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:

https://bsky.app/profile/montecookgames.com/post/3lppud7acb22w
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Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG

Greetings, vislae—

Thanks to your help finding new vislae trapped here in Shadow, we have reached our next stretch goal and unlocked an upgrade to The Electric Sun—one of what we hope will be many! The Electric Sun will now include a fully playable new order of magic, giving you a new option beyond the choice of goetic, maker, vance, weaver, or apostate. You’ll have everything you need to build and play characters in this order—it’s a substantial upgrade to The Electric Sun’s page count!

And, of course, as a free bonus every backer also gets a bookmark—in this case, for Secrets of Silent Streets. As gorgeous as this is, the real value lies in its utility. Although it isn’t shown in the image (the design work isn’t finished yet), it will be loaded with useful reference info for that title.

This successful conjuration opens the path to another. But before we discuss the next stretch goal, let’s talk about wicked keys.

Wicked keys, rare items that fall from the sky during stormy keyfalls, can unlock anything that stands in your way. Not just buildings or vaults, but creatures and even people. They are potent and highly sought-after. Pictured above is a set we summoned when the original Invisible Sun Black Cube was crowdfunded. Those have long disappeared into the hands of industrious vislae, so this campaign is conjuring an all-new set.

The new set, available as an add-on or part of THE BREADTH OF THE ACTUALITY pledge level, includes nine keys. Like the original set, they’ll come in a variety of designs and finishes, so that no two keys in a set will be the same. 

This is where you come in. Throughout this campaign, we’re going to unveil some of the preliminary designs for the new wicked keys, and you can help us choose which designs to make. Let’s start right now:

Which design should we make? We’ve opened a poll in the comments; let us know which is your favorite!

Our next goal brings a bit of the Actuality’s unearthly beauty here to the Grey. It’s also a special reward for the vislae who have helped call Invisible Sun: Indigo into being—that is: you, our backers.

With this goal, we’ll give Invisible Sun: Indigo a foil box—it will be printed on an iridescent material that amplifies the vivid brilliance of its colors. It will be an even greater beauty than the standard box, and a true collector’s item because it’s exclusively for the backers of this campaign. The version available in stores or from MCG in the future will retain a standard-printing finish; only this campaign’s backers will get the exclusive foil finish.

We’re so excited to add this element of beauty to Invisible Sun: Indigo. We’ll unlock this beautiful foil box when we reach 1376 backers. We had a great weekend, so we're already a big chunk of the way there!

Every time we unlock a stretch goal, we also extend a gift to every backer: a reference bookmark for one of Invisible Sun’s many inspiring and useful supplements. When we unlock the Indigo box upgrade, we’ll also give every backer a bookmark for Teratology:

Teratology is the bestiary of the Actuality; a hefty and awe-inspiring tome of creatures, characters, and other beings from the length of the Path of Suns. It’s an astonishing source of utility and inspiration at the game table, and this bookmark will make it that much more useful.

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

Crowdfunding campaigns soar—they only soar—when backers like you spread the word. Stretch goals for this campaign are based on the number of vislae we pull from shadow—the number of new backers who discover and support this campaign.

Here are a couple of graphics you can share on social media. (Right-click to download them.) Be sure to include this link to the campaign: mymcg.info/indigo

With your help, we can unlock this goal quickly and move on to even more upgrades to The Electric Sun and Invisible Sun: Indigo—and perhaps a few surprises!

Thanks for your support!

—Team MCG