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Victorian Mage TTRPG

Created by Onyx Path Publishing

A major historical sourcebook for Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Sat Apr 10 '21 Announcement
almost 3 years ago – Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 09:09:40 AM

Hello Extraordinary Benefactors,

It's been just over a week since we launched our BackerKit Pledge Manager, and 80% of backers have confirmed their pledges, shifted some Perk choices, and added on some other options.

If you need to revisit your BackerKit survey, you can either click the link that was sent out on April 4th 2021, or have it resent at the BackerKit Victorian Mage page here:

https://victorian-mage-ttrpg.backerkit.com/

As a reminder, any additional funding that's pledged to BackerKit prior to May 24th 2021, either via pledge adjustments or new pre-orders, will count towards our Stretch Goal funding targets.

If you need a reminder on how to adjust your Perk selection, scroll back to our Update from April 4 to see step-by-step instructions.

Which brings me to the first part of this update!

At $110,000 in funding – Weird Wonders Expanded – Additional amazing artifacts will be created and added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

We've unlocked our first post-campaign Stretch Goal target, expanding the supplement we added in our final days on IndieGoGo. Let's see if we can keep it up and unlock our final expansion to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

At $120,000 in funding – Revolutionary Magick Expanded – More Magick spells will be added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

Another great thing about having 80% of the responses in so far - I can start the distribution of some of our rewards! With the confirmations and adjustments on the Add On options, I've been able to set up allocation on some of our existing rewards (i.e., the existing M20 PDFs, like Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary and M20: Book of Secrets, and the rest of the existing M20 Add On titles).

In another week, we'll also have some of our Stretch Goal rewards - the Penny Dreadful and Victorian AgeVampire trilogy digital fiction - ready to go! 

DIGITAL REWARD DISTRIBUTION

Many of the rewards for our crowdfunding projects take a lot of time and effort to complete. Usually, the crowdfunding 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 M20: Victorian Age, and even longer for our projects generated via Stretch Goals (the Jumpstart, Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters, Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick, the VTT token packs).

That said, there are a few rewards that are available now, as they were mostly add-on PDFs 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 Weekend:

  • [Add On] M20: Book of Secrets PDF
  • [Add On] M20: Gods & Monsters PDF
  • [Add On] M20: How Do You DO That? PDF
  • [Add On] Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition PDF
  • [Add On] Mages through the Ages Bundle, including Dark Ages: Mage PDF and Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade PDF
  • [Add On] Victorian Vampire Bundle, including Victorian Age Vampire PDF, Victorian Age Vampire: London by Night PDF, and Sunset Empires PDF.

The following Stretch Goal Rewards Will be Distributed The Weekend of April 17th 2021:

  • [Stretch] Penny Dreadful digital fiction
  • [Stretch] Victorian Age Vampire Trilogy digital fiction

REWARD DISTRIBUTION

Your link to claim these digital rewards will be sent out by our BackerKit pledge manager over the next two weekends. 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

Again, you will receive an e-mail from BackerKit with links for these Add On rewards over the next 3 days and for these Stretch Goals in another week 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://victorian-mage-ttrpg.backerkit.com/digital_rewards

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://victorian-mage-ttrpg.backerkit.com

If you used your Facebook credentials or alternate means to log in to your Indiegogo account, the BackerKit survey is sent to the email address you use for your Facebook account. If you have another email address that you prefer to use, please contact support at https://victorian-mage-ttrpg.backerkit.com/faq

If you have any other questions or concerns, you can post them to the Indiegogo comment section, or message me via one of these methods:

TO CONTACT JAMES

  • Via E-Mail: Onyxpath.ks [at] gmail.com
  • Via Indiegogo: Click "Ask A Question" under the Onyx Path logo on the main page; the message will come to me!
  • 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 about thirty years during 2020 and 2021 and my memory is... not as good as I'd like.

Sun Apr 4 '21 Announcement
almost 3 years ago – Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 08:17:04 AM

Hello Extraordinary Benefactors,

Starting at the end of April, I will post our first regular month end update. Near the end of each month, I will be posting an update with status notes on our main project 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 PDF, but there are still many moving pieces and puzzles to solve in turning this into an awesome book. 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 the end of April, though. Let's talk about this weekend instead, because...

