Cavaliers of Mars is a swashbuckling roleplaying game and adventure setting from Rose Bailey, longtime developer of Vampire: The Requiem and other World of Darkness titles. Cavaliers draws inspiration from pulp fantasy and historical fiction, adding a modern edge and an exotic setting. Cavaliers of Mars is powered by the DEIMOS system, in which a hero’s motivations and approach to problems strongly influence her chance of success. In combat, heroes face off with their enemies in contests of tactics and chance.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
February 2020 Update
about 4 years ago
– Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 05:26:03 PM
Hello Cavaliers,
It's February, or 02-2020 as I call it, and it's time for another rapid-fire status update.
It's February James. That's like January James, except much more tired.
These updates are like drip-drip-drip drops slowly filling a bathtub. We're getting there, but the tub isn't quite full yet.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Redbubble discounted KS T-shirt link (Update #27, 11/20/17)
6 PDF mini-games (Update #29, 12/04/17)
Digital Postcard - Illium (Update #34, 04/24/18)
Cavaliers of Mars PDF (Update #35, 05/23/18)
Digital Postcard - Vance (Update #36, 06/01/18)
Digital Wallpaper (Sent 06/11/18)
Digital Postcard - Zodiac (update #38, 07/25/18)
Digital Postcard - Chiaro (update #39, 08/17/18)
Digital Postcard - Surtur (update #41, 09/12/18)
Cavaliers of Mars Hardcover Core Book (update #42, 09/26/18)
GM Screen (update #42, 09/26/18)
Signed Book Plate (update #42, 09/26/18)
Digital Postcard - Ziggur (update #43, 11/02/18)
Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel PDF (update #49, 09/23/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
City of The Towered Tombs PDF
City of The Towered Tombs (and, I'm not sure if it gained a "The" over the past year or I've been missing it, but it's there now...) is still in it's final phase of post-editing development, and the art has been re-contracted, so it should be moving to layout soon, and then on to us.
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).
TO CONTACT ME
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click Richard Thomas under the "Created By" heading on the main page, and then press the "Contact Me" button - 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.
January 2020 Summary
over 4 years ago
– Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 08:27:55 AM
Hola Cavaliers!
This will be a pretty quick January update. We're tracking our one last reward, and while it's making progress, it's still in Post-Editing Development, so not quite yet ready for us to get a peek.
Cavalier attitude!
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Redbubble discounted KS T-shirt link (Update #27, 11/20/17)
6 PDF mini-games (Update #29, 12/04/17)
Digital Postcard - Illium (Update #34, 04/24/18)
Cavaliers of Mars PDF (Update #35, 05/23/18)
Digital Postcard - Vance (Update #36, 06/01/18)
Digital Wallpaper (Sent 06/11/18)
Digital Postcard - Zodiac (update #38, 07/25/18)
Digital Postcard - Chiaro (update #39, 08/17/18)
Digital Postcard - Surtur (update #41, 09/12/18)
Cavaliers of Mars Hardcover Core Book (update #42, 09/26/18)
GM Screen (update #42, 09/26/18)
Signed Book Plate (update #42, 09/26/18)
Digital Postcard - Ziggur (update #43, 11/02/18)
Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel PDF (update #49, 09/23/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
City of Towered Tombs PDF
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).
And, while I'm here and thinking about dusty days of adventure...
COMING TO KICKSTARTER ON FEB 6th AT 2:00 PM EST
The scales have fallen from your eyes. A fire is lit — is it a lamp perched over the inscription on an ancient blade or a roaring conflagration consuming the house in which the howling fiends wait? Things will never be the same after this. You’ve set forth on a damning path. Carry the Vigil. Fight back the shadows.
Hunter: The Vigil Second Edition is a standalone game that can be played by new or existing players. The lore has been updated to not only reflect the uptick in monsters, but also the fact that hunting monsters is not exclusive to a location, group of people, or time period. There may be more monsters than ever before, but now there are more ways to fight them, too.
In Hunter: The Vigil, anyone can be a hunter — provided you are committed to the hunt. It is a game of personal horror and sacrifice that tests relationships and encourages teamwork within a cell, compact, or conspiracy.
Will you heed the call? Will you uphold the Vigil?
