Hi Players,

Are you ready to check out the next chapter, about our friends forged in Autochthonia? It's time for the Alchemical Exalted!

Before we cross the Seal of Eight Divinities, I've got a few quick things to go over.

Yesterday, many members of the Onyx Path team dropped by Reddit to answer your questions about Exalted and other gamelines. Lots of bits and pieces discussed, many attempts to find out about future plans and projects, a great desire for Paradox to approve more Onyx Path book ideas, and other general fun.

You can check out the questions and answers <here>

We're in the middle of the regular Crowdfunding plateau - the long but important stretch between the first and final 48 hour rush. Incremental progress is made during these weeks, but it often feels like slow going compared to the excitement of the big first and final days of a campaign.

Despite those feelings, however, we are still sharing exciting content with chapters coming out multiple times a week, and making progress toward our 8th Stretch Goal.

Please continue to spread the word and let friends in your social circle and gamers on your social media know about this project, and let's see if we can't unlock some Universal Charms before we start our final week!

I'm going to speak against my own self interest for a moment, and repeat something I say at the end of every campaign and will repeat in a few weeks - 2025 has been pretty wild so far, and there's even more uncertainty ahead. Ensure that your circumstances enable you to afford this pledge at this moment - BackerKit begins processing payments the night the campaign ends and neither Onyx Path nor I have any involvement in that process. If you are unsure of your financial situation but don't want to miss out, please pledge for a tier you can afford now and know that you will be able to upgrade to open pledge levels in our post-campaign Pledge Manager for some time before the book is completed. There are no refunds for regret, and the funds raised start being spent immediately on paying for the work done thus far and the additional work ahead plus the projects unlocked via Stretch Goal. So please be financially responsible.

Over the course of these 4 weeks, backers will receive the entire current draft manuscript for Exalted: Essence Player's Guide, but it's not going to come to you all in one go. The previews will come out in Exalt-based sections throughout the campaign. This helps me seem interesting over the the 28 day campaign, but it's more about guiding the conversation and helping steer feedback for the developers.

Because they want your feedback! These manuscript previews are of the current draft manuscript – the document in its latest, approved form. This may not be the final form after editing and any additional development, but you can consider it about 95% finished, so keep that in mind.

In fact, you can help guide the team through the next stages of development by providing feedback on these manuscript previews! The Onyx Path team has set up a special Feedback Form just for campaign backers for this very purpose: https://forms.gle/sqmxdW6u87pT3Mhg8

You can use this Feedback Form to share your thoughts directly with the Exalted: Essence creative team to help guide them through the next rounds of development and editing.

Remember, thanks to BackerKit magic, these download links are visible to Backers only - you must be logged in and reading this on the website to have access to the manuscript preview links. So, if you're reading this via e-mail, click that "Learn More" link on the bottom and I'll see you below the Exalted emblem.