Against the Gloom

A Role-Playlisting Game

What if our heroes exchanged their battle axes for Stratocasters? And what if lyrics and harmony were actual magic? Against the Gloom is a fantasy TTRPG of melodic mayhem that asks this and more! It's about the joy and power of music, chosen family, and building community in the face of the void. 

Roll dice. Build your playlist. Fight the Gloom.

In Against the Gloom, players take on the roles of punk pirate troubadours sailing across a vast and dangerous void—the Gloom—aboard a ramshackle ship propelled by the power of song. Use your character's sonic powers to push back the Gloom as it seeks to obliterate any pockets of community that dare to resist it. Build your story one gig at a time. 

Includes:

• A set of unique character playbooks: the Thunderwell, the Soulbell, the Brightstring, the Heartkey, and more.
• Guide to Against the Gloom's easy-to-learn d6 (six-sided dice) system inspired by Yahtzee — you'll "harmonize" dice values to succeed, earn and spend songs on a collaborative music playlist, and truly unite your band.
• Rules for collectively imagining and building out Anchora to visit and explore as your band sails across the Gloom.
• Safety tools and frameworks that support joyful, consent-based storytelling while roleplaying as messy musicians.
• Gorgeous illustrations of weird musicians rocking it out in the face of despair, ennui, and self-sabotage.

110 page, 6 x 8.5 in, full color, perfect-bound book

Includes access to digital version