Greetings, vislae—

Once again you have amazed us with your alacrity! You have reached so many trapped vislae in the past day that we have unlocked another stretch goal. We are now adding a poster map to Invisible Sun: Indigo, showing off the beautiful city of Satyrine. We’ve updated the mockup of the game to include it:

Additionally, we’ve added a free bonus to the rewards for every backer: a beautiful reference bookmark for The Threshold. Remember: every time we unlock a stretch goal, every backer gets one of these bonus rewards as well!

We have an exciting new stretch goal for you, but first:

The weekly Cypher Unlimited livestream will host Monte and fellow MCG designer Sean tonight! They’ll be talking about Invisible Sun, The Electric Sun, their own Invisible Sun campaigns and characters, and more—and taking your questions. Tune in to Cypher Unlimited tonight at 10:00 p.m. EDT (7:00 p.m. PDT)!

And don’t forget you can enter to win a seat at Sean’s virtual game table. He’ll be running a one-shot Invisible Sun adventure, and you could be one of his players! Take part in our Gleam raffle for a chance to win.

One of our earliest stretch goals in this campaign expanded The Electric Sun to include a new, playable order of vislae. Vislae of that order call themselves Arcists.

Arcists create and utilize the power of magical devices. To the uninitiated, these might appear to be electrical machines, but they are much more than that. Infused with a type of magic specific to the order, these devices perform functions no normal machine could. Arcists create surreal, seemingly impossible electrical weapons, conveyances, tools, and much more. They can even create electrical people. Further, they can utilize powers to modify, and enhance, the devices on the fly.

As part of the crowdfunding campaign that funded the original Invisible Sun Black Cube, we offered a set of medallions representing the five vislae orders. (Four orders, really—makers, weavers, vances, and goetics—plus apostates.) These medallions are no longer available—they long ago sold out. But there are now six vislae orders (five, plus apostates). So let’s make a medallion for this new order! When we reach 1763 backers, we’ll reissue the Order Medallion Set, including a sixth medallion for the Arcists. Backers at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY (PRINT AND PDF) will get the new medallion added to their rewards automagically, and the complete set will be available as an add-on, offered at a special, backer-only price.

Here’s a look at the original set, along with a preliminary design for the Arcist order symbol.

And while we’re at it, as we do with every stretch goal, we’ll add a bonus reward for every backer: a reference bookmark for The Wellspring.

The Wellspring details locations, NPCs, creatures, and organizations from across Satyrine and the Actuality, each with interesting props and handouts to help create the full immersion for which Invisible Sun is legendary. It includes dozens of supporting props, a slipcase, spell cards, and more—all created to help you launch your Invisible Sun narrative.

Throughout this campaign you’ve helped us choose the designs for new wicked keys. A set of nine of these very cool metal keys are among the many rewards at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY pledge level. The set is also available as an add-on. These are the five designs you’ve chosen:

Some of the polls were very close, though! Let’s find out which of the unselected keys you like best. We’ve launched another poll in the comments with designs that, while garnering a lot of votes, just barely didn't make it. The set will probably not contain more than five unique designs (the original set had only four), but your vote will give us a backup design or an extra choice should we go with six or more designs.

Thank you for your support, and for helping us reach new vislae and unlock so many stretch goals!
—All of us here at team MCG

P.S. Here are some images you can share on social media to help spread the word about this campaign. Right-click to download them, and be sure to link your post to mymcg.info/indigo

Greetings, vislae—

With your help, we’ve reached new vislae trapped here in Shadow and have unlocked yet another stretch goal. As though coming into focus from a semi-forgotten dream, The Electric Sun is again expanded, with new adventure content related to this mysterious sun.

And, as we do with each of the stretch goals, we’ve added a free bonus to the rewards for every backer: a strking and useful reference bookmark—in this case for Book M!

These bookmarks are a bonus reward for every backer, no matter your pledge level.

The campaign ends this week—we have just three days to reach as many lost vislae as possible. If you’re a veteran fan of Invisible Sun, this is the chance to help the game you love reach a broader audience. That means more players, more community, and more support!

And if you’re new to the game, won’t you share what you’ve seen, read, or experienced that made you realize you want to explore the Actuality?

The final week of a campaign usually heats up quite a bit (that’s already happening!), and we might easily unlock several more stretch goals before it’s over—but only if you help spread the word!

Here’s an easy way to do it, and maybe:

MCG’s Sean K. Reynolds has been immersed in the Actuality since well before the publication of Invisible Sun. He’s not only worked on Invisible Sun design (including The Electric Sun)—he’s been a player in Monte’s own Invisible Sun narrative for many years. So you know that a journey into the Actuality with Sean will be a revelation!

You can win such a journey, and help spread the word about this campaign as well. Simply visit our Gleam raffle. It only takes a minute, and you’ll be entered for one of five seats at Sean’s virtual table!

Invisible Sun: Indigo contains everything you need to explore the Actuality and to immerse yourself in the surreal city of Satyrine and the many worlds along the Path of Suns. We’ve already upgraded Invisible Sun: Indigo a couple of times through stretch goals, making it even easier to navigate and putting it in a lustrous foil box (and exclusive just for you, backers of this campaign).

