Contagion Chronicle - a Chronicles of Darkness crossover
Created by Onyx Path Publishing - Contagion Chronicle
Let's get the Contagion Chronicle crossover Chronicles of Darkness book into stores!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
2019 Year End Summary
over 4 years ago
– Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 08:47:07 AM
Hello Contagious,
On this final day of 2019, I wanted to do a quick check in on our campaign and where we stand. The intention of this post is to both to look forward to what we can expect in 2020, and then take a moment to look at Onyx Path's journey over this past year.
In 2019,the Contagion Chronicle had a successful Kickstarter campaign, with 1,530 backers pledging $76,202 to help bring this project to life!
2020 should have great things in store for backers. I'm really looking forward to the backer PDF release for this one, especially with the recent success of the Deviant: The Renegades and Mummy: The Curse Second Edition backers able to dig in and see how those games were already incorporated into the spread of the Contagion.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Midnight Library PDF Rewards (Update #42, posted 06/13/19)
Backer T-Shirt Redbubble Link (Update #49, posted 11/06/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
Contagion Chronicle PDF
Contagion Chronicle Hardcover
Contagion Chronicle PoD Coupon
Digital Wallpaper
Player's Companion PDF
Global Outbreaks PDF
Onyx Path's 2019/2020 Publishing Brochure - many tastes of what's to come...
ONYX PATH ON KICKSTARTER IN 2019
Kickstarter continues to be an important part of the process for Onyx Path, and looking at the long list of projects in the works on the Monday Meeting Notes blog, it certainly looks like that’ll be the case in the new year.
Rather than just take pre-order for an upcoming project, Kickstarter has allowed Onyx Path to gauge interest in game lines (to see if they should develop additional projects beyond those offered during the campaign), and sometimes even add additional projects to a game line immediately via Stretch Goal achievements. More importantly, it’s a chance to interact with the community and for everyone to get involved from the earliest stages.
Looking at 2019, Onyx Path had 7 Kickstarter campaigns funded, as well as teaming up with Handiwork Games on a successful campaign for the Scarred Lands 5E Creature Collection.
THEY CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA!
LUNARS: FANGS AT THE GATES
CONTAGION CHRONICLE
PIRATES OF PUGMIRE
TRINITY CONTINUUM: ABERRANT
DEVIANT: THE RENEGADES
MUMMY: THE CURSE Second Edition
And, though the campaign is only halfway along and will finish in 2020, the recent Cults of the Blood Gods for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition funded in under an hour, which technically makes it funded in 2019!
Thanks to your support during these campaigns, Onyx Path was able to introduce the following additional projects:
Monsters of the Deep for They Came from Beneath the Sea!
Tales of Aquatic Terror for They Came from Beneath the Sea!
Heroic Land Dwellers for They Came from Beneath the Sea!
Many-Faced Strangers – a Lunars Companion for Exalted Third Edition
A Lunars-focused novella for Exalted Third Edition
A Lunars-focused cloth map of Creation for Exalted Third Edition
The Contagion Chronicle Player’s Companion
Global Outbreaks for the Contagion Chronicle
An Adventure for Pirates of Pugmire
A Pirates of Pugmire-focused Guide Screen
Releasing You Are Not Alone on DrivethruComics
Scanning and releasing the “Lost” PDF titles from Aberrant 1stEdition
N!WE for Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
Proteus Nova Compendium for Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
Novas Worldwide for Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
2 Aberrant-focused novellas
Brand new Duke Rollo fiction to support Trinity Continuum: Aberrant
The Clades Companion for Deviant: The Renegades
The Devoted Companion for Deviant: The Renegades
A Deviant novella
The Book of Lasting Death for Mummy: The Curse Second Edition
All of that is in addition to the usual backer rewards, like T-shirt designs and digital wallpapers.
So, thank you for coming with me on this journey, and I hope that 2020 allows all of us to continue to enjoy and build these communities!
First Kickstarter of 2020: Cults of the Blood Gods
In all of Vampire: The Masquerade's history, there's never been a book wholly dedicated to the diverse faiths and cults among Kindred, the ways in which they practice, their relationships with each other, and how to utilize religion in your chronicles as a force of hope and destruction.
