Magic! It's not just a card game that drains my bank account! It's also a powerful tool within the Monarchies, though not without it's own price.
Where dogs call upon magic to defend themselves or to aid their kin, cats take a more pragmatic approach to the arcane. Magic is a tool to be used and, as such, spellcasters within the Monarchies are less concerned with the limits that dogs place upon their magic and more concerned with discovering just how far they can delve before they pay the price for their knowledge.
I've got the next section of our Curious Cats of Mau draft manuscript today, and we're about to really dig into Cat Magic. We had a brief preview on Sunday, but it's time for the full chapter!
Chapter Three (Magic and Masterworks): This chapter covers the spells magic users know, plus rules for how cats use (or break!) masterworks, with some relics to use in your game.
International Shipping – Collected in the Pledge Manager
One quick note about Shipping before we get into the manuscript previews.
First up, it's amazingly expensive to ship, especially from Onyx Path's home base in the US. We get that, but there's not much we can do at this time. Onyx Path is in a difficult space where the company is big enough that they're not saving money by fulfilling out of Rich's garage, but small enough that they can't really set up international partners to handle portions of the fulfillment. So we are where we are - for now.
The best we can do at this point is to plan carefully, advise everyone up front that international shipping will likely be expensive (see our projections on the main page) and only charge what it costs us when the time comes. We’ll be charging for shipping in the Pledge Manager once the books are being printed and we can deal with the actual shipping charges rather than using our best-guesses this far out. If you live outside the US and aren't sure you want the hardcover or other physical items, you can pledge to the PDF tier now and upgrade your pledge in the Pledge Manager once we know the final shipping costs.
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PREVIEWS - BACKERS ONLY
Remember, thanks to BackerKit magic, these download links are visible to Backers only - you must be logged in and reading this on the website to have access to the manuscript preview links. So, if you're reading this via e-mail, click that "Reply to The Update" link on the bottom and I'll see you below the title treatment.
WE WANT YOUR FEEDBACK
I'm going to be sharing the manuscript in sections over the next 30 days, Part of the reason for that is to keep focus on one section at a time so the developers, Eddy and Lauren, can gather feedback to help guide the manuscript through the next steps of editing and development. To that end, they've created a special Feedback Form for you to submit your comments after reading each section!
