Hello there!

I love this project and this community, and I'm thrilled to see so many people come out to support this expansion for Exalted: Essence. The Exalted: Essence core rules covered a lot of ground when they came out and had to explain a million different things within the two covers, and the Player's Guide that we crowdfunded last year helped shed even more light on the various Exalted types and their abilities.

Even with all of that info, however, we can always use more tools and guidance to turn that text into our games and tell some epic tales of bravery and heroics!

This book gives advice and options, alternate methods and more monsters! Elevate your Exalted: Essence experience! That's a lot of "E"s all in one sentence.

If you've read the first Chapter that was shared in the draft manuscript preview, you've seen some of the great advice and tools that are coming your way. And a lot of that stuff is useful far beyond your Exalted: Essence table, too! So you're probably as excited as me to read the rest of the book and the alternate and optional rules that are coming our way.

But enough of that... let's get right to the point! 

Thanks to your support, the Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide has been funded and will get a fully-developed PDF, hardcover AND Deluxe hardcover release! Let me quickly switch into my Exalted mode...

It's me, but trading words for swords.

While not entirely unexpected, given the amazing support of Exalted fans throughtout the years, it still takes me by surprise when we fund so quickly. So let me scramble to get this all sorted...

Because we're not done now that we've hit our funding target! It's time to mark some milestones and build a bonus reward!

As we increase the overall funding and support for the project, we’re able to add additional resources to the project, building a companion book of Essence examples of adversaries and story scenarios. Each Stretch Goal will have a target that, once reached, will add a project to the reward list for backers of the relevant Pledge Levels. Whenever we achieve a stretch goal, the listing will be updated to reflect the achievement.

As we move through the campaign, additional funding is going to allow the Exalted: Essence team to build a Storyteller's supplement book filled with examples of the rules and options presented in the Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide. We've still got some time before we get to the draft manuscript previews for Chapter 3, and I can't wait to see the adversaries and antagonists that fill that chapter! But we all know that we always want MORE! And our first Stretch Goal will see additional antagonists written up for your Exalted: Essence game!

And then we may be able to expand that and, having more antagonists, give them something to do! The first chapter in our draft manuscript had some amazing ideas for stories and structures and plots seeds and plot points - this will expand on those ideas and the antagonists presented in the first section of this Stretch Goal supplement.

So we're off to a great start! The Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide is funded and will become a real release with PDF, hardcover, and deluxe edition. As true Exalted fans, we're already working on what's next to conquer! So let's keep at it! Please spread the word and invite others to join in and let's see if we can't get some Blessed Isle antagonists added to our rewards!

Tomorrow we'll have a sneak peek at next Tuesday's section of the draft manuscript, and then I'll be back with another preview on Monday to keep us humming! Until then, if you wanna discuss what you’ve read in today’s manuscript preview, feel free to join in on our Discussion post on the website. You may also be able to get further insight and possibly some in-depth conversation at these Onyx Path discussion zones:

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