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Dark Matter Starter Set: Science Fiction for DnD 5E

Created by Mage Hand Press

Dark Matter is a rip-roaring futuristic campaign setting, which lets you play DnD in Space without learning a new system.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Gladiatopus
over 4 years ago – Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 10:17:11 PM

Quick update! Everyone's been sharing Dark Matter on twitter using the #DarkMatter5e hashtag, so we've unlocked yet another social stretch goal in the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria. This one's a doozy: behold, the Gladiatopus!

Keep telling your D&D friends about Dark Matter, and keep using the #DarkMatter5e hashtag! Click here to download the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria for free.

And, because we have lot of pancakes left to show off, here's one of Astrogations Inc.

One Week In: 500% Funded
over 4 years ago – Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 07:46:27 AM

Thanks to your support over our first week, we can boast that we’re over 500% funded! 125K might not have a stretch goal attached, but it’s still a colossal milestone, and it means we’re closing in on our next stretch goal, the Monster Cards! Keep spreading the word about Dark Matter to anyone who will listen, and we’ll be there in no time.

Player Points

We’re up to 3000 player points! Well, 3002. That means we just unlocked the next piece of the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria, a planet writeup for Rast, one of the most critical and obscure points of interest in the 'verse.

Next up is the Gladiatopus, a very silly relative of the nautilid. To see it, keep tweeting using the #DarkMatter5e hashtag! Download the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria for free here.

Even More Pancakes!

I threatened to show you more Dark Matter pancakes over the course of the Kickstarter, and here I am to follow up on that. Here’s the Grax’s Club logo, rendered beautifully and deliciously by Lee Goldberg (@Goldberg337):

Barbaros, the Bloodmonger
over 4 years ago – Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:39:24 PM

Despite all odds, we’ve been trucking along at full speed this whole weekend and reached 2623 player points for talking about Dark Matter using the #DarkMatter5e hashtag. That means we’ve unlocked a new page in the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria: Barbaros the Bloodmonger, a brutal, towering gladiator, who is actually a gnome gadgeteer piloting an experimental frame and having a blast with the charade. She’s a favorite recurring NPC in my home games, so I’m thrilled to bring her to life.

Don’t forget to tweet using the #DarkMatter5e hashtag! Download the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria for free here.

Art Update: Ships

As we might have mentioned, the extremely talented @scribbles.in.space is doing the ship maps for the Space Battle Bundle, because there’s literally noone out there with a better track record and a more impressive portfolio on this specific thing. And he’s just finished his first map for us, a small human personal ship he calls the Coldstar. Check this thing out!

Pancakes!?

Does this count as an art update? Yesterday, Lee Goldberg (@Goldberg337) made Dark Matter pancake art live on stream. Delicious and absolutely stunning. By my count, we have six of these, so I’ll just pepper them in at the end of the Kickstarter updates to whet your appetite and your imagination. If you want to craft any fanart of your own in any medium (food or otherwise), tweet us at #DarkMatter5e so we squeal with joy and tell everyone we know.

One Hundred Thousand to Oni!
over 4 years ago – Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 11:47:13 AM

We just hit 100K and unlocked the epic mecha adventure One Hundred to Oni! Raise a glass!

Dark Matter Monster Cards

Let’s talk about the newly-unveiled stretch goal: at 150K we unlock Dark Matter Monster Cards, a deck of 50 high-quality tarot-sized cards with beautiful illustrations on one side, and full monster statistics on the other. If you start counting, you’ll notice that we don’t have fifty existing illustrations of monsters and NPCs in Dark Matter, so we’ll be crafting a huge number of original illustrations for these cards, bringing to life monsters that were without art before. Want to know what a sporegantua really looks like? What about a spaceshark? Do you want art for a mob of wizmos? I do! Add this to your order today as an add-on for $15!

Eternal Dragon’s Hoard Pledge Tier

With the tide of stretch goal add-ons rising, it’s time for one more pledge tier: the Eternal Dragon’s Hoard. This tier contains every stretch goal up to 100K, so inherits the title of The Big Pledge Tier from the DD&D Showroom. This monster of a tier has:

  • Level Up Hematite Dice
  • Wyrmwood Dice Vault
  • Captain’s Log by Rook and Raven
  • Conspiracy! Poster
  • Space Battle Bundle
  • Alien World’s Bundle
  • Reference Cards
  • Grax’s Club
  • One Hundred to Oni
     

AND The Dark Matter Starter Kit and Dark Matter Hardcover, bundled in a premium slipcase. If you want to really level up your Dark Matter campaign, pledge at the Eternal Dragon’s Hoard today!

Social Stretch Goal: Cat Box

We’re up to 2191 player points, which means we’ve unlocked a new monster for the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria! This Cat Box is bound to haunt your nightmares, and, with any luck, your Dark Matter adventures. Download the social stretch goals here for free!

Closing in on 100K!
over 4 years ago – Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 06:22:54 AM

Quick update to let you know that we unlocked a new social stretch goal, a writeup of my favorite Dark Matter planet, Paradise One, and to mention that we’re closing in on 100K and One Hundred to Oni! You can download the Encyclopedia Multiplanaria for free here.

Besides just being a massive milestone, 100K means we’ll be unlocking new pledge tiers and unveiling new stretch goals. Moreover, it means that we’ve hit the baseline of all of our adventure content. Further stretch goals can refine them and bring them closer to our high standards for full releases.

Remember to keep sharing Dark Matter and use the hashtag #DarkMatter5e!