I should have provided a full stack trace. Silly me!
[no project] Desktop $ new-project --named example2
? Use [/Users/lb3/Desktop/example2] as project directory? [Y/n]
Wrote /Users/lb3/Desktop/example2
Wrote /Users/lb3/Desktop/example2/pom.xml
Wrote /Users/lb3/Desktop/example2/src/main/java
Wrote /Users/lb3/Desktop/example2/src/test/java
Wrote /Users/lb3/Desktop/example2/src/main/resources
Wrote /Users/lb3/Desktop/example2/src/test/resources
***ERROR*** Exception encountered: (type "set VERBOSE false" to disable stack traces)
org.jboss.weld.context.ContextNotActiveException: WELD-001303 No active contexts for scope type org.jboss.forge.shell.project.ProjectScoped
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.getContext(BeanManagerImpl.java:667)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.ContextBeanInstance.getInstance(ContextBeanInstance.java:77)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.ProxyMethodHandler.invoke(ProxyMethodHandler.java:87)
at org.jboss.as.forge.ProjectConfiguration$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.getJbossHome(ProjectConfiguration$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.java)
at org.jboss.as.forge.AS7ServerFacet.isInstalled(AS7ServerFacet.java:92)
at org.jboss.forge.project.BaseProject.registerFacet(BaseProject.java:153)
at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerSingleFacet(ProjectFactory.java:208)
at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerSingleFacet(ProjectFactory.java:186)
at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.registerFacets(ProjectFactory.java:178)
at org.jboss.forge.project.services.ProjectFactory.createProject(ProjectFactory.java:146)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.plugins.builtin.NewProjectPlugin.create(NewProjectPlugin.java:205)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.command.Execution.perform(Execution.java:141)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.command.fshparser.FSHRuntime.run(FSHRuntime.java:109)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.command.fshparser.FSHRuntime.run(FSHRuntime.java:47)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl$ExecutorThread.run(ShellImpl.java:789)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl.execute(ShellImpl.java:812)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl.doShell(ShellImpl.java:602)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.AbstractBeanInstance.invoke(AbstractBeanInstance.java:48)
at org.jboss.weld.bean.proxy.ProxyMethodHandler.invoke(ProxyMethodHandler.java:125)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.ShellImpl$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.doShell(ShellImpl$Proxy$_$$_WeldClientProxy.java)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflections$13.work(SecureReflections.java:305)
at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflectionAccess.run(SecureReflectionAccess.java:54)
at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflectionAccess.runAsInvocation(SecureReflectionAccess.java:163)
at org.jboss.weld.util.reflection.SecureReflections.invoke(SecureReflections.java:299)
at org.jboss.weld.introspector.jlr.WeldMethodImpl.invokeOnInstance(WeldMethodImpl.java:188)
at org.jboss.weld.introspector.ForwardingWeldMethod.invokeOnInstance(ForwardingWeldMethod.java:59)
at org.jboss.weld.injection.MethodInjectionPoint.invokeOnInstanceWithSpecialValue(MethodInjectionPoint.java:198)
at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:282)
at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.sendEvent(ObserverMethodImpl.java:265)
at org.jboss.weld.event.ObserverMethodImpl.notify(ObserverMethodImpl.java:234)
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.notifyObservers(BeanManagerImpl.java:635)
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.fireEvent(BeanManagerImpl.java:622)
at org.jboss.weld.manager.BeanManagerImpl.fireEvent(BeanManagerImpl.java:616)
at org.jboss.forge.shell.Bootstrap$1.run(Bootstrap.java:172)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)