JOIN US ON FEBRUARY 6 AT 2:00 PM EST
2019 Year End Summary
over 4 years ago
– Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:25:20 PM
Hello Cavaliers!
With these final days of 2019, I wanted to do a quick spotlight on our campaign, check in on where we are now, and a look at Onyx Path's journey over this past year.
Is it Baby New Year? Not even close!
REWARDS FROM 2019
The biggest news for Cavaliers of Mars in 2019 was the release of Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel, one of the projects that you enabled with your support during the kickstarter campaign!
And, with that, we're down to one final reward currently in production:
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Redbubble discounted KS T-shirt link (Update #27, 11/20/17)
6 PDF mini-games (Update #29, 12/04/17)
Digital Postcard - Illium (Update #34, 04/24/18)
Cavaliers of Mars PDF (Update #35, 05/23/18)
Digital Postcard - Vance (Update #36, 06/01/18)
Digital Wallpaper (Sent 06/11/18)
Digital Postcard - Zodiac (update #38, 07/25/18)
Digital Postcard - Chiaro (update #39, 08/17/18)
Digital Postcard - Surtur (update #41, 09/12/18)
Cavaliers of Mars Hardcover Core Book (update #42, 09/26/18)
GM Screen (update #42, 09/26/18)
Signed Book Plate (update #42, 09/26/18)
Digital Postcard - Ziggur (update #43, 11/02/18)
Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel PDF (update #49, 09/23/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
City of Towered Tombs PDF
I'm looking forward to visiting the City of Towered Tombs in 2020!
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 02:01:00 PM
Hey Cavaliers,
Ah, the conclusion to November. I hope everyone's month went as well as it could! And, as we bring down the curtain on November and prepare to usher in December, I'll update you on where we stand with this project.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Redbubble discounted KS T-shirt link (Update #27, 11/20/17)
6 PDF mini-games (Update #29, 12/04/17)
Digital Postcard - Illium (Update #34, 04/24/18)
Cavaliers of Mars PDF (Update #35, 05/23/18)
Digital Postcard - Vance (Update #36, 06/01/18)
Digital Wallpaper (Sent 06/11/18)
Digital Postcard - Zodiac (update #38, 07/25/18)
Digital Postcard - Chiaro (update #39, 08/17/18)
Digital Postcard - Surtur (update #41, 09/12/18)
Cavaliers of Mars Hardcover Core Book (update #42, 09/26/18)
GM Screen (update #42, 09/26/18)
Signed Book Plate (update #42, 09/26/18)
Digital Postcard - Ziggur (update #43, 11/02/18)
Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel PDF (update #49, 09/23/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
City of Towered Tombs PDF - in Post-Editing Development stage
Work continues on our final Stretch Goal reward. Can't wait to see it!
I'm guessing most of our updates will be pretty similar for the next while, slowly tracking the completion of this final project. But, also very excited to see how far we've come on this one, and how many awesome rewards are out there being enjoyed!
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).
And, while I'm here and thinking about dusty days of adventure...
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.
October 2019 Update
over 4 years ago
– Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 01:07:14 PM
Happy Halloween, Cavaliers!
These aren't costumes - they're uniforms!!
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)
Redbubble discounted KS T-shirt link (Update #27, 11/20/17)
6 PDF mini-games (Update #29, 12/04/17)
Digital Postcard - Illium (Update #34, 04/24/18)
Cavaliers of Mars PDF (Update #35, 05/23/18)
Digital Postcard - Vance (Update #36, 06/01/18)
Digital Wallpaper (Sent 06/11/18)
Digital Postcard - Zodiac (update #38, 07/25/18)
Digital Postcard - Chiaro (update #39, 08/17/18)
Digital Postcard - Surtur (update #41, 09/12/18)
Cavaliers of Mars Hardcover Core Book (update #42, 09/26/18)
GM Screen (update #42, 09/26/18)
Signed Book Plate (update #42, 09/26/18)
Digital Postcard - Ziggur (update #43, 11/02/18)
Witch-Queen of the Shadowed Citadel PDF (update #49, 09/23/19)
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
City of Towered Tombs 1-3 PDF - in Post-Editingstage
There we are! One final reward, still making it's way toward you. It's been a long journey, but we're getting ever-closer to our final destination!
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).
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!
