August 2024 Monthly Update
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 07:40:14 AM
Meow meow meow,
Meow...
Oh my goodness. Can you imagine if I just typed "meow" over and over again for the whole update?
Cats, I think I may be ready for the weekend already. LOL
It's the second last Thursday of the month, so time for our regular monthly update. I've got one reward going out this month to any barkers ... I mean backers ... who added the Realms of Pugmire PDF to their rewards list via Add On, or those who pledged at the House Rex or House Angora reward tiers.
Reward Distribution: REALMS OF PUGMIRE Backer PDF
Dogs have inherited the world, building the kingdom of Pugmire untold centuries after the Age of Man is over. These dogs have been uplifted to use tools and language, and they seek to rediscover the ruins of the Old Ones. Some have learned to use the leftover technology of humanity, but they believe it to be magic handed to them by their lost gods. Others seek to create an ideal civilization, using a Code of Man compiled from ancient, fragmentary lore left behind by humanity. The world is dangerous and mysterious, but good dogs will persevere.
Some highlights of Realms of Pugmire include:
- An evocative and mysterious setting that’s both family-friendly and deep enough to create compelling stories.
- The Onyx20 rules system, designed for streamlined play and easy creation of heroic dogs with an emphasis on cooperation and action over competition and violence.
- A variety of callings and breeds that give access to several fun and interesting tricks.
- Rival species to interact with, like cats and rodents, along with terrifying and dangerous monsters that roam the landscape.
New features of this edition include:
- Refined and clarified rules, developed after years of playing and community feedback.
- New and updated tricks, spells, masterworks, and enemies.
- New features such as random and template character creation, friendship rules, and safety-tool advice for Guides.
- Advice on how to create cat and rodent player characters right away.
REWARD DISTRIBUTION
If this PDF was on your list of rewards, your link to claim your
Realms of Pugmire Backer 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
Again,
you will receive an e-mail from BackerKit with links for this reward over the next 24 hours 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://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/BACKER PDF VERSION - This is the first version of
Realms of Pugmire to be released. The design and development teams have done their best to proofread and correct any errors and typos - but some always sneak through. They wanted to get this version to you as quickly as possible, but it's not quite finalized yet. They will be correcting minor errata and fixing all of those Page XX notes and adding an index before releasing the finalized version, which will be open for general purchase. Once that happens, you'll be able to re-download the latest version at your convenience from your DTRPG library.
REWARDS STILL PENDING
I'll post this chart in each monthly update, and fill in dots as projects move along.
REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS
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://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for distibuted digital rewards, all backers have received a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page (See the link above for Claiming Your Digital Rewards if you need a refresher). Again, this isn't a new manuscript, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order.
ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING
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.
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
- 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.
Meow meow meow...
July 2024 Monthly Update
over 1 year ago
– Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 04:08:03 AM
Hello Curious Cats,
It's the second last Thursday of the month, so time for our regular monthly update. We'll have a regular update around the second last week of every month to review the status of our Curious Cats of Mau book as well as the status of our various Stretch Goal rewards. Most will be pretty similar, with incremental progress happening behind the scenes. But whenever there's a reward ready for you, I'll be in touch with an update and provide more information on what to expect.
We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, though, so it'll be a while before we are ready to talk about rewards. Before we get to our regular round up, I've got one cool video link to share with you.
ONYX PATH CONVENTION PANEL
Last month, Onyx Path hosted their annual virtual game convention, and one of the panels featured discussion on The Realms of Pugmire books, including the Curious Cats of Mau!
Check it out <here>
REWARDS STILL PENDING
Still in the earliest stages, but our Jumpstart has made tremendous progress and is now in development, where the writer's drafts are worked on by the developer to ensure the project reads like it's one whole holistic piece.
I'll post this chart in each monthly update, and fill in dots as projects move along.
REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS
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://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for distibuted digital rewards, all backers have received a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page (See the link above for Claiming Your Digital Rewards if you need a refresher). Again, this isn't a new manuscript, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order.
ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING
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.
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
- 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.
CURRENTLY FUNDING
Scion: Mythic Shards presents alternate realities for the World of Scion and provides new rules for players and Storyguides to incorporate into their games. Each chapter explores a single shard of reality at varying tiers of Scion gameplay. These chapters are standalone from each other and don’t need to be consumed with the other chapters in order to start playing.
Scion’s setting — the World — is an exciting place where heroes are larger than life, and Fate always lurks in the shadows, pulling strings. It is a place of urban fantasy where the legends and myths of our ancestors live in a world that’s much like our own.
