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Project Update: June 2025 Monthly Update
It's the Wednesday before the last Thursday of the month, and the stars say that's Exalted Update Day.
Rewards Still Pending
Preliminary Art Direction has begun on our main reward!
Rewards Distributed to Backers
- Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God Draft Manuscript
- Exalted Third Edition Core Rules PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exigents: Out of the Ashes PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Draft Manuscript
- Exalted: Essence PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Many-Faced Strangers PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Across the Eight Directions PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Crucible of Legend PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Arms of the Chosen PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- The Realm PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exalted Music Bundle
- Exalted Fiction Bundle
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Backer PDF
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- BackerKit How-To: Claiming Your Digital Rewards <Download PDF Here>
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- Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
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Pugmire Unleashed: A Player’s Guide is a supplement for the Realms of Pugmire tabletop RPG. Pugmire Unleashed is primarily a book for players who are interested in new options for their games. Inside you’ll find not only more options for dog player characters, more advice on how to play dogs, and more information about dog communities beyond the kingdom of Pugmire. You’ll also find more species to play: badgers, birds, lagomorphs, and reptiles.
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Project Update: May 2025 Monthly Update
It's the Wednesday before the final Thursday of the month, and that's my cue to have an Exalted Updated Day. First up, let's see what irons the Onyx Path team have in the fire...
Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention 2025 is just around the corner! As they enter the final weeks of preparation, the schedule is settling in. Some panels and actual plays needed minor tweaks, which is normal for this stage of the game. People’s availability shifts and schedule issues bubble up, but so far they’ve been able to roll with the punches pretty easily and are on track for a smooth, fun, and informative show!
They’re also getting games for attendees to play ramped up via Startplaying.games. There are already a few games set up, and your encouraged to consider setting one up yourself, if you like running games! It’s a great opportunity to try out games you might not otherwise get the chance to, meet new players, and make a few bucks. Onyx Path's partners at Envoy who run convention games for them will also be running games via Startplaying.games and those entries will be showing up very soon at https://startplaying.games/event/onyx-path-2025!
- The Exalted Panel on Saturday June 7 at 4:00 PM EDT
- What's Up with Onyx Path on Sunday June 8 at 12:30 PM EDT
Rewards Still Pending
No big changes since last month, incremental progress behind the scenes.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
- Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God Draft Manuscript
- Exalted Third Edition Core Rules PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exigents: Out of the Ashes PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Draft Manuscript
- Exalted: Essence PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Many-Faced Strangers PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Across the Eight Directions PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Crucible of Legend PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Arms of the Chosen PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- The Realm PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exalted Music Bundle
- Exalted Fiction Bundle
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://alchemicals.backerkit.com/
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- Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
- Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
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Project Update: April 2025 Monthly Update
It's the Wednesday before the final Thursday of the month, and that's my cue to have an Exalted Updated Day.
Rewards Still Pending
Our Alchemicals manuscript has moved to post-Editing development, with the team putting the final touches on the manuscript using the feedback you provided during the campaign as their guide posts.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
- Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God Draft Manuscript
- Exalted Third Edition Core Rules PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exigents: Out of the Ashes PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Draft Manuscript
- Exalted: Essence PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Many-Faced Strangers PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Across the Eight Directions PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Crucible of Legend PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Arms of the Chosen PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- The Realm PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exalted Music Bundle
- Exalted Fiction Bundle
As detailed in our January update, the existing Add On rewards have gone out to backers. If you added any of these on to your Rewards List and haven't yet claimed them, you can find redemption codes in your Digital Rewards page on your Pledge Manager
.If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://alchemicals.backerkit.com/
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- Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
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FINAL 24 HOURS TO JOIN IN
If you're interested in a streamlined version of the Exalted Third Edition ruleset, one that uses all of the Lore and setting you already know but a simpler (but not simple) system, now is a great time to check out the latest Exalted: Essence project. You can support the Player's Guide and grab the Exalted: Essence Core Rulebook while you're at it. With just over 24 hours to go, the finish line is in sight!
Exalted: Essence Player's Guide
The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide is a book chock full of player-facing content. Within, we’ll walk you through how to think about playing your character, what kind of person they might shape up to be, and how to consider their strengths and weaknesses as well as Intimacies and Virtues. Beyond advice for roleplaying, each chapter also contains dozens of new Charms for characters to take, shaping the outcome of your campaigns.
Unlike other Exalted books, this does not contain any new setting material. It’s all about your character and your campaigns. Most books also speak directly to the Storyteller, assuming they’re the person who does most of the reading. Not so here! If you’re a player in a game of Exalted, this book is for you. You don’t have to read the whole thing cover to cover, but the section that applies to your character has so much there for you.
Learn what it means to be Exalted.
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Project Update: March 2025 Monthly Update
It's the Wednesday before the final Thursday of the month, and that's my cue to have an Exalted Updated Day.
