This gestalt of entertainment in books, art, film, and music in the 1970s and early 1980s completed the environments where many of us first rolled twenty-sided dice, filling the space around the orange shag rug and basements with wood paneling. It’s what fantasy storytelling felt like to many of the children of that era. That feeling was arcane, dark, mystical, and tantalizingly forbidden, like we were uncovering a secret language we passed between us. All of it, at its core, brimmed with that same prog-ish feeling of wonder, mystery and danger. Put all of these elements, memories, and feelings together, and you’ve got ProgCore.

ProgCore is creepy, lethal, psychedelic, epic, intimate, and strange. It’s a black light poster of a wizard, a dragon painted on the side of a van. It’s a skull bong, a feathered roach clip in your hair, and a jean jacket with a ZOSO patch. It’s naming your cat Galadriel and raising a tankard at Ren Faire. It’s all of us together, swaying to a beat that only we can hear, but that everyone’s invited to experience, if they wanna get in our groove.

We choose ProgCore Fantasy for our stories to enhance the excitement, the butterflies-in-our-stomach sensation we felt when we first encountered the fantastic, whether that was one year ago or 50. And we choose ProgCore when we want to collectively tell stories that feel like classic 70s and early 80s fantasy tales, without the prejudices inherent in the media of that era.