Realms of Pugmire Tabletop RPG (A New Edition of Pugmire!)
Created by Onyx Path - Realms of Pugmire
A streamlined fantasy rules system with an evocative setting that's both family-friendly and deep enough to create compelling stories.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
September 2025 Update
5 months ago
– Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 07:48:44 AM
Hello Good Doggos,
No big news for this month, just our regular check in. Let's dive in!
Rewards Still Pending
Onyx Path is still sorting through the chaos in the printing industry and will hopefully have a revised production plan put together soon! I'll continue to monitor their Monday Meeting notes and share any new information that comes out.
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <August 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas 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.
In the chaos of the Monster Kingdoms, now is your time to make a mark and shape the world to your liking.
Monster Kingdoms is a complete tabletop roleplaying game of dark fantasy, where evil is a natural state, adventure boasts horror and violence, and politics are cutthroat. It includes:
A massive number of playable monstrous characters.
A dangerous setting encompassing 13 unique, competing kingdoms.
It’s primarily a book for players who are interested in new options for their games. Inside you’ll find not only more options for dog player characters, more advice on how to play dogs, and more information about dog communities beyond the kingdom of Pugmire. You’ll also find more species to play: badgers, birds, lagomorphs, and reptiles.
If you have a yen to be a nautical adventurer, there are rules for sailing and ships presented within, as well as a more detailed writeup of the main coastal city, Waterdog Port. For dogs looking to use strange and exotic weaponry, there are rules for gunpowder weapons, as well as the associated syndrome of Gunpower Panic that goes with using them. Combined with loads of new spells and backgrounds, there’s something for every player in these pages.
We haven’t forgotten the hard-working Guide in all this. Within in this book, we present not only some new enemies for player characters to thwart or befriend, but also three adventures that present a loose chronicle using much of the material presented in this book (and Realms of Pugmire). Players should avoid reading the back of the book, in case of spoilers, but most of the book is here for you to enjoy.
When you pre-order the PDF, you also gain access to the Draft Manuscript, so you'll be able to play with these new rules - in their ruff format at least - right away!
Rewards Still Pending
Onyx Path is still sorting through the chaos in the printing industry and will hopefully have a revised production plan put together soon! I'll continue to monitor their Monday Meeting notes and share any new information that comes out.
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <July 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas 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.
In Monster Kingdoms, you play a creature of darkness. You may be vampiric magus, or feyborn harlequin. You might be a warrior gauntlet, an orc cultist, a druidic elf, or a flame-spitting dragonkin. You can play a wildly creative goblinoid, a chaotic dwarf, a fierce ice elementor, or a shame-filled fiend. Your characters can be anything from hulking dreadnauts to disturbing mentalists, and many Mantles in between.
Name your weapon and make it your sceptre.
Slay a beast and seize its crown.
Build your infamy either as a monster or as a servant of the light. Perform deeds worthy of repute: vanquishing a beast greater than yourself, toppling a lord from his tower and seizing control of his lands and people, or freeing slaves to weaken the Malignant Mind. A character’s infamy is a means of measuring their success in the Monster Kingdoms, whether virtuous or vicious. The only unworthy deeds are the ones no one hears about.
In the chaos of the Monster Kingdoms, now is your time to make a mark and shape the world to your liking.
Monster Kingdoms is a complete tabletop roleplaying game of dark fantasy, where evil is a natural state, adventure boasts horror and violence, and politics are cutthroat. It includes:
A massive number of playable monstrous characters.
A dangerous setting encompassing 13 unique, competing kingdoms.
The entire dynamic Storypath Ultra system.
July 2025 Update - Mobile Wallpaper Reward!
8 months ago
– Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 06:56:24 AM
Hello Good Doggos,
I'm coming to you a week early with this monthly update since I've got another reward for you! We snuck in our digital wallpaper stretch goal just at the end of last month, and now it's time for the mobile wallpaper reward to go out to backers!
Realms of Pugmire Mobile Wallpaper
Dress up your phone with the Realms of Pugmire logo! A fun treat for the summer!
REWARD DISTRIBUTION
Your links to claim your Realms of Pugmire Digital Wallpaper will be sent out by our BackerKit pledge manager over the few hours. Since we are using our partners at DriveThruRPG as the host for these, you will need to set up a DriveThru account if you don't have one already. If you encounter any problems with downloading your rewards, please contact DTRPG's customer service to resolve the matter, they've always been top-rated for customer service. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/contact_us.php
Again, you will receive an e-mail from BackerKit with links for this reward over the next 24hours if it is on your expected list of rewards.
