The original creators of Vast Grimm will print and publish new rules, adventures, and a starter set.
After leaving the original publisher last fall, it was time for the creative team to bring it all in-house.
Creature Curation is thrilled to announce Vast Grimm® is taking our vibrant, retro-future, space-punk sensibilities and printing our own books, just in time for our latest Kickstarter, Escaping Stasis.
After leaving the original publisher last fall, it was time for the creative team to bring it all in-house. And they mean in-house. Creature Curation’s founder and co-creator of Vast Grimm, Brian Colin, secured a digital printing press in August and has started printing the latest releases himself. After all of the tariff scares, he wanted to have more control over the costs associated with publishing. Future Vast Grimm books will be printed directly by the creator, allowing him to get his hands into every part of the process.
What is Vast Grimm? Vast Grimm is a rules-light sci-fi horror tabletop roleplaying game set in a würm infested, dying universe. Civilization as we know it is coming to a terrible end. Most of humanity has been infected by one of the six species of parasitic würms. It’s bizarre, brutal, and over-the-top. The game has been described as, “If you took Guardians of the Galaxy and threw it in an Alien movie.”Players take on the role of Legionnaires, trying to hang on to what’s left of their humanity, no matter how miserable their characters are.
What is Escaping Stasis?
It has been almost 5 years since Brian and Ross started creating Vast Grimm. At Creature Curation, we want to make sure people are playing the best B-movie sci-fi game they can. While we tweaked some of the rules, all of the new books will be backwards compatible with a free downloadable "Upgrade Toolkit" for anyone who wants to keep using the original materials. We do not want anyone to have to spend their money twice.
With the new zine format, Brian is taking a modular approach to designing new books. This allows fans to not only buy exactly the pieces they want, but also bring just what they need to game night. The Starter Set is a great place for new players looking to jump into the weirdness. It contains the Crew Member Manual, a starter adventure with quickstart rules, character build sheets, and finished character sheets. The oversized A5 box is also large enough to fit more zines and even the original Vast Grimm hardcover book.
Kickstarter items include:
- Starter Set
- Crew Member Manual (player-focused)
- Netwürk Operator Manual (GM-focused)
- Threat Registry 01 (creatures)
- Killing the King’s Bounty (part 3 of an ongoing adventure series)
- Terminus S.T.A.R. (lore + adventure)
- Humanity’s Protectorate (fiction + adventure)
- Of Würms and Men (novella)
- Free rule upgrades for existing fans
- Patches
- Exclusive Shirt
From Brian The people who love Vast Grimm, hunger for it. They share it with others, hoping to infect them with our brutally bizarre, over-the-top Sci-Fi RPG. Now that we’re self-publishing, we hope our Legionnaires will spread the infection to get even more people playing!
About Creature Curation Brian started Creature Curation after first exhibiting as an artist at Gen Con 2016. Since then, he has collaborated with multiple industry partners to create a wide variety of gaming products. From pins and patches, to plush, to blind-box squeezes, to assorted RPG publications.
