The Trinity Continuum is a vast timeline of adventure, speckled with dramatic points across the past, present, and future, where heroes - or villains - arise. While each setting supplement will explore part of the Trinity Continuum timeline, these points in time aren't dots in a straight line - this isn't a long-form metaplot to be simply read aloud. Instead, they're points of quantum probabilities. Anything can happen, so it's up to you and your cast to make it happen!
Hello Backers!
I've just received this holographic message from a future (The future? Our future? Unknown at this time) from ISRA proxy Otha Herzog and thought I'd pass it along. Enjoy!
- James
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Hello Backers!
Now that we've completed the manuscript preview posts for the Trinity Continuum Core rules (see yesterday's update), it's time to flash forward to our setting book, Trinity Continuum: Æon.
We're going to slide into the setting with some awesome fiction, which you can download to read here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mibVy21TIhuctfnYHBKYQW9e591BmRsd
If you haven't already, you can show off your Trinity Continuum support with this beautiful Backer Badge - share it on social media, throw it up on your profile, add it to your forum signatures!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17MCifv-Kwf0kIQEQrbOhUxqqSffpOqQP
And, if you've read the Trinity Continuum Core rules and feel like making a character, Danielle has been kind enough to share her prototype character sheet that she's been using during playtesting. You can get that here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19DRcXpGDHY2MdJSOipfJauotTJ-7072D
And speaking of fiction set in the Trinity Continuum: Æon universe, we're approaching our 10TH STRETCH GOAL:
“Dawn” an exciting story set within the futuristic Trinity Continuum timeline of the Æon universe will be added when we hit $131,000 in funding. And we're SO CLOSE!
So, keep sharing your support of the project! Don't let your friends and fellow gamers miss out! Build some characters with the Trinity Continuum Core rules and post them to forums and social media. (We've started a challenge in the campaign comments to build characters from contemporary pop fiction, so show off your take on the A-Team or MacGuyver or the Scooby-Doo gang.)
As a practitioner of terrible puns and awkward conversation, I'm using the Olympics as background for these unsubtle insertions:
"Was that a triple salchow? More like a Trinity Continuum, am I right?"
"All three lines have been great at checking - it's like some sort of Trinity Continuum!"
"Wow, the Dutch team scored a Trinity Continuum at the Women's 3000 meter speed skating this morning!"
The wonderful thing is that I'm clearly demonstrating a mastery of sports lingo at the same time. It's irresistible.
Try it out and let us know how it works! And let's keep working on growing this campaign and adding more stretch goal achievements! After we add the story mentioned above, we've got another addition to the 1E bundle and then we'll get into our next trilogy of trinity rewards with some new cyberware and espionage-related hardtech! Stay tuned!
- James
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Hello Backers,
Two updates in one day? What's up with that?!
Well, to be honest, I'm just stalling before I have to go shovel the snow from my driveway again. So I will be typing very slowly...
We have officially achieved 8 stretch goal targets, and are working on our next batch. Because this is the Trinity Continuum campaign, let me tell you where we're going, where we've been, and where we're at now:
In keeping with our trinity theme, there are three flavors of stretch goal, which will be added in rotation and built on what has come before.
[BONUS REWARDS] Any stretch goal rewards achieved as part of this stream will be automatically added to all Reward Tiers that include [BONUS REWARDS] Stretch Goal Additions.
[ÆON ÆXPANSION] Achieving these stretch goal targets will add new sections to the Æon Æxpansion PDF supplement for the Trinity Continuum: Æon setting. Only Reward Tiers receiving the Æon Æxpansion PDF supplement will receive this additional content as part of their rewards.
[1E BUNDLE] Achieving these stretch goal targets will add additional titles to the Trinity 1e digital bundle, and received by any backers who have chosen the FIRST EDITION FAN Reward Tier or selected this as an Add On reward.
At $128,000 in funding - A Section on New Noetic Biotech will be added to the Æon Æxpansion PDF supplement. [ÆON ÆXPANSION]
At $131,000 in funding - TRINITY CONTINUUM: ÆON Novella – “Dawn” an exciting story set within the futuristic Trinity Continuum timeline of Æon. [BONUS REWARDS]
At $136,000 in funding - Terra Verde: Psi Order Norça and Sudamérica Sourcebook 1E PDF will be added to the Trinity 1e digital bundle. [1E BUNDLE]
Eight Stretch Goal Achievements so far. Those are stripes we've earned by spreading the word, pledging our support, inviting others to join, and working together. The three word motto of the Trinity Continuum is reflected directly in the community we're building and project that is being assembled. HOPE-SACRIFICE-UNITY
And here's what each of those achievement badges means. The Stretch Goals have been divided into three streams, that I've referred to as the three flavors of the Trinity Continuum campaign. Your selected Reward Tier and Add-Ons determine which flavor will be mixed in with your rewards when the campaign concludes. Here's where those rewards stand:
[Æon Æxpansion]: A PDF supplement for the Trinity Continuum: Æon setting. The Æon Æxpansion will contain sections which will be added to this PDF supplement via Stretch Goals, as detailed below. The supplement currently contains sections on:
[BONUS REWARDS]: A scenario supplement PDF called “IN MEDIA RES” will be created for the Trinity Continuum Core contemporary setting. The current scenarios included are:
[1E BUNDLE]: To receive all the titles that end up included in this bundle, you can increase your total pledge level by $15 (see ADD ONs on the main campaign page), or select the FIRST EDITION FAN Reward Tier. Note: The PDFs included in this bundle are the current scans of the original books available on DrivethruRPG.com.
The Trinity 1e digital bundle currently includes:
In addition to those three flavors, we celebrated crossing 200% funding with a general reward that will be open to backers of any Reward Tier.
Backers who pledge for any reward will be notified after the campaign when a deeply discounted T-shirt design is available on our Redbubble site for a limited time. (T-shirt images is a mock-up and may not reflect final design).
The most important thing to remember when looking at this list: all of these expansions, PDF bundles, scenarios and T-shirts are our secondary goals. The first and foremost objective was written on the top of the campaign page - help create, publish, and distribute the new edition of the TRINITY CONTINUUM tabletop roleplaying game.
Thanks to you, the Trinity Continuum Core rule book and Trinity Continuum: Æon setting book will be published. Take a moment to celebrate that amazing feat, along with all of the extra goals we've achieved. And then remember that we've still got just over three weeks to keep the achievements coming! Let's grow that expansion (sorry, Æxpansion!), let's add more scenarios and fiction and other bonus rewards! Let's fill that PDF bundle with everything DrivethruRPG's got available.