GlumDark

Saga of a Spaceling & Distress Calls

Thinking Beyond the Book

I've put a lot of time into thinking through what to do with Glumdark now that the book is in production. The two projects that remain top of mind for me are the Glumdark Game and of course: Glumdark Space.Well, I'm officially starting in earnest on both. God help me.GLUMDARK SPACETo prove I...

Glumdark Vol. 4 Listening Party

Well, we did it. The Glumdark record is done!Come listen to it for the first time and hang out with us at a the Glumdark Listening Party!RSVP here: https://ctro.bandcamp.com/merch/glumdark-vol-4-listening-partyAt the Listening Party, we'll be announcing some big news about the book. But you can ...

⏰ Final 48 Hours! Last Chance for Backer-Only Rewards 💀

The Kickstarteris currently sitting at a cool hundred-and-thirty-five-thousanddollars. I'm still in literal disbelief that the book we've been quietly tinkering on for the past few years is going to be in thousandsof people's hands. This is so cool.I've really tried to make sure that...

It's alive. IT'S ALIVE!!

This feels completely surreal. The Glumdark Kickstarter is LIVE.AND IT'S RIGHT HERE.I know we have so far to go before books are in hands and at gaming tables, but this is a huge milestone just to be launching this thing.Matt and I had the idea for this book fouryearsago. In a fit of nostalgia, ...

Yowza. We launch on Wednesday.

Lordy the last few weeks have been insane.The Kickstarter launches THIS WEDNESDAY. The first 200 backers to back at the highest pledge tier (which comes with all physical rewards and both Limited Edition and Standard versions) will also get one of these:It's a Sketch Plate that you can paste ins...

📼 First Listen: Choose what songs will go on the Glumdark Dungeon Synth Cassette.

Wanna Listen to Some Dungeon Synth?I'm making the music for the dungeon synth album totally differently than I've made music in the past. And honestly, I should have been doing it this way the whole time. In the past I would write a few songs and try to make them as good as possible over a l...

Glumdark & Exalted. And a Cover by Nohr.

Before I get started: If you signed up to follow the previous Kickstarter, you'll have to sign up again HERE. Sorry about this. They weren't able to port over the emails. Privacy laws, etc.Also, I'm looking for a 3D artist for a quick collaboration on a Glumdark thingy. If you enjoy 3D m...

A New Partnership / A Crazy Amount of Work

Well, it's probably about time that we told you what's going on. There won't be an official announcement for another couple of weeks, but we put the Kickstarter on hold for a very good reason. And since then, basically everything about the project has changed. So what was the big change?...

Glumdark Happy Hour Reminder!

Yo, we're meeting tonight at 9pm EST to chat all things Glumdark (and anything at all).Here's the link to the Discord Event:https://discord.gg/WrktVyJ38TSee you then!-CTRO

🍻 Happy Hour & Devilish Deals 😈

Happy Hour:Let's hang out! I booked a Discord Event for 9pm EST on Wednesday September 25th.Click here to attend the Discord Event!We can chat about the Glumdark Book, the future of the website, and the Kickstarter. I'll definitely leak some details I'm not supposed to about other stuff ...

Crowdfunding Delayed. Doom and Horror on the Rise.

The crowdfunding campaign for the Glumdark Bookwas meant to launch tomorrow morning (!).At the last minute, some really compelling conversations began to arise with a potential partner. We're having to push the campaign to the early fall, but as a result we're going to be able to make someth...

⚔️ An Armament of Erratic Critical Hits ⚔️

Just some quick updates today! Kickstarter links and a new table!Kickstarter Links:Been doing a lot of my least favorite part of making art. Which is, y'know, promoting it. 😮‍💨Here's a link to make sure you don't miss the Kickstarter:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glumdark/...

A Kickstarter?! Wild Wild Weather!?

Well well well, it is finally happening. We are launching our Kickstarter campaign for the Glumdark book in one month--on August 8th. I think you're really going to love this thing. It's getting to be pretty insane.We have some decisions to make about stretch goals, so I've included a p...

💀 Way More Potions, So Much Drawing 💀

Peculiar PotionsFirst things first, the potions table has received a massive upgrade. Because I have little self control, I decided to expand the potions table in the physical book to a d100 table. Potion effects are fun. Seems silly to limit it to a measly 2d6 (36) .So I took some time and wrote......

👶, 💣, ☠️. A Life Told in Three Acts

Just a quick update today!A Life Told in Three ActsMcGlintlock and I had a ton of fun dreaming up the newest Glumdark table. A ton of the writing I've been doing recently is more for the book, and this is a very website-specific piece.We must have written over 200 items for each of the sub-table...

Lino Cuts, Spells & Death to AI

Various updates this month both on the site and the book. So let's get into it!Lino CutsThe Glumdark Book is very heavily influenced by early (15th & 16th century) bookmaking, as I've noted in previous Patreon posts. And what you see over and over in those books is really cool woodcut icons....

Three New Tables and a Finished Draft of the Book

New Tables!Well, the immediate stuff first. Those three tables we teased last month are complete and ready to check out!Dour Dour DocksA new Location Generator for quest encounters at a dockside pier. A pierside dock? Anyway, something inspired by my recent visit to Dubrovnik. Perfect for squawking ...

Massive Updates, Castles, Book Progress

I've spent the last few weeks consuming inspiration for Glumdark by means of exploring tons of old castles and walled cities throughout eastern Europe. At the same time, I was writing new tables and Vil was illustrating new horrors for the book while McGlintlock was working on Mork Borg and Cy B...

More Location Generators + Spell Components + Book Updates

It's been a busy couple of months, and as usual we've waited until there was plenty to share. So let's get into it.Location Generators!We wrote three more location generators. These have been really fun because despite the fact that the underlying code remains the same, we can modify the...

Location Generators! Personal Mottos! A T-Shirt?!

Firstly, thank you so much for continuing to support us. Lordy, does it mean a lot.I don't like to spam anyone's inboxes, so I'd prefer to share these only when we've got a few significant things to share. We kick around a lot of ideas that never come to fruition. But if you'd ra...

Bad Cantrips for Stupid Wizards, Space Liches & The Book

📚📚 BOOK UPDATES! 📚📚After getting through the holidays and starting a new full time job, I've been back to cranking on the book more than any other projects.I think it's looking really good, and I've now got about 85 (!!!) pages laid out. There's still an insane amount of ...

100 Patrons, Book Updates, LICHES

🎉🎉 100 PATRONS! 🎉🎉We've long been hopeful that one day we'd hit this milestone, and I'm really proud and grateful that we have. Patreon is extremely unreliable with Patron counts (and most metrics in general) but we did crest the wave and reach 100 patrons!Thank you so, so mu...

CyberGlum, Forsaken Space, Festivals and Holidays, The Glumdark Book

Several updates this month! I'll make it quick, cuz ain't nobody got time to read long Patreon rambles. But first: Thanks, everyone, for the continued support. We're nearly at 100 patrons and that feels like a very cool milestone.Now onto the updates!We released Glumdark Cyber!For folks ...

Travel Locations, Big Upgrades and a Poll!

The Travel Location Generator is finally live in its release form. We'd love to hear feedback on this thing. We hope it can work either in-session or during planning to spice up the scenery during travel.This month, I also wanted to focus on fixing bugs and making the site easier to use and navi...

Yeehaw!

hey y'all!We don't have a Glum West site (yet), but recently I've been captivated by Karl Druid's new rootin', tootin', acid west shootin' ttrpg, Frontier Scum. New games make me think about making new tools, so I put together a suitably-themed place name generator.And if...

Travel Location Generator and Tons of Portrait Art

We've been deep in the mines these past several weeks. The response to our Quest Seed Generator was so positive that we decided to make something similar for our next project. And we accidentally embarked on something even more complex.So thousands of lines of code and thousands of hand-written ...

Even a small idea can yield enormous misery

We're happy to announce a spanking new Glumdark table: the Quest Seed Generator. This tool combines numerous new and existing Glumdark content to produce short, pithy ideas to start an adventure or quest. Under the hood, this generator is a sort of "mad libs on steroids", and can produce...

New art, new space junk!

We commissioned a new piece of art from the talented Strega Flora (https://stregaflora.itch.io), who's currently hard at work on a newly illustrated and revised version of their meatpunk TTRPG, Lichoma. They were kind enough to supply a Glumdark piece in a similarly striking collage style, and w...

New Artwork and Two New Tables!

We just got some fantastic new artwork from Lettuce and Vil, with even more on the way.These are for the tables Incendiary Incidents, Things Found in a Dungeon and Ignoble Ends.We just love everything they produce and plan to continue working with them in the future and on the book we're plannin...