#cofd promethean

[your-fav-is-a-wod-monster]

Hi there! Could you do Hoodude Voodoo from Monster High? He is a living voodoo doll that was originally built so main character Frankie could pass him off as a boyfriend only to find out he is alive! And now he goes to Monster High as a lovesick teenage voodoo doll whose powers affect people around him

oooo, monster high! cant say im a big fan of the series, but ive liked a ton of the designs and have been interested before

along with that. this one seems like a perfect fit

Subject #003: Hoodude Voodoo (Monster High)

Category: Promethean (CofD

Another Created! this time, it fits even better than Alphonse! Especially with all the extra little details.

(see explaination below)

So! Prometheans are artifical people, often created by a type of mad scientist called an Alchemist. However, other Prometheans often create more of them too! usually as the same type, but not necessarily always. Frankie being, obviously, a Frankenstien, helps with this idea.

Since his origin was to be a "fake boyfriend" for Frankie, seems to me like a Galatea, one of the Muses.

Now, i did a little extra research into this fella, and while its not perfect, his power to harm people around him when he takes damage (much like an oversized voodoo doll, hah) reminds me alot of the Disquiet. an effect that the Created often have on mortals that usually lead to them being hated by mortals. It could also be a form of alchemy, though im not sure what type. either way, he seems to be

[awakenedsalamander]

It also turns out one of the reasons I don’t talk about Chronicles of Darkness much is that I really struggle to talk or think about anything else once I start.

So, Promethean: The Created, huh? God, what a fascinating game. One that really merges some very compelling themes with an already intriguing setting, and then gives you all kinds of fun character options to play around with. Also one that no one really knows about…

For those not up to speed, Promethean is a game about beings— Prometheans— created by humans to be human, or close to it, for one reason or another. Some people who create Prometheans do so by stitching together corpses and animating them just like Frankenstein, others create golems and other constructs, and some Prometheans don’t seem to have a creator other than the whims of the Divine Fire, which is the force that animates all of the Created.

Here’s the thing: Creating human life through magic is actually pretty tricky, and so the resulting Prometheans are invariably off, somehow. It’s a little different for each Promethean, some of them are just really disturbing and creepy in their movements and occasionally mannerisms, others are uncannily graceful, and some are just kinda vaguely alien. It doesn’t even just come down to most humans having an irrational fear and hatred of Prometheans (which is called Disquiet), nature itself seems to recoil from the Divine Fire— the weather twists and the air and water is tainted, until the area becomes a Wasteland.

So the goal of the game is simple: Find out how to become human, in a process called the New Dawn, so your Promethean player character can transcend their limits.

And god, what to say about this game! It’s about interrogating what it is to be human, or perhaps more accurately a person, and how “trying to be a person” is both inherently kind of silly— you’re already a person!— and also kind of the only thing any of us can ever do.

Prometheans complete their journeys through understanding the ways humans act, sure, but they only get there by finding the human that’s already in them. And yet, at the same time, they really are transforming— physically, mentally, and spiritually. To be human is to change, to grow, to wither, really.

This is a game about asking player characters some of the hardest questions— What does it mean to live? What is the purpose of being? What would you sacrifice to find out? Is it worth pursuing at all, anyway?— and then just letting them go on a metaphysical road trip where they struggle to answer them, making mistakes all the while, and maybe learning that being able to ask the questions at all is what matters.

I don’t know, I just wish more people knew about Promethean! It’s a painful game to play, really, what with every character being a rootless wanderer instinctually hated by most humans, so I understand why it’s a hard sell.

But there’s something so gentle, fragile, and beautiful about the game, at least to me. It’s nice that in a setting full of monsters, dark magic, and misery upon misery, you can know that somewhere, a group of vagabond outcasts are working to help each other be human, with all the joy and pain that comes with that.

