The 2025 edition of the Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention was a fun time! If you missed it, they're starting to post videos of their panels and Actual Plays on Youtube, and you can now watch the <Onyx Path Con 2025 Scion Panel>where Hiromi Cota, Coyote Crow, Kim Godwin, Geoffrey M, Kyle Novich, and T.J. Wilson discuss what's to come for Scion Second Edition!
Lockdown and Projected Delivery Schedule
While the world is pretty chaotic and unpredictable, the good news is that the books are printing, and will exist soon. But they'll take a few months to get to the warehouse of our fulfillment partners, Studio 2.
Since there are a lot of moving parts, we're going to give ourselves a solid schedule that will allow me to get things sorted and keep us moving at a reasonable pace. As a reminder, we will be charging shipping before these orders go out, so I want to ensure everyone has time to review their reward selection and shipping costs before we lockdown and process any orders.
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://scion-god.backerkit.com
JUNE 20 - ORDER LOCKDOWN - In 2 days, the BackerKit Pledge Manager will send out a final call for any ORDER ADJUSTMENTS. You will be given a link to review your order and a 48 HOUR NOTICE. After that time, orders will LOCKDOWN as they appear in the Pledge Manager.
JULY 11 - SHIPPING CHARGES - In just over 3 weeks, the BackerKit team will send one more reminder about the PENDING SHIPPING CHARGES so that you will have advance notice before payment processing. You will be able to see your shipping costs in your Order Review, but we want to ensure that we send one more reminder before any payments are processed.
JULY 15 - PAYMENT PROCESSING - Now that orders and shipping costs have been reviewed and confirmed, the BackerKit Pledge Manager will begin PROCESSING PAYMENTS for any ADD ON OPTIONS SELECTED IN THE PLEDGE MANAGER and all SHIPPING CHARGES for your order.
JULY 29 - ADDRESS CONFIRMATION - Two weeks after we process payments for shipping charges, the BackerKit Pledge Manager will send out a 48 HOUR NOTICE to CONFIRM YOUR DELIVERY ADDRESS. You'll be able to review the information in the system and have a link to adjust the address if needed.
AUGUST 5 - FULFILLMENT INFO - A bit more than one week after address confirmations, I will pass all of this information over to Onyx Path's fulfillment partner, Studio 2, will -hopefully- be able to begin fulfillment prep for your orders to ship out in August/September.
COMMUNICATION + NEXT STEPS
Review your order and shipping charges. You can request your survey link under "Lost your survey?" at https://scion-god.backerkit.com
Look for the 48 hour Order Lockdown notice e-mailed from BackerKit on Jun 20.
Look for the Pending Shipping Charges notice e-mailed from BackerKit on July 11.
A campaign update will be posted reminding everyone about the Pending Shipping Charges.
Prepare for Payment Processing on July 15.
A campaign update will be posted reminding everyone of the Lockdown process and confirming which steps we've completed. A reminder for Address Confirmation will be included.
Look for the 48 hour Address Confirmation notice e-mailed from BackerKit on July 29.
A campaign update once orders are shipping, detailing how to retrieve the tracking number for your shipment.
Again, it may seem like a lot of work and a lot of time, but it's really just about reviewing information and making sure that everything's correct so we can get these orders out and delivered to you as smoothly as possible.
IF YOUR ADDRESS IS CHANGING IN August or September
If your shipping location will be changing during the August/September timeframe, please contact me at Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com. I will unlock your order and we'll hold off processing it until you're at your new location. If you have your new address and the effective date, let me know that too and I'll set it up. If you haven't confirmed your location yet, let me know that as well and I'll hold off the shipment until you're all sorted.
Quick note on schedules and timelines
I don't have to say too much here, do I? I'm moving forward with a lot of assumptions that things will work out as planned, but we've learned that unexpected complications are lurking around every corner. I'll keep in touch with Onyx Path as best possible and we can adjust these dates as/if needed.
For now, I'll send out the 48 Hour Notices for your Orders as mentioned, so please review and make sure your pledge and Add Ons are all included. Also, I'm here to help. If there are any issues, get in touch and I'll sort everything as best I can.
REWARDS STILL PENDING The latest Monday Meeting Notes blog at Onyx Path as our Scion: God book listed as "Printing. Should be getting on a boat soon." so I'm hopeful things will proceed as planned. The MMN also have our Digital Wallpaper reward listed as completed, so we may get a fun reward in the middle of all of those reminder updates! The Storyguide Screen is also at the beginning of the printing process - it doesn't take as long to ship as the books, so hopefully everything will line up and arrive in the warehouse on schedule.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
[Add On] Scion Second Edition Book One: Origin PDF (Dec 17 Update)
[Add On] Scion Second Edition Book Two: Hero PDF (Dec 17 Update)
[Add On] Scion Second Edition Book Three: Demigod PDF (Dec 17 Update)
[Pledge] Discounted PoD Order LInk(Sept 17 '24 Update)
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: <May 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:
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 Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - the message will come to me!
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
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.
If you have a yen to be a nautical adventurer, there are rules for sailing and ships presented within, as well as a more detailed writeup of the main coastal city, Waterdog Port. For dogs looking to use strange and exotic weaponry, there are rules for gunpowder weapons, as well as the associated syndrome of Gunpower Panic that goes with using them. Combined with loads of new spells and backgrounds, there’s something for every player in these pages.
We haven’t forgotten the hard-working Guide in all this. Within in this book, we present not only some new enemies for player characters to thwart or befriend, but also three adventures that present a loose chronicle using much of the material presented in this book (and Realms of Pugmire). Players should avoid reading the back of the book, in case of spoilers, but most of the book is here for you to enjoy.
