Good news everyone (especially international backers):

This crowdfunding campaign has hit End of Life (EOL)!

All international physical pledges have been placed in the mail! If you have any problems with your country's customs agency please let us know here: [email protected].

Big thanks to Ratti Incantati for handling the international fulfillment! If you are in Canada and have not bought the physical products, they are selling Netcrawl in their online store and at Breakout Con this weekend!

This month marks the 4th year of the Patreon. Since it's humble beginnings, we've grown a lot! There are ~30 supporting members and 150 free members. There are almost as many Netcrawl posts as there are members (173)! Most of the time Update Patch posts get around 300 views. Paid posts around 30-100 views. Quips really out perform everything else and get 2K+ views. Why am I telling you this? No idea.

What's next as we plod towards 5 years? Maybe there should be a lot more quips? It seems like I absolutely need to start doing more video content. Especially to highlight the game and give people that quick and easy video format. Maybe I'll get comfortable doing it if I just do more. Maybe I'll continue to rue the day I ever pressed record on my video phone.

After the production and fulfillment of Netcrawl, I've slowed down a bit creatively. It does take a lot out of a person doing all the things. But I see new ideas on the horizon and the Patreon will continue to be the place you'll see stuff from me first. To that point, next month is a change from program result table conversions and something new. You only have to wait a few more days to see it.

Check out my appearance on the Analytic Dice Studio podcast. I was put to the nine questions by Kevin Borrup and it was hard to go back in time and remember my gaming as a middle schooler.

It has been a very busy month for me and Horse Shark Games. I made two trips to the east coast visiting Boston and New York City/Long Island. 

The end of the NYC trip was spent in Brooklyn and visiting Twenty Sided Store in the Williamsburg neighborhood (two metro stops or so from Manhattan). The proprietor, Lauren Bilanko, has a very nice FLGS with lots of OSR books, card game tables on the 1st floor, and a workshop/TTRPG tables in the basement. She is writing her own sci-fantasy setting and game system named Mystic Aether and does a ton of creative stuff. She and I did a workshop on adventure writing using the Sys Raid hexcrawl/pointcrawl adventure generator in Netcrawl:Arcologies. All the participants walked away with the bones of an adventure, which means I have something new to work on for the next few months!

On the horizon is Dungeon Con 2! Come visit Ft. Wayne, IN May 1-3. Check out Goodman Games warehouse sale and play with tons of Goodman Games authors and 3rd party DCC RPG publishers. There is a convention hall this time around and I will have a vendor table at the event. Come visit Horse Shark Games!

Also coming soon is Netcrawl Nights, a live demo game of Netcrawl that will take place on various discord servers. Stay tuned on the Netcrawl Discord as I roll this out. I can reasonably announce that there will be one in May in the Twenty Sided Store discord.

In huge news, Netcrawl:Acrologies won a Golden Fez at Total Con 40! I am over the moon to see the project recognized by my peers! Check it out!

In a few scant days this Patreon turns 4 years old! Thanks for being here and supporting my, I guess, award-winning work!

Print order for 50 copy run of Netcrawl Programmer Handbook, update patch 2.0 has arrived! The PDF was also refreshed at DriveThruRPG. If you're a CPU member from January to March, I'll be mailing you out one. In fact they just went out yesterday. There'll be a handful of extras available for purchase on horsesharkgames.com. 

I am removing PDFs and T-Shirts from the Patreon. You can still buy access to Patreon posts there, but all other electronic and physical goods will be available at horsesharkgames.com. By the way there are only 4 T-Shirts left in stock two Larges and two 2XLs. If the shirt fits, get one!

Netcrawl is getting some attention in the RPG news cycle. A couple articles in the web press scene and a 3 page in depth write up in Knights of the Dinner Table. Check them out!

Netcrawl brings cyber-dungeons to Dungeon Crawl Classics, GeekNative.com (2/6/2026)
DCC Goes Cyberpunk In ‘Netcrawl RPG’, BellofLostSouls.net (2/5/2026)
The Indy Game Scene: Netcrawl, Egg Embry, Knights of the Dinner Table, #322 (2/2026)

Molan over at Goodman Games has dropped their "what's new" in the online store so check that out: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y_O9uTkP_Yg

And on top of that those crazy boys over at Exalted Funeral chatted about Arcologies on their "what's new" show Coffee and Coffins (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6xeVvjcog)

This is the end, my friends. 

The mp3 of the Netcrawl Theme was sent to all the backers last month. If you missed out on your copy, you can support Loot the Body over on his Bandcamp page and buy your own. 

And that's it. The US fulfillment campaign is done. Thanks to all the backers that made Netcrawl possible!

After an unusually long delay at the border, all the books for international backers has arrived in Canada and are now in Ratti Incantati's warehouse. Last update was some boxes were ordered for shipping.

I had a tremendous week in Massachusetts! I spoke to game design students at Fitchburg State University about Netcrawl and then we played the scenario out of the back of the book. About 15-20 people watched and gamed.

Then I attended Total Con 40. I was able to meet some new people like Jeffrey Talanian (Hyperborea RPG), Erik Tenkar (Tenkar's Tavern), and Ian McGarty (Silver Bulette) put names and faces together like meeting Wolf Manzella, Jayson Elliot (Solarian Games), Bryan Larkin (Arcane Sword Press) in person, and see good friends like Joey Royale and Tim Duchene.

I played DCC RPG: Hellpits of Nightfang with Judge Tim Duchene presiding and Shadowdark with Ian McGarty (DM) & Ed Murphy. A game of Munchkin was also played with a bunch of cool folks from Solarian Games.

Then of course I was honored to be a Golden Fez Award winner late Saturday night!

In a couple weeks I fly to NYC to give a talk at SUNY Stony Brook and then I'll visit the Long Island Table Top RPG Expo. If you're going to be there let me know.

Happy New Year, everyone! This is probably the penultimate update for the campaign!

First up a Patreon announcement. 

I am adding a physical gift for the CPU members. Each quarter I'll print some of the Netcrawl Programmer's Handbooks and mail them out. They will be a simple affair: regular copy machine paper with a saddle-stitched color card stock cover. I'll sell extras online and at conventions. Now is the time to activate those CPU supporting memberships! You must be a CPU member for 3 months to get one in your mail boxes.

I have begun to send out the email inviting you to redeem your free mp3 of the Netcrawl Theme Song by Loot the Body! You need to sign up for an account, but after that you can enjoy all sorts of independent music purchased directly from the artists. Don't forget to follow Loot the Body, too!

Turns out mail merge is a pain and costs all sorts of extra money. The first 200 codes have gone out already. Everyone should have their access code for the song by the 24th or 25th of this month.

International Fulfillment is underway! I'm happy to announce that Ratti Incantati will be handling the fulfillment and carrying Netcrawl RPG on their website (https://rattiincantati.com)!
This first step is already complete. All the books for the international backers are on their way to Canada. After that they will get packed up and sent in the mail. I'll let everyone know when that begins. 

It's time to get Netcrawl RPG out into the meatspace and at a table near you! 

First off the Horse Shark Games convention/appearance schedule: