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Latest Updates from Our Project:
May
5 months ago
– Sat, May 30, 2026 at 06:00:41 PM
Hail Adventurers!
Apologies if we've been a little quiet lately. We've been heads-down on A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting. All fourteen adventures are written. All that remains is artwork, layout, and polish.
We're almost there. All the writing is done. Every adventure, every creature, and all the player options. Now we're in final editing, layout, art integration, and proofing. The step that takes all of this content from "finished concept" to "the thing we promised you."
I'd originally planned to get more PDFs into your hands with this update. I'm not ready to send them yet. I'm an artist first and a scheduler somewhere further down. I felt I should send this update now rather than wait, because I wanted you to know we're making real progress and moving toward the finish line.
The truth is, the scope of this project is enormous. You can see in the screen capture above that the adventure book is over 500 pages. Dinosaur awesomeness at this scale can't be rushed, and if I'm honest, "rushing" has never exactly been my superpower. Making beautiful things? Maybe. I'm committed to getting all of it to the standard you deserve. I truly love this project and no shortcuts will be taken. The hardest part is behind us. What's left is making it look as good as it reads.
More PDFs are coming soon. Thank you for your patience, and for putting up with an artist who would rather be a little late than ship something he doesn't love.
What Does This Mean For The Timeline?
There are many possible futures, but we’re very close to release, our chronometric fluctuation counters are just barely flickering, and our data indicates:
PDF Books will available to be download by July
Shipping charges will happen sometime in July
Physical rewards should arrive before the leaves change
While there are some possibilities that even a time traveler can't predict, we’ll keep you updated as we have more information to share about more specific dates.
A Shattered Timeline Means Infinite Worlds–And Those Worlds Need Monsters!
Whether you use Rend World’s creatures and environments to populate new worlds in the ‘Verse or in a completely different campaign, we’re excited to see what you do with them.
Speaking of what you do with monsters, we’re excited to share that we’re making our crafting system for Rend World compatible with Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting.
Come Play With Splattered Ink At Gen Con
We’ve assembled a team of GMs to run at Gen Con and we hope to see you there! You can join us for the following adventures:
A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting (5e)
In the Jungle, No One Cares if You Scream(4 hr)
Lock 'n' load. The Carbonide facility is a slaughterhouse, mutated austroraptors that hunt like tacticians, crystalline horrors, eggs ready to hatch. Aliens meets Jurassic Park. 5th-level pre-gens provided.
The Conquest of Baird (4 hr)
A raw world of volcanoes and tar pits. Tribal warlords. A kentrosaurus-riding barbarian who wants your time machine. Help the stegosaurian refugees or get trampled trying. 5th-level pre-gens provided.
Seeds of Decay (5e)
The Ice Lizard's Mine(4 hr)
The Ironspire Mine has gone silent. An ancient ice lizard has sealed it shut, a goblin named Trin has woken something worse, and Cloven Rock is starving in the dark. Custom classes, 5th-level pre-gens. For fans of The Dark Crystal and The NeverEnding Story.
Framework — the Diceless RPG
No dice. No mercy. Framework is a diceless RPG where strategy and resource management are the only things between survival and the grave.
Breach at Bishonia(3 hr · Fantasy Horror)
Bishonia's walls have stood for thirty years. Tonight a desperate father pounds on the gates with a special child in his arms, and something Unmade hunts them through the dark. Open the gates? Watch them die?
The Tide-Walker's Song(3 hr · Pirates)
The full moon passed three days ago. Drowned sailors crawl onto the docks looking for the iron-forged doom, heralded by the Tide-Walker, a ghost wolf that walks the waves. Find what was stolen before the whole town is lead to a murky death beneath crimson waves.
Final Sync(3 hr · Cyberpunk)
2078. NeuroSync 7 went live and minds started snapping. The virus hops bodies, kills the host then jumps to the next synced person. You're analog, the only reason the virus hasn't jumped to you. Cut Node Zero or die trying.
That’s all for now–we have a book to finish for you.
Darryl & Altair
Adventuring Across the 'Verse - Two New Alpha Adventures!
7 months ago
– Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 05:43:24 AM
Hail Adventurers!
We know you’re ready.
Find some dice. Sharpen some pencils. Call a friend or three.
We’ve got two new alpha adventures, Last Gasp Of A Dying World and You Can’t Outrun Extinction, and an updated version of In The Jungle No One Cares If You Scream ready for you.
The Fortelling
Fragments of knowledge were scattered across centuries, worlds, and 'verses. The people of Ytalin did what they could to capture that knowledge, inscribing warnings on walls that lead to the golden wall and it's timeline-destrying lock.
I absolutely love how this wall-carving art came out! From: In the Jungle No One Cares If You Scream.
Last Gasp Of A Dying World
The Good News: You made it through your last adventure – quite possibly just barely. You’re in a time machine. It could be that you’re home, enjoying the familiar low hum of a quantum engine and looking out into the impossibility of the space that lives between seconds. It could be that you’re in a ship stolen in a daring escape, trying to acquaint yourself with a set of controls marked by glyphs you’ve never seen before. It could be that you are in a cryotube, on a ship cycling through world after world, timeline after timeline, dimension after dimension searching for the world that will be your last hope for a new home.
The possibilities about how you come to this moment are as endless as the possibilities for what happens after.
The Bad News: Your new adventure arrives, as they so frequently do, unexpectedly. The familiar low hum of the quantum engine stutters. You tap a glyph and your new ship surges into a timejump whose coordinates were set before you took the controls. You awake from cryosleep unexpectedly to the blaring of alarms.
Possibilities stretch outward beyond this moment. Endless. But this moment, right now – it is specific.
Welcome to Hardoon.
Your timeship is mired somewhere and somewhen unexpected. You’ll need to escape your stalled ship and find some way to repair it, easier said than done in a besieged city on a doomed world.
Good luck.
You Can’t Outrun Extinction
Tormana. Near Past. The Royal Academy of Maths and Sciences sends Dr. Elizar Vaskoon to explore Tormana’s past in search of weapons that will secure Tormana’s future.
Tormana. Ancient Past. Dr. Vaskoon witnesses the deadly predators that ruled Tormana and fell into extinction long ago. He collects specimens and returns with them to his lab, intending to augment an ancient predator into an unstoppable killing machine.
Tormana. Near Past. Dr. Vaskoon achieves success in overwhelming measure. His creation, the GIGA-rex, an ancient apex predator augmented with the very latest advanced technology is practically unstoppable – and it’s no longer under his, or anyone’s, control.
Tormana. Present. There’s a chance to stop the cyborg dinosaurs. Slim. Fading. But it is a chance. A lone messenger steps through a portal in search of the help they’ll need to save their world.
There he is. Pretty scary, right? TPK material. Would you believe he's not the scariest beast in this book?
You’re their last chance, but it could be your last mission. Will you step through a portal to save a ragged band of survivors trying to survive in the wasteland their world has become?
Wherever and whenever your party is adventuring, one thing is certain – they’re going to need MONSTERS. We’re crafting a bestiary of interconnect monsters with living, deadly, biomes, perfect to drop into ANY campaign! (Great even for filling some gaps between TTGtDH adventures.)
Each biome is designed from the ground up, so from underground lairs to skyfaring dragons, each of Rend World’s unique creatures is designed as part of a richly detailed and interconnected environment.
Each bestiary entry will include:
Original Artwork
Creature Stat Block
Environmental Details
Immersive Lore
You can find out more on our launch announcement page. >CLICK HERE< Drop by and check it out! Sing up for FREE to instantly unlock creature stat block downloads(the slimigator will warm your heart) and become a VIP before the campaign begins to unlock a VIP ONLY digital adventure,Lullaby of the Cave Nurse, bonus stat block downloads, and more!
Questions? Comments? Found Our Displaced Temporal Inverter Coil In A Time Eddy?
We love to hear from you!
You’re welcome to carve a message on a monument that will remain for millennia, but it may be easier to reach us by sending a message to [email protected].
Find us, and other like-minded travelers, in our growing Discord community. Drop by to discuss dinos, time travel, TTRPGs, or just about anything else with us.
Darryl & Altair
PS. If you have found that temporal inverter coil, we really need that. Please let us know ASAP.
February Update & Our Summer Convention Schedule
8 months ago
– Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 02:21:21 PM
Hail, Adventurers!
It’s hard to believe a year has flown by since the Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting Kickstarter. Your enthusiasm and support have been absolutely amazing. Whether you’ve been chatting with us in Discord about dinosaurs, commenting on our Kickstarter updates, dropping by to let us know where you want to head next, or just quietly trusting us to get this project out to you – thank you so much!
We're at 175,000 words of adventure text!
That doesn't include the bestiary or player's guide. I assure you, I know it's not just about size - the quality is there too. Some of the adventures have swollen in word count just for that reason, to ensure you have the best possible experience running time-traveling-dinosaur senanagains at your table!
Here are a few more pieces of the amazing art this book will be full of!
Ossian the Confluence Weaver and First Mate Korren
The Spine over Lodros
Dr. Mei-Lin Zhou's Lab
Glitchrats
Gravejaw and the undead horde
We’ve sharpened our quills to wrap up the last adventures for A Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting and record the last entries in the bestiary. We’re closing on finishing these, so you should expect to see some new alpha adventures soon, and we expect to send out the finished PDFs by May.
We hoped to get you the printed books in June and while we won’t quite manage that, it looks like those books will be coming a little later - we won’t have exact dates until a little later in the manufacturing process, but we expect you should be able to tear open some boxes and adventure through dimensions with physical books somewhere around late summer.
Come And Join The Hunt At Gary Con, Gen Con, And Gamehole Con!!!
Darryl (and our amazing convention GMs) love getting the chance to meet you and run games for you. Here are a few upcoming chances to catch us in the wild.
Gary Con | March 19-22 | Lake Geneva, WI
It’s only a few weeks until Gary Con and there are only a few slots to join us Friday for In the Dome! If you’ll be at the convention and want to grab one of those seats, you can do that here.
Gen Con | July 30-August 2 | Indianapolis, IN
Splattered Ink will be at Gen Con! We'll be running a full slate of games:
In the Jungle No One Cares if You Scream: A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting (4 sessions)
The Conquest of Baird: A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting (4 sessions)
The Ice Lizard's Mine: NEW Seeds of Decay (4 sessions)
Breach at Bishonia: Framework Dark Fantasy (2 sessions)
Final Sync: Framework Cyberpunk (2 sessions)
The Tide-Walker's Song: Framework Pirates (2 sessions)
Keep your eye on the GenCon website for when sessions go on sale and search Splattered Ink!
Gamehole Con | October 15-18 | Madison, WI
You’ll also be able to join us this fall at Gamehole Con. We’re still making plans for this one, and details will be announced as we have them. We'll have a booth and likely run several RPG sessions from A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting, Seeds of Decay, and upcoming products!
If you’re interested in seeing a Making of A Time Traveler’s Guide panel with several of the writers, comment below and let us know.
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As always, Thank you! Altair, the internet cryptid and Darryl
Adventure Is Calling - New Alpha Adventures + What's Next For Splattered Ink
9 months ago
– Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 05:12:17 PM
Hail, Adventurers!
Short on time? Help us unearth our next project. Take the survey.
It's not quite an ice age out there, but there's enough snow outside right now that a sabertooth tiger wouldn't seem entirely out of place. We hope this message finds you all warm and safe.
But if you are cold, a quick ride on the Pacific Thunder can remedy that. It's a balmy 110 in the shade in Shard City these days. The bustling streets are filled with wagons pulled by giant reptiles, shard miners, gunslingers, and townsfolk.
Saddle Up! Two Alpha Adventures Are Here
Who's ready for some dinos? Two adventures are headed your way via BackerKit. Since they send in batches, yours might take a moment to arrive, but it's coming, promise.
Four more adventures are in the art phase now, with illustrations landing in my inbox that make me genuinely giddy. This project is coming together better than I dared hope, and I'm still pinching myself that we're really doing this. Thank you for making it possible.
We're excited to hear what you think of these adventures. If you want to chat about the adventures or the setting (or just dinos in general), drop by the Discord or send an email to [email protected]. These are alpha versions, so you might run into an error; if that happens, the best way to let us know is that email.
Jungles of Terror
The good news: you won't have to dig your time machine out of the snow.
The bad news: you and your companions are stranded on a hot, high-gravity planet where the local predators have gained psionic powers and an uncanny cunning after exposure to shard radiation. To get back to your own timeline, you'll need to fix your temporal disruptor - easier said than done as it was jettisoned in an explosion and now lies somewhere in the surrounding rain forest.
Once Upon a Time in the Weird West
Explore (and escape!) an alternate version of the Wild West.
Some things will be familiar - saloons, trains, and drifters coming into town with goals all their own. The ghost haunting his own grave and Pinkertons riding pterodactyls might not have appeared in the West from the textbooks in your timeline. To have any hope of going home, you'll need to face a brutal gang of bandits and pull off a daring heist on a shard-powered train.
Player's Guide Update
An updated Player's Guide (Alpha 3 v0.95) is now in BackerKit. We've made balance adjustments to all three classes based on playtesting and feedback. If you downloaded an earlier version, you'll want to snag the new one.
What's Next for Splattered Ink?
We're already planning our next adventures and we want you at the table for the discussion. Take a moment to tell us what you'd most like to see:
Seeds of Decay Adventures – Standalone adventures in the whimsical dark fantasy world of the Alwaysgreen Forest
Framework – A diceless, universal RPG system. No dice! No mercy!
More Monsters – A bestiary where biome and beast are built together
Rend World – A setting where the environment itself is complicit in your destruction
Your answers help us prioritize what comes next. We really appreciate it.
BackerKit Housekeeping
Heads up on a couple of timing details:
We're planning to lock addresses in March
Shipping costs will be calculated shortly after that
If you've moved, changed your mind about where you want your dinosaurs delivered, or just want to double-check your info, pop into BackerKit and make sure everything's up to date.
Questions? Comments? Want To Say Hello?
We love hearing from you!
Feel free to drop us a line with questions or comments at [email protected]. If you'd like to drop by and chat with us (and a bunch of other people who love dinosaurs & TTRPGS), you're welcome in our Discord community.
Darryl & Altair
2025 Comes to a Close
10 months ago
– Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 07:52:45 AM
Hello, fellow dinosaur hunters!
It's that time of year again. Time for holiday celebrations and the transition to a new year.
2025 has been amazing, much like a rollercoaster. The ups have been so high, yet for many of us, we're ready to get off after one corkscrew too many.
My wish for each of you is a wonderful 2026. A time of peace and prosperity. A time torest and time to work. A time when your voice rings true and speaks from your heart.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year
--
A New Adventure Awaits
We’re excited to share the alpha version of the first adventure (by level progression) in A Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting. You'll find the download in Backerkit. Lock 'n' load!
In the Jungle No One Cares if You Scream!
We’re looking forward to hearing what you think (and hopefully some great stories), but please either send your comments and mission reports directly to [email protected] or redact your mission reports with spoiler tags if you post to the Discord.
Stay frosty!
Timeline Update
We'd hoped to have more alpha adventures in your hands by now. December's pace didn't match our ambitions. The good news: we're still solidly on track for the June delivery window. You'll see a steady stream of alphas rolling out through January and February as we prep everything for print. We'll keep you posted as each one drops.
Conquest of Baird Adventure Is Currently On Sale
After a catastrophic failure during a time jump, you find yourself stranded on one of the harshest planets in the ‘verse, in a standalone mini-campaign full of danger and dinosaurs. Alone, there is little chance you'd survive long in the brutal Hinterveldt Savannah, but a group of stegosaurian refugees offer hope and a plan.
You'll only need to do one thing to escape - repair a broken time machine before a kentrosaurus-riding barbarian and his horde destroy the stegosaurian village and your chance to get home. Embark on a dangerous quest to save your new allies, your companions, and yourself.
The Conquest of Baird is a standalone mini-campaign set on Yirdrassic, one of many worlds introduced in A Time Traveler’s Guide to Dinosaur Hunting, and includes everything you'll need to run this action-packed introduction to the 'verse:
Chronospheric technology and temporal mechanics
A bestiary with 15+ creatures and NPCs
The Dromaeosaridae lineage, a playable dinosaurian race based on raptors, exclusive to this adventure
48 full-color pages
Our holiday sale ends January 3rd, so there are only a few more days to get Conquest of Baird (and other cool things for your hoard) at a discounted price.
This bonus dinosaur hunting adventure was exclusive for VIPs. If you are a VIP you should already have the PDF of this adventure to download through Backerkit. The paperback will only be available through our website.
Have a Question? Want to Talk About Dinosaurs and Time Travel?
We're here if you need us! Let us know how we can help at [email protected].
Want to talk to us (and a bunch of other people who love dinosaurs and time travel)? Join us on Discord!
Your friendly Internet Cryptid and, of course, Darryl
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