[redratt]

a sketch of Lux, the Promethean (Frankenstein). her body is made of several different victims of a serial killer and her head is a preserved wolf head taken from a wall-- the victim in that killing was mutilated too badly to be be usable, so the wolf head went on instead. when she was new, Lux didn't have problems speaking, but as she's gone further along on her pilgrimage and come to terms with her inhumanity (due to a short stint in Cuprum) she's found it harder to talk. to fix the stiffness of head, Lux has to regularly re-wire her jaw. if she doesn't do this about every three or so weeks, Lux is unable to talk much at all beyond short guttural vocalizations.

she knows sign language, but the version she knows is a mix of a few different dialects, learned piecemeal along her travels.

for those who know promethean, her calcified alembics are: MOTUS ( ferrum / exemplar ) INTERNALIZE ( stannum / outcast ) IMPERATUS ( stannum / savage ) BESTIAE FACIES ( cuprum / hermit ) her current Transmutation is Phosphorum, and her current two alembics are Beacon of Helios & Ignis Aspiratus. she's occupying the Daredevil role.

Lux has mastered Ferrum's three roles.

[cloudboundcorgi]

Some more MKATS doodles!

1. Body swap shenanigans seemingly brought on by an encounter with God-Machine bullshit!

2. Friendbot being...well, Friendbot.

[macabre00danse]

I wrote a long post about how excited I am to develop a new CofD crossover story for my group based on Dark Eras: Sundered World, but Tumblr ate it 🙃

Oh well. The gist is that there will be Neolithic Mages, Werewolves, Changelings, and Prometheans. They'll travel Eurasia and find a bunch of weird unexplainable things, meet nearly extinct hominids, interact with early civilization, and (if they follow the clues) find a dinosaur.

The big bad is a giant Strix who lurks in the Carpathians and calls itself Kupala. It harasses demons and spirits for fun. It unsuccessfully flirts with Luna. Lies are its native language. It's going to be hell to deal with this thing, but I'm leaving plenty of opportunities for good and not so great resolutions.

... I wish my first post survived lol it was far more eloquent

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

vampires, geists, prometheans, most CofD monsters: alas, what an accursed existence....to be cut off from the world you once knew, or never knew....to predicate your existence on the suffering and exploitation of others, to know what it is to be human and forever have it be out of reach......

werewolf walking in with a t-shirt that says "I ❤️ Cycles of Violence": hey what are you guys talking about

[cheeseisyummy]

have you ever heard of vampire the masquerade?

Sure have, although the closest I got to playing it was in a brief and messy megamix of CofD game lines (Prometheans!! love those guys) where each of us was a different monster.

Would I play it now? Idk. I like vampires a lot, but less so in modern settings.

[kurakurakura99]

Broke:The End of Days never happened and your chronicle is set present day, present time, and shit like India getting nuked from orbit to stop an eldritch horror either never happened or just didn't make the kinda waves it should Woke:The end of days has happened/Is happening, and your chronicle is either set in the ashes of a destroyed world or in the 90's. Bespoke:The end of days happened, Autocthonia (the entire planet, as an entity,) fucked off to parasitize another timeline, becoming the god machine of CofD. Certain splats are "Native" to this timeline (Promethean, Beast, Lost Changelings, maybe Sin eaters, your favorite fan splat) and certain others are pale imitations japed into reality by the God Machine to bring this timeline more into acceptable parameters in fear of dimensional rejection of its presence (Vampires, Werewolves, Mages)

[newwavenosferatu]

Reblogging with some updates/things i forgot

The term Jyhad is not used in my games. It is referred to strictly as the Eternal Struggle or the War of Ages

I love CofD stuff as well, albeit if I'm far less familiar with it than WoD. My favourite element of CofD is the Prometheans, so they have a decent presence in my games. Right now, when I have a run in with a different supernatural but don't know of what nature, I roll on a table of garou, changeling, mage, wraith, promethean and demon, so I have as much of a chance of interacting with them as I do any other. There are at least 2 in the city right now.

Mummies as in "resurrected ancient Egyptian dead" aren't a thing in my world of darkness. The role they play, imo, is better suited for Kindred in torpor waking up after millennia. Same thing at the core, but without the orientalism.

Malkavians are seers, oracles, advisors in the metaphysical , not "worst mental health depiction but Kindred this time". They are not more or less likely to have mental illnesses than anyone else. Dementation is mental in nature, giving targets a slice of the spiritual truth that the Children of Malkav are blessed with.

