#dreadfarer

[valdevia]

My Journalling RPG Dreadfarer is now available for everyone!

Explore the strange shores of Lemuria, uncover its terrifying secrets, and watch your body twist under its many curses.

You can get the book digitally, or buy a physical copy!

Physical book (also comes with digital copy)

Digital copy

[valdevia]

Yoo I found Dreadfarer at my local games store! Imma probably get it next week!

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Excited to see it out in the world! Shoutout to your game store for getting a few retail copies! :)

(For those who want it and don't have any nearby game stores stocking it, you can get it here! And if you work at a game store, you'll find a bulk price for retailers in the link as well, just click on the dropdown!)

[valdevia]

Do you frequent a local game store? If so, please tell them about Dreadfarer! We have made this game available at a retail price in packs of 10, so your local shop can stock a few and spread the curse

It's hard to get this English game out there in local stores all the way from Spain, so if you like the art and writing, help us out by spreading the word!

If you tell them about the game, share this link with them, they can check the retail prices on the dropdown! If you let me know you did, we'll enter a blood debt with you send you a few free postcards!

[valdevia]

Asking for a friend. :'D

Can I expect the Arachnophobia content to be exclusive to Dsangl?

I'm gonna play a test game soon and am just kinda anticipating just skipping that area entirely if that's the case.

I bought the book yesterday so I've been leaving through the pdf. :)

I'll do you one better! Here are all the spider mentions in the book:

Page 159 has a spider silhouette in the bottom of the page

Remnant 13 from Nephillia is spider-like but mechanical (page 112)

The ones you should probably try to avoid are in the encounters section:

Cave encounter 4 from S'ra (page 127)

Monument encounter 2 from Dsangl (page 162)

There are also mentions of 8-limbed humans in the ocean, though they're not really spider-like.

That's all! Happy exploring!

[valdevia]

Weird question, I have a few local game lounges that I know the owners of personally (not stores, they're essentially libraries where you pay an entry fee and can play their games for the day). Do you think dreadfarer would be a good recommendation for them, or do you think the journaling aspect would be too limiting in that format? Since presumably people would need to provide their own journals to do it in that kind of format.

I bet that having one or two dreadfarer books and a common journal would be a great touch for this. People can pick up the journal, play a few rounds with friends and then die dramatically to pass it on to the next person! At the end of the day that journal will become such a cool shared artifact!

Maybe pitch it to them and see if they enjoy the idea! They can always reach out to me if they have any questions about the mechanics and format :)

It's also incidentally a fun way to play this with friends that you can't meet that often to play games with. Every time someone's character dies (or becomes too cursed to continue), you pass the game and journal along to the next person!

[valdevia]

If we miss the preorder for dreadfarrer will a physical edition be available to purchase after?

It's best if you get Dreadfarer during the preorder, since those orders will be directly added to the printing order! We will be printing some extras, but after it's printed it'll be a small and limited stock, so you might miss it entirely if you wait too long!

(Also, the extra items like the big printed map, patches and postcards are only available in the preorder)

[valdevia]

Hi!

I'm waiting for the physical edition of Dreadfarer, and was wondering if you had any playlist or artist recommendations for it?

I have trouble focusing and music really helps me with that, so having an idea of what type of music to listen to to focus and immerse myself would help

Thank you and I love your work (except the teeth stuff, it freaks me out wayyy too much)

Hey! Neon and I saw your ask and decided to put together a 4h+ playlist of background music to play Dreadfarer! Enjoy!

[hyasynthetic-flowers]

After many long months (mostly procrastinating), I have finally finished my custom binding of Dreadfarer.

Read more for photos and thoughts about the process.

I did have to change my initial vision for the book due to the way leather works and my general lack of proper leather paring tools, so instead of a cursed book, I instead tried to shoot for a book that looked like it was sewn together by a complete amateur, a madman trying to bind together their last thoughts before they are consumed by the Horrors.

It's not perfect (mostly intentional, partially not), because I myself am still very much an amateur. Most prominently, I'm mad that I used my template upside down on the front cover, making it go out of line with the rest of the book. (And it stands fine on its own, but it's not really a bookcase book. Idk what I'm going to do with it yet but that's another story.)

That being said, I think it came out really well for a first attempt at Coptic stitch. That was the intent from the start of the design, and I made most of my choices with the exposed spine in mind (ultimately the cursed book idea I initially had would have worked better with a case book design, rather than an open spine).

My endpapers didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped, but that's a common problem amateur bookbinders face. I used the zigzag method, which let me sew my endpapers into the book block, rather than the more common tipped-in endpapers, where you glue it to the first page (I had many reasons for wanting to do sewn endpapers, but first and foremost is that I just fucking hate tipped in endpapers. I did it once and I have been experimenting with methods to never do it again.) In retrospect, however, this was a bad move with the tension I needed for the coptic stitch. I accidentally ripped the shit out of one of my endpaper signatures [chunk of folded paper] and had to do a quick patch job.

But after it all , I am left with a perfectly functional book. It lies completely flat, which is great because Dreadfarer is a journal/art RPG. I don't want to have to keep flipping back to the prompt while I'm trying to draw, y'know?

I'd love to do more work with leather, and I'll definitely be using coptic stitch in the future. Baumgartner Restoration often does smaller repairs with washi kozo and praises its strength and unobstructiveness. It might be worthwhile to look into that for strengthening my sewn endpapers.

It was a learning experience, as every book I've bound thus far has been. I love experimenting with techniques, and I try to do something new with each book I do. I want to revisit my cursed book idea at some point too. Maybe when I have more skill and the ability to tell when TEMPLATE TOP is written upside down.