In Changeling: The Lost, you take on the role of an ordinary person who has seen the extraordinary. Lured or abducted by the alien Gentry, you have passed the gates and Hedges between our world and the vast fantastic. Changeling: The Lost began in 2007, and amassed some of the most passionate fans the Chronicles of Darkness has ever known. Now, it’s reborn in its second edition, which tells new tales and builds on lessons learned in the past ten years. We’re jumping back into the brambles, and letting the scar tissue from last time protect us. Changeling: The Lost, Second Edition will include the many kinds of changelings and their Courts, powers and other perks for the Lost, antagonists such as Huntsmen, Hedge Ghosts, and of course the True Fae, and cities from around the world with their own local Courts.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
2020 Year End Update
over 3 years ago
– Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 03:45:59 PM
Hello Changelings!
It's not quite the end of the month, but it's close enough for horseshoes and status updates. Yesterday was the winter solstice where I am, which means it had the least amount of daylight for the year. Of course, that means today is going to be a little bit brighter, and will keep getting a little bit brighter over the next 6 months. Let's hope that we can ease into 2021 and through these next six months with a little more brightness and a little more light than we've felt for most of this year!
Stay safe!
This year has obviously been full of unexpected challenges and difficult times. I know the Onyx Path team and writers were hit hard by the chaotic and shifting nature of the year, and plans and projects had to be shuffled around as situations and solutions were figured out. Projects that were expected to be completed or nearing completion were sometimes delayed, sometimes rescheduled, but never abandoned. I'm hoping 2021 is a much more manageable time, and looking forward to the results of the hard work of the Onyx Path team in keeping the machine running as best they could during this weird year.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Arcadian Memories PDF Bundle (1E Bundle)
Chronicles 2E Core PDF Bundle
Chronicles of Darkness Core Book PDF
OnyxDice CtL D10
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book PDF
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book Hardcover
Storyteller's Screen
Hearts on Trial - A Changeling: The Lost Jumpstart
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition POD Coupon
Storyteller's Screen PDF
Oak, Ash, and Thorn: the Changeling Companion PDF
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
Kith & Kin PDF
Hollow Courts: Fiction Anthology
A few projects still to wrap up! Here's hoping 2021 is a productive year for our Changeling: The Lost team and we'll see the fruits of their labors. In 2021, I will continue to 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.
TO CONTACT JAMES
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click OnyxPath 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.
ONYX PATH ON KICKSTARTER IN 2020
To say this year was challenging would be an understatement. Despite difficult, uncertainty, and demanding situations, the Onyx Path team continued to work on the great projects that have made us fans. It wasn't easy - schedules shifted, delays managed, and difficulties dealt with - but here we are at the end of 2020 and, despite the chaos, there are some victories to show!
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 continue to be the case in 2021.
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 2020, Onyx Path had 7 Kickstarter campaigns funded, with one more currently on the go!
And, though the campaign still has a day to go, the recent DeadMan's Rust mega-adventure and setting supplement for ScarredLands 5th Edition has funded, which means it will get added to the list soon!
Thanks to your support during these campaigns, Onyx Path was able to introduce the following additional projects:
Trails of Ash and Bone (V5)
Forbidden Religions (V5)
Children of Blood (V5)
Hunter: The Vigil 2E Jumpstart
Tending the Flame (HtV 2E)
Operative's Dossier (M20)
Technocracy Reloaded Novella Anthology
Legacies of Earth (Legendlore 5E)
Monsters from the Crypt! (TCfBtG!)
Tales of Depravity! (TCfBtG!)
Heroes in a World of Horror! (TCfBtG!)
Scion: Demigod Companion (Scion Second Edition)
Scion: Demigod Scenarios (Scion Second Edition)
Paranormal Investigator's Toolkit (WoD 20A)
Hunting Monsters (WoD 20A)
Necromancers & Mediums (WoD 20A)
Ghost Hunters Jumpstart (WoD 20A)
All of that is in addition to the usual backer rewards, like T-shirt designs and digital wallpapers.
