First off, big thanks to Eddy Webb, who took over writing up this blog last week: Thanks, Eddy!

In the week I’ve been gone, oh wow did our Scion Mythic Shards crowdfunding campaign on BackerKit leap forward past a whole bunch of Stretch Goals! Congrats to all of our backers – you’ve got some great new stuff to play with!

The four revealed Shard chapters have all been added to the StoryGuide Reference PDF, and you also have unlocked the option to Add-on four sets of dice – one for each Shard so far)!

You’ve also achieved two new Shard chapters to be added to the book itself: Lost Time (From the BK site: Rules for playing a battle for the stability of all realities as Scions slip through the different shards and semi shards trying to thwart a usurper’s plan to invade another reality. Sliders and Doctor Who style adventures with a group of Scions who are selected to be reality police) and the chance to vote on yet another Shard that should remain open until the campaign ends.

Which is going to happen this coming Thursday, the 15th – so if you haven’t backed yet, please do jump in!

Now, what about that fifth Shard chapter, to be revealed this Tuesday – tomorrow as I write this? It is called Space Odyssey, and our devs actually have a lot to share about that fifth Shard:

Take it away, Kim:

Hello from sunny Palau this week! 

I’ve been on a journey this month just like we’ve shared with you all with Sion: Mythic Shards. We’ve taken Scions to what remains of the World when the apocalypse has wiped the slate clean and shown alternating timelines where heroism is embraced and rejected. Now we’re taking Scions further than they have ever gone before… into an uncharted sector of space called the Tenebrium. Space Odyssey is our final written shard for Scion: Mythic Shards. We veer our stories into space opera while embracing all there is to love about Scion. Magic and high technology co-exist with impossible seeming space craft and strange alien worlds to explores. What new pantheons can your Scions discover and interact with as they try to find their way home? This is setting rich in possibilities. 

I grew up watching Star Trek (Next Gen, Deep Space 9, and Voyager)and Babylon 5 every week with my parents. Star Wars was the favorite with my cousins so space opera is genre close to my heart. I love revisiting my favorite media inspirations when I work on projects but I didn’t have to when I was developing Space Odyssey – I had already written They Came the Interstellar Starship! for the They Came From the RPG Anthology! The universe is vast and yet seems ever so small. I look forward to hearing what new planets, ships, and deities people will dream of in their Space Odyssey games.

Plus, here’s Hiromi with even more in-depth info:

Space Odyssey draws from virtually every space opera you’ve ever heard of and maybe even a few that you haven’t. It is Scion at its most epic scale: an entire universe for your Scions to explore. While there’s always the risk that a meeting with a cosmic entity might go wrong, forcing you to turn to violence, there’s also the possibility of puzzling out the secret motivations behind the entity, allowing Scions to talk the cosmic being down or even prove that the entity isn’t so mysterious or powerful after all! On top of that delicious space opera foundation, we have the myths and legends of our world, but viewed through a sci-fi lens. The Vulpari might resemble the fox-like kitsune of Japanese folklore or the huli jing of Chinese folklore, but they’re their own people, with their own hopes and dreams for life in the Tenebrium’s Worlds. In fact, every folkloric creature might have an analog in the Tenebrium!

In short, Space Odyssey is equal parts space and Odyssey. Homer’s Odyssey may have helped form a kernel of the shard, but there’s much more to do than get lost for a decade. Odysseus has nothing on your spacefaring Scions. Besides, he was mainly concerned with getting home, whereas your Scions might already be home in the Tenebrium.

It’s up to you whether you want your game to be about an epic journey home, making a new life for your Scions in the Tenebrium’s Worlds, improving life in the Tenebrium for everyone, or even making big political plays to shift the balance of power in the Worlds to your advantage. In other words, there are many paths and one grand adventure awaiting you!

Further, Back In the Meeting Again!

Yep, back to the Monday Meeting and we’re still filling in for each other as Eddy and Mirthful Mike take some time off on well-deserved vacays, and then we should be ending the month with everybody in the meeting having had some kind of a break over the Summer. It’s a testament to the in-house team that they have been able to cover each others’ bailiwicks so that none of our projects have been stopped dead in the water!

For example, even while we are still working on ongoing projects, we’ve also be putting out two blog posts a week that reveal more about Curseborne, our new horror game. With our intention of an October Kickstarter campaign looming incredibly quickly ahead, getting these posts out – and the shorts vids that go out on social media with them – has been really important.