Now we’d like to further immerse you in the Actuality by including a large, double-sided poster map featuring Satyrine, the City of Notions. Your Invisible Sun narrative might never leave Satyrine, or your adventures may explore a thousand sites along the Path of Suns—but regardless, Satyrine will be an important locus of your campaign. This poster map will do justice to it—and the beautiful cartography of Invisible Sun. We’ll unlock this upgrade to Invisible Sun: Indigo when we reach 1664 backers.

The vislae’s road has many steps. Shadow. Satyrine. The Path of Suns and the worlds of the Actuality. At each step the vislae’s eyes and mind are further opened. But are there even greater mysteries? Further steps? Deeper secrets to reality? The Thresholdtakes vislae beyond the Actuality and into the Labyrinth. Is it a maze? A test? A crucible? A doorway opening into a greater existence? There is only one way to find out . . .

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we add a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many useful supplements as a free bonus reward. When we unlock the current goal, we’ll add a bookmark for The Threshold to the rewards of every backer.

Throughout this campaign you’ve been helping us select the designs for the new set of wicked keys (available as an add-on, and included in THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY pledge level). In our most recent poll you chose this one:

Let’s choose another! We’ve launched another poll in the comments with two new designs. Let us know which wicked key you’d like to find on the streets of Satyrine after a keyfall!

Thank you for your support, and for helping us reach new vislae and unlock so many stretch goals!
—All of us here at team MCG

P.S. Here are some images you can share on social media to help spread the word about this campaign. Right-click to download them, and be sure to link your post to mymcg.info/indigo

Greetings, vislae—

Thank you! Over the weekend you helped find several dozen additional vislae lost in Shadow, and as a result we’ve unlocked yet another stretch goal!

We are now making the beautiful Deluxe Sooth Deck! All backers at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level now get this stunning deck as part of their rewards! If you’re not backing at that level, you can now get it as an add-on. (But, really, you should consider upgrading. THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY is the best deal on this campaign, and it only gets better with stretch goals like this one!)

In addition, every backer gets a reference bookmark for The Nightside. This is a bonus reward, free for every backer—we add one every time we unlock a stretch goal!

We’ve upgraded and expanded The Electric Sun twice through prior stretch goals—with a new magical order for the players, and a bestiary of new creatures for the GM. Let’s expand it again, with content that will make everyone’s game more exciting and inspired. Hints of an entirely new sun raise repercussions across the Actuality, creating both conflict and opportunity. In RPG terms, that means new narratives in which your PCs can get swept up! When we reach 1601 backers, we’ll again substantially expand The Electric Sun with new adventure content. This will give you great material to fuel your Invisible Sun narrative, with a variety of ways to work it into the party’s desideratum and individual character arcs.

This will be the third major expansion to The Electric Sun’s page count, so it’s probably the last stretch goal that will expand the book. But is it the last stretch goal for the product? Invisible Sun is a game of secrets and mysteries. Who knows what future stretch goals might reveal?

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we add a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many useful supplements as a free bonus reward. When we unlock the current goal, we’ll add a bookmark for Book M to the rewards of every backer.

It’s the final week of this campaign! We unlock stretch goals by finding more vislae trapped here within the lies of the Grey Sun. We can’t do it alone—we need your help. Please spread the word about this campaign. On social media, on reddit or EN World, on Discord servers you may be part of—anywhere you and other gamers talk about RPGs.

Here are some great graphics you can share (right-click to download them). If you’d like more, you can find them on MCG’s Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram accounts. Be sure to include a link—here’s a handy short one: mymcg.info/indigo

In Invisible Sun, wicked keys sometimes fall from the sky during intense, unusual storms called keyfalls. These rare, magical keys can, in the hands of a vislae, bypass any barrier—a locked door; a wall with no door; an uncooperative person. We’re making a set of nine wicked keys as part of this campaign, and you’ve been helping us choose the designs. This is what you’ve chosen in the poll that just concluded:

We’ve launched another poll in the comments, with two new designs. Let us know which one you’d like to see among your wicked keys!

Thank you for your support, and for helping us reach new vislae and unlock so many stretch goals!

—All of us here at team MCG

Greetings, vislae—

Thanks to your efforts at pulling more vislae out from under the spell of Shadow, we have surpassed 1475 backers and unlocked another expansion to The Electric Sun! This hardcover supplement now gets a bestiary of creatures and grows in page count.

Plus every backer also gets a free bonus: A useful reference bookmark for Enchiridion of the Path!

The Sooth Deck is a thing of beauty: 60 round cards each featuring a unique piece of evocative art. It’s vital to Invisible Sun play (among other uses, as Liv says in that video, it’s part of what makes magic feel so truly magical in Invisible Sun), so of course it’s included in Invisible Sun: Indigo.

As beautiful as it is, though, we’d like to make it really shine. So let’s make a Deluxe Sooth Deck! This deck will be printed in lustrous foil stock, and come in a striking box. It will look gorgeous as the cards are laid out on the Path of Suns playmat in play. We’ll add this Deluxe Sooth Deck to the rewards of every backer at THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY (PRINT AND PDF) pledge level, and make it available as an add-on for everyone, when we reach 1538 backers.

This week you helped us choose another design for the new wicked keys set—this design:

Here are two more preliminary designs. We’ve launched another poll in the comments—head over there and let us know which one you’d like to see among your wicked keys!

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we add a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many inspiring and useful supplements as a free bonus reward. When we unlock the current goal, we’ll add a bookmark for The Nightside to the rewards of every backer.

Some say the Nightside is evil, but that’s a misunderstanding. Or at least an oversimplification. It is dark, that much is certain. Forbidden. Dangerous. So much so that The Nightside, your guide to this reflection of the Path of Suns, actually comes in a warded bag to protect your game shelf from its sinister influence.

Every backer, regardless of pledge level, will get the reference bookmark for The Nightside, and all unlocked bonus bookmarks, added to their rewards for free!

We make all this happen by finding vislae trapped here in Shadow and leading them into the Actuality—in this case, when we reach 1538 backers.

These are challenging times here under the Grey Sun, and many vislae are reluctant to engage with campaigns such as this one. We need you to help them discover this campaign and the wonders of the Actuality. Please spread the word now!

If you're looking for something to say, drop by any of our social media accounts. You'll find loads of posts you can share, grab images from, or use to inspire your own online musings!

Thank you for your support!
—All of us here at team MCG

Greetings, vislae—

It seems like just a day or two ago that we announced our latest stretch goal, and now, thanks to your efforts, we’ve already unlocked it! Invisible Sun: Indigo is now getting a lustrous foil box that really shows off the beauty of this game. This is a backer exclusive—it’s just for you, backers of this campaign. Gamers who purchase Invisible Sun: Indigo in the future (from MCG, a local game show, Amazon, or wherever) will get the standard version. It’s magnificent, but your copy will be even more so!

As happens with every stretch goal, you’ve also unlocked a bonus reward: a bookmark with evocative Invisible Sun art and useful reference information—in this case, for Teratology, Invisible Sun’s bestiary. 

We have another stretch goal lined up, but first:

There are thousands more vislae, here among us in Shadow, who have not yet rediscovered their true selves. We are working to find them, but we cannot do it without your help! Spreading the word about this campaign, and about Invisible Sun, is the only way to make this campaign reach new vislae—and new stretch goals.

If you’re a veteran Invisible Sun player (and, based on the number of backers who are only pledging for The Electric Sun, that’s many of you), won’t you help others discover this wonderful game? More on this below.

Where might your exploits in the Actuality take you? Invisible Sun narratives are rarely as simple as the adventures you might experience in other TTRPGs. This is in large part due to the baked-in impact that the player characters’ motivations have on the game, creating intricate, intertwining subplots and giving the game a life of its own. But it’s also down to the unique and surreal nature of the Actuality and the many beings that inhabit it.

To give you some examples—and perhaps a touch of inspiration for your own narratives, Monte put together this list of plot hooks. You can download it for free right now!

The Electric Sun is a hardcover book describing the advent of a whole new sun, with associated magical praxis, its own warden, and new locations, creatures, characters—and conflicts. It’s a hardcover book, and we’ve already expanded it once, adding a new playable order of vislae to stand alongside weavers, makers, goetics, and vances (and, of course, apostates). There’s so much more that Monte and the design team would like to do with this title, though! So for our next goal, we’ll again expand The Electric Sun, this time with a bestiary of creatures associated with this new sun. If you’re familiar with Invisible Sun (or perhaps even own Teratology), you know these creatures will be mind-blowing and surreal, and have a variety of interesting motivations and ways to impact your narrative. We’ll unlock this substantial expansion to the page count of The Electric Sun when we reach 1475 backers.

In our last update, we unveiled a couple of potential designs for the new set of wicked keys funded by this campaign. By a narrow margin, you chose this one:

You gave us loads of great feedback and comments—so let’s do it again! Here are two more preliminary designs. We’ve launched another poll in the comments—head over there and let us know which one you like best!

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we add a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many inspiring and useful supplements as a free bonus reward. When we unlock the current goal, we’ll add a bookmark for Enchiridion of the Path to the rewards of every backer.

Enchiridion of the Path is a sourcebook taking you on a tour of the Path of Suns. It’s chock-full of information about the Silver, Green, Blue, Indigo, Grey, Pale, Red, and Gold realms. What makes it particularly unique is that the entire book is a handout—every page is made to be removed and given to players who have uncovered key information about these worlds.

Every backer, regardless of pledge level, will get the bookmark for Enchiridion of the Path, and all unlocked bonus bookmarks, added to their rewards for free!

Only you can make this happen. Invisible Sun is a truly magical game—but most gamers don’t even know it exists! Help us spread the word to reach this goal and expand The Electric Sun—and unlock who knows how many goals beyond that? Here’s how you can help:

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Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG