NECROVENGE – A solo TTRPG

April26 – Drawing the diaper in the detail
4 days ago – Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 04:46:19 AM

Salutations, I hope your vengeance is well underway. 

If you're one of the 9 % who haven't completed the Backerkit Survey don't be that way. Go complete it. If you're in doubt about how to do that, please contact me. Either here or elsewhere. 

In completely other news, on the 25th of April I'm going to join Tommy Sunzenauer at blackwork rpgin Copenhagen for two days of RPG conference. If you're around come say hi!

The last two months have been filled with baby-shit, love, giggles, screaming, and small step-celebrations. I'm getting closer and closer towards having a scarily filled book. It's a strange dual-feeling of both proudness and fear. There's something about completing stuff that my system feels scared about. While something is being worked on you can always hide behind that "sticker" of uncompleteness. Anyway, I digress. 

Things I've completed since last time:

• Secret Room Creator (Appendix)
• Companion Creator (Appendix)
• Guide for converting your dungeon to your table (Appendix)
• Small important layout stuff
• A shit ton of drawings!

Speaking of drawings, there's still some left and thus I've asked for the good help of my two friends Unitsix who have created a ton of good work for themselves and others in the MÖRK BORG-sphere. 

The other artist I've asked for help is vil. They helped me create the wonderful illustration of Fathmu for Trapped Within which I'm freaking excited about, I'll share some of their sketches next time.  

One last decision

On one hand there's still quite some work left, but it's with the finishing of the book. Later this month I'm sending whole thing to my lovely editor Ian SerVaas who correct this monstrocity for the final time.

Then I have a long list of small things, and then a whole lot of drawings. After that the files need to be corrected for print. It's not a lot, and at the same time something. So what I didn't need was a final idea ... But I just cannot shake it.

I've had this idea to add a section of "additional prompts". The idea is, that once you replay the game you might stumble upon the same prompts, and so instead of the experience feeling stale, you could go to the appendix and switch out any prompt with a new one. To keep the game feeling fresh. This adds an even better replayability. The game in is current state is already replayable. But this would be more (and better.)

I've written to other creators who have started writing some prompts for me, but I'm still not sure if I should add it to the main book. My good friend Brian told me to add it in a zine for the future. What do you think? 

Feb26 – Fail and have fun
about 2 months ago – Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 06:17:54 AM

Hallo, death-deniers and bone-hungry backers,

 Thank you for staying with me in this eternally dragging ordeal. Last month you all got an email allowing you to access the BackerKit survey, which in turn allows you to grab your WIP copy of NECROVENGE from the Itch page. (Yes, it's alive.)

 Currently the itch.io page is locked, so only backers can access it.

 Also, you will all get the final PDF on BackerKit once that's finished, so if you do not care for Itch.io, do not fear, you will have a PDF eventually. (My lawyers asked me to put 'eventually' in there.)

Some of you have already reached out, stating you had fun playing the game, which, honestly, is the number one thing I care about. I am forever grateful to all the people letting me know how the experience playing the game has been. And it warms my dead, black, dad-heart.

 What's left? 

• Art
• More Art
• Some layout
• Secret Room Creator (Appendix)
• Short guide to move the dungeon to the table
• Maybe a small surprise (I'll let you know in March)
• Also, it needs art

And then the 1000 small things that will make this forsaken book awesome.

 I can smell the rot, meaning we must be close.

But there's also still some time left. In March I will be taking a much-needed vacation, cross-country skiing in Norway with friends and family.

Luckily, come April I will have a little more downtime from work. And I will spend that time with my daughter and my other baby — this book, which cries less but demands just as much.

If you play the game, let me know if you had fun. And if anything was wrong and should be fixed, before we print this thing!

January26 – Sorry I made a grave error
3 months ago – Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 12:44:12 PM

It's a cemetery joke. Anyway, sorry for sending out two emails. After pressing every button and making sure it was all working perfectly, I learned that Backerkit won't let you send out digital files prior to sending out Surveys.

