Mad Gnome Gaming

07/14/2026

Super fun first big dungeon delve, the party managed to clear the first of [REDACTED] levels, nobody died permanently, good times (and fresh made salsa) were had.

Gotta shout out Todd Pickens / Death Finger press, we’re ramping up for a big hex crawl campaign and I wanted to get nice notebooks for the players, and they arrived just in time. Fantastic player/DM notebooks, I highly recommend them.

Damn I love this game.

(Shout out to Austin Pierce for my most excellent box opener 😂)

06/04/2026

Hey folks! We just finished an update of our website with a little mini-game demo of the game and a functional initiative tracker. We're also working hard and getting close on the release of our full demo and quickstart start guide.

Check out the website and sign up for updates, thanks y'all!

No magic. No superpowers. Just ordinary people thrown into extraordinary circumstances. An indie tabletop RPG coming to Kickstarter in 2026.

05/12/2026

Its a beautiful day in the Shadowdark, my wife gifted me an early birthday present, a Shadowdark GM & player manual from Todd Pickens / Death Finger Press , and then I got to take my long time D&D group through their first foray into Shadowdark.

They managed to barely eek out a win, half the party died in the final battle, they lost their torch and were one hit away from a TPK when they pulled a win.

The best part of the night though, the wizard (used to D&D superheroism) ran into a group of goblins, cast burning hands, failed, and got clubbed to death in response. (He got better 😂)

Absolutely fantastic. The group loved it and can’t wait to play more.

Have you tried Shadowdark yet? It’s simple to learn, brutal, and ridiculously fun.

04/14/2026

I love Shadowdark so, so much.

The party thought they were hot stuff after defeating some moldy rats in a swampy dungeon, until the priest holding the torch fell through rotten floorboards and doused the torch just as a skeleton emerged from a side room and went after the wizard.

They went from smug to panic real quick 😂