Odd Bits & End Pieces

Monday Meeting

Kind of a scattered blog this week as a lot of projects keep needing a bit of nudge here and a piece of attention there. Like, I was working on getting the page for the V20: Dark Ages Kickstarter put together (the illustration by Mark Kelly, above, is one of the featured images on the page) and realized I wanted to use some of the Clan heraldry, which led to realizing I needed to design shields at least for the Bloodlines. So I’m doing those designs while emailing and texting and Skype-ing.

Our Onyx Path pallet from Gen Con finally showed up at the garage door this morning, so that was an unexpected morning’s worth of unloading and packing our booth components away until our next con.

Which brings to mind the announcement from last week that I’ll be Guest of Honor at Midwinter Gaming Convention in January. I’d been interested in Onyx Path attending since I’ve heard great things about it and I haven’t been back to Milwaukee since Gen Con left, but being asked to be GoH is just such an honor that I’m going this year for sure.

Set up a conference with Stewart Wieck and our good buddy and d20 editor back in the day, Scott Holden, to go over how we want to publish the Scarred Lands. We may have something cool going as early as a month or two from now. Similarly, last week I got two developmental messages from our reconfigured Onyx Path System team as to their direction and expected stages for the shared system for Scion 2nd Edition and the Trinity Continuum. So that’s heartening after several false starts.

In our meeting today, we started figuring out what the covers of the nWoD 2nd Editions would look like (like 1st Edition but with a few tweaks), and rolled right into resolving the cover for nWoD Dark Eras after talking about it for months. It not only makes sense for the project but for how the Kickstarter will work as well. Now that is a thrilling creative moment when all your ideas fall together and I could actually see the book right there in my mind’s-eye. Couldn’t see how thick the book would be though…we’ll have to find out later, but it’ll be a big one.

And here are the bits, pieces, and especially the odd ends that we’re working on:

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE (Projects in bold have changed listings)

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

Promethean: the Created 2nd Edition, featuring the Firestorm Chronicle (Promethean: the Created)

Beast: the Primordial core book (Beast: The Primordial)

W20 Pentex Employee Indoctrination Handbook (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition, featuring the Fallen World Chronicle (Mage: the Awakening)

Fallen World Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Mage: the Awakening)

M20 How do you DO that? (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

M20 Book of Secrets (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Cursed Necropolis: Rio (Mummy: the Curse)

Secrets of the Covenants (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)

Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition

V20 Black Hand: Guide to the Tal’Mahe’Ra (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

W20 Novel by Mike Lee (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)

W20 Shattered Dreams (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Redlines blog

Mummy Fiction Anthology (Mummy: the Curse)

Exalted 3rd Fiction Anthology (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Second Draft

Idigam Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Werewolf: the Forsaken)

V20 Lore of the Clans (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Development

Exalted 3rd Edition core book- From Holden: “We’re getting edits back and implementing them this week, while working on Arms of the Chosen”. (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Firestorm Chronicle Fiction Anthology (Promethean: the Created 2nd Edition)

V20 Red List (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

V20 Ghouls (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd Edition, featuring the Idigam Chronicle (Werewolf: the Forsaken)

World of Darkness Dark Eras- Vampire chapter (WoD Dark Eras)

Sothis Ascends (Mummy: the Curse)

Editing

Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition core book (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Development (post-editing)

World of Darkness Dark Eras core book (WoD Dark Eras)

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE