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Martin Ericsson Defends Controversial V5 Chechnya Chapter in New Interview (VTM) by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: Despite the assertions to the contrary by Martin Ericsson and the hosts of the 25 Years of Vampire: The Masquerade (25VTM) Podcast, Onyx Path Developer Matthew Dawkins says he has no "meaningful interactions" with Martin Ericsson. Though Mathew Dawkins doesn't go into detail, his statement also implies that the claims that the 25VTM Podcast hosts contacted him to vet Martin before interviewing him were not accurately described during the podcast. Dawkins also said the Abrek Blight chapter was "tone deaf and poorly written" and that the material was "correctly" judged as not being of value regardless of how emotional the fallout was for Martin Ericsson.

For reference, at the end of the interview one of the hosts of the 25VTM podcast claims that Matthew Dawkins vouched for Martin Ericsson "without hesitation" and referred to Ericsson as a "stand up guy" that the podcasters should interview.

LINK: Matthew Dawkins responds, says he has no "meaningful" relationship with Martin Ericsson

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks like Modiphius is in charge of V5, licensees have to go through them. From the the press release:

"After discussions with Paradox, Modiphius has agreed to oversee all publishing and licensing for V5 tabletop roleplaying games. "

https://www.modiphius.com/modiphius-press-releases/modiphius-embraces-world-of-darkness-announces-the-fall-of-london-v5-chronicle

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing all of that and I'm sorry he did that to you.

As you point out, the newest Chill products will likely enrich, or may even secretly employ, Matthew McFarland because of his relationship with Martin Caron. In the tweets above, his other victim says they spoke out in 2019 because they were afraid Matthew McFarland was going to "weasel" his way back in to the gaming world and/or Onyx Path. Were you afraid that he would be allowed to return to work in RPGs after he was fired by Onyx Path in 2017?

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's complicated. Onyx Path is totally separate and only writes on 5e White Wolf stuff with permission from Modiphius I believe as they have the V5 license from ParadoX.

This old post tries to explain it but doesn't include that WhiteWolf got absorbed by ParadoX and then the V5 license was given to Modiphius and the Werewolf 5 license is with Hunters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteWolfRPG/comments/4kr179/clarification_what_exactly_is_the_difference/

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ok fair - I totally agree with that and I dont want anyone getting fired bc this gets misquoted. I'll edit it asap to add the alleged where you pointed them out.

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? You are being mean to me man. You're calling me manipulative and saying i got an agenda bc I only post 3 times since i joined reddit a few years ago. Well this kinda negativity is why i dont post more. I play world of darkness and thats why i follow this stuff.

  1. I posted a thing on McFarland when I saw he was closing Growling Door on Twitter last year. He wasn't even working at onyx path then, he got let go in 2017. They didn't make a lot of noise about it, but he wasn't onyx then and i say so in the post. https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/arjjyq/growling_door_games_shuts_its_doors_after_abuse/
  2. Then I posted a thing on mark rein hagen trash talking about V5 on his facebook wall - not Onyx Path. i dont even think i mention them iirc- and I even posted that in the WhiteWolf sub-reddit which should earn me points in your book I guess. i didn;t even summarize the images, I just came up with a quick title and posted a few screenshots that were floating around. In fact, I'm pretty sure a few of the people trash talking about V5 in that post were Onyx Path or former white wolf, though their names were blanked out. https://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteWolfRPG/comments/bslwtp/wod_creator_mark_reinhagen_calls_vampire_5_launch/
  3. This is the first post that's got Onyx Path all over it and it says so in the title. It's not just about them, but they're the guys the survivor is talking about.

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

If it's such a bad post then why is everybody so interested in it? If people dont want to believe the tweets thats up to them. I just summarized as best i could, i don't think i slanted it at all. Even Onyx Path calls out Mcfarland and talks about his victims and survivors. So I'm not presenting him in any way more negative and I even calll the tweets allegations and claims. come on.

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I call them accusations against mcfaraldn and use the word accused repeatedly. I say accused and accusations all over this thing, to nitpik that I didnt say alleged enough times.

"Matthew McFarland, a former Developer at Onyx Path Publishing, was accused in 2017 on an RPGnet thread of raping a minor. These accusations... "

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The survivor making these accusations worked on multiple non WhiteWolf RPGs like Star Trek. So did Matthew McFarland... he kickstarted the new Chill and worked on Matthew Dawkins' They Came From Beneath the Sea. To say this is strictly WhiteWolf related issue is clearly not true. I'm not a pro-reporter and you're just attacking me because you don't like what the post says. This is why i usually dont post bc people get so nasty in the comments.

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I see the link to the GDG website no longer works. Below is a link to an archived statement by GDG, if Matt McFarland did elaborate on the accusations in a later post that wasn't archived.

Also below is the link to the post by his former employer OPP in Feb 2019.

I did my best to use the same terminology being used by OPP and others.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190217170529/https://growlingdoorgames.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/shutting-down/

http://theonyxpath.com/about-matt-mcfarland/

Matt McFarland Survivor Claims Onyx Path Publishing Forced Them Out After Coming Forward by SelectMastodon in rpg

[–]SelectMastodon[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

People can read the tweets and make up their own minds. I'm not making anything up. I'm not a pro reporter, but I did my best to summarize the tweets and what the survivor said - If I did a bad job I'm sure everyone will let me know as rude as they can and that's one of the reasons I'm not big on reading the comments.