With the PDF finalized, the team has been working on setting up the print run for the hardcovers. That hasn't been an easy task over the past year, and I don't have a revised timeline of when to expect the final print edition - Rich has talked about this on his Monday Meeting Notes blog and again on the What's Up With Onyx Path? panel at this year's virtual convention (check out that Youtube video here), but it seems it's been very hard to lock down any sort of pricing with tariffs, counter-tariffs, and other issues preventing any sort of consistency that would allow a 120-day print quote. For now, we've got the PDF and print-on-demand versions, and I'll keep you updated as to any changes in the situation revealed by Onyx Path in our updates.
In the meantime, the team continues to work on our Stretch Goal rewards and hopefully we'll continue to see that list shrink as they move to delivered status.
Realms of Pugmire Mobile Wallpaper (Update #62, July 16 '25)
Onyx Path Project Tracking
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <June 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas 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.
This book is a supplement to Realms of Pugmire. That book contains rules for all the different things your characters might do and important information about the world they live in. Pugmire Unleashed expands on that setting.
Inside you will find:
Chapter One (Dogs): Here are a variety of new rules for Realms of Pugmire: four new dog callings, new tricks and spells, rules for firearms and sailing, the introduction of guilds and lodges in the kingdom of Pugmire, prominent families and citizens of that kingdom, and advice on how to play dog characters.
Chapter Two (Badgers): This chapter covers badgers for the first time in detail, including the recent changes to their society brought about by the rise of their new leader, Kibu the Red. Afterwards are new and complete rules for making badger player characters, including badger-specific backgrounds, tricks, and spells.
Chapter Three (Other Species): Here is where you’ll find a more in-depth look at the history, culture, and relationships of three other species: birds, lagomorphs, and reptiles. Each species also has full character creation rules and presents new callings, tricks, and spells to highlight each species’ distinctive playstyles.
Chapter Four (Empire of Good Dogs): This chapter details a variety of locations both close to and distant from the kingdom of Pugmire. They range from the dog-based cities of Houndton and Mutt Town, to the villages and secret headquarters nearby, and areas featuring other species such as Azuresky and Waterdog Port.
Chapter Five (Adventures): This chapter features three adventures for Guides to help introduce players to the new concepts presented within the pages of Pugmire Unleashed. These can be run one after the other or added into an existing game. It ends with new enemies to use in any Realms of Pugmire game.
Backers have access to the entire draft manuscript before any pledges are processed or payments collected. The campaign ends at 2:00 PM Eastern Time on July 17th!
Reward Distribution - Digital Wallpaper
8 months ago
– Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 09:43:15 AM
Hello Good Doggos,
I know we had our monthly update a few weeks ago, but I've got a tiny bit more to sneak in before we flip the calendar to July.
The 2025 edition of the Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention was a fun time! If you missed it, they're starting to post videos of their panels and Actual Plays on Youtube, and you can now watch the <Onyx Path Con 2025 Realms of Pugmire Panel> where Eddy Webb, Dixie Cochran, and Travis Legge discuss what's coming up for the Realms of Pugmire!
Next, remember this Stretch Goal from way back during our Kickstarter campaign? Well, it's time to send it out!
Realms of Pugmire Digital Wallpaper
I try and change my desktop wallpaper on my computer as often as I check my thermostat. This week has been pretty hot. Luckily, I've got a new desktop wallpaper just in time!
REWARD DISTRIBUTION
Your links to claim your Realms of Pugmire Digital Wallpaper will be sent out by our BackerKit pledge manager over the few hours. Since we are using our partners at DriveThruRPG as the host for these, you will need to set up a DriveThru account if you don't have one already. If you encounter any problems with downloading your rewards, please contact DTRPG's customer service to resolve the matter, they've always been top-rated for customer service. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/contact_us.php
Again, you will receive an e-mail from BackerKit with links for this reward over the next 24hours if it is on your expected list of rewards.
This book is a supplement to Realms of Pugmire. That book contains rules for all the different things your characters might do and important information about the world they live in. Pugmire Unleashed expands on that setting.
Inside you will find:
Chapter One (Dogs): Here are a variety of new rules for Realms of Pugmire: four new dog callings, new tricks and spells, rules for firearms and sailing, the introduction of guilds and lodges in the kingdom of Pugmire, prominent families and citizens of that kingdom, and advice on how to play dog characters.
Chapter Two (Badgers): This chapter covers badgers for the first time in detail, including the recent changes to their society brought about by the rise of their new leader, Kibu the Red. Afterwards are new and complete rules for making badger player characters, including badger-specific backgrounds, tricks, and spells.
