Daniel (@dungeondive) cracks open Tombpunk: The Mausoleum Edition, Alan Bar’s deluxe box set that channels Mörk Borg energy while doing its own thing.
The game’s dedicated to John Blanche—the legendary Games Workshop artist whose stippling and cross-hatching shaped grimdark aesthetics for decades. Daniel takes a detour through his Voodoo Forest art book, which is worth the tangent. Mechanics-wise, it’s a d12 roll-low system with a resource economy where coins actually matter: you pay tax just to keep existing in this dying world.
The box includes wooden meeples, metal coins, and a bookmark chunky enough to deal d10 damage. Whether Tombpunk grows a third-party ecosystem like Mörk Borg remains to be seen.
Anyone taken Tombpunk for a solo spin? Share your tales of grimdark economic hardship.