Cults of the Blood Gods is the book you want, if you're interested in incorporating ecclesiastical horror in your games. This book contains everything you need to have each Kindred in your coterie establish a cult, cleave to a unique faith, and establish domains in the name of an ancient methuselah, being of myth, or even the Kindred protagonists themselves.
Not only that, it provides the tools necessary to play members of the Clan of Death, once known as the Cappadocians, then the Giovanni, and now the Hecata, as well as new powers for members of a large number of cults, rules for creating your own religions, and an entire story set in Munich with ready-made characters, so you can play immediately upon receipt of the book.
November 2019 Update
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 10:36:34 AM
Hello Contagious!
It's the end of November, and time for our regular month end status update.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Midnight Library PDF Rewards (Update #42, posted 06/13/19)
Backer T-Shirt Redbubble Link (Update #49, posted 11/06/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
Contagion Chronicle PDF
Contagion Chronicle Hardcover
Contagion Chronicle PoD Coupon
Digital Wallpaper
Player's Companion PDF
Global Outbreaks PDF
PROJECT TRACKING
- Contagion Chronicle PDF (InArt Direction stage,initial sketches are being reviewed)
- Player's Guide to the Contagion (formerly Player's Companion PDF (In Second Draft stage!)
- Global Outbreaks PDF (In Second Draft stage!)
We're in that stage of the campaign that's best known as Incremental Progress. Nothing's jumping a category and no major changes, but everything is slowly but surely inching forward.
I'll post our list of delivered and pending rewards with each summary update, so that we can track everything that's needed and keep on the same page. Also, feel free to check out Onyx Path's Monday Meeting Notes posts (linked here) which will give you a weekly status report on ALL of the projects Onyx Path has on the go (you may see spoilers for other kickstarter campaigns are currently running or will soon be launched).
NOW ON KICKSTARTER - FINAL WEEK!
In Mummy: The Curse, players take on the characters of the Arisen, humans who were subjects of the greatest magic ever worked by mortal hands, the Rite of Return, in the long-lost Nameless Empire. As part of the Rite, they underwent ritual death, and their souls were eternally bound to their mortal remains. Consequently, while the Arisen can be killed, they will always return, their bodies reforming anew.
Mummy: The Curse Second Edition includes all the rules you need to play as one of the Arisen: Decrees and Pillars that reflect the transformation by the Rite of Return, Utterances and Affinities as the powers you wield and the price you pay for them, magical relics and vessels for use or sacrifice, and all manner of antagonists from immortals to Shuankhsen and others besides.
Reward Delivery: Backer T-shirts Available for a Limited Time!
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 04:24:19 PM
Hello Contagious!
During the time of the Great Plague in 1665, the Mayor of London had the homes of the afflicted marked with a red cross on the door to identify the contagious.
Similarly, we'll soon be able to identify backers of the Contagion Chronicle by means of a cool new outfit!
One of our Stretch Goals during the kickstarter campaign was a special discounted-for-a-limited-time Kickstarter Backer ContagionChronicle T-shirt.
If you click over to Onyx Path's REDBUBBLE T-shirt Shop you will see the ContagionChronicle T-shirt, which will be available at a discounted price for a LIMITED TIME ONLY! You have ONE WEEK to order this shirt if you'd like to break out some style!
And not just T-shirts... if you're like me, you've seen a few weather warnings today and know that snow is on the way... it's long-sleeve weather! So, be sure to scroll around to check out all sizes, styles and options!
One last time: This shirt will be available for a LIMITED TIME ONLY - please act quickly if you're interested! They won't be available after November 15th, so spread the sickness quickly!
#OfficiallyQuarantined
October 2019 Update
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 12:49:26 AM
Happy Halloween, Contagious!
The Concierge of Darkness... 2nd Edition!
I'm sneaking in on the final day of the month to send out our regular update! It'll be super-quick, as I'm spending most of the day changing costumes! It's like a Concierge fashion show!
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
- Midnight Library PDF Rewards (Update #42, posted 06/13/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
- Contagion Chronicle PDF
- Contagion Chronicle Hardcover
- Contagion Chronicle PoD Coupon
- Backer T-Shirt Redbubble Link
- Digital Wallpaper
- Player's Companion PDF
- Global Outbreaks PDF
PROJECT TRACKING
- Contagion Chronicle PDF (InArt Direction stage!)
- Player's Guide to the Contagion (formerly Player's Companion PDF (Movedon to Second Draft stage!)
- Global Outbreaks PDF (Movedon to Second Draft stage!)
We'll likely get one of those rewards moved from Pending to Delivered before the next update (I believe the T-shirt design is nearing approval by the IP holders, so we should see it in the next few weeks).
I'll post our list of delivered and pending rewards with each summary update, so that we can track everything that's needed and keep on the same page. Also, feel free to check out Onyx Path's Monday Meeting Notes posts (linked here) which will give you a weekly status report on ALL of the projects Onyx Path has on the go (you may see spoilers for other kickstarter campaigns are currently running or will soon be launched).
For example, something we say hinted at in our kickstarter preview manuscript for the Contagion Chronicle...
COMING TO KICKSTARTER ON NOVEMBER 5TH...
In Mummy: The Curse, players take on the characters of the Arisen, humans who were subjects of the greatest magic ever worked by mortal hands, the Rite of Return, in the long-lost Nameless Empire. As part of the Rite, they underwent ritual death, and their souls were eternally bound to their mortal remains. Consequently, while the Arisen can be killed, they will always return, their bodies reforming anew.
Mummy: The Curse Second Edition includes all the rules you need to play as one of the Arisen: Decrees and Pillars that reflect the transformation by the Rite of Return, Utterances and Affinities as the powers you wield and the price you pay for them, magical relics and vessels for use or sacrifice, and all manner of antagonists from immortals to Shuankhsen and others besides.
Pledge to help us create and get this Second Edition of Chronicles of Darkness' Mummy: The Curse into stores! The Kickstarter rises from its tomb on Tuesday, November 5th at 2pm Eastern time!
September 2019 Update
over 4 years ago
– Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:40:52 PM
Hello Contagious,
No signs of change in our patients, but I do see some progress.
That's my weak doctor/contagious-themed way of saying that there are no big announcements in this update, but I wanted to make sure it goes out on schedule and keeps everyone on the same page.
It's James! And sometimes trying to say something in character is... tricky.
So, let's get to our month end status report and see where we are...
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
- Midnight Library PDF Rewards (Update #42, posted 06/13/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
- Contagion Chronicle PDF
- Contagion Chronicle Hardcover
- Contagion Chronicle PoD Coupon
- Backer T-Shirt Redbubble Link
- Digital Wallpaper
- Player's Companion PDF
- Global Outbreaks PDF
PROJECT TRACKING
- Contagion Chronicle PDF (InArt Direction stage!)
- Player's Guide to the Contagion (formerly Player's Companion PDF (First Draft stage!)
- Global Outbreaks PDF (Movedon to Redlines stage!)
- Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (New! - First Draft stage!)
Some advancement on the Global Outbreaks supplement, so that's good news! We're still in the earliest stages of this project, so lots of developments still to come...
I'll post our list of delivered and pending rewards with each monthly update, so that we can track everything that's needed and keep on the same page. Also, feel free to check out Onyx Path's Monday Meeting Notes posts (linked here) which will give you a weekly status report on ALL of the projects Onyx Path has on the go (you may see spoilers for my monthly updates, or see what other kickstarter campaigns are currently running).
Deviant: The Renegades is the newest game line in the Chronicles of Darkness. That said, it's not quite so new to Contagion Chronicle backers! You've seen the Remade before - in Santiago, Chile! One of our Contagion sites was the first reference to Deviant: The Renegades! Gain a little more insight into that scenario site by checking out the latest Kickstarter from Onyx Path!
The latest game to be added to the Chronicles of Darkness...
You woke up… different. Someone changed you: on a slab, an operating table, an altar. By luck or by fate, you escaped. Hunted by your creators, they hold all the cards, and it seems they might recapture you. Except, what they don’t understand is they’ve stoked the fires of vengeance; what they did wasn’t right. What they don’t know is that now — you’re hunting them.
Also: More Monsters for 5th Edition Fantasy Gaming...
Onyx Path has teamed up with Handiwork Games to update and expand the legendary Creature Collection for their Scarred Lands 5th Edition setting! Right now, gangs of monsters are battling each other to see who gets to be included in the book! Join in and root for your favorites!