But, there are some tales that belong to another world — stories that need another place to breathe and come alive — places like…
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After the End: A post apocalyptic desert full of peril and opportunities for new beginnings
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Cyber-Scion: A cyberpunk dystopia where Scions pilot mecha to fight corporate kaiju
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Farewell to Heroes: Gritty noir cities where Scions are illegal
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Four Color: A place of superheroes, alter-egos, and over-the-top excitement
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Space Odyssey: An entire galaxy of starships and aliens
June 2024 Monthly Update
almost 2 years ago
– Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 06:30:08 AM
Hello Curious Cats,
As I mentioned last month, we'll have a regular update around the second last week of every month to review the status of our Curious Cats of Mau book as well as the status of our various Stretch Goal rewards. Most will be pretty similar, with incremental progress happening behind the scenes. But whenever there's a reward ready for you, I'll be in touch with an update and provide more information on what to expect.
We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, though, so it'll be a while before we are ready to talk about rewards. For now, let's check in on our projects...
REWARDS STILL PENDING
No big changes since last month, but things are being worked on in the background.
I'll post this chart in each monthly update, and fill in dots as projects move along.
REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS
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://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for distibuted digital rewards, all backers have received a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page (See the link above for Claiming Your Digital Rewards if you need a refresher). Again, this isn't a new manuscript, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order.
ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING
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.
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
- 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.
CURRENTLY FUNDING - ONYX PATH ADJACENT
From
The Bodhana Group, the Branch Riders tabletop roleplaying game is currently in a campaign on Kickstarter. The Bodhana Group advocates for and utilizes tabletop gaming as a directed therapeutic and clinical practice that can benefit personal growth as well as enhance social and educational services to individuals and families. Gaming has usefulness in education, skill building and therapeutic applications.
Branch Riders is an RPG that came out of years of design and development - with the help of some of the Onyx Path team - to be a fun and compelling game first and foremost, but with the right therapeutic and skill-building tools "under the hood" for trained instructors to utilize beyond that.
If you're interested in a multi-genre action-packed easy-to-learn and -teach fun game with different approaches to problem solving and a variety of GM tools and player challenges, come check it out!
As if writing the Curious Cats jumpstart adventure and coordinating a three-day online convention wasn't exhausting enough, Onyx Path's Travis Legge as rolled right into launching his latest Kickstarter! Bizarre Kingdoms is a setting expansion for Odysseys & Overlords, though the lands and creatures introduced herein could be easily adapted to any Savage Worlds Fantasy setting. In this book you'll find four new kingdoms your adventurers can explore or even hail from! This book requires the use of the Savage Worldscore rules and the SWADE Fantasy Companion.
May 2024 - Regular Monthly Updates
almost 2 years ago
– Thu, May 23, 2024 at 11:26:32 AM
Hello Curious Cats,
It's been almost three weeks since our
last update, which covered the first round of reward distributions (all of the Add On options for the 1E bundles). It's now time to get started on our regular monthly update schedule.
MONTHLY UPDATES
With the Pledge Manager up and running, this is officially the first "regular" monthly update for our project. I'll send these updates out every month to let you know where we sit. We're still in the earliest stages of this post-campaign, where projects make incremental movements along the progress path. A lot of months will be pretty similar, just a quick note to let you know that the Onyx Path team is still working on it. Any time we have a new reward or something of interest to share, I'll include that as well.
At the end of each month, I'll include a summary of our rewards and their current status (they'll either be delivered or marked as still pending, possibly with additional details if I know more). I'll also list any relevant Update posts, in case you want to go back and check into something.
Each month, I'll list our "Pending" rewards and our "Delivered" rewards. We'll track the project status of our pending rewards by filling in the stage dots, and I'll note which update (and include a link) with each delivered reward, in case you want to go back and re-read the relevant update for more information. If any of these rewards were on your pledge list, you can access download codes in your BackerKit Digital Rewards page. And once they've been added to your DriveThruRPG library, you can access them through your DTRPG digital library at any time.
REWARDS STILL PENDING
Our main book, the Curious Cats of Mau, has finished up in editing and now off to Eddy for his final big development pass, ensuring the edits all work and the book has a uniform voice. The team has also begun their first draft of our jumpstart adventure. So, incremental progress as we move forward whisker by whisker.
I'll post this chart in each monthly update, and fill in dots as projects move along.
REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS
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://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for distibuted digital rewards, all backers have received a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page (See the link above for Claiming Your Digital Rewards if you need a refresher). Again, this isn't a new manuscript, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order.
