This Weekend, We’re in Labor. [Monday Meeting Notes]

Monday Meeting

Yes, strangely enough, while the rest of the good ol’ USA has a multi-day holiday, we at Onyx Path are working along. Even Mirthful Mike and Rollickin’ Rose on vacation still sent in their project updates for inclusion below so you folks would have the most up to date info possible.

But we have to, really. There are just so many projects that are clooooose to finish, or at least to getting finished.

Like Exalted 3rd Edition, which should be in to CCP for approval by the time you read this. (That’s art from the book above). Or Mage 20th‘s Standard PoD version which is still having trouble at the PoD printer, but which we expect to have worked out once the PoD printers get back from the Labor Day long weekend.

Meanwhile, Eddy and Rose were either at or in DragonCon in Atlanta over this weekend, along with our friends and Onyx Path contributors Bill Bridges, John Kennedy, and Matt McFarland, and seemed to have a had some fun and even talked some business.

Impish Ian Watson was up at FanExpo in his home country of Canada trying to both spread the word about Onyx Path and get his copy of V20 signed by as many of the voice actors who had worked on the old Vampire and Hunter video games as possible.

And as I mentioned last week, this same weekend I had the honor to attend (for the 5th year) the Save Against Fear convention which donates towards an organization of therapists who are incorporating tabletop RPGs into their therapy options.

While I have my own anecdotal evidence of how members of our community have been helped by playing RPGs, it was incredible to hear stories from actual educators and therapists about individuals who were reached and helped because of this “hobby” of ours.

They had one panel that I sat in on, that was more of a presentation and discussion group, all about the character sheet and how that info presented there parses out to the aspects of the PC which they then related to how those character aspects could be used in therapeutic sessions.

Fascinating stuff and the sort of things I point to when I’m confronted with folks who just don’t want to believe that tabletop RPGing is far more than just silly games. I say what we do is Art, because Art changes peoples lives, alters peoples’ realities.

So there!

I believe the panels were recorded and that the folks there will be sending me links to those recordings and vids, and I’ll get them off to you when I get them. I also sat down for a quick interview with a couple of old friends- more on that when they get back to me on when they’ll be posting that.

So yeah, quite the “holiday”.

🙂

Hope everybody else who had the weekend off had a great time and enjoyed themselves!

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And now, the BLURBS!

Vampire 20th Anniversary Edition: The Dark Ages is NOW available in PDF and PoD versions at DriveThruRPG.com! This massive full color tome is part of the V20 line but does not require V20 to play and enjoy.

The Pugmire Pamphlet we had available at Gen Con is now ready for PDF download. Read about the world of Pugmire from the enthusiastic and optimistic pen of Princess Yosha Pug, as well as notes from the gruff and worldly hunter Pan Daschund: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153518/Pugmire-Gen-Con-Brochure

The sixth and final Pugmire poster for now, Spike Mutt, is on the loose now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150845/Spike-Mutt-Pugmire-Poster-6

The fifth Pugmire poster, Pan Dachshund, is ready now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150844/Pan-Dachshund-Pugmire-Poster-5

The fourth Pugmire poster, Jack Rat-Terrier, is on-sale now as a free PDF or $.99 physical poster, suitable for framing: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/150944/Jack-RatTerrier-Pugmire-Poster-4

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

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And now, 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)

Pugmire Early Access

Dark Eras Companion (nWod Dark Eras)

Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition

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

Beast Ready Made Characters (Beast: the Primordial)

Beast Fiction Anthology (Beast: the Primordial)

Cavaliers of Mars