Inspired by the geometric pattern on the back of the Death in Space book, we made a visual generator... saveable to JPG or SVG to use in your own creations. Technology-wise, this is a node.js server using the paper.js library for drawing and animation. Cheers!
2022-04-09 15:50:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Recently I've been playing the newly-released ttrpg Death in Space... and what better way to get into it than to write a mess of tables? We figured it'd be cool to have a thematically-pleasing Glumdark property to house all our wacky sci-fi ideas, and thus was born GLUMDARK SPACE.
NOTE: you will need to re-authenticate with Patreon to let both sites recognize your patron status. The link to do so is on the front page of both sites, and also here: 2022-03-22 21:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, we're releasing two new tables!
THINGS FOUND IN A MAGE'S TOWER
THINGS FOUND IN AN ALCHEMIST'S LAB
Great places to find strange familiars, weird mirrors, spooky stones, useless bones, and odd contraptions for administering, extractin...
2022-03-09 17:49:51 +0000 UTC View Posthey y'all! We've added the ability to save Glumdark tables as printer-friendly PDFs, useful if you want something offline with you at your games. On the red subtitle bar of any displayed table, you'll now see a little "PDF" link on the right. Clicking it will download a PDF suitable for printing... or whatever else it is you like to do with your PDFs.
Hope this is useful for you, and please let us know if you have any problems, questions, or feedback!
cheers,
-mcglintlock an...
2022-02-19 03:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to 2022! We didn't intend for each day on earth to become thematically more similar to Glumdark, but here we are.
We took off just a little time for the holidays, but we're back at work grinding out new Glumdark content.
New original art
First and foremost, we've got some original art from a mainstay of the Mörk Borg community: Vil. He created a couple of truly haunting images for the 2022-01-13 20:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post
DECEMBER UPDATES!
ART!
We finally get to start supporting the artists we love! We've got commissions coming in from some of our favorite artists in the Mork Borg community -- Vil, NewYear, ORB & Lettuce.
The above Mind-Squid is a commission from Lettuce, who you'll see more from on Glumda...
2021-12-09 18:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe've got a couple new tables to announce!
I'll make this a quick post, but wanted to say that we just finished up Travel Encounters. This is something that I'm going to start using right away. I just started a new West Marches style campaign and there's a lot of travel and exploration involved.
Building new stuff with the lore generation engine which our NPC Generator was built on is pretty time consuming. So in the meantime, it's fun to crank out some smaller tables which patch up gaps in the fantasy world.
And what fantasy world isn't full of Inns and Taverns?
I personally like "Skid's Sandy Wizard"
So we built an Inn & Tavern name generator in our typical style.&nbs...
2021-10-12 22:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis took a hell of a lot more hammering than simple tables that we've built in the past. As I mentioned in a previous update, I had to write a really rudimentary domain specific language for this. Or a somewhat complicated string parser, if you don't feel generous.
HERE IT IS, THE CREEPY NEW MORK BORG AND DND NPC GENERATOR!
I don't consider anything on Glumdark to ev...
2021-09-09 18:04:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a cool day for us. We're finally launching the total re-write of Glumdark, we have a really cool new table, and we're providing beta access to new stuff for Patrons!
## The New Table!
I have no id...
2021-08-27 18:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe've just published a new table! Bad Omens.
Not so much events as real creepy shit that happens BEFORE the event. Eery silences and ladders falling on black cats. That sort of thing. Looking forward to start tossing these into my campaign just to make my players fear what *might* be coming next.
As for what's coming next for Glumdark: BIG STUFF!
Yo...
2021-08-12 16:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A kind soul took the time to download the entire history of the Mork Borg discord's #random-tables channel and give us the data, which we breathlessly sifted through and added to TABLEMÖNGER.
This brings the number of random tables available on TABLEMÖNGER to the bone-crushing total of **68**. Yowza.
We also reorganized everything into named categories, and added the display of table subtitles when available. Enjoy!
