Woof woof, bark, bark, WOOHOO! [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting, News

So we launched a Kickstarter for Fast Eddy Webb’s Pugmire fantasy game of uplifted dogs last Thursday. We were hoping to get enough interest that we’d fund the creation of the core book, based on the Early Access version that Eddy was using at MidWinter Con, and to get it traditionally printed so we could get some of these out into game stores. Eddy estimated we’d fund our pretty modest $15,000 goal in about four days. I was in that state I get into before we launch a KS where I am sure it will be our first KS to fail to fund. Or at least that we’ll squeak by with funding right at the end.

We funded in an hour.

Today, as I write this, we have 1630 backers, $102,198 in pledges, 35 days to go, and have run past six Stretch Goals like a dog let off the leash.

We got a write-up on the Nerdist web site here: http://nerdist.com/theres-an-rpg-called-pugmire-about-medieval-fantasy-dogs/

It is so very gratifying to see so many people excited about Pugmire!

Oh sure, there are some folks uptight because Pugmire isn’t the angst-filled majesty that is the World of Darkness, but we expected that. In fact, it is important to us that a project like Pugmire can have its place in Onyx Path‘s release schedule alongside the World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness, and Exalted.

It shows, as Joshua Alan Doetsch phrased it, ” A deliciousness of range”.

Which is important to us here at the Path, which is why you might have noticed we have a variety of game worlds that we create for. As creators, it is vital for us to be able to concentrate on one world and then be able to pull back, regroup our creative energy, and focus on another very different project that stretches the creative muscles in different ways.

For Fast Eddy and I, this was exactly how working on Pugmire affected us. It was the pause that refreshes in between the many, many projects we were working on. For us, as friends and collaborators for years, it’s a great project that lets us work together on creating a game world, and one where we have only ourselves to decide what works or doesn’t.

But that’s just us as wacky creative guys making (and often eating) mud-pies.

In fact, there are many other reasons why Pugmire is important to Onyx Path:

It’s our first new game to make it to the public. It’s our first “creator-owned” partnership project to make it to the public. It’s one of our first experiments in reconnecting with game stores and getting a traditionally printed book onto their shelves. It’s our first Kickstarter with a dice set included in the Reward Tiers. It’s our first Kickstarter with…well, you’ll see if you follow the Stretch Goals, but there are SGs in this KS that we could only do with a project we owned. It’s our first game specifically designed so that you can play it with your adult group and if you want to, you can play it with your kids.

Besides just making a really fun game and world, all of these reasons enable Onyx Path to grow along the lines I was mentioning in my posts at the end of last year, and as we try out these options, our efforts towards the White Wolf game lines are infused with more ideas and energy, and our efforts towards further Onyx Path owned projects like Scion and the Trinity Continuum also can be increased because our creators see that there are audiences out there beyond what we’ve touched on these last four years.

So, yeah, pretty important stuff behind the scenes, and a fun game world of dogs with swords & sorcery upfront where it should be.

If you’ve already pledged, then thanks for coming on walkies with us: you are a Good Dog. If you are still sniffing around the Kickstarter, I hope you’ll sit up and take notice of all we’re trying to do with this and give it a taste: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/pugmire-fantasy-tabletop-rpg

If you do, I promise I’ll stop with the doggie puns.

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER!

Less than 24 hours to go!

As of right now, if you pledge for the $30 pledge tier or above you will also get over $100 worth of classic Scarred Lands PDFs via the Stretch Goals!

In the heady days of the D20 explosion, White Wolf created our own fantasy setting featuring a world devastated by the brutal war between gods and ancient titans. The Scarred Lands will return as this Kickstarter for the new edition of Scarred Lands Players Guide! Hosted on KS by our partner, Nocturnal Media, this Kickstarter is not only for a new edition but for a print run to get Pathfinder AND 5E editions into stores!

Here’s the link! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1861515217/scarred-landsfrpg-setting-in-both-5e-and-pathfinder

As I sort of mention above, it’s the Pugmire kickstarter! Pledge to enable us to create a beautiful full color, hardcover, 180+ page, 7? x 10? core rulebook that we can also get into game stores. We’re doing lots of great stuff with this Kickstarter including both a fiction anthology and turning at least one of those stories into an audio drama. It is a treat, so Be Good Dogs, and check it out: https://youtu.be/DeggUirLIiU

ON SALE!

