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The DM Command Deck

Gnasher's Grimoire

One book that holds all your books. Every Adventure Keeper, every pack, every free table you own — gathered into a single binder that sits on top of the adventure you're running. Press a key, type three letters, and summon any table, monster, or NPC from your whole library right over the scene. Roll it in place. Never lose your page.

Gnasher's Grimoire The Keeper of Halcyon Light  ·  open

A representation of the command deck — the Summon floating over a running Keeper. First screens from the live build land here soon.

1
Press Space

Summon opens

A command line drops over whatever adventure you're running. Your scene stays exactly where it was.

2
Type 3 letters

Your whole library, searched

"wol", "d100", a villain's name — it fuzzy-searches every book you own at once. Tables, monsters, NPCs.

3
Enter

It floats. Roll it.

The table lands on top of your scene. Roll it right there, read the result, move on. You never left your place.

Think of it like a binder

Right now your adventures live scattered — a Keeper in your downloads, a free pack in your inbox, last week's one-shot in a folder you'll never find at the table. Gnasher's Grimoire is the slipcase that holds every one of them. Open the binder and it's all there: every table searchable, every monster one keystroke away, every NPC ready to speak.

It's the same instinct as a good DM screen — everything you need in arm's reach — except the reach is three letters and a keypress, and the screen holds your entire library instead of four cardboard panels.

You're not buying a PDF you scroll.
You're buying a Keeper that drops into your Grimoire.

What it does at the table

Four moves, built for the moment mid-session when you need something now and can't afford to lose the room.

The Summon

A command palette over your whole library. Fuzzy-search tables, monsters, and NPCs across every book you own — hit Space, type, done. No tab-hunting, no flipping.

The Board

Float as many cards as you want and drag them where you like. Collapse a big d100 down to its title bar — it still rolls collapsed. Everything saves to the exact adventure you opened it in.

Bookmarks

Drop up to ten spots in a long adventure — auto-named from the scene you're on ("Battle Map — Gull's Tooth"). Click a chip and you're back there instantly.

The War Table

Muster a fight from your party and any Creature Keeper you own — browsed like chapters — then run full initiative, HP, and conditions without leaving the page. Monster attacks roll right there.

Install your own

Drag a downloaded Keeper onto the binder and it's in — its tables and monsters join the Summon, its art streams in when you open it. No account, no upload, no sign-in.

Yours, offline, forever

Runs 100% offline, like the Keepers themselves. Your whole binder exports to one file you can back up or move. No subscription to open what you already own.

Every Keeper, one Grimoire

Everything the Long Island Dungeon Master makes is a Keeper — a self-contained file built to drop straight into your binder. Some are here now; more are on the forge. Every one lands in the same Summon and the same War Table.

Available nowAdventure KeepersFull interactive adventures — a whole night of play.
Available nowTable KeepersRandom tables for anything — roll and go.
On the forgeCreature KeepersMonsters & bestiaries, straight into the War Table.
On the forgeCharacter KeepersNPCs with a face, a want, and a voice.
On the forgeHazard KeepersTraps, hazards, and the perils that aren't alive.
On the forgeMap KeepersBattle maps that drop into any adventure.
On the forgeRelic KeepersMagic items & loot that come with a story.
On the forgeRealm KeepersDrop-in locations, ready with NPCs and hooks.
On the forgeChronicle KeepersKeepers woven into a full linked campaign.
More comingThe shelf keeps filling.

Gnasher's Grimoire

One Summon. One War Table. Your whole library, in reach — free.

An Adventure Keeper isn't a file you skim — it's a playable adventure that loads into your binder and runs. A Creature Keeper isn't a stat-block PDF — its monsters show up in the War Table, ready to fight. Own two Keepers and the Summon searches both. Own twenty and it searches twenty. The container is the value.

New · Run the fight in place

The War Table

The hardest part of a combat is never the dice — it's keeping the whole board in your head while the table watches you stall. The War Table runs it for you, right on top of the adventure.

  • Muster from your party — split it, bring two of the six — and pull monsters from any Creature Keeper you own, grouped like chapters, with a quantity stepper ("3 orcs" auto-numbers them).
  • Initiative & rounds tracked, one button to advance the turn.
  • HP per combatant — type the damage, watch them drop.
  • Conditions as removable chips, and monster attacks that roll to-hit and damage straight into your log.
The War TableRound 2
19 Bloodfrenzied OrcOrc Stew 11/32 Raging
17 KerosPC · Druid 37/45
14 Orc AugerOrc Stew 17/28 Prone
11 RuudakPC · Goliath Wizard 26/38
8 Orc RuntOrc Stew 0/9 Down
The binder is free.

Gnasher's Grimoire is free, and it always will be — it's the shelf, and a shelf only matters once there's something on it. What you fill it with is up to you. Load it with free Table Keepers from The Hoard and the weekly one-shots, or add paid Keepers when you want more teeth. Own more, summon more. That's the whole deal.

Free, forever

  • Gnasher's Grimoire app itself
  • The DM's Field Kit & Hoard tables
  • Free Table Keepers — like Where the Road Ends
  • Free weekly one-shots
  • Install anything you download

Fill it when you want more

  • Adventure Keepers — full adventures
  • Creature Keepers — monsters for the War Table
  • Character Keepers — NPCs, ready to speak
  • Table Keepers — roll for anything
  • The paid Weekly One-Shot

Find them on itch.io — with DriveThruRPG on the way.

First look

Screens from the live build — landing here as the design settles. Here's the shape of it.

It's in the forge

Gnasher's Grimoire is real, and it runs — thirty years of DM instinct built into one offline app. It's getting its final polish now, and when it lands, it lands free. Get on the list and you'll be first through the door — plus the free DM's Field Kit the moment you join.

Join The Weekly One-Shot — free

Want to see what drops into it? Meet the Adventure Keepers — the self-contained adventures the Grimoire is built to hold — or grab free tools from The Hoard.

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