Hello everyone!
This is Shatargat, and I’m introducing BLACK DRAGON TOMES and this website to you!
First of all, thank you for being here and reading this message. That means a lot to me!
As you can see in the landing page (or home page), I’m not a designer nor a coder, but I’m trying my best to provide you a clean and cool interface here!
There are a lot of things you will find here, but specifically;
- Details about my current TTRPG projects,
- Links for my finished products,
- Announcements of upcoming projects,
- List of the games I’m running on SPG,
- and other things that I don’t have idea yet!
I wanted to gather my things under a certain name, and I picked BLACK DRAGON TOMES for doing it. Dragons and the draconic concept has always dragged me into itself, and on my last D&D 3.5th Edition years, I created a setting called Age of Draconism. Back in those days, people were telling me that seeing me was reminding them dragons every single time. Then me and the people around me decided that the black dragon’s personality fits best with me. Since then I embrace this and people started to know me as Black Dragon. I already had a website and YouTube channel under the name of Draconism, and it started to become a persona. Currently, people know me as “Shatargat, the Black”, and “the Black” is referring to the Black Dragon persona.
I was a quantum physics student and in my senior year, I decided to drop the school. Reasons are irrelevant actually, but the summary is, living in Turkiye comes with lots of penalty. Then, with the support of some new friends, I became a professional gamemaster in 2019. I always wanted to publish my own books. I grew up with games like Silent Hill, MediEvil, Harvester, Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Castlevania etc. So, you can say that I have a great affinity with dark fantasy and horror. And I wanted to use this inspiration to create things that take some space in my mind. On July 2023, I published my first creation that is actually a Quickstart demo booklet of a larger thought game, called LOST ECHOES. That was when I took Black Dragon Tomes name. Then, on April 2024, I published a mini-game called DREAM HEIST.
Currently, I created my own game engine that I can use with all of my future games. I just need to organize some things, polish the content a little bit, handle the book design somehow (remember I said that I’m not a designer) and it will be ready! If you follow the latest news, you can catch the details of the project.
I’m working on my first big project that is called NECROSPHERE. NECROSPHERE is the setting I created when 5th edition of D&D was on the way. I mean, first print books were still on pre-order state when we started our first session. It took 12 months to finish the first storyline, and that campaign brought lots of friends into my life. Rcently, I don’t like D&D anymore, have a huge dislike whatever Chris Perkins & Jeremy Crawford do, and trying to spend my time on every other game. I’m not a dungeon master. I’m an ALL-GAMES-MASTER! In the other hand, working on NECROSPHERE, removing every detail that has a mark of D&D, and using my own game engine for creating a whole standalone game.
That’s the whole story.
So, I’m a game designer who runs TTRPG to make living.
If you want to help and support me, you can always join my games, play my sessions and you can even drop some tips if you like to. I will also create an itch.io campaign for NECROSPHERE when it’s ready. I will share the imageless version of the book for a cost, and will afford some cool images for the game with the money. The good thing is, when you support me in my early steps, you will be able to reach the book’s full imaged version for FREE.
Aaand, there’s another thing!
I managed to install a newsletter addon (for the first time in my life!) and you can sign up and get latest news on the website! That will include:
- Currently ongoing games and new game announcements on SPG
- DevLogs and progress sharing for all of my upcoming projects (I have more than 20 book ideas to bring to life!)
- Upcoming publishes and sales
That’s all for now! Thank you for being here, and supporting me!