Second Inquisition is around, and have destroyed many Kindred and destabilized many cities. Hunter groups are funded more heavily by the church and state now, making them far more dangerous than ever. Supernaturals have been working together much more in recent nights, especially where the SI is involved

Sabbat still recognize clans and bloodlines

Nosferatu are still walking Masquerade Breaches and need to be careful

I'm trying to make Brujah more interesting and not just angry Kindred punks. Idk as someone involved the punk subculture you would think I would appreciate them more but I find them very one note,

The Path of the Feral Heart is very important to Clan Gangrel and more follow it (in some form) than don't. Their unique philosophy based on this path, Feralism, teaches that being Kindred is a freedom from the confines of humans and their morals. To a Feralist, to be Kindred is to be an animal, and pretending to be anything else is foolish and dishonest. Feralists reject humanity fully, but also most elements of Kindred society, namely the latter 5 traditions, sects, the War of Ages, etc. They understand the importance of the Masquerade but are far more lenient with their interpretation and punishment for breaches. Many Feralists ally themselves with the Anarchs, although the don't really care for the sects goals or ambitions, but understand strength in numbers and the advantage of a good friend

So here's an OOC post about some of the setting changes I made for my own WoD games, as I combined some 5th edition lore with majority v20 stuff.

- SchreckNet is still around! If you know me you know I love SchreckNet, and it while it getting compromised is a good metaplot development, I want to use SchreckNet in my games. The newest version, SchreckNet 3.0 uses a sort of VPN type deal. It's kinda like a reddit-radio combo where people go to different "tunnels" (channels/subreddits) where they get information uploaded in time sensitive transmissions. Most of these fade after a couple of days, and all tunnels are heavily watched and surveilled. It's a Nossie only deal right now, with some Nossies acting/posting on behalf of other clans.

-Hecata is a mini-sect, not a clan. Many members of the "necromantic" clans and bloodlines have joined together in a very volatile alliance for strength and protection. I know this is pretty much just v5 but I want to get rid of the idea that they are a clan in their own right, as I think them being a sect that some deathly Kindred join, but not all. There's still independent Giovanni for example

-Beckoning and Gehenna War are dialed back a lot. Not nonexistent but there are still plenty of elders and even older generations around. Many used the Beckoning as a clever disguise to advance their schemes, move to new territory, etc. Gehenna War skirmishes are happening around the world, not just in East Asia

-Sabbat is still around in plenty of places, if now being a bit more secretive in their operations.

-Many Anarchs still viewed by Cam as an unruly group population of their population, not their own sect. In many places, Anarchs are more of a problem for the Ivory Tower than Sabbat packs or other outsiders .Many Anarchs have also established their own small, but heavily defended Baronies nearby or even within Cam territories.

-WoD Orientalism and other Problems. Probably gonna be the part some people don't like, but I don't care. I'm not interested in perpetuating harmful, misinformed views of other cultures, in life or in my games.I love WoD and it's games, but it had some horrible ideas that are still haunting the modern iteration of the games. Frankly, The Banu Haqim, Ministry, and Ravnos are just stereotypes-as-clans. They have been partially improved, but it's very hard to distance them from their initial versions. I will eventually be doing a major rewrite for these clans to remove the more unsavory bits . This goes for other WoD games too however. I think the lore changes to W5 were mostly positive. However, the majority of the tribes are based on a weird understanding of culture and ethnicity which in removing that, which is in my opinion is a good step, did kind of leave the clans feeling a little "samey". It's not that there can't or shouldn't be a wide array of cultures that our splats are a part of, the exact opposite is true. But to have so many of these clans/tribes/etc being rooted in only stereotypes just doesn't . For example, only about 30% of Get fell to Hauglosk. The ones that fell were the worst of the tribe, and now the main tribe don't have any fashy undertones, basically just Klingon Garou, which is what I always saw them as. Ministry are probably going to be focused on a fictional vampiric deity rather than a real world one, and not be as connected to ancient Egyptian mythology. It's sometimes a thin line between talking inspiration from other cultures and appropriating them in the most stereotypical ways but that's no excuse for doing some research and treating other cultures with respect . Banu Haqim being focused on justice is an improvement from them being just foreign assassins, but I feel like it still comes from a weird understanding of Islam and its laws and traditions. Ravnos are perhaps the hardest to separate from their cultural "influences" (in quotes because it's one of the worst most basic stereotype of GRT people I've ever seen). Even getting rid of the travelling element that makes the stereotypical association undeniable and keeping them as a sneaky clan ruling from the shadows is just as offensive and backwards.

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[your-fav-is-a-wod-monster]

Hi there! What about Alphonse Elric?

Originally a human boy, Al lost his human body after him and his brother attempted Human Transmutation (alchemy thing where you try to bring back dead people, not really important). His soul is now bonded to a suit of armor through alchemy, which he controls as his new body.

(btw, i really like wod and i think this blog is a super cool idea!)

1. i am so so sorry this took so long. suffice to say ive been having A Week and researching this one was a bit difficult but i am very glad i have time to now

2. thank you!!! im very excited to keep going with this

without further ado;

Subject #002: Alphonse Elric (FMA/FMAB)

Category: Promethean (CofD)

I immediately clocked him as one of my favorite Chronicles of Darkness beasts, the Created. though i had a bit of trouble finding the specific type. i think im happy with what i came up with though

(see explaination below)

Now, Prometheans are HEAVILY tied to alchemy and the idea of transmutation. its literally the name of their powers. Theyre usually made from just about anything, and have the goal of becoming true humans for the most part. All of which seems very integral to Al, as his story revolves around him amd his brother trying to fix their mistake and bring Alphonse back into a human body.

Now the tricky part: What type of Promethean is our good boy Alphonse?

From what ive seen of FMA (and thanks to your explanation, ty), i can make three broad strokes to what exactly he is, with the least likely going into the most likely.

Galatea are very beautiful creations that are made from just about any material, up to and including armors! Though theyre typically created for a more romantic reason, Alphonse is Edward Elrics brother, and that would have a heavy emphasis on love.

Unfleshed are full on Automata, artifical droids or clockwork beings. This personally feels alot less likely for Al, considering hes a suit of armor, but i feel like mechanically (hehehehe) he fits the bill pretty well.

Finally, Osiris are the dead that have been raised. Most prometheans are their own artifical life, created with their own Pyhrros as their soul. Osiris, however, are made with the original being in mind. even though theyre often more fleshy, a suit of armor holding a blood sigil of your dead brother, fits pretty well.

Any of those feel the most likely to me, but i may have gotten some stuff about these fellas wrong. Anyone who knows better about Promethean, correct me in the comments!

[awakenedsalamander]

So you mentioned Forsaken, what do you think of it? What do you think of the rest of the Chronicles of Darkness, and it's fan games?

I like Forsaken a lot! I think it has a really strong focus on its theme, which to my mind is the necessity of action in desperate times— but also the terror and uncertainty that action can bring to everyone involved. That’s a theme in Apocalypse as well, but where I think Apocalypse has a lot themes and looks very broadly at all of them, Forsaken has a honed, laser-focus on just that one and I love it. I also think that Forsaken nails elements of the “werewolf game” that Apocalypse is more experimental with. I like the unconventional spin on werewolf lore of the latter, for sure, but it’s also nice to see a classic monster by moonlight done right, without sacrificing the White Wolf flair.

I also really love the Chronicles of Darkness as a whole! I’ve said in the past to my friends (and in other communities under different screen names) that Mage; The Awakening is a game that I feel was made specifically for a person like me and that Changeling: The Lost deserves far more exposure, because I’m certain huge numbers of people would love it.

In fact, I got into WoD from CofD, if you can believe it! It is my first love, really.

So, obvious question— why don’t I talk about CofD more?

Well, there’s a bunch of reasons, though also: Never say never! It just kinda depends what I feel like doing, I may jump into CofD discussion more as time goes on.

However, CofD’s community is, for better or worse, smaller than WoD’s, and frankly I started this account to meet people and share the hobby, so I was inclined to discuss things relevant to a larger community. That’s the selfish reason.

Additionally, believe it or not, I don’t have as much to say about CofD games, at time of writing. Most of what I would write about it would be gushing about how I love the way Awakening expresses its hidden world of magic, or how Geist has such a great morbid but hopeful mood. It wouldn’t even be analysis or conversation really, just me observing that things are good, and that tends to be less interesting to write and read, I think. CofD games are meant to create stories rich with meaning, but I don’t know if the tools it provides themselves are as immediately rich. That’s the practical reason.

Finally, while I think CofD does have a really good focus on the themes of its games, those games are by definition more limited in scope. This isn’t a bad thing. What it does, though, is make it so if I’m not presently passionate about that thing, like my interests are just elsewhere, it’s harder to latch onto it, whereas WoD games usually have something for everyone, at least to a large extent. I’m just not always in the mood to talk about CofD, even though I like it. That’s the boring reason.

All that said, I love seeing stuff about CofD! This question alone has me happy to think about the World of Darkness’s little brother, and the ways in which it provides a unique but powerful counterpoint to its predecessor. It’s really cool stuff, and I’ll always owe it for getting me deeper into WoD and RPGs as a whole!

(P.S.— I do want to see more people talk about Promethean: The Created, though. Where is all the content for it? It’s a brilliant game, I just don’t know where to start when discussing it! Is everyone else in the same boat or something?)

[terrormokes]

Gretel painting experiment.

[zaolat]

Seriously? That's awful. So this is why I got a "Chronicles of Darkness is dead" video popping up in my recommendeds on Youtube the other day. Another stellar decision from Paradox I see. Ngl I don't like a lot of the 5th edition stuff they've been putting out, I prefer the 20th edition lore and mechanics, even though I've only been here for roughly a year and a half. For many reasons including retcons and oversimplification, but I didn't send you an ask to complain about editions.

I didn't know you were a writer on VtR! I've looked into some of it, but my main source has been the wiki, which is definitely more sparce on CofD. I definitely do intend to look into CofD someday. Maybe I will start with Awakening, given the fact that Ascension is making my brain hurt because it just has so much going on. I think the splats CofD has that have no parallel in WoD are really interesting too, like Geist, Promethean, Deviant, and Beast. I love how they just went wild.

(sending an ask so I don't clog that person's replies) I admittedly don't know much about Mage: The Awakening or Chronicles of Darkness/New World of Darkness in general. Mainly I don't want to get the lore crossed between classic WoD and new WoD/CofD so I'm trying to stick to one canon but dang do the Mage: The Ascension books intimidate me. I've def seen the joke I've seen that you can bludgeon a person to death with how dense the physical sourcebooks are. I know I've talked to you about your Changeling: The Lost tattoo before! Vampire: The Masquerade was my intro, but rn I'm also devouring every Demon: The Fallen book I can get my hands on. I've only been into WoD since roughly July last year

The lore is definitely different, mostly because MtAw has a singular paradigm (which is part of the reason it's less insane-making, tbh).

CofD is probably only going to exist in Storyteller's Vault (that is, non-official) stuff going forward, because Paradox thinks it 'dilutes the brand' or something. And that sucks.

I love MtAw and CtL very much, and VtR was my first professional writing gig, so.

[overexposure-overture]

 Butcher

   "If you spend your time hiding and fretting about who you hurt, you’ll sputter, and you’ll die out as surely as any smothered candle. Don’t be afraid to burn bright."

    Metal Assembly stepped back as the flesh-thing approached. An operator it was not. It's creator it was not. The flesh-thing was wrapped in cloth and plastic, but M.A. was not fooled by this trick. All those moving forms that made such noise were meat. M.A. analyzed the creature, human, and elected to reply.

    "I am dangerous. From my creation as a machine to my birth as my self, I have always been designed to butcher and rend flesh. Going into the world of your kind is only going to cause people pain, as it did my creator..."

    M.A.'s creator laid in ribbons, in piles, in a corner, festering away. The rot of this place was unspeakable. Even the building was a carcass, gutted and torn at. Clouds of flies wandered the abbetoir, and blankets of maggots writhed on meat-forms that once were animals, from raccoons, to pigs, to people. M.A.'s creator was cruel to his fellows of the flesh, but loved, polished, and spoke to M.A. like a child. Told them stories. The flesh creature spoke words M.A. did not understand, and then announced,

    "You have suffered far more than your creator."

"You lie."

M.A. spoke clearly to the thing. It replied,

    "You want to belong. To be real. Give me a moment with you, and you can walk among the living."

"I already can."

    "Not when your scars show themselves. When your anger flares and wells inside you. People see through the magic then. I can make that change, but I don't offer my services for free."

"You would use me."

    "As you are meant to be used. It is a step in fulfilling your purpose. Whem you realize what it means to be a tool, you can begin to learn how not to be."

[ryttu3k]

White Wolf is really interesting because Chronicles of Darkness is honestly super compelling. Beyond the lore being super interesting, it has a very strong "Do not go gentle into that good night" vibe for all the game lines. (My favorite of the gamelines/concepts are Promethean: the Created and Changeling: the Lost. Zeka, my beloved.) (Ironically, I have zero interest in World of Darkness, because I like the lore updates in nWoD/CofD more.)

You know, those who think World of Darkness is all dark and has no happy endings don't factor in Changeling: the Lost. Despite the hell they all go through, and the fear they live in, some of the Changelings manage to find happiness. Heck, the whole game is about holding onto Hope for a brighter tomorrow. (Even the fatalist Changelings of the Dusk Court are about living in the moment, of holding onto the lives they have right now. And if the True Fate do find them, then They Will Not Go Gently.)

Putting these two together. They sound pretty interesting! I can't see myself getting into VtR just because I'm too used to VtM and the two conflicting systems might mess with me too much, but since I haven't got into any other WoD splats, I could probably check out PtC and CtL without two many conflicts.

[theonyxpath]

Next week, we’ll be starting our Kickstarter for the Contagion Chronicle, which is a crossover chronicle featuring all of the game lines for Chronicles of Darkness.

Like all of our Kickstarter campaigns, you’ll be hearing a lot about this in the weeks to come, so I figured that this week, I’ll just go a little into how we came up with the idea to begin with.

We have received, over the years, many requests for crossover rules for the Chronicles of Darkness. Which makes sense, as CofD, unlike its predecessor, the World of Darkness, was created with the idea that all the game lines would have a similar, if not the same, rules set.

I’m not talking about the Storyteller and Storytelling Systems which are the rules for rolling dice, but the individual game line rules sets, like Disciplines, Gifts, cosmology, those sorts of things.

Book of Oblivion illustrated by Drew Tucker

With folks asking for crossover rules and tips, I suggested to our crew here that a crossover book would be something that could also be really helpful in providing new content for game lines that we were putting out less projects for that year.

Pretty much the same thinking as the Dark Eras books.

I wound up talking with Matthew Dawkins at the Vampire convention in New Orleans – the same one where we agreed on the deal for They Came From Beneath the Sea! – and he made the point that a whoppin’ book of pure rules with a bit of advice wouldn’t necessarily be as much fun as a crossover book that featured a setting where those rules and that advice could be seen in action.

This tied in with my thinking on adding default Chronicles to each of the 2nd Edition CofD lines: provide an example that people could either use wholecloth or could take pieces of or just be inspired by for their own Chronicles.

Fun to read, and examples of how a Chronicle could work. So this crossover Chronicle would be the prime example of how to use all the various supernatural character types and their cultures in one big setting match up, usable as written and usable as examples and overall, no matter what, fun to read.

Shunned By The Moon illustration by Brian LeBlanc

Matthew went off and came up with an external threat; something not featured in any of our previous material, but which could be part of any of our CofD game lines. Something that threatened the supernatural world so much that the various denizens would have reasons to ally themselves – no matter how treacherously – to deal with it. And so the Contagion was born.

We’ll bring you more concrete info on the Contagion Chronicle next week; I’m hoping to sit down with Matthew and chat a bit on the highlights of the project, and share that info with you. Meanwhile, here’s the link to the character creation sessions he has been recording (this link is also in a couple of other places on the blog today so you don’t accidentally miss it): https://youtu.be/dFMjit-YTwQ

We’re all really excited by this project as we’ve never really done anything like this before. It’s a discrete Chronicle, but it’s appropriate for all of our CofD game lines, and as a way to illustrate how something can be built that encompasses all of a setting no matter how disjointed, I think it will be handy for other game settings as well.

Signs of Sorcery illustration by Michael Gaydos

I also want to call out last Friday’s Onyx Pathcast where the Titanic Trio take turns “selling” different game lines of ours. It is probably the most energized and fun recording that they’ve done. Something about the timed, short, pitches just seems to bring out the best in the three of them.

In order, these are the ones they hit:

Dixie: Exalted Third Edition

Eddy: Legendlore

Matthew: Promethean: The Created Second Edition

Dixie: Cavaliers of Mars

Eddy: Pugmire

Matthew: Werewolf: The Forsaken Second Edition

Dixie: Geist: The Sin-Eaters Second Edition

Eddy: Trinity Continuum

Matthew: Demon: The Descent

Dixie: Scion Second Edition

So even if you just want to be sold on one line you haven’t been sure about, or that you were curious about, or even if you already love the game but want to hear their take on it, it’s easy to go back and forth until you get to it. Link is here and below in the BLURBS! section: https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

I really like the selection they chose for this batch of pitches, many of which were suggested by our community, and I think it’d be great if they did more in another episode or two. After all, we have:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

KICKSTARTER:

Next week on Tuesday March 26th, we will be starting the Contagion Chronicle Kickstarter at 2pm Eastern US time!

Matthew Dawkins has also started running the Contagion Chronicle for some of the members of his Discord, via Google Hangouts! Follow along to get some sneak peeks of the content coming up in the Contagion Chronicle Kickstarter: https://youtu.be/dFMjit-YTwQ

ONYX PATH MEDIA

Illustration by Michael Gaydos

This Friday’s Onyx Pathcast is an interview with a writer for many, many of our projects and now a first-time developer Chris Allen! https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/

And Here’s More Media About Our Worlds:

This week in Onyx Path News with the ever-present Gentleman Gamer, Matthew Dawkins! https://youtu.be/zFTknuOdHGk

If YOU have a podcast, YouTube or Twitch channel, or talk about games on a blog or other website, and want to perform actual plays or make reviews of our games, please reach out to the Gentleman Gamer on the Onyx Path forum. From there we’ll share emails and get you started, so when you do start producing content we’ll be able to promote it on our blog and YouTube channel!

We’re closing in on the conclusion of Red Moon Roleplaying‘s They Came from Beneath the Sea! actual play! Here’s the most recent episode: https://youtu.be/CeFYwRLtXQk

Matthew Dawkins has also started running the Contagion Chronicle for some of the members of his Discord, via Google Hangouts! Follow along to get some sneak peeks of the content coming up in the Contagion Chronicle Kickstarter: https://youtu.be/dFMjit-YTwQ

We’d be fools not to promote the excellent Devil’s Luck Gaming, as they’ve reached episode four of their Scarred Lands actual play: https://www.twitch.tv/DEVILSLUCKGAMING Their costumes really add to the roleplay!

The Story Told Podcast comes at us with two pieces of media this week! The first is their Wraith: The Oblivion Actual Play here: http://thestorytold.libsyn.com/episode-22-wraith-the-oblivion-actual-play and the second is their Exalted: Dragon-Blooded actual play here: https://thestorytold.libsyn.com/fall-of-jiara-episode-1-session-0

Don’t forget to get in touch with any of your actual plays, interviews, and reviews of our games! We’re always happy to promote them.

Please check any of these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games!

ELECTRONIC GAMING:

As we find ways to enable our community to more easily play our games, the Onyx Dice Rolling App is now live! Our dev team has been doing updates since we launched based on the excellent use-case comments by our community, and this thing is both rolling and rocking!

Here’s an update from the App devs:

Onyx Dice!  We’ve recently released the Changeling: The Lost, Trinity Continuum: Aeon dice, and now the Geist dice.  Next up on our radar is: Demon: The Fallen,  Mummy: The Resurrection,  Kindred of the East, Vampire Dark Ages, and Mummy: The Curse.

