A Week of Snarls and Explosions [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

Gotta be honest here, we kind of had a low energy Monday meeting today. It was quick, to the point, and only had one extended rant (not mine this time). Usually, only a couple of the gang are on the low energy ebb, while the rest are moving right along all uptempo. Not today.

But it’s actually only natural. Fast Eddy Webb just moved and is getting his new house worked on, so his schedule has been roughed over by doorbells and workmen disturbing his concentration. Plus his head has been in proofing the Pugmire Gen Con material, and working on getting me some new characters to draw up. Or as he calls it, writing a short story.

Rollickin’ Rose and I have been doing the thing we do as the Beast Kickstarter campaign heads into its last few days, including working with Matt McFarland of the Black Hat on his text revisions. Along with Matt, we’ve been trying to reiterate why those revisions have been being made (see previous Monday Meeting Blogs), and that has been demanding. As the KS heads towards finishing it’s like our systems are focused on just getting us to the triumphal final minutes. Rose also has been finalizing the nWoD2 core rulebook, getting the revised Quickstarter for Cavaliers of Mars ready as a PoD, and working with Naughty Neall Reamonn Price on the “Sardonyx” System.

Mirthful Mike has, of course, been hammering our releases one after the other out the door, but most especially our Gen Con projects. Now, most of them are at press, and a lot are coming in. I just got our big booth banner here at Shadow Oaks, and it looks awesome. (I also got boxes and boxes of the books we’ll be bringing to sell at GenCon- more on those in further blogs). Even he is showing a deserved sense of being able to take a breath after pulling so many projects together and out to the various printers.

And with the spurt of recent releases, Impish Ian has had more to do in the last couple of weeks in getting the word out through our social media than we’ve seen in a long time; he’s seeing the end of that process and the Gen Con booth activities starting along with the glimmer of the time that the Trinity Continuum has its system and is ready for production. It’s a’ comin’!

Matt and Monica have not only been delivering our Gen Con strategeries, but just got V20 Dread Names, Red List out after working on it for pretty much three years, and got art notes for V20 Ghouls to the Mirthful one. Heavy sighs of relief that free them up to jump into even more pre-Gen Con work in their other (real) jobs.

Even our development updates below have not a single change this week. Maybe it’s the quiet before the storm. Maybe the explosive celebration on the 4th on Saturday will re-energize everybody and everything!

Or, we might all just get drunk.

Either way, I’m not worried. Onyx Path has so many fantastic upcoming projects, both the ones listed below and the ones we’ll be announcing at Gen Con in a month, that I’m glad we have a little moment that comes after so much good work has been done. We need that moment. We gotta recharge, and dive into our next great thing.

Could be getting out V20 Dark Ages, or Mage 20, or… dare I say it? Nah, not going to jinx it and if I say the name then somebody will think I promised it’ll be out next week. But EX3 is really coming along in layout.

Could be the new 2nd Edition nWoD core books. Could be both of our lines waiting for the “Sardonyx” System to go through “beta” playtesting. Could be Justin Achilli’s Vampire: the Masquerade “lite” game. And more surprises further out.

But for now, let’s finish the snarls and get on with the explosions!

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And now, the BLURBS!

Fear the dark places: the Beast: the Primordial Kickstarter has less than three days to go! We passed a whole passel of Stretch Goals like a silk ribbon in the book, a t-shirt, a historical Beast chapter in the nWoD Dark Eras Companion, Beast Ready Made Characters including a Changeling PC, a Beast Fiction Anthology, and a Beast supplement for Mortal Remains PDF. We can still pass several more Stretch Goals in the often crazy last two days, so come on over and check it out.

A basic pledge gets the Prestige Edition, the PDF, and a discount for the physical copy Print on Demand version, all for about or less than the price the PoD will be available for at DTRPG.

The Demon Translation Guide Advance PDF is on sale now! 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 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) will be available in PDF, ePub, and PoD versions on Wednesday.

We’ll also be releasing a newly re-laid out version of the classic Vampire: the Masquerade fiction anthology, The Beast Within. This was the anthology that started them all, and now freshly redesigned for our standard 6″ x 9″ fiction PoD size!

Convention News: Our friends at Gamerati are running a Game Day on July 25th, the 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!: