Hello Spunky Supporters!

Well, these first 19 hours have been awesome. Not only have we funded the book, we've gathered more than 500 backers and are helping decide on the direction of our second Sci-Fi example setting for the final version!

As one of the benefits of backing during the early days of this quick campaign, YOU get to have your vote counted to help decide what the subject/theme of the second example setting will be.

I'll stress that nothing has been written for this second setting yet, and that these themes/concepts have been left as pretty general umbrellas to hold a lot of ideas that may come to the developers and writers when they begin putting this section together. We're helping by providing a direction.

I just mention that because I've seen some amazing discussion about the possibilities within each concept, but also some disappointment that "voting for Futuristic Superheroes means we won't get the starship rules that would have come with the first option!" Or "we won't get cyber-enhancement rules if we vote for option three!" The only thing I can say, at this point in time, nothing is off the table and the team will take our direction and come up with lots of cool stuff.

Right now, we've got "Lost in a Distant Galaxy" just squeaking into the lead, with Cyber-enhanced humans fly starships right behind, and 



I'll note that we've only had 212 votes so far, so that means fewer than half of our backers have voted.

Voting will run until September 14th at 2:00 PM EST. You must be a backer of this project to vote for this setting.

Personally, I'm a big fan of all of those ideas and was initially looking at "Lost in a distant galaxy" because I could see running that kind of game with my group. And then someone suggested "Futuristic Superheroes fight monsters" could be about building a team of teenage science ninjas with individual vehicles and bird-themed costumes and now I'm wavering. The good news is that you can change your vote as often as you like... right up until the September 14th end point.



And, here's an idea. If the setting direction you're rooting for doesn't end up winning and you fear that some cool ideas and concepts you were really looking forward to won't be available...

Well, it's time for some Stretch Goal talk!

As we increase the overall funding and support for the project, we’re able to add additional resources to the project, expand the rewards listed, and add in new offers and opportunities. Each Stretch Goal will have a target that, once reached, will add a project to the reward list for backers of the relevant Stretch Goal path. Whenever we achieve a stretch goal, the image will be updated to reflect the achievement.


At $30,000 in Funding - COMMUNITY CONTENT PROGRAM - Onyx Path will expedite adding Storypath Ultra material to the Storypath Nexus Community Content Program.



The StoryPath Nexus is Onyx Path's imprint that allows you — the StoryPath community — to create and sell self-published material for StoryPath RPGs like the second edition of the Scion and Trinity roleplaying games. You can offer your work for free, set a price, or make it pay-what-you-want. They’ll give you some resources to help you out, and a marketplace for other Storypath fans to use.

At this time, the Nexus is open for certain parts of the Scion second edition setting, some eras within the Trinity Continuum, and They Came from Beneath the Sea! There's still a lot of games to be opened up and added, but all of that takes time as the Onyx Path legal brains figure out what's allowed and build assets to help you.

If we hit this Stretch Goal, that will push Storypath Ultra to the front part of the line, getting SPU systems and assets available to Content Creators so they can build material for all of us to use.

You can read more about Storypath Nexus <here>

Beyond that, we'll have a few milestone markers to help us track our pace and give the team time to get the wording right on our next set of Stretch Goals!


At $35,000 in Funding - DIGITAL WALLPAPER - Sensational SPU artwork will be used to create a wallpaper for your computer desktop. This digital wallpaper will be added to the rewards list of all backers supporting this project.


At $38,000 in Funding – STORYPATH ULTRA SHIRT ON REDBUBBLE – A Storypath Ultra-themed Backer shirt will be hosted on Onyx Path’s Redbubble store for a limited time. Only backers will be notified when the shirt becomes available for purchase.

So remember to vote! Share ideas about your setting preferences in the comments or on Discord, and let's continue to spread the word and see if we can't get those Stretch Goals unlocked!

Tomorrow - We'll get a peek at the first example setting from the book with some Pinfall from Grace fiction!

Hello SPU fans!

We'll have to come up with a nickname for the group! Because WE FUNDED!



Thanks to your support, the Storypath Ultra Core Manual has been funded and will get a fully-developed PDF and hardcover release.



This happened a lot faster than I'd expected. We'd planned for a smaller campaign, a bit quieter (very demure, very mindful) since this was more of a general Storypath rulebook rather than one of Onyx Path's marquee game lines. So we hadn't planned out any big stretch goals or bonus books or anything.

But I will introduce some milestone markers over the next 4 weeks that we can use to track our progress and celebrate our accomplishments. I'll sneak those in to updates as they come out.

Tomorrow, we're going to look at how our Backer Voting for our second example setting is coming along, and I'll be reminding everyone to vote on their favorite and share ideas about their setting preferences before voting closes on September 14th.  And then on Thursday and Saturday, I'll have some of the material from our first example setting to show how the Core Rules presented in the first Backer Preview Manuscript can be presented in a game.

(Well, Thursday may be more about setting fiction than rules, but we'll get into stuff more as the Expansion and Building Blocks chapters come out).



So, let's celebrate! Everyone take the time to read the first backer manuscript draft - those are the core rules for Storypath right there, so it's a pretty great section to kick everything off with.

And now we know that we'll all be getting the best version of SPU that the team can make!

Thanks, everyone!

(Yeah, some of you have guessed right about Appendix A!)

Hello Storypathers!

My name is James, and I’ll be your Onyx Path Crowdfunding Concierge for this special little project - the Storypath Ultra Core Manual! I’ll be updating the campaign as we go, setting up our backer polls, answering questions, and providing support wherever needed as best I can.

I’ll note that I’m not part of the creative team on this project – so I won’t be able to immediately answer some of the more intricate rules or design inquiries – but having me manage this Crowdfunding campaign allows Eddy and the Onyx Path team to keep their focus on the awesome projects that they’ve got in the works.

That said, feel free to make me your point person for any questions or issues you may have. I'll make sure to dig up answers as quickly as possible and clear up any issues that arise. Mostly, I'm just looking forward to an exciting ride along with all of you on this (and future) projects.

This comment section is for all members of this community – united by our shared desire to see this project fund and develop – to cheerlead the project and figure out how best to spread the word about what we’re building here. If you’ve started a thread on whatever social media platform exists today or a Discord conversation about the game or this campaign – let me know about it so we can share that info. If you’ve discussed the game on a blog or podcast, let’s hear about it! If you’ve got funny ideas for social media hashtags, well we can do those too!

I will also be the person who gets to share the updates and previews with you! As noted on the main page and in the pledge descriptions, I also get to share an exciting treat – The Storypath Ultra Draft Manuscript previews, so you can start reading the book immediately! Scroll down to the bottom of this post on the website to see the first BACKERS-ONLY update for a download link.

So, welcome to Crowdfunding by BackerKit! Welcome to this latest and greatest expression of the Storypath system! It's time for Storypath Ultra!

One quick note about Shipping before we get into the manuscript previews. 

First up, it's amazingly expensive to ship, especially from Onyx Path's home base in the US. 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 can't really set up 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 international 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 live outside the US and aren't sure you want the hardcover or other physical items, you can pledge to the PDF tier now and upgrade your pledge in the Pledge Manager once we know the final shipping costs.

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 "Read The Update" link on the bottom and I'll see you below the title treatment.

The first of the included example settings, Pinfall from Grace, Body Slams from Hell, not only offers a complete game set in the parallel version of the year 2000, but also illustrates exactly how Story Path was implemented and adjusted.

The Onyx Path team has plans to write two more, and as a backer you'll be able to vote on which ones you prefer.

For the first poll, you'll be voting on a Sci-fi setting example. Your options:

Voting will run until September 14th at 2:00 PM EST. You must be a backer of this project to vote for this setting.

We'll have a second poll running during the final two weeks of the campaign, where backers will be voting on one of the Fantasy Setting options.