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'm serious, I started by updating the sort of 'core' Glumdark Space table, which is Things Found in a Derelict Space Station. This is clea...

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 also just chill, hang out, ask questions about how everything is going. Even fight about tariffs if you want (please don't do that).I'll post ...

⏰ 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 allof the rewards we're offering along with the book are things that everyone will be stoked to receive. But the very coolest things are only goi...

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, I dug up our first conversation about it:We later had the idea to write the book of lists by creating a website where we published them as we wrote th...

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 inside of your book. And you'll have not only a signed copy, but one that also includes a hand-drawn doodle from Vil, a linocut print from the same b...

📼 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 long time. And I'd often end up perfuming a couple of skunks. This time, I instead wrote about 35 different song sketches to see which ones really ...

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 modeling and want to collaborate on something, please reach out here or on our discord.OK, onto the post:In my last post, I hinted at some changes sinc...

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? Well, Exalted Funeralhas agree to publish it! This partnership is huge for us, and we think it's the perfect place for the book to land. Exalted ...

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 we're working on and who we're working with. Plus, we can just meet and get nerdy.Come hang out!I stole this idea from Brian Colin (of Creatur...

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 something much cooler and on a much larger scale than I had ever envisioned.Apologies for the delay. Stay tuned, though. This is going to rule.

⚔️ 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/glumdark-the-book?ref=8f5basHere's some more images and intel about it. Share it with your friends and we'll be grateful, forever:https://www....

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 poll at the bottom of this post... But first!Wild Wild Weather!I've written a new table with 36 wild weather phenomena! It's called:Wild Wild W...

💀 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 lot more.We now have D100 Peculiar PotionsI need to draft two more pages, which means expanding another table. So if there's a Glumdark table y...

👶, 💣, ☠️. 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-tables and spent weeks adjusting and winnowing and re-writing. But I think it makes for some really cool, surprising and devious concoctions.We were even c...

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.Here's an example I love:I had drawn a bunch of dice icons for the book which mimicked this type of iconography, and I think it worked alright. Bu...

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 seabirds, coiled stacks of rope and peg-legged jerks.Bad JobsI mean, aren't they all? But yeah, D100 different jobs. Some straightforward and othe...

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 Borg Foundry Modules.Book ProgressThe book is now north of 100 laid-out pages and more than half of the illustrations are done. There are some big unkn...

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 contents of the three tables to build locations in unique ways. And thus was born:A Mysterious TowerA Sinister SepulchreSix Establishments in Squalor...

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 rather see more frequent but smaller Patreon updates, let us know in the comments.On to the news...Location GeneratorsWe had the idea recently to mimic ...

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 work and editing to do, but it seems like the book's gonna be 100 pages or more.Vil is hard at work illustrating the first chapter. Illustrating t...

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 much. It's really rad. Wish I could buy you all a beer. Without you, I'm sure we'd have given up on this work a long time ago.📚📚 BOOK ...

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 who have been getting into CY_BORG, or who enjoy any net-running, glitched-out cyberpunk RPGs, you can now find resources on Glumdark for those games....

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 navigate. Here are a few things we worked on: New mobile styles! With much more real estate for content. Fixed a bug where PDF downloads didn't show c...

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 you haven't heard about Frontier Scum, check out its wild awesomeness here: https://frontierscum.com/hat tippingly yours,-- Kid McGlintlock

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 lines of content later, we present to you the Travel Location Generator. We've isolated individual biome types that you can select from, or you ca...

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 infinite seeds (just refresh the page for a new set). Give it a whirl, and let us know what you think :)

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 we are psyched. You can see the new art on the Insanities table: https://glumdark.com/?tableUuid=fa0130fa37a786ce8e96And in space... more junk! This ti...

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 planning to compose. So much more to look forward to.But also! We just released two new tables:Glumdark SPACE: Things Found on a Derelict Shiphttps://space.g...