Just Leo and me out on the road. Of course, Leo don’t make good conversation, on account of bein’ a dog.
The Complete Vagabond is the definitive version of our Vagabond class, retooled and expanded to give you more compelling ch...
2024-04-01 05:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostInsomnia is officially over 175 pages! This month, we’ve finished the base set of twelve monsters with:
The Seraph. The heavens burn with a hellish radiance. An angel arrives to proclaim that the end of all things ...
2024-04-01 05:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostContractor Corps is back! Your mission, if you choose to accept it (and you really don’t have a choice) is to head over to Squengi’s Diner and rob the safe. Oh, and we’re sending a half-dozen other contractors as well. If you must k...
2024-04-01 05:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of four subclasses for Insomnia, this one written for the modern setting 2024-03-29 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
An Insomnia/Dark Matter crossover! The Blackpost setting in Insomnia is a cozy little ...
2024-03-22 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
These resilient, luddite insectoids seem to instantly connect with Dark Matter players everywhere. It's a good joke, everyone knows how to tell it, and it's always funny!...
2024-03-15 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Orcs are a staple of fantasy literature, for better or worse, so for the science-fantasy world of Dark Matter we wanted to provide a new take on the species. This ve...
2024-03-08 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course you can play Deckard! Blade Runner is one of those seminal influences that runs through Dark Matter’s veins, and we even have a perfect stand-in for the repli...
2024-03-01 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostInsomnia continues to creep toward its final form. Here’s the tl;dr of what it gains this month:
Plenty of time to bargain later. You’re either in or you’re out. Make your choice.
In our tradition of rolling out these adventures in a completely random order, here’s the first adventure of Contractor Corps, in whic...
2024-03-01 06:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’ve read Dune: Messiah, you should understand the shape of this particular Martyr's Burden—foresight, godhood, and...
2024-02-23 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The nautilid is a stone-cold Dark Matter classic, and its design almost entirely holds up. However, a bulleted list for the Aqua Suit was a must! It should be 90% ea...
2024-02-17 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As we revise races from their first printing in Dark Matter, we're avoiding skills and proficiencies that make your character’s traits seem totally inborn and biologica...
2024-02-09 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
A Starfox reference, you say? I plead the fifth. And the second. I mean, it COULD be a reference to Harlock or Cowboy Bebop, if you prefer.
Command squadrons of fighters with this subclass for the Captain built f...
2024-02-02 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostYes, we’re back with more Dark Matter! This adventure is yet another collaboration with CzePeku Sci-Fi, but this one’s a little different. Now that we’re done with the goodie-two-shoes Freelancer Corps, we’re signing a contract wi...
2024-02-01 06:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter playtesting our new custom character sheets for a few weeks, I’ve decided to push the idea even further! These single-page sheets contain everything the original sheets omitted: space for background details, a full column for personality t...
2024-02-01 06:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to the ‘Verse! For the next few months, we’ll be digging back through some of Dark Matter in preparation of a new print run with a revised edition o...
2024-01-26 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Comments from the Designer: The word “cyber lich” has been kicking around in our Dark Matter notes for as long as the setting has existe...
2024-01-12 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy new year!
The three settings of Insomnia are officially complete. This release includes a suite of drag-and-drop NPCs for Nowhere, Grismoor, and Blackpost, as well as new locations and factions throughout. I've also massively reworked ...
2024-01-01 18:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's hard for a freelancer to make ends meet. Just keep taking jobs and maybe you'll hit paydirt.
Here's Freelancer Corps, the first Dark Matter campaign built around ship maps from CzePeku. Feel free to take this as-is for...
2023-12-01 06:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis pack of custom character sheets gives you a nearly-instant character for any base class in Valda's Spire of Secrets. Just add some ability scores, pick a race, pop it into the microwave for sixty seconds, and voila! The pre-listed features, c...
2023-12-01 06:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise, surprise! This month's releases are the same as the last: even more Insomnia and another Dark Matter adventure.
This update to Insomnia adds four brand new subclasses to the remote galactic station, Blackpost, also usable in any Da...
2023-11-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThough far from advanced, these weapons and their panicked wielders seem sufficiently dangerous.
This Dark Matter adventure is sure to be an all-time classic. Cze-Peku Sci-Fi had a phenomenal flying saucer map that made perfect sens...
2023-11-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBam! With this update, Insomnia is over a hundred pages long. The whole project is really coming together!
This month, we've fleshed out the modern setting rules with four subclasses and a bunch of necessary information on how to run each of...
2023-10-01 05:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostA downed hospital ship, a ticking clock, and worms. So many worms.
It's another Dark Matter one-shot adventure, in collaboration with Cze-Peku Sci-fi! This time, the party must explore a downed hospital ship, the Caladrius,...
2023-10-01 05:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostA Hyperdrive Fleet by any other name would smell as sweet!
That's right, we're back with another Hyperdrive Fleet collaboration (even though they've since rebranded to the clearer CzePeku Sci-Fi label)! This month has been jus...
2023-09-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI believe that last month I implied that we'd have a low-content month coming up, as we catch up on writing and art. Not yet, though! Because we basically worked nonstop all month, we've got a bumper crop of new subclasses and monsters ready to sh...
2023-08-01 05:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a massive update to the Book of Extinction coming today if you’re a backer, but we’re going to show off the subclasses chapter here today. It’s been a little while since we’ve had the chance to really flex our subclass s...
2023-08-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBoom! Thirty extra pages of Insomnia!
This month, we've got everything about Blackpost -- a terrifyingly distant corner of the Dark Matter universe, complete with blaster rules, factions, and so forth. Fleshing out...
2023-07-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s time to dive into Insomnia!
Revisiting this project has been an absolute joy -- I hope that shows in the chunk I have for you today. Last time I approached this project, I had the same overall outline: create a horror conversion for D...
2023-06-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post