How You Can Enjoy Gen Con With Onyx Path [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

Last week, I looked at the historical precedent for why Gen Con is always a big deal for us at Onyx Path Publishing. This week, let’s look at this year and the different things we’re doing so that both the folks attending, and our larger community who aren’t going, can have fun with us next week.

Onyx Path will be at booth #1103!

We’ve been planning on our booth to be, like last year, a place where our community can come in, let us know what concerns you, and let us answer any questions we can. And part of what we’re pointing out this year is just how big our community is with devotees of the various game lines for the classic World of Darkness, and the new World of Darkness, and Exalted, and Scion, and Trinity, and Scarred Lands, and Cavaliers of Mars, and Pugmire. You can see in the pic above, two of our signs celebrating less than half of the settings we have created something for this last year/will create for next year. Phew!

So, we’ll all have plenty to talk about in the booth. We’re looking forward to it. If you’re a forum member, go ahead and tell us your forum name too. There’s no way to underscore just how much more fun it is to read your posts the rest of the year once there’s a voice and face to go with your forum name. Since this is a booth in the dealer’s hall, we’ll have books for sale, too. Mostly the new core books like W20 and VtR2, but also smaller books like our various fiction anthologies and Ready Made Character sets.

We’ll also have limited amounts of a few of our newest projects for sale such as the PoD versions of the Demon Translation Guide and V20 Dark Ages. They will be debuting in physical form at Gen Con, but we’ll be setting them for sale on DTRPG that same week for everyone who can’t make it to the show (fear not KS backers, your discount V20 DA PoD links go out this week). The best things about getting a copy of a book like V20 Dark Ages, or V20 itself, at the booth, is that you can get them signed, you don’t have to pay the shipping costs (which for big books like these can be quite a bit), and you get them right away.

There will be mini-demos every day of Pugmire as well as Justin Achilli’s casual VtM game The Prince’s Gambit prototype decks for your review. Rose will be able to use the Cavalier’s of Mars Quickstart to walk folks through her game, and will probably let you leave with a physical copy of that QS.

Don’t forget that anyone buying books at the booth in a t-shirt designed by Onyx Path or WW gets a special Impish Ian Watson discount to their purchase!

Besides buying stuff and talking about stuff, how about free stuff? We’re bringing a bunch of swag this year, just to make it more fun at the booth.

Every day, we’ll have a particular game line or lines for which we’ll be giving out collectible buttons, and cards that you can use as Willpower bonuses in your home Chronicles if your fellow players agree. Every day we’ll be handing out Pugmire buttons with cards that have the Code of Man on one side and one of the six revealed characters from the setting on the other. We also have all six of our Pugmire posters and an in-character booklet describing the setting through the eyes of Princess Yosha Pug and Pan Dachshund that we’ll be giving out. And, of course, every day we’ll have our 2015-2016 Onyx Path Brochure for anyone who comes by the booth or to our panels.

Both the Pugmire booklet and the Onyx Path Brochure will be available for free electronic download from DTRPG on Thursday as well so nobody has to miss out just because they can’t get to Indy.

Thursday will be our V20 Dark Ages (and the cWoD 20th Anniversary Editions in general) focused day. We’ll be giving away the V20 DA collectible pin and card and we’ll also have two panels that day that are about Freelancing for the Onyx Path and WoD Storytelling Tips & Tricks, both with Rose and Eddy. So if you want to help us create these amazing projects and would like to talk about that, and/or you’d like to get more out of your WoD Chronicles, we’ve got the panels for you. Rose will also be signing books at 2pm.

Friday will be Beast: the Primordial day, with the collectible button and card give aways, as well as Black Hat Matt McFarland coming to the booth for signings at 5pm (Eddy will be there too). Some super panels today with What’s Up With the Classic WoD? and What’s Up With the New WoD? covering all the newest releases, giving us a chance to answer every single one of your WoD questions, and a few pretty cool announcements not in the brochure.

Saturday is our day for touching on our varied and wonderful settings that aren’t WoD, with an Exalted collectible pin and card, and panels for What’s Up With Trinity, Scion, and Scarred Lands? and Dive Into Pugmire & Cavaliers of Mars both allowing us to talk a lot more about all those lines or any other nonWoD ones you’re curious about. Since we don’t yet have EX3 out to backers, and the Devs won’t be at the con, we’re more than willing to answer what we can about EX3, but expect us to focus a lot more on EX3 next year. At 1pm Neall Raemonn Price and Dave Brookshaw will be signing at the booth.

Sunday we go all out nWoD and focus on all the games besides Beast that are part of the new World of Darkness. No panels on Sunday, and we can probably be talked into additional discounts on this last day of the con, while we are doing another developer signing at 1pm. We currently are leaving it open who will be there, but we’re trying to grab a writer or two as well, so check it out.

Monday we tear down the booth and fly home. No blog that day. Maybe later in the week. Maybe not, we might be in a collective coma.

All four days we will be tweeting and texting during the con, and at night as we rampage through Indy, so you can follow along @TheOnyxPath and #GenCon2015 and #GenCon. Most of those tweets will also hit our Onyx Path Face Book page too. There are a couple of important dinners set up to discuss Onyx Path’s future plans, including the fabled Onyx Path Summit, a couple of award shows we didn’t enter anything for, and at least one night at my favorite martini bar with my best buddy. We’ll have a special series of Gen Con blogs popping up during the con too, and we’ll try and make sure that the links to any podcasts or interviews get sent out for everybody unable to attend.

And this year, we’re trying something else with Dave “The Legend” Martin’s Wrecking Crew demo team also tweeting from their games that they’re running at Gen Con. We have no idea how that’s going to work out but it could be really exciting to get snippets of what is happening in the demo room. It could also be horrifying. We won’t know until they happen. A brief sampling of their games includes Accidents Will Happen for Wraith 20th, Lost Dogs for Pugmire, Hoist the Black Flag! for Changeling: the Lost, The Spanish Tragedy for Vampire: the Requiem 2nd, The Fate in Our Stars for Trinity: Aeon, Once Upon a Time for Beast: the Primordial, No Fate But What We Write Ourselves for Exalted 3rd, Temple of the Wyrm for Dark Ages: Werewolf, and Free Fall for M20. That’s a small taste of the 60+ games that their team are running this year, not to mention all the other games folks are running besides the Wrecking Crew. Definitely something for everybody.

Since a fair number of writers and developers will be at the con, our forum presence will probably be less, but we both hope to pop on when we can from our hotel rooms, as well as be providing enough tid-bits and info through other venues that there should be a lot to discuss!

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And now, the BLURBS!

The Demon Translation Guide Advance PDF is on sale now! The PoD will be available SOON! We take fiendish delight in presenting this devilish guide to transferring your Demon: the Fallen and Demon: the Descent characters from one setting to the other: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151502/Demon-Translation-Guide

The sixth and final Pugmire poster for now, Spike Mutt, will be available on Wednesday!

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

W20 fans can howl for the first new Werewolf the Apocalypse novel in decades! The Poison Tree novel by Mike Lee (long-time White Wolf writer and developer, and internationally famous Warhammer author) now available in PDF, ePub, and PoD versions! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150855/W20-The-Poison-Tree

The Avarice Chronicle: the Collected Edition (combining the adventures from the three Mummy: the Curse supplements) is now available in PDF and PoD versions at DriveThruRPG.com: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/151566/The-Avarice-Chronicle–Collected-Edition

Convention News: Our friends at Gamerati are running a Game Day on July 25th, this Saturday before Gen Con, in Eau Claire, WI. I’m told there is one nWoD session scheduled already, but they would love it if anybody in our community wants to run other WW or Onyx Path games. So check it out if you want to doing some playing and give them a yell if you want to do some Storytelling: http://gamerati.com/gamedays/

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And now, new project status updates!: