James Bell
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10+ projects backed in 2023
7 months ago
Project Update: August 2025 Monthly Update
Hello Essence Players,
It's the Wednesday before the last Thursday of the month, and may calendar says that's Exalted Update Day.
Nothing major to share this month. We're still in the earliest stages of the Post-Campaign on this one, so a lot of these udpates are going to have minimal or incremental progress. Things move forward, but our poerception often isn't fine-tuned enough to catch all of the little steps. I'll monitor the information Onyx Path shares as best possible, and we'll track on our handy chart!
It's the Wednesday before the last Thursday of the month, and may calendar says that's Exalted Update Day.
Nothing major to share this month. We're still in the earliest stages of the Post-Campaign on this one, so a lot of these udpates are going to have minimal or incremental progress. Things move forward, but our poerception often isn't fine-tuned enough to catch all of the little steps. I'll monitor the information Onyx Path shares as best possible, and we'll track on our handy chart!
Rewards Still Pending
Lots of dots to fill in, but we'll continue to track as projects move slowly to our Distributed list.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
- Exalted: Essence Core Rulebook PDF
- Pillars of Creation PDF
- Tomb of Memory PDF
- Deeds Yet Undone PDF
- Across the Eight Directions PDF
- The Realm PDF
- Heirs to the Shogunate PDF
- Many-Faced Strangers PDF
- Exalted Third Edition Core Rules PDF
- Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought PDF
- Lunars: Fangs at the Gate PDF
- Exigents: Out of the Ashes PDF
- Sidereals: Charting Fate's Course PDF
- Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave Backer PDF
- Alchemicals: Forged by the Machine God Draft Manuscript
- Exalted Music Bundle
- Exalted Fiction Bundle
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for these digital rewards, all backers have received a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page. Again, this isn't a new manuscript, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order.
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://exalted-essence-players-guide.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
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <July 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
Onyx Path Discussion Channels
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
To Contact James
If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods
- 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: Monster Kingdoms
In Monster Kingdoms, you play a creature of darkness. You may be vampiric magus, or feyborn harlequin. You might be a warrior gauntlet, an orc cultist, a druidic elf, or a flame-spitting dragonkin. You can play a wildly creative goblinoid, a chaotic dwarf, a fierce ice elementor, or a shame-filled fiend. Your characters can be anything from hulking dreadnauts to disturbing mentalists, and many Mantles in between.
Name your weapon and make it your sceptre.
Slay a beast and seize its crown.
Build your infamy either as a monster or as a servant of the light. Perform deeds worthy of repute: vanquishing a beast greater than yourself, toppling a lord from his tower and seizing control of his lands and people, or freeing slaves to weaken the Malignant Mind. A character’s infamy is a means of measuring their success in the Monster Kingdoms, whether virtuous or vicious. The only unworthy deeds are the ones no one hears about.
In the chaos of the Monster Kingdoms, now is your time to make a mark and shape the world to your liking.
Monster Kingdoms is a complete tabletop roleplaying game of dark fantasy, where evil is a natural state, adventure boasts horror and violence, and politics are cutthroat. It includes:
- A massive number of playable monstrous characters.
- A dangerous setting encompassing 13 unique, competing kingdoms.
- The entire dynamic Storypath Ultra system.
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