I learned there) continues to evolve.

So we need to evolve better methods of compensation as well.

None of which might be interesting to our community, and certainly I’m not dropping fascinating insider details on this post as we’re still trying to figure out what form that evolution will take, but this is the sort of thing that rightly matters to those of us that bring you the fun. So we talk about it. A lot. Trying to find the right (Onyx) path forward. It’s a start, and I will let you in on more details once we put things in motion that we’ve figured out.

OK- I’m off to send more email screeches about finding and fixing the issues with M20 to our PoD printers, and redesigning the Exalted 3rd PDF/PoD cover with Maria, the EX3 art director, after our original artist bailed. (Don’t worry, fixing that will not hold up the backer PDF).

Drip.

Drop.

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And now, the BLURBS!

Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages is NOW available in PDF and PoD versions at DriveThruRPG.com! This massive full color tome is part of the V20 line but does not require V20 to play and enjoy.

The Pugmire Pamphlet we had available at Gen Con is now ready for PDF download. Read about the world of Pugmire from the enthusiastic and optimistic pen of Princess Yosha Pug, as well as notes from the gruff and worldly hunter Pan Daschund: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153518/Pugmire-Gen-Con-Brochure

The sixth and final Pugmire poster for now, Spike Mutt, is on the loose now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150845/Spike-Mutt-Pugmire-Poster-6

The fifth Pugmire poster, Pan Dachshund, is ready now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150844/Pan-Dachshund-Pugmire-Poster-5

The fourth Pugmire poster, Jack Rat-Terrier, is on-sale now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150944/Jack-RatTerrier-Pugmire-Poster-4

The third Pugmire poster, Sgt. Leo Bulldog, is available NOW as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150843/Sgt-Leo-Bulldog-Pugmire-Poster-3

The second poster, Princess Yosha Pug, is available now: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149750/Princess-Yosha-Pug-Pugmire-Poster-2

And the first poster, Sister Picassa Collie, is here: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/148516/Sister-Picassa-Collie-Pugmire-Poster-1

Start spreading the Code of Man!

Dread Names, Red List for V20 is now on sale! This collection of the most dangerous Kindred ever called Anathema is available in both PDF and hardcover PoD versions: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150381/V20-Dread-Names-Red-List

CONVENTIONS!

We’re finalizing plans for a big Onyx Path presence at Mid Winter Con again this year this January in Milwaukee. Big blurb when that is all worked out.

I’ll be at Ovino in Milan, Italy signing Magic the Gathering cards on October 2-4, so any of our community in the area that wants to stop by and say “Ciao”, I’d love to see you. More thoughts on that convention next week. http://www.ovinotournament.com/

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And now, the unchanged 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 anthology (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)

Pugmire Early Access

Dark Eras Companion (nWod Dark Eras)

Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition

V20 Ready Made Characters (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Beast Ready Made Characters (Beast: the Primordial)

Beast Fiction Anthology (Beast: the Primordial)

Cavaliers of Mars