So, I've Requested a Setup Review which can take upwards of two business days. After that I'll do a smoke test meaning 10 % of backers will receive a survey link.

Once that is done, and I have confirmation everything is fine, you will all receive your survey and afterwards you will be able to access your files. 

I'm sorry that it's this backwards. It's all my mistake for not understanding the Backerkit platform well enough. But soon you can download and play the non-arty version of NECROVENGE.

And so I will get started on the drawing part! 🔥

Thanks for your continued patience with me. 

January26 – The Prophecy has been fulfilled
3 months ago – Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 07:28:10 AM

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a wonderful New Year to you all. I have a small gift for you all as a way to show my gratitude for your support and patience. It's at the end of the newsletter.

But onto the most exciting news: I've written the game in its full length, it's good, so good that if it died, it would surely resurrect itself and look for revenge. 

So now it's time NECROVENGE gets played by more than me! Meaning you! 
However, a small caveat. 

On one hand, I really want feedback before sending it off to an editor. I want to hear the good, the bad, and the ugly.

On the other (if you haven't lost it in a sword fight), the aesthetics are being worked on and illustrations are needed on a lot of pages, so if you choose to download it, realise that it is a work in progress. It lacks certain elements visually, and my Danish-English is leaving a lot of spelling mistakes scattered around the pdf. Luckily, Fish Davidson (a too kind backer) is going through the game, leaving me with valuable feedback. He's amazing. So far ACT 1 and 2 has been corrected, but let me know if you stumble upon more issues. 

Because I would love to hear your experience playing through it. Does it make sense? What works best? Did you stumble at any point? Is it fun? Was one prompt not really working? Another too well?

You will get an email from Backerkit saying "your digital downloads" are ready. I'm pressing the button NOW. This will be a link to a private/restricted Itch.io-page where you can download the game. The reason for that is it allows me to upload new versions and disable the old ones.

Also, it allows me to make threads on Itch.io where you can upload feedback!

If you (within a week) do not have a link from Backerkit and want one, try:

1) Look in your spam
2) Contact me
3) Contact Backerkit (who'll probably contact me)

If you backed this project with a hidden Apple-generated email, you most likely will not get your Backerkit-email. Write me a private message here on Kickstarter with an alternative email, and I'll update you in the Backerkit database.

Well ... As a way to say thank you to all of you, I've sent you a digital code to download Trapped Within as a PDF. It is a small way of saying thank you for staying with me throughout this project, and for staying patient with me. 

Most of you probably already have it, but for the ones who do not, I hope you come to like it. Let me know in the comments. 

November25 — Life amidst the chaos
5 months ago – Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 11:57:51 AM

Hi my beloved backers, and greetings to the rest of you too! (poor joke, I'm sorry.) 

Two months ago I gave a short update, and shortly after I received what can only be categorised as the biggest gift. My daughter, Liv. This will be the last time I talk about her, I promise.

The time between the updates have felt like the longest and shortest period of my life, filled with wonder, excitement, frustration and lack of sleep. 

But – on to the project. Where are we at?

Last I told you that I planned on sticking to 3 acts. I’ve since consolidated the prompts from Act 4 and build it into the first 3 acts. This does give the game more variation, without adding a time increase on the total playtime (which is my design goal).

I both printed the scripts of all my prompts out, in order to better edit them, but I also made this simple post-it-adjacent overview of the game, in order to better move things around. 

This is the final structure, and with not a lot of extra writing I should be at a point where the main game loop is written in its first complete form. My plan is to finish it and send the PDF to all of you for playtesting at the latest in start of January. Then I can spend the first half year drawing and designing, and making small tweaks and alterations.

I’ve also added a small change which ironically makes it so you can revive your fallen minions in the end of an act. Seems like a game about a necromancer should’ve had that from the start, but here we are. Thanks Krasiph for the suggestion after playtesting.

I will update you again in the start of January, thank you for your immense patience, and all of the heartfelt congratulations you have sent me. Truly grateful, despite the lack of sleep. If you have any questions, do ask me here on in the Discord.