So, thank you for your ongoing support! Even in the chaos, confusion, heartbreak, and challenges of 2020, this hobby has continued to bring people together and provide distraction and respite during these difficult times.
November 2020 Update
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:58:32 PM
Hey Changelings,
We're getting to the end of the month again, some time for an update on where our final projects are on the progress track. While I don't have any dramatic news for you, I do have a preview to share!
Super excited for Kith and Kin!
While many of you are participating in family feasts or friendly zoom calls (or, like me, just planning a Thursday nap), awesome Changeling:the Lost developer Meghan has passed along a preview for Kith and Kin, one of our final stretch goal projects. Please remember that this project is still in development (see our tracking list below), so the text is subject to further development and editing as necessary.
ABSINTHIAL
“Drink it up. Drink it all up. What, you don’t like the taste of your own medicine?”
The brews of the True Fae are as strange and wondrous as those who consume them: Wines so dry they leave a mortal gasping for water, smoky whiskies that set the tongue aflame, and of course, absinthe, the green fairy. As with all things in Arcadia, the green fairy is both simpler and more complicated than it seems.
Absinthials brewed absinthe for the Gentry. They were taken specifically for their imagination and the places their dreams wandered. The Fae forced them to brew these dreams into the single most potent beverage on either side of the Hedge. Some Lost report seeing their Keepers in the throes of visions from the bright liquid.
Most Absinthials escape when the Gentry are in these fits of ecstasy. The dreams they brewed might be gone, but their memories are intact — as intact as any changeling’s, at least. Some continue to brew draughts in the mortal world; be it craft beer, bathtub gin, or draughts made of goblin fruit, these Absinthials constantly try to recreate the potent absinthe they could only brew in Arcadia. Others are content to render others paralyzed by their presence alone.
Fickle, perfectionistic, and creative, the Absinthials always want to do things their way. They know what is best, and criticism isn’t something they take lying down. The Absinthials may have brewed the green fairy, but they also are the green fairies, and those who forget that might wind up on the other end of an Absinthial’s wrath.
Fairest: She reminds you of nothing so much as a pixie from the Lang color fairy books, with blond hair, green eyes, and a mischievous smile. The bar she runs is always full of the best gossip — and when someone gets too far out of line, why, she just leaves them out back until they’re found passed out the next morning. No harm, no foul.
Wizened: Some say his brews force the speaker to tell the truth. Others say he’s just really good at getting people drunk. His favorite saying is “In vino veritas” and he never passes up a chance to prove it.
Kith Blessing: When brewing a drink with any fae ingredient with Crafts, an Absinthial achieves an exceptional success with three successes instead of five.
Green Fairy’s Curse: Once per scene, an Absinthial can spend a point of Glamour to inflict the visions of her imagination on a single target who can perceive her directly. Her player rolls Manipulation + Expression + Wyrd, contested by the target’s Composure + Wyrd. Upon success, the victim suffers the Insensate Tilt (Changeling, p. 330) during action scenes, which becomes the Ravaged Condition (Changeling, p. 344) in other scenes, as they are paralyzed by beautiful dreams or brain-freezing nightmares. Once Ravaged resolves, the victim immediately suffers the Confused (Changeling, p. 335) Condition as she slowly comes back to herself. The curse does not work on True Fae or Huntsmen.
Arcadian Absinthe
Brewed by changelings of the Absinthial kith, true Arcadian absinthe is a mix of wormwood, fennel, peaches from the groves of Faerie, and the dreams of the Absinthial in charge of the batch. It tastes much sweeter than most absinthe and glows a bright green. Gentry who consume it suffer either the Lethargic (Changeling, p. 342) or Wanton (p. 346) Condition. All others who consume it suffer both. Arcadian absinthe is extremely difficult to brew outside of Arcadia itself. Brewing it in the Hedge requires a Hedgespinning paradigm shift with five successes, and the specific peaches needed can’t be Hedgespun; they must come from Faerie. This absinthe is impossible to brew in the mortal world.
