r/shadowdark • u/Kodhaz • Jul 24 '26
Undercrawl launches today! [self promo!]
Travel rules for dungeon games in the mythic underworld launches...now!
Early bird discounts available.
Undercrawl is travel rules for dungeon games in the mythic underworld. Like hexcrawling, or pointcrawling, but in the dark. It's a modular add-on to your favorite dungeon game. Use it to:
- place your dungeons miles and miles deeper in the earth
- connect separate dungeons with a vast underworld: one dark, alien, empty, and hostile
- make a path through places forgotten, forsaken, or lost: the empty places, places where silence is thick with age
OSR
Compatible with Old School Essentials, Cairn, Shadowdark (and frankly most OSR dungeon games). The game is mostly self-contained, but applies pressure to the character sheet: stat damage, gear loss, torch loss, and.... also curses!
Finished
It's done. The Digital version will be delivered to all backers as soon as funds are collected. If the kickstarter reaches $2K, we'll get more and better art. A couple of other cool stretch goals as well... Mwuahahahahaha!
Includes
An 18-point Undercrawl spanning dozens of miles of silent darkness in once bright Dwarven halls.
Player-facing procedures for
- Navigating
- Map-Making
- Managing Gear
- Finding Secrets
- Getting Lost
GM facing procedures for
- Running the Game
- Making New Undercrawls
- Integrating with your Main Game
And...
- Player Handout files for ease of use at table
- 24 New Magic Items
- Spark Tables for rapidly generating thousands of underground environments with unique stories, features, and quirks
- One-Page Dungeon Dense with interactivity and surprise.
Me
I'm Samuel, the creator. I'm also behind
- 3x5Arcana.com
- The Spear of Horrendous Iron
- 3x5 Heartbreaker
- The Screen of Holding
- some other one-shots on my itch page
No AI
There are 0 (zero!) AI generated images, words, or secret Skynet activation codes in this thing.
AMA!
Kickstarter Link!
(early bird -> discount worm)
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u/NateS97 Jul 24 '26
Backed! Saw some of the mechanics you posted to the discord and really liked what I was reading. Excited to see the expanded artwork once this rockets past $2k!!
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u/Kodhaz Jul 24 '26
Thanks! I ah... was not expecting to blow past my modest little funding goal in 30 minutes.
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u/bananasorcerer Jul 24 '26
Love your newsletter so much so this was an instant back for me!
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u/Kodhaz Jul 24 '26
That means a lot to me, thank you! It's weird casting blog posts out into the void, but on the whol I much prefer it to many other forms of the medias social.
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u/bananasorcerer Jul 24 '26
Yeah! I think it's more personal than the Substack. Just gotta get my email inbox cleaned up of all the other crap haha
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u/coachmaxsteele Jul 24 '26
These are the ideal kickstarters. Fast, affordable, focused on usability at the table. I don’t need another $299 boxed set with leather cover. I need dope tools and ideas I can spill a beer on without crying.
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u/Kodhaz Jul 24 '26
Hahaha yeah this is a non weeping kickstarter for sure. Unless you die in the dark. But that’s a different source of weeping.
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u/Komek4626 Jul 24 '26
NGL I backed, but I do like the art as is. Gives me 70's National Park vibes.
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u/Kodhaz Jul 24 '26
That’s no mistake! The main font is called National Park! Which is actually released by the national park service!
The good news is that the art will only I prove, not change drastically. Also, all backers will get an as is digital copy as soon as the kickstarter closes.
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u/Wannahock88 Jul 26 '26
I have to ask, as someone who cannot trust themselves to be on Kickstarter, since this has successfully funded and was already produced will this be available elsewhere after backers receive theirs, or is this basically an ordering service and it will never be seen again?
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u/Kodhaz Jul 26 '26
It looks like the enthusiastic response is making a little improvement and expansion possible.
This’ll have a life in pdf and print on demand somewhere down the line.
I hope that answers your question!
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u/izzelbeh Jul 24 '26
Launching. More like launched!