As a reminder, I'll send these updates out every month to let you know where we sit. We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, where projects make incremental movements along the progress path. A lot of months will be pretty similar, just a quick note to let you know that the Onyx Path team is still working on it. Any time we have a new reward or something of interest to share, I'll include that as well.
Rewards Still Pending
Our main book is currently in the editing phase, before it'll go to one final round of development. The team is using your feedback submissions from the crowdfunding campaign as guidance.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
- Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God Draft Manuscript
- Exalted Third Edition Core Rules PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exigents: Out of the Ashes PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Draft Manuscript
- Exalted: Essence PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Many-Faced Strangers PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Across the Eight Directions PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Crucible of Legend PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Arms of the Chosen PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- The Realm PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exalted Music Bundle
- Exalted Fiction Bundle
As detailed in our January update, the existing Add On rewards have gone out to backers. If you added any of these on to your Rewards List and haven't yet claimed them, you can find redemption codes in your Digital Rewards page on your Pledge Manager.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://alchemicals.backerkit.com/
- BackerKit How-To: Reviewing and Updating Your Information <Download PDF Here>
- BackerKit How-To: Claiming Your Digital Rewards <Download PDF Here>
Onyx Path Project Tracking
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To Contact James
- Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
- Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.
Launching Tomorrow
The Exalted: Essence Player’s Guide is a book chock full of player-facing content. Within, we’ll walk you through how to think about playing your character, what kind of person they might shape up to be, and how to consider their strengths and weaknesses as well as Intimacies and Virtues. Beyond advice for roleplaying, each chapter also contains dozens of new Charms for characters to take, shaping the outcome of your campaigns.
Learn what it means to be Exalted.
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Project Update: February 2025 Monthly Update
Welcome to our first regular monthly update. At this time, I've earmarked the Wednesday before the last Thursday of each month as Exalted update day, just to keep me on my toes.
As a reminder, I'll send these updates out every month to let you know where we sit. We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, where projects make incremental movements along the progress path. A lot of months will be pretty similar, just a quick note to let you know that the Onyx Path team is still working on it. Any time we have a new reward or something of interest to share, I'll include that as well.
Each month, I'll list our "Pending" rewards and our "Delivered" rewards. We'll track the project status of our pending rewards by filling in the stage dots, and I'll note which update (and include a link) with each delivered reward, in case you want to go back and re-read the relevant update for more information. If any of these rewards were on your pledge list, you can access download codes in your BackerKit Digital Rewards page. And once they've been added to your DriveThruRPG library, you can access them through your DTRPG digital library at any time.
Let's dive in!
Rewards Still Pending
Much like spending XP, we'll fill in dots as the Onyx Path team makes progress on the projects we funded. Right now, our main reward is currently in editing - the draft manuscript is being finalized based on the feedback you provided during the campaign. Then it'll go to one final round of development and the art side of the process can begin. We'll note the progress each month in an updated chart.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
- Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God Draft Manuscript
- Exalted Third Edition Core Rules PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exigents: Out of the Ashes PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Draft Manuscript
- Exalted: Essence PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Many-Faced Strangers PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Across the Eight Directions PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Crucible of Legend PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Arms of the Chosen PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- The Realm PDF + Discounted PoD Codes
- Exalted Music Bundle
- Exalted Fiction Bundle
As detailed in our last update, the existing Add On rewards have gone out to backers. If you added any of these on to your Rewards List and haven't yet claimed them, you can find redemption codes in your Digital Rewards page on your Pledge Manager.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://alchemicals.backerkit.com/
- BackerKit How-To: Reviewing and Updating Your Information <Download PDF Here>
- BackerKit How-To: Claiming Your Digital Rewards <Download PDF Here>
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
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FINAL DAY
In Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars, your player characters are the crewmembers of a war rig, venturing into battles against people from far off countries, aligned to ideals different than their own, and trying to preserve their peace, their way of life, or their rich deposits of a new, bizarre energy source: condensed coal. Your characters — the crewmembers of these war rigs — are as likely to be enlisted crooks as they are commissioned officers; gung-ho patriots as common as conscripted people from the imperial powers’ colonies. They fight because they have to. But in the fear and fog of battle, bonds form, friendships and rivalries grow, and legends are made.
Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars takes place outside the Trinity Continuum's "Alpha" timeline -- the worlds explored from Aegis to Æon -- taking place in a parallel reality, setting the stage for new adventures and discoveries.
- A complete setting based on the acclaimed graphic novel Steam Wars with writing by Larry Blamire®.
- Detailed rules on piloting, managing, and fighting massive coal-powered giant robots in a parallel 19th century.
- Six different roles you can perform on a steam rig, along with more than half a dozen Alliances involving in the Second Steam War that you can fight, ally with, or sabotage.
- Storyguide advice, secrets, hooks, and plots, to enable you to start your game of Trinity Continuum: Steam Wars