Grimdark & Dangerous!
I’ve done it. Grimdark & Dangerous is available for purchase as of right now. Follow this link and it will take you to DMsGuild where it is currently hosted and ready to go.
Have you ever wanted to implement classes that increase risks for your characters or make playing the game just a bit harder without resorting to “realism” rules?
Perhaps you want more spells? Lots more spells. A grand total of 59 new spells?!
What about class options? How about a whole 5 new class options?
Did you like the rune scribe prestige class but don’t want to have to worry about prestige class rules? Because, let’s be real, prestige class rules are weird and the rune scribe class does not play nicely with the rest of the rules.
Maybe you’re the kind of player that wants magic items out the wazoo. Just, all the items. You need more. But 54 more new items? How about an entire new class of magic item? How about weapons that let you adjust how they behave in combat? How about magic weapons specifically geared towards enhancing different kinds of spell casting styles?
How about blood magic? You like blood hunter? What if there was a class option that was like that, but for magic and spells?
Do you like to harvest big monsters for crafting materials? What if you could do that but turn those crafting materials into new limbs and natural weapons you could use?
Or maybe, you want to make just… the most neurotic character ever? The kind that is so broken everyone else wonders how they even function, but they have become able to turn their immense suffering into personally meaningful and dramatic growth and power?
This is the kind of thing packed tightly into Grimdark & Dangerous. This book is comparable in size and scope to Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and is almost 100% in-game content.
The current price for the book is $19.99. Consider this a sale for the holidays. When 2023 rolls around the price will likely go up to $25 to help offset the cost of making the book. $19.99 is less than half of what it costs to buy a WotC expansion book, and Grimdark & Dangerous has just as much if not more content than many of the WotC expansion books.
On top of all of that, there actually is more. Upon meeting certain sales milestones for Grimdark & Dangerous, I will be doing the following:
100 copies - I will release “Pay What You Want” edition(s) of the entirety of Grimdark & Dangerous’ chapters.
500 copies - Grimdark Bestiary (which was partially completed early in the development process for Grimdark & Dangerous, but cut due to time constraints) will be added on to all future and past purchases of the book
1001 copies - Platinum best seller - I will release all of Grimdark & Dangerous as a physical print edition
2000 copies (I do not expect this to happen, but I would love it to) - I will organize a new project called “Harbinger” on Kickstarter. It will not be a d&d 5e project, but rather a new open source ttrpg that would help people transition from 5e to other systems and settings.
I have put months of full-time effort into this project, and it has been mostly a labor of love for a game and community that has helped me so much. But to be able to actually present a book like this and share it with that game and community is just a whole other level of satisfaction. I’m incredibly grateful for all the love and support over the past few months as I’ve teased ad talked about this project. I hope ya’ll find as much enjoyment from using the content as I did from making and testing it.
