Hello Deep Delvers,

I'm bringing you the monthly update a bit early this month and adjusting the schedule so it isn't *quite* so late in the month. I do want to give you the heads up on the 2024 Onyx Path online gaming convention coming in just over 3 weeks!

Next month, on June 14-16, 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 and the What's Up With Onyx Path? panel and Earthbane Cycle panel on Saturday. As noted last month, the Earthbane Cycle is the overall name for the line containing both The World Below and At the Gates - which is mid-way through our Crowdfunding campaign right now!
 

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? 

Our two big Stretch Goal rewards - the Underworld Adventures book and Ed Greewood's Monstrous Ecologies - have both moved forward into Editing, alongside the World Below manuscript! Lots of goodies coming our way in the future!

I'll post this chart in each monthly update, and fill in dots as projects move along.

Once a project finishes up on the progress chart and is distributed to backers, I'll move it down to this list and note which update talks about reward distribution for that item in case you want to go back and get more information.

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://the-world-below.backerkit.com/

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. 

You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <April 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.

You may be able to get further insight and possibly some in-depth conversation at these Onyx Path discussion zones: