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 Earthbane Cycle Panel> where Matthew Dawkins, Kim Godwin, Chris Jones, and Danielle Lauzon discuss the various Earthbane Cycle games!
A couple projects announced as in the works for The World below, in addition to our Crowdfunding campaign rewards. An upcoming book for players The World Below Delver’s Guide, and a new upcoming book for Storyguides, Secrets of Kalm and Kaos: The World Below Storyguide’s Handbook. Great to see the line expanding and hearing more about future plans!
But let's talk about our rewards and jump into our reguar monthly update!
Rewards Still Pending
With the PDF finalized, the team has been 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 editions - 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 other issues 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.
While that gets sorted, work continues on our other Stretch Goal rewards. The Underworld Adventures book is slightly ahead, with artists currently working on sketches to submit to the Art Director before completing the interior illustrations for that book. The Monstrous Ecology is just behind, with artists lining up schedules and contracts being written. As always, I'll continue to monitor Onyx Path's monthly summaries and note any changes in our campaign updates.
Rewards Distributed to Backers
Trinity Continuum Digital Starter Bundle (January 25 '24 Update)
Scion Second Edition Digital Starter Bundle (January 25 '24 Update)
They Came From Digital Starter Bundle (January 25 '24 Update)
Redbubble Backer T-Shirt Link(April 4 '24 Update)
The World Below Backer PDF(Oct 31 '24 Update)
World Below VTT Asset Pack (March 19 '25 Update)
World Below Streaming Overlay Set(March 19 '25 Update)
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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.
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Launching Today
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.