Chapter Three (Other Species): Here is where you’ll find a more in-depth look at the history, culture, and relationships of three other species: birds, lagomorphs, and reptiles. Each species also has full character creation rules and presents new callings, tricks, and spells to highlight each species’ distinctive playstyles.
Chapter Four (Empire of Good Dogs): This chapter details a variety of locations both close to and distant from the kingdom of Pugmire. They range from the dog-based cities of Houndton and Mutt Town, to the villages and secret headquarters nearby, and areas featuring other species such as Azuresky and Waterdog Port.
Chapter Five (Adventures): This chapter features three adventures for Guides to help introduce players to the new concepts presented within the pages of Pugmire Unleashed. These can be run one after the other or added into an existing game. It ends with new enemies to use in any Realms of Pugmire game.
As always, we're sharing the manuscript with backers during the campaign. The first two chapters are now available for backers to download, and the entire draft manuscript will be posted before any pledges are processed or payments collected.
Digital and Print-on-Demand Rewards
We know times are hard these days, particularly with rising costs and economic uncertainty, so we’ve designed this crowdfunder to be as painless as possible. We offer a wide variety of digital options for backing, as well as leveraging print-on-demand technology to have physical products printed as close to you as possible to cut down shipping and reduce tariff concerns.
June 2025 - Coming Soon, Pugmire Unleashed
9 months ago
– Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 07:47:45 AM
Hello Good Doggos,
I'm sending out our monthly update a bit early this month because I want to give you the heads up about the next project coming for the Realms of Pugmire RPG. You may have read Eddy's notes about this project in a few of the recent Monday Meeting Notes blogs on the Onyx Path website (here, here, and here) or discussed during the Pugmire panel during Onyx Path's 2025 Virtual Convention from a few weeks ago (I'll post that panel in next month's update, but you can watch the Opening Ceremonies here).
If you've been checking that stuff out, you'll see how fresh this news is. The next book was named Pugmire and Beyond in some of those discussions, but the name has been changed to Pugmire Unleashed, and it'll be launching as Onyx Path's next crowdfunding project very soon.
Pugmire Unleashed: A Player’s Guide is a supplement for the Realms of Pugmire tabletop RPG. Pugmire Unleashed is primarily a book for players who are interested in new options for their games. Inside you’ll find not only more options for dog player characters, more advice on how to play dogs, and more information about dog communities beyond the kingdom of Pugmire. You’ll also find more species to play: badgers, birds, lagomorphs, and reptiles.
If you have a yen to be a nautical adventurer, there are rules for sailing and ships presented within, as well as a more detailed writeup of the main coastal city, Waterdog Port. For dogs looking to use strange and exotic weaponry, there are rules for gunpowder weapons, as well as the associated syndrome of Gunpower Panic that goes with using them. Combined with loads of new spells and backgrounds, there’s something for every player in these pages.
We haven’t forgotten the hard-working Guide in all this. Within in this book, we present not only some new enemies for player characters to thwart or befriend, but also three adventures that present a loose chronicle using much of the material presented in this book (and Realms of Pugmire). Players should avoid reading the back of the book, in case of spoilers, but most of the book is here for you to enjoy.
Now that the next Realms of Pugmire project is getting set up, the team continues to work behind the scenes getting pieces in place for our ongoing projects. Artists have been contracted and are working on our Jumpstart and Adventure books, and hopefully we'll start to see artwork sneaking out for those when they're ready to move to layout.
Rewards Still Pending
Rich talked about sorting some of the printing challents in the What's Up with Onyx Path panel at the aforementioned Virtual Convention, and I'll post that video along side the Pugmire panel when they're available on Youtube. Hoepfully the team will be able to land on solid ground soon and be able to get those pieces locked down.
If you need to review your information or pledge status, you can return to your survey by clicking the link in your survey email or requesting your survey link under "Lost your survey?" on our BackerKit project page at https://realms-of-pugmire.backerkit.com
You can read Onyx Path's most recent monthly summary, covering all projects and their status up to that point here: <May 2025 Project Status Summary>
You can find the weekly Monday Meeting blog updates <here>, which note any projects with status changes since the previous Month End summary. The project statuses listed are current as of last Monday, so do check it out each Monday night to see if anything may have progressed!
I will continue to post regular updates every month until the final reward has gone out.
Remember: You can use the links at the bottom of this e-mail to unsubscribe from updates or Manage your notification settings. These status updates are available on the campaign page for you to review at any time.
ONYX PATH DISCUSSION CHANNELS
If you've got questions about the rules or setting, or just want to discuss this game with other fans (as well as the Onyx Path writers and developers!), you can check out these Onyx Path discussion zones:
Via Kickstarter: Click RichardThomas 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.