Such things involve all of us really. The in-house devs who prepare the blog text; either by snipping from the existing book text, or by writing it themselves, or a bit of both. They involve Mirthful Mike getting us the art for the blogs as per art notes from the devs and Dixie, and my picking which art goes with which blog. I also create the symbols for the Lineage and Families blogs (after a bunch of discussions with Mike, Danielle, and especially Dixie), and make sure that both Ian and Travis have the right art for the right blog, and in Travis’s case, for the short vids he puts together for us.

It’s a full team thing, and we keep a careful eye on who needs to be involved when, so that vacays and cons and other projects don’t derail the Curseborne blog train. (Spreadsheets may be involved.)

This is sort of the rolling reveal of Curseborne bits that will culminate in the October Kickstarter if all goes even close to plan. These are the meatier bits we have always planned to reveal, even as far back as those first short vids that expressed mood more than anything, and even further back to our initial planning from before Covid when we hammered out the major “beats” of the game world.

Of course, it wasn’t called Curseborne then, but we knew there were curses that defined the world. The minor, miss your bus curses, and the grand dramatic supernatural ones that doomed mortals to exist as these various supernatural creatures. The weight and the webbing as these curses entwined and defined and confined our world was there even then. We just had to figure out the best way to describe all that and present it to you.

Now that’s happening!

Brief note- there’s another sale at IPR for some of our physical, traditionally printed projects, so please take a look here: https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-and-Specials/ if you are seeking a great deal on great books!

Finally, hey, it’s good to be back and doing the MMN blog again today! Glad to be letting y’all know what we’re up to with all of our:

Many Worlds, One Path!

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Blurbs!

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Crowdfunding!

SCION MYTHIC SHARDS – Over 200% Funded!

Check out all the stretch goals we’ve unlocked! Mythic Shards shirt! Storyguide Reference PDF for After the End, Cyber-Scion, Farewell to Heroes, and Four Color! Even Shard dice add-ons for After the End, Cyber-Scion, Farewell to Heroes, and Four Color! Plus we’ve added in an entire new Shard chapter: LOST TIME (Rules for playing a battle for the stability of all realities as Scions slip through the different shards and semi shards trying to thwart a usurper’s plan to invade another reality. Sliders and Doctor Who style adventures with a group of Scions who are selected to be reality police) and are voting on yet another Shard even as you read this!

Coming up next is the chance to unlock a brand new Mythic Shard, and backers will get to vote on what it’ll be! We’re so close to unlocking that, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, now’s the best time to swing on over and push us over the edge.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/onyx-path/scion-mythic-shards

Coming Next To BackerKit Crowdfunding!

Storypath Ultra Core Manual!

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Onyx Path Media!

This week: Matthew conducts a deep dive into They Came from Camp Murder Lake! with a recap and a guide on how to run it!

As always, this Friday’s Onyx Pathcast will be on Podbean or your favorite podcast venue!

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Also check out our attached media schedule for the videos on our Twitch channel this week!

In this week’s Onyx Path News, you’ll find A LOT of information on Scion: Mythic Shards, No Gods, No Masters, and Curseborne! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzB5oncpU8

Awkward GM Corbin covers the wonderful Farewell to Heroes chapter of Scion: Mythic Shards! Check out his video right here: https://youtu.be/6u1h-40NQKE

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Virtual Tabletop!

They Came From Beneath the Sea! on Roll20 VTT!
https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/22308/they-came-from-beneath-the-sea

The Scion: Origin and Scion Hero Compendiums are now available on Roll20!
https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/publisher/1716/onyx-path-publishing

Scion is just the start! They Came From Beneath the Sea! and other
Onyx Path RPGs are in development for Roll20 virtual tabletop!

The first of our official Scion sheets designed for Foundry VTT are
now available! https://foundryvtt.co

Looking for more virtual tabletop resources? We have a selection of
Tokens, Encounters, and more available now at DriveThruRPG! https://bit.ly/3SnrNJ7

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Our Sales Partners!

We’re working with Studio2 to provide our traditionally printed books out into your local game stores. Game stores can order via their usual distributors, and can also contact Studio2 directly. And individuals can check out our projects via the links below!

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books, dice, and screens? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

Select CofD, Exalted, and Legendlore books and screens on sale at IPR:

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Deals-and-Specials/

As always, you can find Onyx Path’s titles in PDF and PoD versions at DriveThruRPG.com!

Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

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On Sale This Week!

On DTRPG this Weds, we celebrate Exalted Exigents with three different offerings: the Exigents Screen PDF, the Exigents Wallpapers, and the Exigents Streaming Overlays for both your at-home and VTT playing!

And over on our RedBubble store, we’re posting a variety of Exigents options!

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Conventions!

Here’s where you can find out more info on physical and virtual conventions we’re going to be involved with!

GameHoleCon – Oct 17th – 19th

https://www.gameholecon.com/

PAX Unplugged – December 6th – 8th

https://unplugged.paxsite.com/

Game Night With Onyx Path Publishing at StartPlaying is the last Friday of every month! Come play some of our games that night! (But any of our game lines are welcome all day long!)

Here’s a link to give anyone $10 credit to play games on Start.Playing:

https://startplaying.games/referral/clog9y0v10006ju0968iev95m

Please spread the word about GMing games as much as possible! Details on how list a game are at the bottom of the page in the FAQ:

https://startplaying.games/event/game-night-onyx-path

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Project Status Updates!

Our full list of projects will be available monthly on our blog! Check out July’s full list report here: https://theonyxpath.com/release-roundup-july-2024/

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ME!

Here are the projects that moved to the next stage of production:

First Draft

Tasty Bit – CLASSIFIED Villain #4 (October)

• Matthew: Is the Agency your best friend or your worst enemy? It’s time to find out, as we delve into the people who pay you in CLASSIFIED!

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ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!

In Art Direction

• Ex Essence Pillars of Creation – DAC making fixes to color comps.
• Ex Essence Deeds Yet Undone (Dirt Cheap) – Sketches off to devs for approval.
• Ex3 Abyssals – Getting this going. Probably get Navela and HIVE rolling on it.
• Ex3 Alchemicals (CF) – Splats with Mel
• The World Below – First set of finals in. I’m gonna tweak my existing interior design a bit when i get back and then send that over to Travis.
• TCF RPG Anthology – Got Larry’s fulls in.
• M20 Victorian Bizarre Tales and Unusual Characters – With Gaydos.
• M20 Faces of Magick – And guess which one Gaydos is working on after that Victorian one is done…
• M20 Forbidden and Forgotten Orders – Getting Marco and Paul Lee on this.
• SCION Titans Rising – In progress.
• TC Aegis – In progress.
• TC With Great Power – Maria is tracking down Dom’s finals. Lee is working on the comic now that he’s done with SPU and Mythic Shards stuff.
• Pugmire 2e Jumpstart – With Maria.
• Curious Cats – As soon as Gong is done with the KS art for Alchemicals, they are on this.
• SCION Mythic Shards (BK) – Ends Thursday.
• SPU Rulebook (BK) – Some finals already in and more on the way.

Layout

• Trinity Continuum CC – Assets with Dixie.
• Sidereals Novella – Assets with Dixie.
• They Came From Classified Jumpstart – With Ron Thompson.

Proofing

• TC Player’s Guide – 2nd proof over to Danielle. 

Indexing

• Ex3 Sidereals 

At Press

• Reprints:
• Scion Origin – At port, then to Studio2.
• TC Core – At port, then to Studio2.

• Ex 3 Exigents – Getting quotes.
• Ex 3 Exigents Screen – Quote signed and returned to printer. PDF version on sale this week!
• TC Aether – Getting quotes.
• TC Anima – Printing.
• TC Anima Terra Surge Screen – Quote signed and returned to printer.
• Ex3 Sidereals – Indexing.
• Ex Essence Jumpstart – With Travis for fixing.
• Ex Essence Charm Cards – Got about half of the PoD’s set up…
• Realms of Pugmire – Baker errata input.
• Scion: God – Matthew is going over the Ultimate Proof. When i’m back, I will make any additional fixes and then get it uploaded for PoD.
• SCION Path to Apotheosis – Backer PDF out to KS backers.
• M20 Victorian Weird Wonders and Revolutionary Magic – PoD files uploaded.
• They Came From the Cyclops’s Cave – Printing.
• They Came From the Cyclops’s Cave Screen – Quote signed and returned to printer.
• They Came From CLASSIFIED – Printing.
• They Came From CLASSIFIED Screen – Quote signed and returned to printer.
• Exigents Screen, Overlays, Wallpaper PDFs on sale this Weds on DTRPG!

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Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

A very spooky, scary, ghostly, double feature anniversary Reason To Celebrate this Tuesday, tomorrow as I write this, with the THIRTY (30!) year anniversary of the original Wraith: The Oblivion, and the 15th anniversary of the original publication of Geist: The Sin-Eaters! I am somewhat at a loss for words, in that I have so many memories of the creation of both these games – hanging out in a cemetery in Atlanta with Mark and the other writers as they pulled WtO ideas together, commissioning the cover construction by Henry Higgenbotham, and years later working on GtS-E with what remained of our WW production team as the transmogrification of old WW continued under the CCP deal. Phew! Lots of the River Styx under those bridges!