I will also be sending out the BackerKit Pledge Manager surveys over the next 4 days!

But, before we begin all of that - I hope everyone's keeping safe and managing through our current times as best possible. I don't know how things will look as the world continues to change, but hoping the best for all of you.

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.

You don’t need to create a BackerKit account to fill out your survey. 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 Pledge Manager and get our final counts, and that won't happen until the books are printed 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://victorian-mage-ttrpg.backerkit.com

If you used your Facebook credentials or alternate means to log in to your Indiegogo account, the BackerKit survey is sent to the email address you use for your Facebook account. If you have another email address that you prefer to use, please contact support at https://victorian-mage-ttrpg.backerkit.com/faq

If you have any other questions or concerns, you can post them to the Indiegogo comment section, or message me via one of these methods:

TO CONTACT JAMES

  • Via E-Mail: Onyxpath.ks [at] gmail.com
  • Via Indiegogo: Click "Ask A Question" under the Onyx Path logo on the main page; the message will come to me!
  • 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 about thirty years during 2020 and 2021 and my memory is... not as good as I'd like.

Within the BackerKit Survey and Pledge Manager, you can:

  • Review your Perk Selection and Rewards
  • Upgrade your Perk selection
  • Confirm  and choose Add On Perk selections
  • Set up payment information for any revised Perk or new Add On options selected.

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

From the BackerKit welcome page, you can choose to:

  1. Review Your Perk selection and Add On options
  2. Start Your Survey, reviewing perk rewards, answer some pledge questions, selecting additional Add On options, and confirming shipping and payment information if needed.
  3. Switch Your Perk pledge tier

If you pledged to the $5 Supporter or $30 PDF tier and want to upgrade to the deluxe hardcover, option 3 will allow you to switch your pledge right from the start!

If you selection option 1, your Pledge Level, you will see a list of all items included in your Perk reward and also have the option to switch your pledge from that point as well.

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.

BackerKit's Pledge Manager will walk you through the steps necessary to complete your order. The first step involves some quick questions related to your pledge and rewards. This is where I'll be collecting information on how you'd like your campaign supporter informationto be listed in the final deluxe book.

After the questions, you'll be able to review your rewards and Add On any additional selections.

Once rewards are confirmed, you will be asked to confirm Shipping and Payment information if necessary. And then one final confirmation step to place your order.

As a reminder, any funds pledged in the BackerKit Pledge Manager for Perk upgrades or additional Add Ons until May 24, 2021 will be counted towards our two final Stretch Goal targets, expanding the final supplement we added during the campaign.

At $110,000 in funding – Weird Wonders Expanded – Additional amazing artifacts will be created and added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

At $120,000 in funding – Revolutionary Magick Expanded – More Magick spells will be added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

 

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, Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary PDF, M20: Gods & Monsters PDF, and other existing PDFs).

So, in summary:

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

I will post an update in another week or so, outlining the delivery of our first Add On rewards (the existing PDF titles, as noted above) and beginning distribution of those PDF rewards. And, you'll hear from me again at the end of April as I begin our regular month end status updates.

CURRENTLY CROWDFUNDING

Fri Mar 26 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago – Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:14:52 AM

Hello Extraordinary Benefactors!

We did it!

We funded the further development and creation of an M20: Victorian Age deluxe hardcover and PDF version! Thanks to you, this book is happening!

With nearly 1300 backers and hitting 300% of our funding target, not only did we fund Victorian Mage, but we've also added a few more projects to the M20 upcoming list! All backers who've pledged for either the Victorian Mage PDF or Victorian Mage deluxe hardcover perk will automatically have these bonus rewards added to their rewards list!

  • Victorian Mage Jumpstart PDF - with Ready-Made Characters and an introductory scenario, designed to teach new players and get your story started!
  • Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters PDF - A Victorian Mage companion book with playable stories and intriguing ne’er-do-wells.
  • Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick - A supplement of enthralling artifacts and spells for the 19th century person about town.

We've also unlocked these Victorian Mage celebrations!

  • Backer T-Shirt made available for purchase for a limited time on Redbubble
  • Digital Wallpaper
  • Victorian Mage Art Budget Increase
  • Penny Dreadful PDF Fiction
  • Victorian Age Vampire Trilogy PDF Fiction

THANK YOU!

