I Should Write This Down [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting, News

And if I do want to write it down, I can do it in one of our many fine blank journals with covers specific to our game lines on our RedBubble site! Yay!

Actually, not really my thing, but a bunch of our community seem to really like them, so it’s cool that folks now can get journals decorated with appropriate graphics and images from their favorite setting(s). And making these items of merchandise, as well as shirts and hoodies and phone cases, etc, is not only pretty simple for Mirthful Mike to put together, but is something that he can do to take a break from the more involved graphic design, layout, and art direction he does.

Many of our merch items are something the Mirthful One gets an idea for and puts together because he thinks that it’ll be cool for somebody “out there”. We all have our ways of reinvigorating our creative efforts, and this is one of Mike’s.

Which I can’t complain about, since the RedBubble merchandise has been great for making sure that we continue our New Things For Sale Every Wednesday pattern that we’ve been doing almost as long as Onyx Path has been around. (We like giving you all something new every Wednesday to have fun with if it sounds good to you). With a ton of new projects getting started, including a lot of Kickstarter Stretch Goal projects, and with our schedule-killers, like Wraith 20 or Signs of Sorcery, getting finished, and with us now putting some KS’d projects into stores before DTRPG, there have been big gaps in terms of when things are releasing.

Which is why having Mirthful Mike pop up at the Monday Meeting and say that he has another idea for a RedBubble item is such a break for all of our processes: we get cool items for Wednesday but none of our creative teams have to crunch in order to deliver one of their projects for that day.

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What I do use blank journals for, is to write down notes when I’m at conventions. Sometimes meeting notes, sometimes brainstorms, sometimes just random thoughts. One series of pages are the ad campaign for Pugmire, all designed in a burst of inspiration in the bar at the MidWinter convention. But, I’ll send an email to myself if it’s something I need to act on soon; the journal is more to let me review my notes later if I need them.

I’ll also make notes about the conventions themselves, like whether the booth location or set-up was working, or the overall tone of the con; were attendees excited or was this the same-old, same-old. Were we seeing a lot of folks from past cons, or new people? That sort of info, useful for deciding whether the convention was a good fit for what we were trying to do there.

We’re always looking at our con strategies and deciding how or whether we should attend. We’re really trying to make sure that the specific convention is actually paying off for us. One might be where we focus on showing off WoD games, another might be where we stress Scarred Lands and Realms of Pugmire to a crowd mostly into D&D-style games.

Right now, Mighty Matt McElroy is finalizing plans for PAX Unplugged and Game Hole Con in November, but individually we have some other appearances happening:

Monica Valentinelli will be a professional guest at Great Falls Gaming Convention in Montana this first week of October. http://gfgr.org/guests-of- honor/

Eddy Webb will be speaking at SIEGE in Atlanta to talk about Kickstarters. His panel is Oct 6 at 2pm. Info on the show is here: https://siegecon.net/

Dixie Cochran will be at High Level Games Con in Atlantic City, Oct. 12-14, where she’s on the panel “Women in Game Design,” and running Eddy’s developer bootcamp, and also DJing the Pandaemonium blockbuster LARP Friday and Saturday night!

Eddy and I will be at Save Against Fear (October 12-14) in Harrisburg, PA. He’ll be running some Pugmire games, be available for autographs, I’ll be on panels and kibitzing, and we’ll sometimes accept free drinks. http://www. thebodhanagroup.org/about-the- convention

Dixie will then be at Metatopia in Morristown, NJ, Nov. 1-4 where she’ll be playtesting, hanging out, and possibly doing a podcasting panel!

Then we’ll slide right through the holiday season into mid-January at MidWinter, where we’ll be having our annual Onyx Path Summit, where we’ll actually all get to see each other in person and have some fun, and one of the topics will be our convention attendance for 2019. We’ve learned a lot this last year, and will be de-emphasizing some conventions quite a lot, and adding demos and playtests and attendance to some others.

We do this because conventions, for us, aren’t planned to make us cash, but to further our communication and outreach with all of you and the gamers out there who don’t know us. It’s part of our overall efforts, that include more online presence and actual play gaming.

For the latter, a shout out to our friends at The Story Told RPG Podcast, who are wrapping up their coverage of Changeling 20th at http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/ I hear that Scion discussions and interviews may be coming soon!

For the former, our own Onyx Pathcast just put out an episode Friday where the Terrific Trio talk creative influences in their work from other pop-culture media, and this Friday they are trapped in the world of Neall Raemonn Price, as they interview the red-headed stranger himself. As always, available on PodBean https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/ or on your favorite podcast venue.

So when you write about us in your journal, and you will, be kind. We are but poor strutting players dedicated to creating for you:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

Lo the darkness that lies like a pall over Chicago. The V5 Chicago By Night Kickstarter arises in October!

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:

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

DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

This Wednesday we have Vampire: The Requiem blank Clan Journals materializing at our RedBubble store!

CONVENTIONS! From Fast Eddy Webb, we have these: Oct 6 at 2pm. Info on the show is here: Eddy will be speaking at SIEGE in Atlanta to talk about Kickstarters. His panel isInfo on the show is here: https://siegecon.net/ Save Against Fear ( October 12-14 ) in Harrisburg, PA. He’ll be running some Pugmire games, be available for autographs, and will sometimes accept free drinks. Eddy will also be a featured guest (and RichT will be there at some point, too) at) in Harrisburg, PA. He’ll be running somegames, be available for autographs, and will sometimes accept free drinks. http://www. thebodhanagroup.org/about-the- convention