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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein

@murkdice.bsky.social
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ENNIE nominated UK RPG duo. Writing, designing, illustrating, and editing. Makers of MurkMail (murkdice.substack.com), a wicked RPG newsletter.

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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#mörktober day 12, ‘Pyre’. More digital watercolour today!
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#mörktober day 9 + 10: Flags + arrows.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#mörktober day 8: Wail. Something ink wash/watercolour this time!
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#mörktober Day 6, ‘Fog’. Had fun with the chalkiness on this one!
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#mörktober day 4! ‘Marrow’. This was a fun one, I love a weird village.
A village sits on a mountain top shielded by a giant loop of bone that frames a bright moon.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#mörktober day 3: glyph. This has been good for getting me out of my illustration rut!
4 fragments of stone, with glowing runes, float in a cluster.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#mörktober day 2, prompt: curse. Quite happy with the illustration on this one!
A rotting human infected with a water-borne curse.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#mörktober day 1. Prompt: goat. The Temple of Rotting Horns, for #mörkborg.
A great stone temple with a huge goat skull on its front.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A quick bit of physical work today, I haven’t picked up the sketchbook in a while
A robed figure climbs a mountain towards a castle.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The test print for Inkvein just arrived… one step closer to publishing the biggest dungeon ever for @morkborg.com #osr 280 pages B5 feels CHUNKY
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Quick timelapse of my appendix N entry cover #art coming together #osr
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A Crown Forged of Storms is live! Murkdice’s submission to the Appendix N jam is posted and free for you to grab right now! It’s a 10 location pulpy dark fantasy pointcrawl for Mörk Borg (and other #osr games). Game jam page: itch.io/jam/appx-n-j...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Apparently it’s #PortfolioDay. I’m Luke, and illustrate creepy books (that I often write)
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Quote with a game you’re currently playing
The protagonist of the video game Hollow Knight brandishing their sword.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Share your megadungeon maps people. Show how it all works with pictures!
A side profile abstract map of a megadungeon cave network with distinct regions.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Quick doodle inspired by @perplexingruins.bsky.social recent ‘Seek’ piece.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
More Inkvein art process breakdown. I had a lot of fun with this one, making art for an inky megadungeon is never dull though #illustration #ttrpg #osr
A layer by layer breakdown of a dark illustration of a robed and masked sorceress
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A little example of one of my painting processes for Inkvein (my @morkborg.com megadungeon) #art #illustration #painting.
A series of development stages of a painting of a knight in pointed armour, carrying and shield and sword.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Great stuff from @nohr.se and such good art from Kat Martin. A must for anyone who Borgs.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We're officially in overtime mode on the Inkvein campaign! Let's see how close we can get to that extra bookmark ribbon: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Thanks to the fine folks at Tuesday Knight Games (@sean.tuesdayknightgames.com and fellow makers of @mothership.bsky.social and their top-notch adventures) for backing a copy of Inkvein. Mere MINUTES left people! Get your pledge in here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
YES!!! We're on our way to hitting the battlemaps stretch goal which means in the last 9 hours of the campaign... those top 2 Inkvein stretch goals might be in reach. Over 250 pages of setting and megadungeon for your @morkborg.com campaign awaits you! Back here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Less than 24 hours to go on Inkvein and we’re closing in on another fun stretch goal: an extra table of setting-specific backgrounds for our enormous Mörk Borg megadungeon. Back it here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
We're close to the $40k stretch goal on Inkvein: all physical backers get 4 printed bookmark character sheets with their pledge. You KNOW you want to explore this maze of caves. Back now: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
A map of a large cave system.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
There's nothing quite like keying the hoard of an Ink dragon with ERRA turned up #osr Inkvein has nearly crossed the appropriately Borg-y 666 backers by the way. Just sayin' www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
An isometric pointcrawl of a dragon's lair
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Got myself an early 'you survived crowdfunding' gift to myself... @yochaigal.bsky.social is a champ for making this available in hardcover #osr
