NECROVENGE – A solo TTRPG

January26 – Sorry I made a grave error
7 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
7 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
9 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. 

September25 – A short(er) one
11 months ago – Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:54:57 AM

The title carries a bit of a dual-threat. It’s both about my recent decision regarding the book and about the length of this update.

Last month I was sweating the details on the final act, Act 4. But after some play-testing, I realized that having four acts was a bit too long in terms of total playtime.

NECROVENGE is meant to be the kind of game I’d love to play on a free evening with no plans. Just me, a few candles, a great beer, some cards, and some dice.

My aim is for it to be a medium-length game. Something that leaves you wishing for just a little more, rather than dragging into a haul of an experience.

So I’ve cut it down to three acts and the ending (which I’m still working on).

Our baby girl is due any day now, so there won’t be an October update. I don’t expect the next month to include much book-creation. :)

See you in the November update. Reach out in the comments if there’s anything.

August25 — You got a bone to pick with me
about 1 year ago – Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 10:50:45 AM

Hi Internet,

It’s August, and holy-hell-on-a-stick has a lot happened in July.
I’ve moved house, and moved a lot of letters into my InDesign document.

But, let’s not bury the bad news, the original plan was to have this book in your hands by December. And if I’m honest with myself, that’s not going to happen.

It’s a mix of life changes, things taking longer than expected, the scope creeping, and me trying too hard to make everything “perfect.”

Could I have handled it better? Yes. For that, I’m sorry. I hate having to disappoint people. I hate letting you all down. There's not a moment of a day where I do not think of how amazing it is that so many people decided to "bet" on me in this race. And I want to deliver on that bet. I know I will. 

So, I hope you’re still up for following along, because rest assured — you will get a book. Just not under your tree this year. I’m not setting a new hard deadline yet, but if I had to guess, summer next year is feeling generous. That comes from someone who's about to become a first-time-dad and has no fucking clue what he's walking into.

All that said: there has been a lot of progress.

I've written the entire Appendix, Act 3 and most of Act 4, including:

• A bespoke "Arcane Catastrophe"-table
• Spell creator
• Minion creator
• Room creator
• Trap creator

Typing this, I guess the only thing missing now is a NPC/companion/rival creator ... so maybe I’m not entirely done after all.

Looking ahead:

In August, I plan to write and finish Act 4. The prompts are already laid out, so it’s just a matter of getting them written. After that I’ll go over the battles, create an ending, and adding a small section on how to prep your NECROVENGE-dungeon for your MÖRK BORG-table.

At that point, most of the writing will be done. And that’s when the real fun begins: artwork, visual polish, all the cool extras. Hoping to bring some talented artist on board.

I really can’t wait to get the PDF into the hands of actual players, and see what happens when people play through the whole thing.

So yeah, it’s taking longer than I hoped, but I’m still incredibly excited for what this is becoming. Currently sitting at 139 pages. Most definitely ending up bigger than that.  

So, thanks for sticking with me.

🔥❤️