James Bell

CREATOR

8 days ago

Project Update: January 2025 Monthly Update

Hello Curious Cats,

It's time for our first monthly update of 2025. As a reminder, I'll be posting these updates at the end of every month as we track the progress of our Crowdfunding campaign rewards.

Rewards Still Pending

No big changes over the holidays. We've got another one of our characters featured in the Jumpstart to preview in this update, down under all of the monthly check in.

REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS

[Add On] Pugmire 1E Digital Collection (May 3 '24 Update)
[Add On] Mau 1E Digital Collection (May 3 '24 Update)
[Add On] Pirates of Pugmire 1E Digital Collection (May 3 '24 Update)
[Add On] Squeaks in the Deep 1E Digital Collection (May 3 '24 Update)
[Add On] Realms of Pugmire Backer PDF (Aug 22 '24 Update)
[Add On] Realms of Pugmire Discounted PoD Links (Dec 11 '24 Update)

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/

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: <December 2024 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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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:

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Curious Cats Jumpstart Preview 4

Here’s Halo von Siberian, converted to the latest edition, as part of the Curious Cats of Mau Jumpstart!

Halo von Siberian

History: Halo was once an agent of House Siberian, chasing the house’s enemies and bringing them low wherever they hid. On one mission, she crossed paths with a stubborn and reckless dog who nearly killed her. It was only due to the intervention of a member of the Church of Man that she survived. Once nursed back to health, Halo returned to the monarchies. Ever since, she’s contemplated why she survived and the role the Old Ones may have played in her fate.

Roleplay Tips: Halo is calm, kind, and outgoing. However, if pressed to violence, she becomes cold, quiet, and calculating. The shift in demeanor is disturbing to all around her as every bit of softness fades and the fierce hunter of her past emerges from hiding.

Description: Halo has gray and brown mottled fur and greenish-yellow eyes. She dresses in pants and a vest, carrying all her possessions in a backpack.

Personality:
Drive: I am an excellent cat because I seek to understand the Old Ones.
Secret: No one knows about my violent past.
Weakness: No matter what, I just can’t watch a defenseless cat be threatened.

Level: 1
House: Siberian
Family: Siberian
Background: Criminal
Calling: Wanderer
Experience Bonus: +1
Stamina Dice: 1d8
Stamina Points: 10
Defense: 11
Initiative: +1
Speed: 30 ft./35 ft.
Abilities: Agility +1, Might +3, Vitality +2, Cunning +1, Intellect +0, Presence −1
Skills: Balance, Bluff, Sneak, Traverse
Tricks: Friends in Low Places, Hardy Constitution, Martial Arts, Simple Weapon Aptitude, Martial Weapon Aptitude, Light Armor Aptitude
Rucksack: A crowbar and a set of dark common clothes that includes a hood, one sickle (1d4 edged, light), a shovel, torches, rations, and a musical instrument (gained under unusual circumstances).
Plastic Track: A few coins

Tricks:

Friends in Low Places: The cat has some (generally) reliable and trustworthy contacts among criminals. She can get information from such characters, unless the act of passing on information would endanger them. Fortune: If the player spends fortune, she can declare that a previously unknown non-player-character criminal is one of her contacts on good terms with the cat.

Hardy Constitution: The cat with this trick can add 1d4 to all Vitality tests.

Martial Arts: The cat relies on his own body more than fancy weapons and armor and fights best unencumbered. When he’s:

Not wearing armor or using a shield
Unarmed or wielding only simple melee weapons without the two-pawed quality

He gains the following:

Unarmed and melee attacks gain the finesse quality.
Damage increases to 1d6, though the damage type doesn’t change.
If an attack is a success or triumph, you can make another attack of the same type as a supplemental action.

Simple Weapon Aptitude: Cats with this trick can add their experience bonus to attack and damage rolls when using any simple weapon. This includes clubs, daggers, darts, javelins, maces, quarterstaves, shortbows, sickles, slings, small axes and crossbows, spears, and unarmed punches, kicks, and bites.

Martial Weapon Aptitude: A cat without this trick always attacks with such weapons with a hindrance. Cats with this trick, however, can use martial weapons well, and can add their experience bonus to attack and damage rolls using them.

Light Armor Aptitude: The cat with this trick can wear light armor effectively, giving her a Defense of 11 + her Agility. Note that Halo is not wearing armor despite knowing this trick.

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