Has everyone recovered from a weekend of Onyx Path panels and games? The biggest Exalted news was on the Third Edition main side, where they revealed that a Liminals book is coming, to help catch up those rules a bit with the Essence side! We've already got Liminals in our core rulebook and expanded in the Player's Guide, but more lore is always welcome!
Hopefully there will be a lore-heavy stretch goal companion too that we can all enjoy!
But enough about the possibilities of the future, for we have adversaries and opponents to challenge us in the here and now!
It's Tuesday, and that means it's draft manuscript day. This is the first half of Chapter 3. We've had a few sneak peeks at foes and creatures presented in this section, but now it's fully filled in. Chapter 3: Antagonists begins with the Machinations of Doom, including best practices for designing and using enemies, before introducing the Ferocious Teeming Legions. Part A, which we get today, is all about the Interesting Mortals and Weird Creatures that you can add to your Exalted: Essence game.
Let's go!
Draft Manuscript Previews
Over the course of these 4 weeks, backers will receive the entire current draft manuscript for Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide, but it's not going to come to you all in one go. The previews will come out in Tuesday-sized sections each week of the campaign. This helps me seem interesting over the next 28 days, 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: <Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide Feedback Form>
You can use this FEEDBACK FORM to share your thoughts directly with the Exalted: Essence creative team to help guide them through the next rounds of development and editing.
DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PREVIEWS - BACKERS ONLY
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