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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 SPACE
To prove I'm serious, I started by updating the sort of 'core' Glumdark Space table, which is 2025-10-30 19:01:24 +0000 UTC View Post
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-party
At the Listening Party, we'll be announcing some big news ab...
2025-05-19 21:42:35 +0000 UTC View Post⏰ Final 48 Hours! Last Chance for Backer-Only Rewards 💀
The Kickstarter is currently sitting at a cool hundred-and-thirty-five-thousand dollars. 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 thousands of people's hands.
This is so cool.
I've really tried to make sure that all of the rewards w...
2025-02-20 04:47:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt's alive. IT'S ALIVE!!
This feels completely surreal. The Glumdark Kickstarter is LIVE.
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 four 2025-01-22 15:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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 h...
2025-01-19 19:20:40 +0000 UTC View Post📼 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 ...
2024-12-16 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGlumdark & 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 2024-11-27 18:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Funeral has agree to publish it!
2024-11-11 19:00:05 +0000 UTC
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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:
See you then!
-CTRO
2024-09-25 13:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post🍻 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.
Com...
2024-09-17 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostCrowdfunding Delayed. Doom and Horror on the Rise.
The crowdfunding campaign for the Glumdark Book was 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.
2024-08-19 18:52:45 +0000 UTC View Post⚔️ 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:
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...
2024-07-03 13:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post💀 Way More Potions, So Much Drawing 💀
Peculiar Potions
First 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 2024-05-17 03:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post
👶, 💣, ☠️. A Life Told in Three Acts
Just a quick update today!
McGlintlock 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 su...
2024-03-20 21:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostLino Cuts, Spells & Death to AI
Various updates this month both on the site and the book. So let's get into it!
Lino Cuts
The 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 boo...
2024-01-23 05:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostThree 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 Docks
A new Location Generator for quest encounters at a dockside pier. A pierside dock? Anyway, something inspired by m...
2023-12-06 17:11:20 +0000 UTC View PostMassive 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 Progress
The book is now north of 100 laid-out page...
2023-10-23 17:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostMore 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:
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 Generators
We had the idea recently to mimic the notion of a ...
2023-04-12 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostBad 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...
2023-01-29 21:53:44 +0000 UTC View Post100 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.
2022-12-16 14:46:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
For folks who have been getting into CY_BORG, or who enjoy any net-running, glitched-out c...
2022-10-27 18:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostTravel 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... 2022-09-18 18:35:39 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-08-26 01:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostTravel 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 2022-07-27 18:25:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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 :)
2022-06-02 11:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostNew 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: 2022-04-24 21:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Ship