We're just about in our final week countdown for this campaign! The plan is to finish up on Thursday, December 18th at 2:00 PM Easter Time. I'll have more information about our final week in tomorrow's update, and I'll share a bunch of book-keeping posts discussing how the Pledge Tiers and Add Ons work, reviewing our Stretch Goals, and outlining the steps we need to go over as we countdown to the end and also what the next steps will be once we move to our post-Campaign mode.
But that's all for tomorrow and the final days. Today, we're talking Artifacts!
Chapter Six: Artifacts offers a selection of devilish artifacts fit for the treasure-houses of the Infernal Exalted.
There's been a lot of great discussion in our comment section, on Discord, and elsewhere around the internet. Just a reminder, though, if you've got anything that you really want the Dev team to review as the manuscript works it's way through the next stages of editing, development, and review, you need to include your notes in the Feedback Form!
Draft Manuscript Previews
Over the course of the these 30 days, backers will receive the entire current draft manuscript for Infernals: Crowned by Hellfire, but it's not going to come to you all in one go. The previews will come out in Exalt-sized sections throughout the campaign. This helps me seem interesting over the next several weeks, but it's more about guiding the conversation and helping steer feedback for the developers.
Because they want your feedback! These manuscript previews are of the current draft manuscript – the document in its latest, approved form. This may not be the final form after editing and any additional development, but you can consider it about 95% finished, so keep that in mind.
In fact, you can help guide the team through the next stages of development by providing feedback on these manuscript previews! The Onyx Path team has set up a special Feedback Form just for campaign backers for this very purpose: https://forms.gle/vXsoupab1AyG81H29
You can use this Feedback Form to share your thoughts directly with the Exalted creative team to help guide them through the next rounds of development and editing.
Shipping Costs will be Collected in the Pledge Manager
First up, it's amazingly expensive to ship, especially from Onyx Path's home base in the US. And that's as of today - we're all in the dark about how things will look in 2 years. 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 haven't been able to set up ongoing 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 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 aren't sure you want one of the hardcover editions, 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 "Learn More" link on the bottom and I'll see you below Nehramus.
