Backer Surveys Coming Soon
7 months ago
– Fri, Nov 21, 2025 at 04:58:52 PM
Hey Dark Foresters!
Great news! Kickstarter has finished processing, and we're about to send you BackerKit's pledge manager emails. Monday most likely since we're wrapping everything late on Friday.
For those who are new to Kickstarter and crowdfunding, BackerKit’s pledge manager is a simple follow-up system used after a Kickstarter ends. It lets you confirm your shipping address, choose any extra add-ons you want, and complete payment for shipping so your rewards can be delivered smoothly. It's where we manage all the data and spreadsheets of pledges, backers, and items.
We'll do an update to remind everyone right after it goes out.
For now, if you know anyone who was on the fence about backing the project, our pre-order page is open on BackerKit to take late-late orders!
Cheers and Redwalllll!! (brand new art by Felipe Faria for the spell Choral of Beasts)
John & Nicole
More Dark Forest art!
7 months ago
– Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 07:40:01 AM
Greeting Redwallers!
Here's another quick update with a couple more art pieces.
First is the final art for the GM Screen. I realized with the last update that it would be great to show everyone how it turned out. This screen folds 4-ways to fit with your other A5 OSR-type books. The center image is an homage to my very first GM Screen back in 1980, with a bit of the Player's Handbook in the BG. 
Then there is Yuri's fell spirit called the Reaper (fell spirits are evil extraplanar outsiders). Wild!!
Finally, as a lifelong surfer, I have always wanted Ochre Jellies to be tentacled monsters that float along in the dark. So these are the ochre jellies of Dark Forest!!
We'll have more updates as new stuff is added.
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Lots of progress!
7 months ago
– Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 09:38:58 PM
Hey Dark Foresters,
While we wait for Kickstarter to complete their 14-day wrap-up, we've been busy on the products.
- First, I've made a cool change to the GM Screen; instead of printed rules on the inside, it will now have clear plastic pockets, so you can print and insert whatever rules you use the most, or anything you like! You won't be stuck with whatever I want on there; you get to customize it. Huzzah!!
- The Fumble Deck is complete and printer-ready!
- And finally the Premade Character Cards are complete and printer ready! There's new character art on the back, and the character sheet front has been updated with a hand-drawn background and stat boxes.
The adventure is almost fully written, Anthony could not stop writing, so it's gone way past 60 pages now! So the binding may have to change from saddle stitched to perfect bound. More is merrier!!
The main book is still coming together, with the last stretch goal additions falling into place and new art dropping in. Here's Andrew Beckwith's latest. The artwork depicts a scene set in the desolate Ashblight Waste (please ignore my typos, our editor hasn't started!)
We also have a new artist whom Nicole and I met at the Spooky Empire con a few weeks ago, Ava-Marie Gomez. She has beautifully illustrated one of our Iconic Monsters, Glorx-Actium al Beshkst. A god-like dragon, now an oracle (again, typos abound and stats are not final).
Finally Cameron Mass has also come onto the project and done a couple WILD illustrations for the bestiary. Here's one of them, a tallfolk lich. 
Okay, that's all the news from Castle Clark. We wish everyone a happy Friday, and we'll drop another update soon.
Cheers!
John & Nicole
We did it!!! Eulaliaaaa!!!!
7 months ago
– Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 11:08:47 AM
Hey amazing backers!
We did it!!!! We charged through the 120k final stretch goal and beyond! We have now added a fold-out double-sided map to both the Complete Collection tiers and are also offering it as an add-on.
What comes next? Kickstarter will be collecting pledges from everyone, so please be sure you have a working credit card that they can charge. After about 14 days, Kickstarter will wrap up the pledge collection, and we can then open the pledge manager on BackerKit to start collecting everyone's shipping information. So then the next two weeks will be a bit quiet, but we'll be working every day on the books and add-ons.
Thank you again to everyone, for your amazing support!! This has been an incredible journey, your enthusiasm has been incredible, and we're sooo excited to get this book and all the rest into your hands.
If you are keen to join our Discord, we'll be sharing art and discussing Dark Forest, Redwall, Shadowdark rules, or anything else that's fun. And after the PDFs are delivered, I'll start running a monthly Dark Forest community game.
Castle Clark Discord Server
Cheers!
John & Nicole
