Hey Wait! It’s Friday!

Monday Meeting

How did we get here? Last thing I remember was going into my Monday Lunch Meeting…

Yep, it was that kind of week.

So rather than a full catch-up right now, here are the highlights, and we’ll pick right back up on Monday like this whole skipping a week thing never happened.

– Mortal Remains is on sale in PDF, physical book PoD, and PDF/PoD combo versions on DriveThruRPG. This book catches our hunters up on the creatures that stalk the lives of mortals besides vampires, werewolves, and mages. Creatures that inhabit Promethean, Changeling, Geist, Mummy, and Demon. It also briefly and basically updates Hunter: The Vigil with God Machine mechanics. These new foes are all kinds of trouble for hunters (and some new Compacts, etc), and also some fun hunter-based trouble for the various supernaturals that expand on their lines.

– The biggest project that kept me so, so very busy this week was setting up the Deluxe W20 Book of the Wyrm Kickstarter. It was submitted yesterday and I just got word today that it was OK’d by Kickstarter! Yay! So we will be going live on Tuesday June 3rd, at 12 noon Eastern US time. Something we are adding this time, and are giving you fair warning about now if you want to participate because this Reward will go fast, is that we’re adding a Reward Tier for you or your character being a nominee for the Pentex Board of Directors. This Tier includes getting your likeness included in official Board Nominees art- and then in the new Pentex Board of Directors art if you’re elected. Reward Tiers will have a certain number of votes per pledge, and we will tabulate the votes based on answers we get from your Surveys. So, we’re shaking things up a bit, but think this can be a lot of fun, especially since we’re encouraging Nominees to use the comments section of KS, and our Onyx Path forums and blogs and Facebook pages, etc, to convince other backers to vote for them. Can you get onto the Pentex Board to further your nefarious schemes? Or to infiltrate and bring it down from within?

– Part of my time was spent making up for the time I spent chatting on the View From the Path blog http://theonyxpath.com/an-interesting-conversation-about-schedules/ where we had several excellent conversations that started with concerns about our schedule and evolved into talking about Onyx Path‘s policies and philosophies about game book creation, our business model vis-a-vis new business and game stores, and more. It was nice that a bunch of the fans of our current direction popped on to lend their support, but I think it was even nicer that folks who had concerns felt free to voice them. In fact, it’s vital. I’ve tried to keep our overall workings as transparent as possible, and that especially includes these blogs as a place folks can express themselves even if that expression is criticism toward Onyx.

– Finally, a lot my time was spent personally shipping out the Ultra Deluxe W20 Heavy Metal Editions to backers. We are in the final stages of not just getting out the Rewards from that specific Reward Tier, but also to those folks who added an HME to their regular pledges. The lessons we have learned creating and shipping the W20 project have been huge, and this is particularly important to note in the light of the Ultra Deluxes still to come from the Exalted 3rd and Mage 20 Kickstarters. There were huge manufacturing challenges with the W20 HMEs, and having met those challenges we are ready to apply that knowledge to the next ones. For example, I made sure that the secondary printer who will create the lenticular tarot card for the Ultra Deluxe M20 cover had actually created hundreds of lenticular process images before OKing that special feature. Similarly, we are dry running the shipper for the Deluxe Changing Breeds ship-out by having them send me a sample package from their warehouse to me to confirm their packaging is right for our deluxe projects, because I now know some of the packaging pitfalls first hand

OK- that’s all I have. Enjoy your weekend and talk to you Monday!.