Hello Deep Delvers,

Whew! The Onyx Path team ran their Fifth Annual online convention over the weekend, and it was great! And exhausting! Thanks to everyone who checked out the Earthbane Cycle panel and heard more about The World Below, At The Gates, and the third entry coming in the future - Monster Kingdoms. I still don't know exactly how these games under the "Earthbane Cycle" are related to one another, but I'm not sure that it matters. Even if it's just an umbrella for cool and interesting ideas, I'm in!

Related to that - I'm currently working on setting up the Pledge Manager and pre-order page for At The Gates. It'll likely take me another 3-4 weeks (I'm gonna squeeze a vacation in there somewhere), but in our next update I'll have a link to pre-order At The Gates and get the backer draft manuscript for those who missed the campaign and want to check it out. Look for a link to that in our July update.

Now let's get to our regular monthly review.

Our two big Stretch Goal rewards - the Underworld Adventures book and Ed Greewood's Monstrous Ecologies - have both moved forward again into post-editing development, where the books are fine-tuned to ensure they have a consistent voice throughout the book.

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. 

 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: <May 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:

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!

On Kickstarter Now! They've funded but are looking to unlock Stretch Goals and make the game as amazing as it can be!

As if 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.