A physical copy of Cairn Barebones Edition in hardback.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I’ve made a massive adventure for Mörk Borg: a megadungeon called Inkvein. 250+ pages of inky nightmares with over 300 locations in a claustrophobic network of caverns. Funding now! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
And now people can see what that nook of empty space on the Inkvein map was for... The Inkdrake Hoard looks right at home doesn't it? #osr www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We've reached the Inkdrake stretch goal and a whole new region is getting add to the book (I'm literally working on it right now). The best time to back our IMMENSE @morkborg.com megadungeon was yesterday, but today is next best. The Inklock commands you! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
A sorcerer in dark robes and a mask with ink tendrils flowing between their hands
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The Inkdrake is in sight… and it would be poetry manifested if we could reach 666 backers! Inkvein is exactly what you need to run a long-term @morkborg.com campaign: a 300+ location megadungeon that will have your players begging to delve back into the inky dark. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A lot of big #ttrpg crowdfunders are launching today! Don't miss out on us smaller folks who are already live though. My @morkborg.com megadungeon Inkvein is 250+ pages of caving horror. You can grab the quickstart dungeon on the project page right now! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #osr
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Our next Inkvein stretch goal is the Hoard of the Inkdrake. You can't tell me you don't want an Ink-infected dragon in this monstrosity of a @morkborg.com megadungeon. An extra 10-page region added to 300+ locations of Ink drowned madness. Come and get it! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #osr
6 scribes writing at desks in a large hall, with 2 knights guarding a large well of ink.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We're not far off the bookmark ribbon stretch goal now! Come check out the quickstart for our 300+ location megadungeon for @morkborg.com! #osr www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Something inspired by @betterlegends.bsky.social, an adventure preferences sheet.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Inkvein character sheets are now a thing! The next stretch goal is a bookmark ribbon! Haven't checked out the project yet? Come download our free quickstart, a taster one of the biggest dungeons ever made for @morkborg.com! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We’re half way to the apocalypse on the Limited Edition alone! Come check out Inkvein, one of the biggest dungeons ever made for @morkborg.com www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
A mockup of a cloth bound book for the megadungeon Inkvein.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Between the campaign launch and being sick I haven't painted any #art for a week. Easing myself back in.
An explorer with a lantern stands in a cave, looking to the path beyond.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We reached a MASSIVE stretch goal for Inkvein: every physical backer is now getting an A5 GM workbook zine with tracking tools and condensed rules/procedures! Our @morkborg.com megadungeon is going from strength to strength! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
A dark forest with three adventurers ready to go inside.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
We're closing in on the physical print of our GM workbook stretch goal! If you run @morkborg.com, Inkvein is a must have. 250+ pages of setting and megadungeon ready for you to drop into the Dying Lands! Grab the quickstart now! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Inkvein is now BackerKit’s featured project! Come check out our @morkborg.com megadungeon! Free quickstart available now! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Big thanks to everyone who's supporting Inkvein on @backerkit.com. We've hit our first stretch goals! We're adding a smugglers' settlement to one of the more hidden entrances and we're making a GM workbook to help GMs track the variables states of the dungeon! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Inkvein is no. 2 on BackerKit's hottest projects right now... www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #osr
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Hey artists! QRP with your #sketch vs final. In case it wasn't obvious, I held a lot of the plan in my head haha. From INKVEIN, live on BackerKit now: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... #osr
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
INKVEIN IS FUNDED! In less than 24 hours nearly 350 people have backed a copy of our @morkborg.com megadungeon! The goodies don't stop here, we've got stretch goals lined up: an additional town, a GM workbook, custom character sheets, and more! #osr www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you see this, post a monster. (Punctuators are still one of my favourites from Inkvein)
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I can’t sleep because Inkvein launches tomorrow. So the answer was of course to start making a neat little sandbox.
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
11/20. Anti-phoenix, Scrap Princess
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
10/20. Martin Grip, Symbaroum illustrations (yes, all of them, but this one is a favourite)
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Murkdice ✒️ Inkvein @murkdice.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
9/20. Richard Anderson.
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