2021-08-01 00:49:25 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're a player of MÖRK BORG, you're probably aware there is an awesomely huge amount of third-party content available. A lot of that content is discussed, spitballed, and birthed on the Mörk Borg discord server. There's even a channel where the community collectively creates random tables. One of the problems, though, is that there are a large amount of tables in the Discord chat history, and no way easy way to organize or use them... until now!
May I present our community-c...
2021-07-15 17:24:33 +0000 UTC View Post
hey all!
Recently, we've gotten intrigued by West Marches [1] style campaigns. That is: a rotating group of players, no fixed schedules, and an evolving exploration of a dangerous unknown. That dangerous unknown needs to be populated by a plethora of dangerous places the players can go visit, so -- as might be expected -- we started working on some random tables.
Our first foray into the West Marches -- in our case, the Glum Marches -- are two new tables for random names of
When we create our random tables, we write many, many more entries than what what we actually publish. We have a whole (sometimes-agonizing) process of rating, editing, re-editing, re-rating, etc until we've whittled things down to a polished list we think is solid and cool. So, plenty of things get left on the cutting room floor.
When working on our recent table Abhorrent Artifacts, we thought up many ideas that--while amusing or interesting--didn't seem quite right for an artifact sor...
2021-06-19 21:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Every campaign needs a good ancient artifact.
https://www.glumdark.com/?tableName=Abhorrent%20Artifacts
After all, what would Indiana Jones be without the Ark?
This one took a little while to bake because we spent some time thinking about how to keep i...
2021-06-11 18:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostWe are live with a new table -- Ignoble Ends.
I think we've both been letting the world get to us a bit lately, so it was cathartic to write a whole bunch of ways things could be worse. Way, way worse.
https://www.glumdark.com/?tableName=Ignoble%20Ends
Can easily be used for PCs or NPCs. I like the idea of killing off some main character in a brutal, accidental, and st...
2021-05-18 17:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Weird Weapons won the "what table you want us to make next" poll, and so here you go! From the brutal to the astounding to the absurd, here are 1,000,000 random weapons to slice up your campaign. Discover it in a tomb, find it fallen from the stars, or strap it to the belt of your favorite Demon-Lord. Enjoy!
-mcglintlock
p.s. If you wonder how we get the total number, it's math! d100 * d100 * d100 = 1,000,000 different combinations. Zoinks.
2021-04-13 00:26:46 +0000 UTC View PostRight then. Time to focus on the next table for Glumdark. What's it gonna be then?
🖤 & 🕷️
Sometimes your campaigns just have too much... flavor. Have you ever longed for the simpler times when an NPC can be nothing more than a guy with a bucket and a shovel?
Well, long no more! We just released the extremely mundane Normal People generator on Glumdark:
Normal People can be found here:
"My complication had a little... complication."
Your nose erupts with bone spurs. Your eye turns to salt. And plenty of other awful things.
We just launched our first multi-table list: Double Deformities! We have a few other multi-tables in the works, and we're excited to get feedback on suggestions for others.
https://www.glumdark.com/?tableName=Doubl...
2021-03-16 17:30:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe just published a new d88 table of Incendiary Incidents. These are things you can whip out any time during a campaign to really shake things up.
Your party is simply traveling the countryside when a cosmic purple fireball streaks across the sky. Or an ancient cathedral crumbles revealing a maze of caverns. What's that hideous drone escaping from the lake?
Make them suffer all over again with 2021-03-10 19:09:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We just released a new table: Things Found in an Abandoned Mine
The players in the campaign I'm currently DM'ing just got lost in a deadly forest and escaped into a spooky old mine. They are pretty committed to tossing ball bearings into random places as traps and to be alerted when intruders... intrude.
Anyway, the ball bearings didn't do much good when a giant shambling mound came slurping through the hallway. Luckily, they busted through an old door into a mini...
2021-02-24 19:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post