We have a serious issue on the Pixel and Motorola phones that prevent the user from using the app correctly.  A fix is coming shortly.  A temporary workaround is to minimize the app without shutting it down, and then restore it.

ON AMAZON AND BARNES & NOBLE:

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

If you enjoy these or any other of our books, please help us by writing reviews on the site of the sales venue you bought it from. Reviews really, really help us with getting folks interested in our amazing fiction!

Our selection includes these fiction books:

OUR SALES PARTNERS:

We’re working with Studio2 to get Pugmire out into stores, as well as to individuals through their online store. You can pick up the traditionally printed main book, the Screen, and the official Pugmire dice through our friends there! https://studio2publishing.com/search?q=pugmire

We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

And you can now order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/manufacturers.php?manufacturerid=296

And available this week! Deluxe Changeling: The Dreaming and Deluxe Beckett’s Jyhad Diary! The additional books we have after the Kickstarter ship-outs are done are now at IPR!

DRIVETHRURPG.COM:

On Sale This Week!

This Wednesday, we’re yipping and purring to offer the Roll of Good Dogs and Excellent Cats, characters for Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau, in PDF and physical book PoD versions on DTRPG!

CONVENTIONS

UK Games Expo: May 31st – June 2nd Gen Con: August 1st – August 4th Save Against Fear: Oct 12-14 GameHoleCon: October 31st – November 3rd We’ll also be back at PAX Unplugged later this year.

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM FAST EDDY WEBB (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 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Geist2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

TC: Aeon Ready Made Characters (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)

TC: Aeon Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Heroic Land Dwellers (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

Wraith20 Fiction Anthology (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Blood Sea Guides for 5e (Scarred Lands)

Redlines

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Chicago Folio/Dossier (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Let The Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scion Ready Made Characters (Scion 2nd Edition)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Distant Worlds (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Development

Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Memento Mori: the GtSE 2e Companion (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Pirates of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Manuscript Approval:

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant core (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

CofD Dark Eras 2 (Chronicles of Darkness)

Editing:

V5 Chicago By Night (Vampire: The Masquerade)

V5 Chicago By Night Screen (Vampire: The Masquerade)

Spilled Blood (Vampire: The Requiem 2nd Edition)

Scion Jumpstart (Scion 2nd Edition)

CofD Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel (Cavaliers of Mars)

Post-Editing Development:

Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Tales of Excellent Cats (Monarchies of Mau)

C20 Novel: Cup of Dreams (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)

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

Indexing:

ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:

In Art Direction

Ex3 Monthly Stuff  

Chicago By Night

Aeon Aexpansion

They Came From Beneath the Sea!

EX3 Lunars

Hunter: The Vigil 2

Shunned By the Moon – Final finals coming in.

Contagion Chronicle – AD’d for KS.

Scion Jumpstart

VtR Spilled Blood – Going over notes.

Marketing Stuff

In Layout

Dystopia Rising: Evolution

Book of Oblivion 

Signs of Sorcery

Proofing

M20: Gods and Monsters – PoD proof ordered.

Adventures for Curious Cats – Waiting on maps.

Trinity Core – Page XXing.

Trinity Aeon – Putting in Mind Meld changes.

Ex3 Dragon Blooded – PoD proofs ordered.

Geist 2e – 2nd Proof.

C20 Player’s Guide – 2nd Proof

In Media Res – Inputting proof corrections.

The Realm – Art is arting, book is proofing.

At Press

Scion Hero – Printing. PoD proof ordered.

Scion Origin – Printing. PoD proof ordered.

Scion Dice – At Studio2.

Scion Screen – At Studio2.

Fetch Quest – At Studio2 prepping for shipping.

Pugmire Roll of Good Dogs and Cats – PDF and PoD versions on sale this Wednesday!

TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE: 

St. Patty’s Day or St. Paddy’s Day! Either way, we just had it Sunday, and while my celebration mostly takes the form of corned beef, cabbage, and green-dyed Birch Beer these days, once upon a time it was the old White Wolf tradition to meet for brunch and line up at the local Irish Pub to get in there as they opened and spend the rest of the day there drinking (or not) and having fun. It was a grand tradition of fellowship, and so here’s to the old gang!