I'm coming to you a week early for this month's update because I've got a reward for you! Remember these during the campaign?
Well, the Storyguide Reference PDF with SEVEN sections (yep, all five we unlocked, plus bonus sections for the two new Shards we added during the campaign) is now available and ready for distribution.
Reward Distibution: SCION: MYTHIC SHARDS STORYGUIDE REFERENCE PDF
Mythic Shards contains a wide array of new settings and genres in which to place your games of Scion. The volume of content within this book is substantial, resulting in the creation of this handy reference book for Storyguides who need to find chapter-specifific rules and guidelines for their stories.
The Mythic Shards Storyguide Reference Book contains Storyguide material for:
After the End: A post apocalyptic desert full of peril and opportunities for new beginnings
Cyber-Scion: A cyberpunk dystopia where Scions pilot mecha to fifight corporate kaiju
Farewell to Heroes: Gritty noir cities where Scions are illegal
Four Color: A place of superheroes, alter-egos, and over-the-top excitement
Journey to the Wild West: A mash-up of Chinese fantasy and Wild West gunslinging
Lost Time: A meta-journey through all the shards that are, were, and will be
Space Odyssey: An entire galaxy of starships and aliens
REWARD DISTRIBUTION
If this PDF was on your list of rewards, your link to claim your SCION: MYTHIC SHARDS STORYGUIDE REFERENCE PDF will be sent out by our BackerKit pledge manager over the next day. Since we are using our partners at DriveThruRPG as the host for this, you will need to set up a DriveThru account if you don't have one already. If you encounter any problems with downloading your rewards, please contact DTRPG's customer service to resolve the matter, they've always been top-rated for customer service. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/contact_us.php
Thebest way to ensure these redemption codes work smoothly is to log in to your DTRPG account first, and then click (or copy) the link shown in your BackerKit.
Again, you will receive an e-mail from BackerKit with links for this reward over the next 24hours if it is on your expected list of rewards.
The easiest way to see if you've got digital downloads available is to login to your backerkit account: https://scion-mythic-shards.backerkit.com/ and it'll show anything available. Your backerkit account should also confirm all rewards that you should expect from your reward tier selected.
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-mythic-shards.backerkit.com/
Now that the PDF is finalized, the team can begin working on setting up the print run for the hardcover. That hasn't been an easy task over the past year, and I don't have a revised timeline of when to expect the final print edition - Rich has talked about this on his Monday Meeting Notes blog and again on the What's Up With Onyx Path? panel at this year's virtual convention (check for that Youtube video coming soon!), but it seems it's been very hard to lock down any sort of pricing with tariffs, counter-tariffs, and fluctuating currency preventing any sort of consistency that would allow a 120-day print quote. For now, we've got the PDF and print-on-demand versions, and I'll keep you updated as to any changes in the situation revealed by Onyx Path in our updates.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
Scion Book Two: Hero PDF (Sept '24 Update)
Scion Book Three: Demigod PDF PDF (Sept '24 Update)
Scion Book Four: God PDF PDF (Sept '24 Update)
Scion: Dragon PDF PDF (Sept '24 Update)
Scion: Masks of the Mythos PDF PDF (Sept '24 Update)
Scion: Dragon Digital Supplement Bundle (Sept '24 Update)
Scion: Masks of the Mythos Digital Supplement Bundle (Sept '24 Update)
Mythic Shards Backer PDF(May 23 '25 update)
Mythic Shards Discounted PoD Links(June 18 '25 update)
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <June 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.
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Final Days of the Campaign
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.