Earlier today, I sent out a special Indiegogo Backer Compiled Draft Manuscript of M20: Victorian Age. Backers of this campaign will be able to get up and running long before the final book comes out - you've got the entire text available to you! I also sent a link to the Feedback Form, which the developers will use to help steer them through the next editing and development steps. This Feedback Form is only open until April 9th, though, so please share your comments, concerns, and questions as soon as possible to help make this book the best it can be.

COMMUNICATION

As noted in previous updates, I'll likely be in touch within the next 10 days via Indiegogo update to share information about our BackerKit Pledge Manager. With BackerKit, you'll be able to upgrade your pledge, select any Add On perks you missed, confirm how you'd like to be listed in the deluxe book, and update your shipping information at any time right up until the book is ready to go.

We've still got a long way to go on this project, but none of these next steps would be possible without your support.

To discuss more about this project while it's in progress, you can visit any of these Onyx Path discussion zones:

So, thanks to everyone for proving, once again, that Mage: The Ascension 20A has a dedicated and solid fanbase, and there's always an appetite for more!

High fives all around!

- James

#M20VA
#VictorianMage 

Thu Mar 25 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago – Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:28:13 AM

Hello Extraordinary Benefactors!

Welcome to the final day of this campaign! When Onyx Path launched this experiment using Indiegogo to crowdfund the Victorian Mage project, we were all curious as to how it would play out.

Well, it's been pretty tremendous! We've unlocked THIRTEEN Stretch Goals and are closing in on $100,000 in funding! A massive success.

That's right, we've unlocked another Stretch Goal since yesterday!

At $95,000 in funding – VTT Tokens & Assets Pack Expanded – Additional assets will be created to support online play for Victorian Mage, including additional tokens based on the Jumpstart and Unusual Characters supplements, and possibly some location or setting digital maps. This online asset pack will be added to the rewards list of all funding contributors to this project.

More importantly to me, we're also approaching 1200 backers! Great to see so many M20 fans eager to join together and travel back to the Victorian Age!

Great job, everyone!

If you haven't yet joined in - maybe you're waiting to become backer 1201? - here's a quick review of things to know before you pledge.

STEP 1: CHOOSE YOUR PERK

The first step in joining our campaign is to select your Perk. When you join us, you pledge a certain amount to support this campaign's main goal, which is the creation of a limited deluxe edition Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary: Victorian Age book and PDF. As thanks for your support, we offer perk rewards based on your level of funding pledged. The Perk descriptions outline the various rewards reflecting various levels of support pledged. Please note that perks including the deluxe hardcover may automatically add additional charges to cover shipping expenses.

STEP 2: CHOOSE ANY ADD-ONS

After you've chosen your Perk you will see a menu of additional reward options that you can select before your final confirmation. Each can be added to your DriveThruRPG.com digital library via a special redemption link that will be sent out as part of our perk fulfillment plan.

Once you've picked your Perk and chosen your Add-Ons, you will be asked for a final confirmation and your supporting pledge will be processed by Indiegogo.

While we will have a pre-order option for those who are unable to participate in this Indiegogo project, joining in with our crowdfunding campaign before the campaign concludes tonight provides the following benefits:

  • You'll have full access in the BackerKit Pledge Manager and the ability to upgrade your pledge and add on additional rewards
  • You'll be listed as a supporter in the Deluxe Victorian Mage book
  • You'll be eligable to have any unlocked Stretch Goal rewards added to your Perk Reward list as a bonus!  

So, as my final note to all of those who've been curious but not yet jumped on this train - if you're interested but hesitant, I suggest pledging for the $5 supporter tier that'll allow upgrade options in the post-campaign Pledge Manager. And, if you back this campaign, you will be receiving the draft manuscript via e-mail on Friday, along with the Backer Feedback Form, which will allow you to help the developers steer the project through the next steps of editing and development. The Feedback Form will be open for 2 weeks after the campaign ends, so please add your thoughts and comments as soon as possible.

STEP 3: STRETCH GOALS

We've unlocked 13 Stretch Goals... so far! Our final set of goals unlocks a new small PDF supplement of enthralling artifacts and spells and then hopefully expands it in size. 

For the 60 days following the completion of this campaign - until May 24th, 2021 - we'll be including any funds raised in BackerKit from pledge adjustments, add ons, and pre-orders in the Stretch Goal funding target total. If we unlock and/or upgrade this final supplement via these additional funds, it will be added as another bonus reward to all Indiegogo campaign backers receiving the Victorian Mage PDF or Victorian Mage deluxe hardcover.

At $100,000 in funding – Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick – A small companion book of enthralling artifacts and spells for the 19th century person about town will be created and released in a supplemental PDF, which will be added to the rewards list of all backers receiving the Victorian Mage PDF.

At $110,000 in funding – Weird Wonders Expanded – Additional amazing artifacts will be created and added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

At $120,000 in funding – Revolutionary Magick Expanded – More Magick spells will be added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

STEP 4: AFTER THE CAMPAIGN ENDS

First, we celebrate. Indiegogo will fly the celebration flag confirming the campaign ended with final totals. We'll give socially-distanced high fives and virtual fist bumps in the comments section. Since it's ending in the middle of the night for me, I may take a few hours to show up! But I'll give sleepy high fives early tomorrow morning!

At this point, I will begin immediately working to set up the project with BackerKit and link it to the Indiegogo data.

BackerKit is a robust fulfillment integration and pledge management program that will allow us to work with all of the data and distribute the rewards to you. It will take me about a week to set the project up. Once I've got it all entered and built, the team from BackerKit will review to ensure I didn't mess anything up too badly, and then I'll make any changes they've suggested and we can move on to the Survey stage.

BACKERKIT SURVEYS

Once BackerKit says I'm good to go, I will send out a survey to all backers. This is why confirming your e-mail is important!

The BackerKit survey is both a verb and a noun - it will collect data for the analysis of some aspect of a group (enabling Onyx Path to set print runs, prioritize new projects, and fine-tune future campaigns), as well as providing a general review or summary of the perk reward tier you've chosen, confirm all of the rewards associated with that perk, and confirm your total pledge amount.

I expect Surveys to go out within the next 10 days

During the Survey period, you can choose to increase your reward tier. If you had tenatively joined during the campaign process and wanted to read the mansucript before fully commiting, you can do so at this time. Note, you will not be able to reduce your reward tier selection, only increase. If you hadn't yet selected any Add On rewards to add to your pledge, you will be able to pick the ones you want and proceed. From that point forward, those add-ons will be included in your list of rewards.

The survey will ask you to confirm your shipping address, even though it'll be some time before we ship out the final product. Do not worry about moving before shipping begins - you will be able to update BackerKit right up until the point that we begin fulfilling the final book. We will send out a notice prior to lock down so you can update any information.

I'll also use the Survey to confirm some details for the premium reward tiers, and I will also confirm how you'd like to be listed in the Supporters section of the deluxe book. So, if you were hoping to use a name other than your Indiegogo alias, no worries - you'll be able to enter it in BackerKit.

5. REWARD DISTRIBUTION

This is a long process, but I will send out regular updates (usually at the end of the month) to keep you up to speed on our progress. There will be strings of updates that are just "still working on it," but I will share new artwork or information when I can.

For the rewards that already exist - the current M20 books, some of the Add On options, and Stretch Goal fiction - I'll get those out as quickly as possible once the survey data starts to come in. I expect that to happen about mid-April.

Eventually, we will have a completed PDF of Victorian Mage. We'll take some time to distribute, review, and compile any errata or corrections that need to be made. When we've made any necessary changes, we'll send out updated copies of the PDFs and then begin creating print-ready files for the Print-on-Demand and the deluxe hardcover versions.

It's yet another long process ahead, but one that we wouldn't be on if not for your faith and support.

Hopefully that's answered some questions and let you know there's a process set up for the next steps. If you've got any final questions, I'll be checking the comments all day. I'll also be watching our final totals to see if we can unlock one last Stretch Goal during the campaign!

#M20VA
#VictorianMage

Wed Mar 24 '21 Announcement
about 3 years ago – Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:15:35 AM

Hello Extraordinary Benefactors!

We're in the final two days of this campaign (well, the final 36 hours, really) and it's time to check in on our amazing accomplishments during the course of this project.

The first and most important accomplishment of this campaign - the funding of the deluxe M20: Victorian Age hardcover book and PDF. That's what we've all come together for - this book is the goal and reward for this campaign. Thanks to your support, Onyx Path will be able to develop this book to it's completion, turning the awesome draft manuscript into an even more amazing book. The creative team for this project has done tremendous work so far, and that work can continue... thanks to you!

But let's look beyond our primary reward. Our success with this campaign has enabled the Onyx Path team to add more projects to their M20 working list, and add bonus rewards on to our lists of perk rewards! We've pledge to support the project and receive the amazing deluxe hardcover, but these bonus rewards come as an excellent extra thank you to help celebrate our success!

Over the course of the campaign, we've achieved 12 Stretch Goals!  We've been doing amazingly well, crushing Stretch Goal targets throughout the entire duration of this campaign, and we're picking up steam again as we rush toward the finish line! And there's a solid chance to make that a lucky 13 before we end...

REWARDS, OPPORTUNITIES, CELEBRATIONS

Thanks to the success of the campaign, we've been able to unlock some great opportunities to spread the Victorian Mage love (a T-shirt, a desktop wallpaper), additional automatic rewards to get you in the Victorian mindset (awesome period fiction rewards Penny Dreadful and the Victorian Age Vampire trilogy) and new content in the form of a complete Jumpstart (with a scenario and Ready-Made Characters), the Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters PDF (which we tripled in size), and some additional tools for online play in the form of Victorian Mage VTT Tokens.  

CELEBRATE THE VICTORIAN (M)AGE

All backers will be notified when this Indiegogo backer T-shirt becomes available for purchase.

All backers will be notified when this Indiegogo backer T-shirt becomes available for purchase.

All backers will automatically have the digital wallpaper added to their rewards list.

VICTORIAN AGE FICTION

Penelope Anne Drizkowski - Penny Dreadful to her friends - leads an interesting life, but it's starting to get just a bit too interesting. First off, a young lady has enough trouble fending off unwanted advances, but what is one to do when they're from vampires? What about werewolves? Then again, most girls aren't witches.

This item will automatically be added to the rewards lists for all backers pledged to this project.

By day, London is the greatest metropolis of the 19th century. By night, it is the hunting ground of monsters older than the empire itself. Above it all lurks Prince Mithras, Methuselah of Clan Ventrue and godhead of a cult infecting vampire and mortal alike.

This item will automatically be added to the rewards lists for all backers pledged to this project, and includes all three books in the Victorian Age Vampire Trilogy.

TOOLS FOR ONLINE PLAY

If you're like me, you've been playing online more this year than all previous years combined. While fantasy fighters, elves and dwarves seem pretty easy to source, it does get a bit more difficult to build your toolset when you stray from the well-trodden rpg path. These Victorian Mage tokens will be perfect to represent characters on a map of gaslight London, or portraits of helpful allies (or enemies), or as an image of your character when you don't feel like being on camera.

These items will automatically be added to the rewards lists for all backers pledged to this project.

Not only did we unlock a token set that will be built from the M20: Victorian Age book itself, but we've got an opportunity to have tokens taken from the additional content that we helped fund as well! More on that below...

ADDITIONAL CONTENT

All backers pledged to a Perk that includes Victorian Mage PDF or the Victorian Mage Deluxe hardcover will automatically have this additional content added to their rewards list:

And speaking of additional conent, we built this Victorian Mage Jumpstart piece by piece via our Stretch Goal achievements. First we unlocked a trilogy of Ready-to-Play Mages to provide examples or be used for pick-up play. Then we doubled their number to a half dozen! And then we completed the ritual by adding an introductory scenario and the creation of a full Victorian Mage Jumpstart project, which will be an awesome springboard to launch our own stories or quickly use for a spur-of-the-moment game. Jumpstarts are also great ways to introduce new players to the game and setting, so a chance to add more fans is always welcome!

We first unlocked a small companion book in PDF that will contain playable stories and intriguing ne’er-do-wells, which will be added to the rewards list of all backers receiving the Victorian Mage PDF or Victorian Mage deluxe hardcover book.

But who wants a small book when we can triple it in size! We unlocked two expansions to Bizarre Tales & Unusual Characters to help populate and drive our Victorian Mage games! 

MAKING THE BOOK EVEN BETTER

And one final accomplishment to list, something that ties right into the main goal listed at the top of this update.

Thanks to your support, Onyx Path is able to increase the art budget for this project, adding even more magickal artwork to the book. They'll be able to make our deluxe books even more deluxe!

We've come a long way since we started, but we're not done! We're *this* close to unlocking another Stretch Goal, as noted earlier.

At $95,000 in funding – VTT Tokens & Assets Pack Expanded – Additional assets will be created to support online play for Victorian Mage, including additional tokens based on the Jumpstart and Unusual Characters supplements, and possibly some location or setting digital maps. This online asset pack will be added to the rewards list of all funding contributors to this project.

With 36 hours to go, I'm confident that we'll land our Lucky 13th Stretch Goal before the end of the campaign!

But, what happens after that...

We're not done.

We knew when we launched this project - Onyx Path's first effort on Indiegogo - that it would take backers some time to adjust to this experiment. In some ways and in certain areas, Indiegogo isn't as flexible as Onyx Path's traditional crowdfunding platform; it's not quite as easy to wait-and-see on Indiegogo. So we knew some fans and backers would be waiting for our post-campaign Pledge Manager before trading up on their pledge, or maybe before joining at all.

So here's what we're going to do.

I'm hoping to have our Victorian Mage Pledge Manager up and running within 10 days of this Indiegogo campaign ending. Within the Pledge Manager, all who have pledged to this campaign will have full access and be able to trade up to a new Perk if you so desire, as well as adding on additional rewards that you may have skipped when first pledging to this campaign. You can read the last update to look at all of the Add On options.

For the 60 days following the completion of this campaign, we'll be including any funds raised in BackerKit from pledge adjustments, add ons, and pre-orders in the Stretch Goal funding target total. I've got one more project to annoucne, and if we unlock it via these additional funds, it will be added as another bonus reward to all Indiegogo campaign backers receiving the Victorian Mage PDF or Victorian Mage deluxe hardcover.

We've set a 60 day limit because we do need a hard cut off date to officially give a green light to the project if it happens, and to give the development team the space and direction they need to create outlines and hire a writing team in a timely manner.

Also, 60 days takes us to May 24th, which just happens to be Queen Victoria's birthday. And what better place to conclude our trip into the Victorian Age than on that date!

Can we use this extra time as an opportunity to add one more bonus reward to our lists? As with earlier projects, the final size and scope of this supplement will be decided by our Extended Stretch Goal targets.

At $100,000 in funding – Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick – A small companion book of enthralling artifacts and spells for the 19th century person about town will be created and released in a supplemental PDF, which will be added to the rewards list of all backers receiving the Victorian Mage PDF.

At $110,000 in funding – Weird Wonders Expanded – Additional amazing artifacts will be created and added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

At $120,000 in funding – Revolutionary Magick Expanded – More Magick spells will be added to the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement.

So, thank you one more time to everyone who's supported this Victorian Mage campaign and come with us on this experiment! We're closing in on 1150 backers and nearly $100,000 in funding! It's been a HUGE success, and will likely grow even more via our Pledge Manager!

We've got one final day (well, 36-ish hours, really) to hit that 1150 backer total or maybe the $100,000 funding line. Please share links to this campaign on your social media and in your social circles, and let's do our best to make sure all M20 and Victorian Age fans know about it before the end!

All backers who join before the campaign concludes will be receiving the draft manuscript via e-mail on Friday, along with the Backer Feedback Form, which will allow you to help the developers steer the project through the next steps of editing and development. The Feedback Form will be open for 2 weeks after the campaign ends, so please add your thoughts and comments as soon as possible.

More importantly, all backers who join before the campaign concludes will be able to have the Stretch Goal bonus rewards added to their rewards list - including the Weird Wonders & Revolutionary Magick PDF supplement should it be unlocked in the Pledge Manager by May 24th. 

I'll talk more about the Pledge Manager and the next stages of this campaign more in an update tomorrow. But until then, let's keep working our magick and see what wonders we can unleash!

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