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Complete Vagabond

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, re...

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Insomnia 0.8

Insomnia 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 ang...

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Heist at Squengi’s | Czepeku Sci-Fi

Contractor 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 h...

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Path of the Drifter

The first of four subclasses for Insomnia, this one written for the modern setting 2024-03-29 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Way of the Warped

An Insomnia/Dark Matter crossover! T...

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Skathári

These resilient, luddite insectoids seem to instantly connect with Dark Matter players everywhere. It's a good joke, eve...

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Dark Matter Orc

Orcs are a staple of fantasy literature, for better or worse, so for the science-fantasy world of Dark Matter we wa...

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Decommissioner

Of course you can play Deckard! Blade Runner is one of those seminal influences that runs through Dark Matter’s veins,...

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Insomnia 0.7

Insomnia continues to creep toward its final form. Here’s the tl;dr of what it gains this month:

  • Art for every single faction in all three settings
  • T...

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The Deal | Czepeku Sci-Fi

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 fir...

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Burden of Awakening

If you’ve read Dune: Messiah, you should understand the shape of this particular 2024-02-23 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Revised Nautilid

The nautilid is a stone-cold Dark Matter classic, and its design almost entirely holds up. However, a bulleted list...

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Revised Avia-Ra

As we revise races from their first printing in Dark Matter, we're avoiding skills and proficiencies that make your char...

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Star Wolf Banner

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 f...

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Repo at Robo-Rumble | Czepeku Sci-Fi

Yes, 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 Fr...

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Mage Hand Press Custom Character Sheets | Races

After 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 b...

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Revised Amoeboid

Welcome back to the ‘Verse! For the next few months, we’ll be digging back through some of Dark Matter in prepa...

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Cyberghoul

Comments from the Designer: The word “cyber lich” has been kicking around in our Dark Matter View Post

Insomnia 0.6

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 ...

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Freelancer Corps | Czepeku Sci-Fi

It'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 m...

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Mage Hand Press Custom Character Sheets

This 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 si...

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Insomnia 0.5

Surprise, 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 ...

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Unidentified Falling Object | Czepeku Sci-Fi

Though 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 p...

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Insomnia 0.4

Bam! 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 bu...

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Every Life Worth Saving | Czepeku Sci-Fi

A 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 explo...

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Last Haul of the Tenrec | Czepeku Sci-Fi

A 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 clea...

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Insomnia 0.3

I 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 bump...

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Extinction Subclasses

There’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...

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Insomnia 0.2

Boom! Thirty extra pages of Insomnia!

Blackpost

This month, we've got everything about Blackpost -- a terrifyingly distant corner of the Dark Matter universe, complete with b...

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Insomnia 0.1

It’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...

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