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Trinity Continuum: Aegis tabletop roleplaying game

Created by Onyx Path

Trinity Continuum: Aegis is a game of epic adventure and exploration set in Greece’s Iron Age.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

November '23 Update
almost 3 years ago – Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 10:48:41 AM

Hello Argonauts,

As noted last month, I'll be sending a quick progress report at the end of each month, to keep us all on the same page. Regular communication should be constant and consistent, and that means I'll have a bunch of boring updates and every once-in-a-while something cool for you.

But this is a boring one. Ha!

So let's get right to our regular review for November.


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://trinity-continuum-aegis-tabletop-roleplaying-game.backerkit.com



REWARDS STILL PENDING


Some movement on our Stretch Goal supplement, the Aegis Atlas. Last month we showed that the writers were in the middle of the revision process, going back and forth with the developers and incorporating their "redline" suggestions. Now the manuscript is finished with the writers and back in the hands of the Developers where they take it and turn all of the different parts into one cohesive whole. 


REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS



Our first round of rewards was distributed back in September. These were the existing PDFs and digital rewards that were Add Ons and options during the pledging process. If you had these as part of your Rewards List, you can find your redemption links in your BackerKit digital rewards page.


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: <October 2023 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 Stretch Goal 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

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  •  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 CROWDFUNDING


Join in on the latest Exalted expansion sourcebook

Never before has Creation known the perils of the Abyssal Exalted. They have emerged from the gloom of the Underworld as champions of death, sworn to the service of the Deathlords and the Neverborn. Each was offered the gift of the Bleak Exaltation at the moment of their own demise, and each chose to willingly become an agent of the apocalypse. Their motivations are as manifold as any others — they may seek destruction or domination, malice or justice, ancient secrets hidden and forbidden or sheer iron-willed survival.

In service to their lieges, these deathknights will grind the Underworld to heel and scour life from the face of Creation. Or…they might break from those oaths and set themselves up as death’s own Lawgivers, ruling empires of the dead as sages, arbiters, and reapers. All that can be known for sure is that with the Abyssal Exalted loosed upon the world, it will never be the same again.

Abyssals: Sworn to the Grave is now crowdfunding! Join us <here>

October '23 Monthly Update
about 3 years ago – Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 11:14:25 AM

Hello Argonauts,

MONTHLY UPDATES

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.

It's been just over a month since I announced Pledge Manager surveys were going out. Check out our previous update if you need to refresh your memory. We're just about at the 90% response marker, so most of you have confirmed your selections and collected any available rewards. Thanks!

For the remaining 10%, you can get a refreshing on filling in your survey <here>. We utilize BackerKit for all of our reward fulfillment, so it's important that you visit the page at some point to ensure it's all set up correctly for you.
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://trinity-continuum-aegis-tabletop-roleplaying-game.backerkit.com



REGULAR MONTHLY UPDATES

As mentioned, 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


So, still in the very earliest stages. Our main reward, the Trinity Continuum: Aegis book, is in post-editing development. This means the book has gone through the major editing process, but final tweaks and changes are incorporated by the developers to ensure the book speaks in one voice and is consistent throughout.

Really exciting to see our main Stretch Goal project, the Aegis Atlas supplement, has already had writers submit their first drafts! Now the developer is working on redlines - revisions and instructions for the writers to incorporate as they work towards their final draft and hand it off to the development team.


REWARDS DISTRIBUTED TO BACKERS



Our first round of rewards was distributed last month. These were the existing PDFs and digital rewards that were Add Ons and options during the pledging process. If you had these as part of your Rewards List, you can find your redemption links in your BackerKit digital rewards page.


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: <September 2023 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 Stretch Goal 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

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  •  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 CROWDFUNDING

The World Below is a game of adversity, heroism, terror, and awe. Your characters will overcome or be defeated by terrible beasts, environmental calamities, and Kaos storms ravaging their surroundings and the souls around them. They will chart their journeys, chronicle their tales, and pass their stories down to their descendants, who will in turn become your characters when your old ones perish or retire.

The World Below provides. But you must dig. You must explore. You must map. You must build. You must defend.

The World Below provides, but only to the worthy. 
The unworthy fall, consumed by bugs, lava, acidic fog, the vagaries of Kaos, and the World Below’s convulsing tunnels.

The World Below is your home, your prison, and your alien world containing terrible threats and wondrous discoveries.

The World Below is a complete tabletop roleplaying game, and includes:

  • Numerous playable options, some from the traditional fantasy mold, others unique to the World Below.
  • The complete Storypath Ultra System, allowing you to play this game straight from the book.
  • A myriad of settings, monsters, powers, and abilities for use in your stories, which you can play as minimalist dungeon crawls or World Below-spanning expeditions.

Come Join Us in The World Below!


Rewards: Existing Digital Add Ons Going Out!
about 3 years ago – Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 07:28:23 AM

Hello Argonauts,

It's just been a bit since we started the Pledge Manager survey process and we've got just about 85% answered now. That means there are still some Argonauts out there who haven't clicked their link yet - please do so as soon as you can.

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://trinity-continuum-aegis-tabletop-roleplaying-game.backerkit.com


DIGITAL REWARD DISTRIBUTION

Many of the rewards for our Crowdfunding projects take a lot of time and effort to complete. Usually, the campaign 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  Trinity Continuum: Aegis, and even longer for our projects generated via Stretch Goals (the Aegis Atlas supplement, and the rest).

That said, there are a few rewards that are available now, as they were mostly add-on PDFs or bundles of existing products. And now we can work on getting those out to you over the weekend.

The following Add On Rewards Will Be Distributed This Week:

  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook PDF (and discounted PoD Link)
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum: Aberrant PDF (and discounted PoD Link)
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum: Æon PDF (and discounted PoD Link)
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum: Adventure! PDF (and discounted PoD Link)
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum: Assassins PDF (and discounted PoD Link)
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum: Anima PDF
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum: Aether Draft Manuscript Link
  • [Add On] Trinity Continuum Player's Guide Draft Manuscript Link
  • [Add On] Contemporary PDF Bundle
  • [Add On] Aberrant PDF Bundle
  • [Add On] Æon PDF Bundle

It's a big list, and a really really long list once I broke out all of the pieces for the various bundles. A *lot* of download codes to go out, possibly the most I've ever had to set up.

If you want any of these and didn't add them on during the campaign, you can still update your BackerKit page and add them to your rewards list. See the BackerKit How-To instructions above.

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 2-3 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://trinity-continuum-aegis-tabletop-roleplaying-game.backerkit.com and it'll show anything available. Your backerkit account should also confirm all rewards that you should expect from your reward tier selected.

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. It's the same link that I share at the bottom of these campaign updates, but I want to make sure you have access to it in any place that makes sense.

COMMUNICATION

I'll be back at the end of October with the first of our regular status report updates. We'll track the progress of each project on a monthly basis to ensure we're all on the same page. It'll be pretty repetitive, and mostly just a note that everything's still being worked on, but I want to ensure communication is consistent throughout this stage of the project.


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

If you've got a question about your pledge or BackerKit page or any part of the process, you can contact me with any of these methods

  •  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.

ENDING SOON!



The Pledge Manager is about to Open! Surveys will be going out this week!
about 3 years ago – Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 08:15:01 AM

Hello Argonauts,

Well, it's been a little bit longer than I'd anticipated, but here we are just past the middle of September and I've just finished hammering the BackerKit Pledge Manager into shape and have begun prepping it for launch this week. 

This will likely be the first of two updates over the next two weeks. Once we've got a healthy survey response - something like 85% - I'll prepare our first wave of rewards: the existing PDFs that were offered as Add Ons and bonuses (like the other Trinity Continuum books and the supplements). I'll send out an update when that process is about to begin.

Beyond that, starting at the end of October 2023, I will send out the first of our regular month end updates. Near the end of each month, I will be sending out an update with status notes on our main projects as well as the Stretch Goal projects we added. As noted in previous updates, these projects take a long time to put together. You've seen the manuscript preview PDFs, but there are still many moving pieces and puzzles to solve in turning these manuscripts into awesome books. These month-end updates ensure that communication is constant and consistent, and that we're all on the same page with regards to where we stand.

That's info for next month, though. Let's talk about this now instead, because...

I will be sending out the BackerKit Pledge Manager surveys starting today!

But, before we begin all of that - I hope everyone's keeping safe and managing through these busy times as best possible. I know I've had a busier summer than I'd planned, and wish I'd had some mysterious powers of my own in real life! But we made it through to the end, so bonus XP for all of us!

BACKER SURVEYS

Over the next few days, you’ll receive an email from us with a special link to your BackerKit survey. It’s important to respond to your survey as quickly as you can since we need this information to fulfill your rewards.



I think everyone has a BackerKit login, thanks to backing this project, but if you don't for some reason, you won’t need to create a BackerKit account to fill out your survey (although that may help keep things organized if you've got multiple projects going.) When you receive the email with the survey, click the survey invitation link to respond. Answer the questions about your reward preferences, provide shipping information, and purchase add-on items if you like. You don’t have access to this survey link yet, but it will be available soon via email!

The e-mail will look something like this:
After you respond to your survey, you can go back later and change your responses at any time before we close the surveys and get our final counts, and that won't happen until the books are printing and we're preparing to ship.

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://trinity-continuum-aegis-tabletop-roleplaying-game.backerkit.com

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.

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.

Please send me an e-mail (to the address above) if there were any tweaks or changes that need to be made to your BackerKit survey that we talked about during the campaign. I have aged at light speed over the past three years and my memory is... not as good as I'd like.


Within the BackerKit Survey and Pledge Manager, you can:

  • Review your Pledge Tier Selection and Rewards
  • Upgrade your Reward Tier pledge selection
  • Confirm Add On selections
  • Set up payment information for any failed payments from the Crowdfunding campaign or to pay for any new Add On options selected.

When you click on your BackerKit Survey invitation link, you should see something like this...



From the BackerKit Survey welcome page you can choose to

  • Review Your Pledge Level and Rewards
  • Start Your Survey, confirming pledge rewards, confirming or selecting new Add On options, and confirming any shipping and payment info that may be needed
  • Switch Your Pledge Level

If you've pledged to a reward tier that includes physical rewards, you can enter your shipping country at this stage. As noted during our campaign, we haven't set international shipping costs yet - those will be calculated and added in when we're preparing to ship the book. That won't be for a long time, though, and there will be plenty of opportunity - and notice - for you to make changes.

If you select your Pledge Level, you will see a list of all items included in your Pledge Rewards, and also have the option to upgrade your Pledge Level, in case you've decided to get the hardcover instead of just the PDF for example.



Again, I suggest you don't switch to any pledge levels containing the hardcover book at this stage, and instead wait until the books are preparing to print and we have set up international shipping costs so you'll know exactly what your final costs will be before we lock down orders.

If you've pledged to the $5 tier and want to add the PDF to your rewards, you DO want to switch Pledge Levels instead. You can either click on your Pledge Level or Switch Pledge Level to upgrade to a tier that includes the PDF.

Once you've confirmed that your Pledge Level is correct and where you want it to be, you can GET STARTED with your BackerKit Pledge Manager Survey.

Once we've got a fair response to our survey and collected a reasonable amount of info, I'll be working on fulfilling rewards that are available now - like the PDFs of the titles included in our Add On section (for example, Trinity Continuum Core Rules, TC: Æon, TC: Aberrant, TC: Adventure!, TC: Assassins, and the Add On Bundle options that were offered). I'll send out another e-mail when we're about to get into that.

So, in summary:

  • Look for an e-mail invitation to the BackerKit Pledge Manager sometime over the next few days
  • Get Started on your survey
  • Confirm your Pledge Level (or SWITCH your Pledge Level if you want to change it)
  • Confirm and Select Any Add On options
  • Confirm Your Shipping Information (if needed)
  • Confirm Your Payment Information (if needed)

I will post an update within a week or two as I begin outlining the delivery of our first Add On rewards (the existing PDF titles, as noted above) and beginning distribution of those PDF rewards.

Aegis Accomplished!
about 3 years ago – Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 11:00:42 AM

Hello Argonauts!

We did it! Working as a crew, more than 975 backers came together to help fund the development and production of Trinity Continuum: Aegis, a brand new rules and setting supplement for the Trinity Continuum tabletop RPG.



And there's more to celebrate! Not only did we fund this project (in just over 9 hours!), but we also unlocked a variety of fun Stretch Goals. From some standard Onyx Path milestone markers to a brand new supplement for the team to develop and write, we've come together and hit just about every Achievement target that had been set up!

Some Milestone Markers




And Online Gaming Tools



Add On Storyguide Tools


Additional and Expanded Content Supplement



That's pretty great! That's pretty inspiring! But what more could I'd expect nothing else from Trinity Continuum players and fans?!

Despite a few decades history and a new edition relaunch back in 2018, it's always a trip into the unknown when a new setting is introduced for the Trinity Continuum. Straying from the three "classic" eras has been exciting and bold and unpredictable, but I'm so happy to see the Continuum Community come out again to support these projects and expand this game line. I remember Ian sharing vague notes and ideas about Aegis back when the Trinity Continuum crowdfunded the core book and Æon in 2018, and it's sort of amazing to see rumors and rough ideas fully manifest just six years later.

SEVEN STRETCH GOALS

That's excellent. I mean, we were at six just yesterday! Always awesome to unlock one final Stretch Goal as we head into the final day.

Those celebrations and milestone markers along the way are fun - I certainly like having something to mark our accomplishments during the campaign and they help keep the enthusiasm up. But I really really love when we can add additional content, especially an a chance for the writers to travel around the globe a bit to show us what else is going on in that era, as well as the opportunity to expand on some of the locations and people that could use more space than the book would hold. 

And all of that is, of course, on top of our main purpose here - the creating of the actual book itself! This is the real reward - everything else is a bonus!




So a huge congratulations to the creative team on this project, and to all of the backers who've joined in to make this possible. I'm happy about the goals we hit and rewards we introduced, but I'm also always amazed and excited about having more than 975 backers join in during this campaign. The Trinity Continuum is alive and well, and I'm looking forward to exploring the world presented here and hearing about others doing the same!

AN EXTRA THANK YOU! 

So, thank you to all the backers who supported us and made this happen. And an extra thanks to everyone who participated online, either in the Community comments section of the campaign, and on social media around the web. Thanks to everyone who talked about the project on the Discord and in the Onyx Path forum, and thanks to the Onyx Path team who answered questions and provided insight.

COMMUNICATION

So, as noted in today's earlier update, I'll be sending out updates once a month and whenever we've got a new goal, survey, or other item to cover. If you have any questions or need clarification on something related to the campaign, feel free to get in touch. I may take a bit to answer as I recover from these past three weeks, but I'll eventually have an answer!

TO CONTACT ME

  • Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
  • Via BackerKit: Click "Need Help?" from your forthcoming survey page, and then fill in the Contact Us form. BackerKit will pass your message along to me.

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:


The Discord is particularly lively, and I loved seeing the detective work put into the mysteries of Aegis even as the first chapters and fiction pieces were being posted. Some very clever members in this community!

BackerKit will begin collected pledges and processing payments later tonight, so be ready for that.

Now to attend to other business and eventually collapse for a few hours and recover from the awesomeness of the last couple days! High fives in the comment section, and you'll hear from me again in September when we start the survey process and launch the Pledge Manager!

#TrinityContinuum

#Aegis