Oops, all bards! Celebrate the launch of Against the Gloom, a new TTRPG from Scryptid Games about pirate rockstars in the underworld. The game and the creator, Dustin Patrick Winter, share a birthday--November 2nd--so don your best pirate garb (one last hurrah for your Maryland Renn Faire duds) and come out to No Land Beyond to toast them both.

Against the Gloom is a dice-based role-playlist-building game about music’s furious resistance to despair. 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.

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.

Roll dice. Build your playlist. Fight the Gloom.