Back from Gen Con and We’re Dead Tired! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

Boo!

Matthew Dawkins here! I imagine I look pretty damn frightening after a week in Indianapolis for Gen Con. My tie may have loosened or top button come undone… Still, my purpose guest blogging isn’t to scare you but to enthuse you, because…

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It’s been a long time coming, I know, and I need to thank all of you for your great patience, but it’s finally here:

Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition will be available in PDF and print on DriveThruRPG this week! Check back on our blog soon for the link to purchase a copy!

Before I get onto the hype train, I should also mention the deluxe version of the book. Now the text and art is completely final, the files have been sent to the producers responsible for assembling our deluxe copies. I ordered one as well, so don’t worry, I’m eager for mine as well. In the meantime however, please enjoy the finished version of the PDF or order a print on demand version. I feel confident it’s the best 20th Anniversary game yet.

I’ve long held a strong love for Wraith. It may be my favourite of all the World of Darkness lines. I recall in one of my conversations with developer extraordinaire, Richard Dansky, that I mentioned it’s so difficult to find players for it, which was something that always disheartened me. He disagreed and said “The number of people who have approached me saying they’d love to play but could never find a group could have formed hundreds of groups by now.”

What he said was true. Or at least, it is now. With the internet, livestreaming, forum play, and similar, you can play Wraith with a whole host of ghosts. If your local tabletop group doesn’t want to play (and they should want to play), you’ve no reason to succumb to Oblivion. Instead, post in our forum or on one of the many World of Darkness Facebook groups that you’re open to running a game or looking to play one. With private messaging enabled in any of those forums, you have an excellent way for your Shadow to whisper threats and secrets to you, or their player can put their dialogue in different colours, or italicised.

Wraith was always a game ahead of its time. Mechanics such as the Shadow, a world as bleak of Stygia, and tone as heavy as death, struggled to find an audience in the 1990s. In these days, with fantastic games like Vampire: The Requiem 2e, Promethean: The Created 2e, Monsterhearts, Bluebeard’s Bride, and all kinds of other indie press and innovative mainstream games, it finally finds its place.

Another thing Richard said to me was he believed Wraith was the most hopeful of the World of Darkness games. It’s not a game about death: That’s already happened. It’s a game about finding peace and moving on. I think we’re ready to move on from waiting for this game to arrive. It’s here. Let’s now arrange to play it!

Many Worlds, One Path!

Ian here! Following up by hitting all the news that came out over the weekend (at least, that I’m aware of):

From White Wolf:

Vampire: The Masquerade’s 5th Edition came out. Congratulations to everyone involved!

came out. Congratulations to everyone involved! Changeling: Waking Dreams is an upcoming blockbuster LARP event from Dziobak Studios and the ImagineNation Collective.

Nice Game Publishing’s Vampire: The Masquerade – Heritage is a quick-playing legacy game of clan politics with an epic campaign spanning 700 years of vampire history

Belladonna’s Cupboard is now offering Vampire: The Masquerade makeup sets

Rusted Icon Designs is now offering World of Darkness merch: laser etched drinking glasses, character cards, dog tags, vinyl decals, and more

Geek & Sundry will be streaming an L.A. by Night chronicle for V5

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

We ended off our Geist Kickstarter last week with 232% of our original $50,000 goal! Thanks to James and everyone on our Kickstarter Krewe for getting us there, and helping us hit 14 different stretch goals on the way!

Our next Kickstarter will be for Dystopia Rising: Evolution, so keep an eye out for further details.

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.

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

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

SPECIAL W20 and M20 SALE! Huge savings on our Deluxe printing overruns until 8/31!

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-and-Specials/

DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

This Wednesday, we will release Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition in the PDF and print!