The State of the Chronicles of Darkness

[tragedyjones]

http://theonyxpath.com/we-can-make-the-world-stop-adamantine-arrow-mage-the-awakening/

Update on the Mage Orders, as well as two neat little merits. While "Fast Spells" may be a bit powerful, anything that makes the game focus more on lightningbolts than bullets is cool.

[silentsophia]

A part of me is kinda torn. A butterfly internet fairy would be cool as all hell, but I'd get written off so, so fast. People have ruined special concepts.

[Thenomain]

Oh my lord:

• Portray the Pentacle as an Alliance
• Show the Orders as mystery cults

Hello Mage. Nice to meet you again.

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What, did someone forget to post when the Wizened alpha write-up came out? Hello again, Nockers! I have missed you too.

[Insomnia]

@Thenomain said:
Hello again, Nockers! I have missed you too.

Quoted for later so it can be taken completely out of context.

[tragedyjones]

I've been slacking as hell (and also not a huge Mage buff)

• Mysterium Preview: http://theonyxpath.com/endless-wonder-mysterium-mage-the-awakening/

• Silver Ladder Preview: http://theonyxpath.com/my-body-is-a-cage-silver-ladder-mage-the-awakening/

• Seers of the Throne Preview: http://theonyxpath.com/everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-seers-of-the-throne-mage-the-awakening/

Other News: nWoD 2nd Edition is in Editing, Beast is in Layout

[Derp]

@tragedyjones

Arrow: http://theonyxpath.com/we-can-make-the-world-stop-adamantine-arrow-mage-the-awakening/

Free Council: http://theonyxpath.com/new-order/

Guardians: http://theonyxpath.com/a-beautiful-crime-guardians-of-the-veil-mage-the-awakening/

[Arkandel]

Oh. My. Gawd.

https://plus.google.com/+BrycePerry/posts/ga2xnRi7a7p

Vampire: the Masquarade 4th Edition.

[Bobotron]

@Arkandel
So they're abandoning the metaplot-agnostic V20. Meh.

[The Tree of Woe]

As long as they abandon the absolute derp-track they've been on in the supplements they've been putting out for it too, let's do this thing.

[The Tree of Woe]

What this speaks of, more or less, is that there's meddling on the executive level.

CCP didn't want to fully commit to NWoD 2nd edition until they saw that buyers were receptive. So they published products that were emphatically NOT a new edition (wink wink) and when the reception was positive, green light.

The responses to the new LARP book and the metaplot advancement in it were positive, so new edition folding them in? Sure shootin'.

I kind of feel bad for the Onyx Path writers. CCP is an insanely libertardian company and by all accounts it'd be absolute shit to have them for bosses.

[Bobotron]

@The-Tree-of-Woe
Makes sense. I'm not a great fan of some of the new LARP metaplot (Cam believes and preaches Antediluvians are beneficient and loving fathers/mothers?), but others have great potential (the Independent Alliance of the Giovanni and Setites). I would bet that V4 doesn't end up using the exact same thing though.

[tragedyjones]

Updated the Opening Post with information from Gencon 2015 and new releases.

[Derp]

You forgot the mage supplements, Signs of Sorcery and Guide to the Pentacle, or whatever the last one is called. It's a clabbook style investigation book about how the Pentacle was formed, how it interacts, etc.

[tragedyjones]

Thanks @Derp. I am not the poster MSB deserves

[Thenomain]

@tragedyjones said:

Thanks @Derp. I am not the poster MSB deserves

But you are the poster that MSB gets.

[tragedyjones]

Updates:

A new Brochure:

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/153331/Onyx-Path-20152016-Publishing-Brochure

Here are the listed titles, by gameline:

World of Darkness 2nd Edition

• Hurt Locker
• Dark Eras

Vampire the Requiem 2nd Edition Featuring the Strix Chronicles

• Secrets of the Covenants
• A Thousand Years of Night
• Half Damned

Werewolf: the Forsaken 2nd Edition Featuring the Idigam Chronicles

• The Pack
• Secrets of The Tribes

Mage: the Awakening 2nd Edition Featuring the Fallen World Chronicles

• Signs of Sorcery
• Tome of the Pentacle

Promethean: the Created 2nd Edition Featuring the Firestorm Chronicles

Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition Featuring the Huntsmen Chronicles

Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition Featuring the Slasher Chronicles

Demon: the Descent

Beast: the Primordial

• Beast Player's Guide
• Beast Storyteller's Guide

[Tempest]

What is Dark Eras? What are those 2nd/3rd VtR books?

What are the things, TJ!? Tell me!

ETA : Thanks for the PM and link to the earlier post explaining, TJ.

[tragedyjones]

Little information on Samurai-Style Hunter the Vigil:

http://theonyxpath.com/edo-jidai-hunter-compacts-and-conspiracies-for-dark-eras/

[Tempest]

@tragedyjones when are Changeling and Mage supposed to come out?

[Derp]

@Tempest

Mage was originally slated for... well, now, I think. Changeling, who knows?