Righteous Vow 3: A RPG Zine for Old School Gaming

Righteous Vow Volume 4 Launches on March 11th!
16 days ago – Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 08:46:58 PM

It's almost time everyone...

Righteos Vow Volume 4: Black Masts & Magic launches next week on March 11th! If you haven't clicked on the button to get notifications of our next adventure. Click right here to get notified of launch. We'd love to have you aboard for our next adventure! Plus you get a super awesome holo-sticker if you back within the first 48 hours!

More Great Projects!

In added news. Our friends at Dungeon Damsel are also launching their Kickstarter next Tuesday on the 10th! Definitely check out Druskara if you haven't already! I have already seen a preview of the books and they look amazing! I can't wait to get my hands on a copy.

Also one of the best dudes out there and friend of the "progrum". Mr. Zac Goins is launching his Pirate Borg adventure book The Winds of Hell! Check it out!

The Final Stretch Goal is Delivered!
about 1 month ago – Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 09:23:33 AM

VTT Tokens For Everybody!

We just sent out VTT token sets to every backer who backed Righteous Vow 3. Check your digital downloads section on Backerkit to get your files. We also sent token sets to everyone who backed Righteous Vow 1 and Righteous Vow 2 as well. Each of these token sets were created by our friends at Dead Hawk Publishing! (Follow them on DriveThru as well as on Kickstarter because they're making some awesome new token sets coming soon!) We have now finished the digital fulfillment for Righteous Vow 3, and we're nearly complete with physical fulfillment as well. (We had a few international orders re-sent after our books got eaten by the shipping monster. But we're really close to getting everyone their books.)

If you have any questions about an order, or for some reason you're reading this going "Hey I didn't get my books!" please message us at [email protected] and we will make things right for you. As of now it shows that only 20 individuals never finished their surveys, and that 561 of you have received your books and are now enjoying your new adventures!

We also plan on sending the VTT token sets out as a digital file to be included on DriveThruRPG for anyone who purchased content there. Rather than try to make more money off of tokens, we're going to just include them with the digital files for the books. This way people can have the tools they need to play the adventures online. Also, be on the look out in 2026 as we are building all of the Righteous Vow modules in Foundry for online play! (More information on that soon!)

Righteous Vow Volume 4 in March!

We're excited to bring you Righteous Vow Vol. 4: Black Masts and Magic, Kickstarting in March! This new 100+ page adventure module will include new sea monsters, new ships with detailed layouts to sail the seas in, new islands to explore, and a whole hexmap campaign featuring encounter tables, powerful magic items, and new NPCs to interact with.

If you'd like to be notified on launch please click here for updates and a chance to be one of the first backers to pick up Righteous Vow Volume 4! We will be offering a FREE Pirate Sticker to everyone who backs within the first 48 hours!

And now for a spoiler! Here is the artwork for the notorious Black Jaque, undead pirate captain of the Weeping Widow! (Drawn by the extremely talented Andrew Beckwith)

Thanks again to everyone for your continued support of Crawl Club Publishing. We're excited for this next adventure! We can't wait to bring you a fun, new pirate adventure compatible with Shadowdark RPG!

Righteous Vow Volume 4: Black Masts and Magic!
about 2 months ago – Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 06:59:49 PM

The next installment in the Righteous Vow series

We are gearing up for the next Righteous Vow Kickstarter beginning in March. The plan is to have this baby ready to go and written, with a majority of the art and layout done by then too. Right now I'm about 60-70% there. But February is going to be a buckle down and get things done month for me. All of the framework is there, and the ideas are all firmly in place. In fact most of this adventure was written before Righteous Vow volume 1 was ever made. Which is funny because I am changing quite a bit of it based off of the experiences I have had making volumes 1-3. Most of the story will remain the same however. Mostly.
We're looking forward to bringing you more awesome art and adventure from the Crawl Club team, and we'd love it if you added yourself to our notification for the project launch by following this link.

The new zine (book) will include new ship layouts, new maps, new pirate themed sea monsters, and all sorts of new adventure material for your adventurers to explore. We're not going to print on this one until well after Gary Con and North Texas RPG con because we will be playtesting a lot of the adventures for this next module at those conventions. So if you're headed to either of those conventions, or perhaps want to be a playtester for an adventure at a local convention between March and July 2026. Join our Discord Server for an opportunity to be an official playtester for the adventures being written for Righteous Vow 4!

We're always looking for ways to improve our adventure design for our books. And one thing I want to make sure we get right is tried and tested adventures. We love the community input we received for RV3, SCC, and Escape from The Island of Bones. But we want to bring it to a new level this go around. So if you want to be involved. Let us know!

We're also working on those VTT Tokens to finish Righteous Vow 3 rewards and (finally) fulfill everything for RV3 too. Sorry those have taken so long. They were a stretch goal that kept getting put on the back burner. Other than that we are at 99.9% delivery, and we can't wait to mark this one fully fulfilled. So that will happen before Gary Con. 

Thanks again for your support of what we do. Can't wait to see everyone at Gary Con in March! Come roll dice with me and playtest Righteous Vow Volume 4!

-Bill Harvat
Crawl Club Commander

Happy New Year Crawl Club!
3 months ago – Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 01:23:49 PM

Hey everybody, Thanks for being here!
Just wanted to touch base and say hi real quick as we cross over from 2025 to 2026. A lot of really great things have happened this year in the world of Crawl Club Publishing. We have had a very successful year getting 6 original publications Kickstarted. In 2026 we will have even more to look forward to as we bring you the next volumes of Righteous Vow and more Shadow Crawler Carnage adventures.

Project Updates
Right now we're hard at work on revision 3.1 of Shadow Crawler Carnage and our editors Laurie and Wayne have tirelessly poured over my poor grammar. I am on page 41 of revisions and I am hopeful to have the next version ready for editor review by this weekend. Also layout is 99.8% complete. We're waiting on a hand drawn space station map to get a revised scan and we have a character sheet revision coming. 

Fun fact: Our character sheet is designed by the one and only Than Gibson, co-designer of Darkspace RPG! It's pretty great collaborating with those guys, and it's amazing how well their kickstarter did. Please allow me this ADD-sidetracked moment to say Congratulations on $100,000+ for the Darkspace RPG Kickstarter. That's amazing!

Maximum Monster Mayhem is coming along. The drafts for most of the legendary authors' adventures are complete and layout has begun. We're also getting special new original art drawn for each new adventure. (Because why wouldn't we?) So it'll be really fun to reveal that as we get closer to the finish line. The goal is still to have these zines sent out in digital formats before February, and to get printing started shortly after. We like to keep things moving!

Next I'm really glad to say that the Righteous Vow Volume 3 Kickstarter is also fully deployed for physical backers. The digital rewards are also mostly sent. We're only waiting on one final piece which will go out to backers in Q1 of 2026. It's a nice set of VTT tokens! (Yeah you guys may have forgot about that stretch goal too. But we're going to make sure we deliver on it!)

After the VTT token pack delivers we can mark that Kickstarter as a success. But until then, thank you so much for your support and we love how positive everyone has been with the deployment of Righteous Vow 3.

Future Projects
The next project for 2026 will be for Righteous Vow Volume 4: Black Masts and Magic. This pirate themed edition of Righteous Vow will have a wealth of new content for Shadowdark RPG players who want to explore a pirate themed campaign for their games. A lot of the artwork and writing is in progress, and we're hoping to have more information in February as we prepare to launch the next Kickstarter for this project.

Thank you for sharing our content with friends and family. We really appreciate every kind word we have received about the new books, the fun you're having with the new adventures, and we get really stoked seeing all of the shelfies you all send us of your Righteous Vow books in your nerd-caves!

If you know someone who missed the kickstarter and wants a copy of Shadow Crawler Carnage we still have late pledges open! We've also just updated the Crawl Club Publishing website with copies of our own printed books, shirts, hoodies, luck tokens, stickers, and other cool stuff!

Finally I just wanted to invite everyone to go and back the Collision Course Kickstarter if you haven't already. The campaign only has about 7 hours left and those guys are making an awesome Darkspace RPG adventure that you're going to want to have on your shelves right along side of Shadow Crawler Carnage. Thanks again for your support of third party creators like Crawl Club Publishing and the many other worthy creators out there making fun content for our favorite games.

Thanks again for a great 2025! Here's to 2026! Talk to you more soon Crawl Club!

Bill Harvat
Owner and Author
Crawl Club Publishing
Real, human powered, havoc

Shipping Has Begun! (Check your email for tracking!)
4 months ago – Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 08:01:58 PM

Just a quick update on shipping...

Several packages are already shipped and may be on their way to you this week! Check for shipping updates via email coming from RPG Ramblings (fulfillment partner and official shipper of Crawl Club Publishing products.) Please post your photos of the new books and let us know what you think! Hopefully everyone will enjoy getting these right around Thanksgiving time. (Might not get there by then depending on where you are. But it could. Hope so!)

But the mission is on track. We should have everything out the door right around if not before Thanksgiving. Huge thanks to Jeffrey Jones, who has made this process go extremely smoothly thus far. He's a professional who is supremely organized. Super thankful to have his help on this project.

Back to work on Shadow Crawler Carnage! We're already done writing, 90% of the zine is built and layout is nearly complete. Editing starts this week as well. Feels good to have that project funded and we're already knocking out stretch goals! You can get in on the awesome sci-fi goodness here, if you'd like to check it out!

And please go back Darkspace RPG! It is an amazing project we really love.

While you're at it, if you haven't already go check out Jeff and Zac's next issue of Gary's Appendix. Volume 9 is funding right now and it's a super cool issue about giants! Can't wait to get mine!

Talk to you all soon. Thanks again for trusting us with this process. We really hope you love the books!

-Bill