Next month, on
June 14-16, Onyx Path will be running their annual online gaming convention. They'll be streaming panels on their twitch channel (
twitch.tv/theonyxpath). Here's the panel schedule
The big info panels are usually the Opening Ceremonies on Friday, the What's Up With Onyx Path? panel on Saturday, and the Realms of Pugmire panel on Sunday! It's a full weekend of awesomeness!
ONYX PATH PROJECT TRACKING
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.
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
- 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.
CURRENTLY FUNDING
At the Gates is a high fantasy tabletop roleplaying game about burgeoning heroes struggling to survive, fighting for what’s right, exploring dangerous places, and saving the world.
Magic fuels all parts of Gaia, from fields of wheat to the people who sow them. Magic is rooted in the living nature of the world: the elements, the mind, the body, and the soul. The Void stands outside the world, and represents all the esoteric concepts such as order, entropy, and energy. Where the Void meets the world, Outlands grow. These places are warped by the intermingling of two opposite magics, and everything that lives there is tainted and dangerous. Hidden inside these Outlands are gates into the Void, standing as literal tears in reality.
You play as heroes who have chosen to buck the status quo and try to change the course of things. Your characters may attempt to change the course of the war, delve into the secrets of daemons and the Void, fight against tyranny to protect what they love in the world, fight to restore balance to Gaia, or all the above.
You can stand at the gates and hold back the tide, changing the course of history.
Will you heed the call?
Reward Distribution: Existing Digital Add Ons
almost 2 years ago
– Fri, May 03, 2024 at 08:58:06 AM
Hopefully some reward distribution will help inspire you! Because I've got some rewards to send out!
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://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/
DIGITAL REWARD DISTRIBUTION
Many of the rewards for our Crowdfunding projects take a lot of time and effort to complete. Usually, the crowdfunder is a means of moving the project from an idea (even when it's a mostly-fully-written idea) into the actual channel that turns it into a project/product. It'll be a while before we're ready to talk about delivery on Curious Cats of Mau.
That said, there are a few rewards that are available now, as they were mostly add-on PDFs of existing products. And now we can work on getting those out to you over the next few days.
The following Add On Rewards Will Be Distributed This Week:
- [Add On] Pugmire 1E Digital Collection
- [Add On] Mau 1E Digital Collection
- [Add On] Pirates of Pugmire 1E Digital Collection
- [Add On] Squeaks in the Deep 1E Digital Collection
It's basically this section from our Add On Menu:
With Realms of Pugmire currently in production, backers who have added that book to their rewards will also get the draft manuscript for that book until the PDF is available.
REWARD DISTRIBUTION
Your link to claim these digital rewards will be sent out by our BackerKit pledge manager
over the next few days. Since we are using our partners at DriveThruRPG as the hosts for these, 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.ph
The best 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 these rewards over the next few days if any of them are
on your expected list of rewards. I'll be releasing them in waves, so don't panic if you only see a couple links at first... the rest are coming.
(We're in a digital world, but there are still a lot of manual processes. And there are many links to go out!!)
The easiest way to see if you've got digital downloads available is to login to your backerkit account:
https://curious-cats-of-mau.backerkit.com/
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT
In addition to redemption links for these digital rewards, all backers will be receiving a link to the compiled draft manuscript. This link can be found in your BackerKit digital rewards page, and you'll receive an e-mail linking to that with the first wave of rewards going out. Again, this isn't a new manuscript, it's just all of the pieces we shared during the campaign put together in order. Your link to the draft manuscript will be available in your BackerKit digital rewards page until our final reward goes out, so you'll be able to access it even after the book is in your hands.
MONTHLY PROJECT CHECK IN
And with the surveys out last week and the wave of existing titles coming to backers over the next 4 days, it's time to monitor the monthly progress on our Crowdfunding rewards from this campaign. There's still a long road ahead and a lot of work to be done on these projects, but we're going to have these regular updates at the end of each month to keep track of where we sit on our rewards.
I'll be back on the final Thursday of May to review where we stand on each project with a handy chart and some notes about where to find more on Onyx Path's project progress.
Until then, If there are any issues you find with the Pledge Manager, please contact me as soon as possible to let me know. It rolls out in waves so that I can correct issues on the fly and make it work as best possible as people come on board.
If you have any other questions or concerns, you can post them to the comments for this update, the comment section, or message me via one of these methods:
TO CONTACT JAMES
- 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.
COMING NEXT WEEK...