SPIEGELBILD
“I’m sick of this ‘fairest of them all’ crap! Go find an Artist and get them to paint your portrait if you’re that self-absorbed, don’t waste my time!”
Mirrors should be flawless, perfect reflections, but usually, they’re not. A mirror tells truths, often ones a viewer doesn’t want to see, showing you your swollen pimple, the poppyseed between your teeth that’s been there all day, the dark stain cheating on your wife left in your eyes. The mirror knows your secrets, and your reflection has no interest in hiding them from you — or from anybody else. Particularly not a Spiegelbild.
Spiegelbilder are not mirror people, but they’re close cousins. They’re not Mirrorskins either, but the two kiths are like refractions of each other. A Keeper may have trapped a Spiegelbild in a mirror to serve as an adviser. While she was there, she made friends: with the creatures peeking in, with others stuck in the liminal space between Arcadian mirrors, with light itself. A Spiegelbild’s new friends might help her escape — though in Arcadia, everything has a cost. For many Spiegelbilder, that cost is telling a truth that may make their new friends feel much less generous. Spiegelbilder are bound by the twin pillars of reflection and refraction: telling the truth doesn’t mean you can’t emphasize some things and minimize others. Still, even the chattiest knows that some truths are better left untold.
Before her durance, a Spiegelbild was likely in the business of truth and appearances, though this can range from investigative journalism to a nail technician gig. She was someone people spoke to in confidence, someone who had just the kind of face that made it seem okay to tell her anything — off-the-record, of course. But the kind of person who becomes a Spiegelbild doesn’t keep secrets forever. She never did, and she never will.
Darkling: She always seems to sneak up on you — even when you’re walking toward her, it’s impossible to make a good estimate of just how far away she is. And she stands too close, her grin too sunny as she leans down to your ear, sing-songing a lullaby of the violent secrets you’ve kept from everyone else.
Fairest: Their ebony hair glitters like light reflecting off the sea, and their lips gleam as red as the ripest apple, the freshest blood. You see yourself reflected in the flat, knowing obsidian of their eyes. Your reflection changes, and your goosebumps rise, and those red, red lips smile, as if they can smell your sweat.
Kith Blessing: When a Spiegelbild uses Persuasion to talk their way out of making a promise, achieving three successes counts as an exceptional success.
Mirror, Mirror: By spending a point of Glamour and making a successful Wits + Composure roll, the Spiegelbild may use a reflective surface to enter mirror space until the end of the scene. With an instant action, she can look through any mirror she knows the location of and use all of her senses (including magical ones) to perceive what’s on the other side as though she were there. Her face appears in the reflection when she does, and the Wyrd compels her to tell the truth to anyone who asks a question of her, though nothing automatically makes that obvious. She can prevent her face from appearing with Manipulation + Stealth contested by the opponent’s Wits + Composure, but even if she succeeds, anyone who asks a question of the mirror (not just in its presence) still compels a truthful response even if they have no way of knowing she’s there. Breaking the mirror doesn’t force her out, but does impose the temporary Blind Condition (Changeling: The Lost, p. 334) on the changeling, which resolves at the end of the scene — even if she ends this power early, returning from mirror space as another instant action. Any dramatic failure while using this power can, at the Storyteller’s discretion, cause the changeling to become lost in mirror space rather than returning when this power ends.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Arcadian Memories PDF Bundle (1E Bundle)
Chronicles 2E Core PDF Bundle
Chronicles of Darkness Core Book PDF
OnyxDice CtL D10
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book PDF
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book Hardcover
Storyteller's Screen
Hearts on Trial - A Changeling: The Lost Jumpstart
As always, I will continue to 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.
TO CONTACT ME
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click OnyxPath 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.
A new mega-adventure for the Scarred Lands setting, Dead Man’s Rust contains:
A complete campaign taking characters from level 1 to 10
Detailed write-ups of four major locations in central Ghelspad: the Broadreach Horizon, The Gleaming Valley, the Hornsaw Forest, and the necromancer’s stronghold of Glivid-Autel.
New playable options including races, subraces, and subclasses
October 2020 Update
over 3 years ago
– Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 06:55:21 PM
Hello Changelings,
As we countdown to Hallowe'en, it's time for our monthly status update. No big exciting news this month, just continuing on track, with slow progress being made in the background.
Boring Update James
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Arcadian Memories PDF Bundle (1E Bundle)
Chronicles 2E Core PDF Bundle
Chronicles of Darkness Core Book PDF
OnyxDice CtL D10
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book PDF
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book Hardcover
Storyteller's Screen
Hearts on Trial - A Changeling: The Lost Jumpstart
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition POD Coupon
Storyteller's Screen PDF
Oak, Ash, and Thorn: the Changeling Companion PDF
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
Kith & Kin PDF - still in Development phase
Hollow Courts: Fiction Anthology - nowin Editing
So, some more movement on our fiction anthology. I'm so excited for Kith & Kin that I eagerly check each Monday progress post from Onyx Path, but I know that it's a complicated book with a ton of moving parts and I'm glad they're taking the time to get it right.
As always, I will continue to 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.
TO CONTACT ME
Via E-Mail: Onyx.Kickstarter [at] gmail.com
Via Kickstarter: Click OnyxPath 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.
The abandoned lover, waiting for her paramour to return, only to die, alone. Now she waits in her house forever.
The murdered family, killed in a spree so violent their spirits couldn’t pass on to the hereafter, now wreaking an untampered revenge on anyone they find.
The serial killer, who never made his tally complete in life, now determined to possess the bodies of the living to continue his gruesome campaign.
These ghosts, and more, haunt our world. They watch us, they torment us, they play with us, they find themselves locked in Sisyphean cycles, where the only respite comes through the haunting of the living.
It is our role to hunt these spirits down. Some believe we’re laying them to a deserved rest. Others hunt for the renown and to put down the homicidal dead. Others believe they’re doing God’s work, or with every hunt, their knowledge of the paranormal world increases.
We are ghost hunters, and regardless of our motives, it is our task to ensure the dead may no longer torture the living.
Ghost Hunters includes:
A broad, deep history of ghost hunter cells, and catalogue of weapons and artifacts ghost hunters might use in the World of Darkness.
Playable options among the hunters that fight with bullets and blades, and those who fight with belief and supernatural power. Alongside them, those hunters who would track, cage, and study the dead.
A wide array of story hooks and rich storytelling advice for those who wish to run a game of Ghost Hunters set alongside any of the World of Darkness 20A games.
An appendix containing a selection of antagonists your ghost hunters may come to face.
September 2020 Update
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 07:45:46 PM
Hello Changelings,
Welcome to Autumn.
Of course, that's Autumn 2020, so we continue on our slog through this complicated, challenging year. Obviously, any schedule that Onyx Path had at the beginning of the year as been massively altered, pushed back and warped by pandemics and resulting shutdowns, new social distancing requirements at workplaces, infrastructure adaptations as the world changed, and everyone dealing with their own personal challenges from suddenly working from home, or not working at all, or adjusting to sharing home offices, or homeschooling, or keeping tabs on wildfires, or...
Well, it goes on, doesn't it. Which is preamble to the main point: the remaining Stretch Goal rewards for this project are still in progress, though that progress is much slower than any of us would like, I'm sure. That doesn't mean I have nothing to share - we have shifted forward a bit, and there's a new release that may be of interest - but let's get this out of the way up front:
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Arcadian Memories PDF Bundle (1E Bundle)
Chronicles 2E Core PDF Bundle
Chronicles of Darkness Core Book PDF
OnyxDice CtL D10
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book PDF
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book Hardcover
Storyteller's Screen
Hearts on Trial - A Changeling: The Lost Jumpstart
So, some notable forward progress on our fiction anthology. That should be a project that moves fairly quickly from this point, since it's not art heavy or as complicated to layout. We'll see - I'm sure 2020 has more challenges to throw at us. As always, I will continue to 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.
That's not to say we have nothing to talk about! A brand new release for the Chronicles of Darkness, and something that can be used across all gamelines!
Now available in PDF and Print-on-Demand from DriveThruRPG: The Contagion Chronicle for Chronicles of Darkness!
The world is ill. You have everything to lose through its sickness.
Loss. Change. Chaos.
Your own blood will rebel against you. Your own herd.
Your own loved ones. Do not believe that just because you’ve had a hundred years on this earth, you’ll be exempt. Just because you were ignorant of it until now does not make you immune. Your waking to the reality of this world — of the great machine in its heart, and the sickness in its veins — is just the first step. You must find others like you and me and make them swear to drive back this Contagion. This world doesn’t have long left. You may be a monster, but perhaps with other monsters, you can drive back the destruction of everything.
The Contagion Chronicle includes:
The first Chronicles of Darkness book to provide guidance on playing creatures of all kinds in a shared story.
Systems and powers enabling teams of vampires, werewolves, mages, Prometheans, changelings, Sin-Eaters, hunters, mummies, Beasts, demons, and Deviants all in the same group, encouraging you to explore all permutations of crossover.
A new mythos — the terrifying Contagion — acting as a catalyst for unifying disparate monsters into allied groups known as the Sworn and the False.
Over ten settings from diverse locations all around the globe, each wracked with its own Contagion, and all waiting to be explored.
James is very tired of 2020
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.
August 2020 Update
over 3 years ago
– Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 08:06:55 PM
Hello Changelings,
Here we are, with what will likely be the final update in Summer 2020, the summer that went on for 12 seasons. We've got just under a month until Autumn begins, so let's see where we are...
Casual James, no current Kickstarter campaigns running.
REWARD TRACKING - Completed Rewards (Sent to Backers)
Arcadian Memories PDF Bundle (1E Bundle)
Chronicles 2E Core PDF Bundle
Chronicles of Darkness Core Book PDF
OnyxDice CtL D10
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book PDF
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition Core Book Hardcover
Storyteller's Screen
Hearts on Trial - A Changeling: The Lost Jumpstart
Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition POD Coupon
Storyteller's Screen PDF
Oak, Ash, and Thorn: the Changeling Companion PDF
REWARD TRACKING - PENDING
Kith & Kin PDF - currently in Development phase
Hollow Courts: Fiction Anthology - currently in Redlines phase
A phrase you've heard me use before: no major changes since last month. Slow but steady progress within those stages, but not quite ready to jump to the next phase. We'll get there! I will continue to 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 that I mentioned (linked here) which will give you a weekly status report on ALL of the projects Onyx Path has on the go.
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.
COMING SOON TO KICKSTARTER
As a Hero, a Scion becomes a figure of myth and story, an exemplar of some virtue of their chosen society or the culture they’re born into. Even before their Visitation, the children of the Gods are a breed apart. But some want more than this lesser form of immortality, forever in the shadow of their parents. The golden ichor within the Scion’s heart sears and cooks them, ever burning away any human frailties of the Scion and driving them toward more audacious Deeds. They seek to become truly transformational figures, leaving The World forever different in their wake. At the fifth dot of Legend, it all reaches a tipping point, where the Scion is formed more of divine ichor than mortal flesh —more immortal than mortal, a true Demigod. They have declared to The World that they will not be pawns of Fate, but players in their own right. They will succeed in becoming a God, or they will die with their failure.
Everything up to this point was your prologue. Now it’s time to live your myth.
Scion: Demigod continues the path set down by Scion: Origin and Scion: Hero, expanding Scion Second Edition’s power level and charting the next level of power tiers for the Scions of the Gods. Players will take their characters through a tightly designed yet flexible story arc that ends in apotheosis or death – either way, the character will no longer be mortal after this book. Your characters don’t have to follow every Milestone with their Deeds — but they cannot run from their destiny once they’ve chosen to embrace it.