Gauntlet of Spiragos is a 5E D&D adventure for the Scarred Lands and is now available free as a PDF. Just like the Pathfinder version of Gauntlet of Spiragos, this one will eventually have a physical copy Print on Demand version as well. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171523/Gauntlet-of-Spiragos-5E-OGL-adventure

Condition Card PDFs for both Chronicles of Darkness http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171574/Chronicles-of-Darkness-Condition-Numina-and-Dread-Power-Cards and Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd Edition http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171573/Werewolf-the-Forsaken-2nd-Edition-Condition-Cards are now up dealt up at DTRPG, with PoD cards soon to come!

The Demon Storyteller Guide has dropped its cover and is on sale as an Advance PDF on DTRPG! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/170165/Demon-Storytellers-Guide

M20 How Do You DO That? is now available at DTRPG in PDF and PoD versions! http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162241/M20-How-Do-You-DO-That

If you are into the Pugmire KS, here are also six Pugmire posters available as free PDFs or $.99 physical posters, suitable for framing:

Spike Mutt: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150845/Spike-Mutt-Pugmire-Poster-6

Pan Dachshund: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150844/Pan-Dachshund-Pugmire-Poster-5

Jack Rat-Terrier: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150944/Jack-RatTerrier-Pugmire-Poster-4

Sgt. Leo Bulldog: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150843/Sgt-Leo-Bulldog-Pugmire-Poster-3

Princess Yosha Pug: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/149750/Princess-Yosha-Pug-Pugmire-Poster-2

Sister Picassa Collie: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/148516/Sister-Picassa-Collie-Pugmire-Poster-1

Start spreading the Code of Man!

CONVENTIONS!

Gen Con 2016 planning has started.

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

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

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

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

CtL anthology (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)

Ring of Spiragos (Scarred Lands)

Ex Backer Charms (Exalted 3rd Edition)

DA Tome of Secrets (Vampire 20th Dark Ages)

Redlines

Mummy Fiction Anthology (Mummy: the Curse)

Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition

Cavaliers of Mars

Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition

Night Horrors: Conquering Heroes (Beast: the Primordial)

Dagger of Spiragos (Scarred Lands)

EX3 Quickstart (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Second Draft

Arms of the Chosen (Exalted 3rd Edition)

The Realm (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Dragon-Blooded (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Development

StoryPath System Rules (Base rules set for Scion and the Trinity Continuum)

W20 Changing Ways (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

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

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

Beast Ready Made Characters (Beast: the Primordial)

Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring the Huntsmen Chronicle (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)

W20 Kinfolk (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Beckett’s Jyhad Diary (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

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

V20 Ready Made Characters (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)

Shattered Dreams in-book stretch goals (Werewolf: the Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition)

Editing Dark Eras Companion (Chronicles of Darkness Dark Eras)

WtF The Pack (Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd Edition)

CofD Hurt Locker (Chronicles of Darkness)

Post-Editing Development:

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

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

Scarred Lands Player’s Guide: Ghelspad (Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)

Indexing:

Beast: the Primordial Core Book (Beast: the Primordial)

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

In Art Direction

V20 Ghouls

W20 Shattered Dreams

Promethean: the Created Second



Scarred Lands PG

Dark Eras Companion

The Pack

Secrets of the Covenants

Necropolis Rio

W20 Kinfolk

In Layout

Mage: the Awakening Second

Dark Eras

Lore of the Clans Prestige Edition

Chronicles of Darkness Core

Demon Storytellers Guide

Proofing



Ex 3 core book – From RichT: Waiting for review notes on the fixed PDF from the Devs. Now, working on getting an index for it.

– From RichT: Waiting for review notes on the fixed PDF from the Devs. Now, working on getting an index for it. Truth Beyond Paradox

Beast Screen

At Press

M20

Dreams of Avarice

Gauntlet of Spiragos 5e

Forsaken 2 Condition Cards

Chronicles of Darkness Cards

Special- projects on hold in the art and production area until an external factor is resolved

Wraith 20 – Can’t go further until art notes come in, still being developed by Rich Dansky.

Can’t go further until art notes come in, still being developed by Rich Dansky. Pentex Employee Indoctrination Manual – Some added and amended text needs to come in.