June Beckett's Jyhad Update
over 8 years ago
– Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 08:49:59 AM
Hello V20 Beckett's Jyhad Diary Backers!
RichT here:
Here's the Update on the continuing Stretch Goal and other V20 projects from our weekly progress updates in my Monday Meeting Notes blog on www.theonyxpath.com. Please check this weekly list out or join our Onyx Path Mailing List (sign up on the right side of the page on our website) to get the blog sent to you, if you have questions as to the status of projects.
Editing:
• V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
Art Direction:
• Beckett’s Jyhad Diary
• V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition) - yes, it's in two places.
In Layout/Proofing:
• Prince's Gambit card game (Vampire: the Masquerade) - Clan cards went out for playtest. BackerKit site is up.
Thanks!
Follow-up About Beckett's Content
almost 9 years ago
– Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:28:41 PM
Hello Deluxe Beckett's Jyhad Diary Backers!
RichT here:
Based on yesterday's Backer Update, some backers had concerns about the content for the book. Rather than try and explain myself just what has changed or not, I give you these three notes from the devs themselves, since they are the people who both wrote and developed the original writing, and worked with the new White Wolf to integrate their extra stuff:
From Mighty Matt McElroy, Onyx's Operations Manager and developer/writer of a fair number of V20 books:
I did some early development consulting (mostly lore gathering and advising) on BJD and of course became the Operations Manager for Onyx Path during the project's development progress. I was at WoD: Berlin when the book was promoted and discussed.
It is very much a V20 book like it always has been. Beckett (and friends) exploring the metaplot and secrets of the world of Vampire: the Masquerade. It examines years of material from across the editions, offers up twists and turns on plots, plans, and histories. It is filled with unreliable narrators and gives Storytellers tons of potential chronicle ideas. It is one of our best books to date.
The advice from WW included a few minor easter eggs, suggestions on some metaplot hooks, and they asked some questions about passages that were unclear in the text. As much as they enjoy the book (and they have enthusiastically endorsed it) it is still an Onyx Path Publishing production.
V5 will have advanced the metaplot a bit, bringing it to "tonight" and BJD covers much of what came before the new book takes the setting to now.
From Matthew Dawkins, V20 writer and developer:
As one of the developers and writers of the book, and the guy responsible for integrating and adapting any of White Wolf's proposed changes, I can confirm the book has barely shifted from our original vision but for easter eggs leading into V5. That's it. No alarm is required.
From Neall Raemonn Price, BJD writer and developer:
What Dawkins said.
For those who don't know me, I'm Neall Price. I developed Beckett's Jyhad Diary with Matthew Dawkins. I wrote the outline and detailed the general structure of the book, did the redlines for the authors, and hired Matt to do a lot of the heavy writing; when I became Scion developer, Matt came onboard to assist me and finish out the book. He did an exceptional job.
We worked out asses off on this book. We hired people who worked for White Wolf - the first incarnation - going all the way back to second edition. We hired people who had been on Revised. We consulted with people who'd written for 1e. While it was written for V20, and thus somewhat metaplot-agnostic, we did our best to address all the lingering threads of the metaplot from Revised and craft them into a form you could play at your table with the greatest respect to the players. All that White Wolf AB required us to do was put in some Easter Eggs and clarify a few points here and there.
I'm pretty happy that our book and labor of love to Masquerade's metaplot is going to be used as the basis for an entirely new series of stories.
Hope this helps clarify how this process between the new White Wolf, our licensors and owners of all of the World of Darkness, every edition, and our own Onyx Path creative team actually worked.
Thanks!
May Beckett's Update
almost 9 years ago
– Thu, May 25, 2017 at 02:44:48 PM
Hello V20 Beckett's Jyhad Diary Backers!
RichT here:
First off, if you have been keeping up on Vampire: the Masquerade news, you might have seen that there was a big convention in Berlin a few weeks ago. Beckett's Jyhad Diary got huge shout-outs from the gang at the new White Wolf, and they revealed that we have been working with them to make BJD not only the book we've been talking about with this Kickstarter, but also a book which bridges earlier editions and V5, the edition they are working on right now!
Which is something we are both proud of, and apologetic to all of you for. The added time required to make BJD the book it is now has pushed us into and past the estimated dates, and we are sorry that has happened. As you'll see below, we are getting art for those extra bits, and the layout has to be done once we get the art in, so we're not going to be able to deliver the links for the Backer PDF in June. We'll be pushing to make it not much longer than that, but right now I'd rather not estimate and be proven wrong.
Now, here's an Update on the continuing Stretch Goal and other V20 projects on our weekly progress updates in my Monday Meeting Notes blog on www.theonyxpath.com. Please check this weekly list out or join our Onyx Path Mailing List (sign up on the right side of the page on our website) to get the blog sent to you, if you have questions as to the status of projects.
Second Draft:
• V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
Art Direction
• Beckett’s Jyhad Diary
• V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition) - yes, it's in two places.
In Layout/Proofing
• Prince's Gambit card game (Vampire: the Masquerade) - Putting together new clan cards for playtest.
On Sale
• V20 Dark Ages Companion – (Not a Stretch Goal) Advance PDF available on DTRPG: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/211504/V20-Dark-Ages-Companion
Now on Kickstarter: Monarchies of Mau!
Just to let you know that Onyx Path with our friends at Pugsteady, are running a Kickstarter right now for Monarchies of Mau, the companion game for Pugmire. In Monarchies of Mau, you play uplifted cats that live in the ashes of our world far in the future, seeking danger and mystery. Think Three Musketeers meets Planet of the Apes, but with cats.
These cats have been uplifted to use technology and language. Some cats acquire the remnants of human technology, believing them to be literal gifts of magic from ancient, god-like servants. Others seek to create an ideal civilization, using the Precepts of Mau agreed to in the heat of a terrible war.
If this sounds interesting, you can check it out here, and backers can download an Early Access version that contains enough rules to get started playing immediately: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/monarchies-of-mau-fantasy-tabletop-rpg
Thanks!
April Beckett Update
almost 9 years ago
– Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:47:31 PM
Hello V20 Beckett's Jyhad Diary backers!
RichT here:
Here is this week's Progress List from the Monday Meeting Notes Blog on www.theonyxpath.com:
Second Draft
V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)
ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:
In Art Direction
Beckett’s Jyhad Diary – Waiting on the last of Mark’s half page pieces.
Proofing
V20 Dark Ages Companion – Adjusted as per WWP's notes.
At Press
Beckett Screen – Shipped to shipper.
V20 Lore of the Bloodlines – PoD and PDF versions went on sale Weds on DTRPG.
As noted above, V20 Lore of the Bloodlines is now available in PDF and physical book PoD versions on DriveThruRPG.com:
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/207392/V20-Lore-of-the-Bloodlines
Thanks!
March Beckett Update
almost 9 years ago
– Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 03:24:55 PM
Hello V20 Beckett's Jyhad Diary Backers!
RichT here:
Here's an Update on the continuing Stretch Goal and other V20 books on our weekly progress updates in my Monday Meeting Notes Blog on www.theonyxpath.com. Please check this weekly list out or join our Onyx Path Mailing List (sign up on the right side of the page on our website) to get the blog sent to you, if you have questions as to the status of projects.
Second Draft:
• V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition)
Art Direction
• Beckett’s Jyhad Diary – Got some sketches from Sam, finals from Tucker, and a couple more finals from Mark.
In Layout/Proofing
• V20 Dark Ages Companion – Recontracting two half page pieces of art. Layout is about a third of the way done.
• V20 Lore of the Bloodlines (Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition) - Backer PDF out to backers!
Now on Kickstarter: Prince's Gambit!
From the Kickstarter site: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/200664283/princes-gambit-casual-vampire-card-game
What is this game?
Prince's Gambit is a casual card game where each player is a vampire called to the court of the vampiric Prince of the city. Players must cooperate to gain the favor of the Prince while deducing who among them are secretly the traitorous Sabbat infiltrators.
What's cool about it?
Designed by long-time Vampire: the Masquerade tabletop RPG developer Justin Achilli, Prince's Gambit is a fast-paced social deduction game set within the world of Vampire, but which requires no special knowledge to play. Neophytes and experienced fans of Vampire both can jump right in.
Why Kickstarter?
While Onyx Path Publishing has done and paid for all the work to create the PDF and the Print on Demand physical versions, we're hoping that Kickstarter pledges will enable us to have a traditionally printed version manufactured. Then, we're hoping that we'll be able to add additional cards and illustrations to the deck by way of Stretch Goals, to really make the game shine!
Right now we are funded and moving through Stretch Goals that add more art and the Independent Clans to the card set!
Thanks!
