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A new, visual generator!
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!
Glumdark... in space!
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-authe...
Mad Magic and Arcane Alchemy
Today, we're releasing two new tables!THINGS FOUND IN A MAGE'S TOWERTHINGS FOUND IN AN ALCHEMIST'S LABGreat places to find strange familiars, weird mirrors, spooky stones, useless bones, and odd contraptions for administering, extracting and creating potions.These tables pair well with the existing tables f...
Download Glumdark tables as PDFs for printing
hey 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... ...
More Art, Markov Name Generation, Quest Work
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 artFirst and foremost, we've got some original art from a mainstay o...
Artifacts, New Art & Discord
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 Glumdark now if you click around...
Travel Encounters, Sword Names, and a Poll
We'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.TRAVEL EN...
Inns, Taverns, and a Glum, Dark Logo
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 W...
The NPC Generator Has Arrived! Also: New Categories!
This 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 N...
New Patron Benefits! New Site! Tons of Dungeon Items!
This 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!100 THINGS FOUND IN A DUNGEONI have no idea how we made it this long without writing a "finder" table for dungeons...
Bad Omens and Good Omens
We'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 co...
More Tables at the Mönger
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 reorga...
A wild TABLEMÖNGER approaches...
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 ...
Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Places
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 expec...
Glum Rods, Glum Staffs, Glum Wands
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 cut...
One Million Abhorrent Artifacts
Every campaign needs a good ancient artifact.https://www.glumdark.com/?tableName=Abhorrent%20ArtifactsAfter 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 it fresh. With these multi-part tables, we want them all to feel suffici...
Ignoble Ends - The Very Stupidest Ways to Die
We 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%20EndsCan easily be used for PCs or NPCs. I like the idea of killing off...
As voted: One Million (!!!) Weird Weapons
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!-mc...
What Table Should We Make Next?
Right then. Time to focus on the next table for Glumdark. What's it gonna be then?🖤 & 🕷️
Normal People and Certain Death
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:https://www.glumdark.com/...
Double Deformity!
"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 other...
New Table: Incendiary Incidents
We 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 ...
What's Mine is Yours
We just released a new table: Things Found in an Abandoned MineThe 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, ...
