Category: Supplements
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Ultraviolet Empress (Ultraviolet Grasslands x Cloud Empress)
Overview Pros Cons Other Notes Final Thoughts
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Kobold Guide to Dungeons (Kobold Press)
The Kobold Guide to Dungeons, a 2012 Ennie Winner, features 20 essays, many lacking substantive value. While a few offer genuine dungeon design advice, most focus on narrative control and issues with D&D 5E and Pathfinder 1, resulting in a mediocre experience overall.
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Tombs of Atuan: Ursula K. Le Guin
Atuan is praised as a standout in the Earthsea series, exploring the nature of evil while overcoming pacing issues found in earlier books. The author, LeGuin, develops characters better in the sequels, while some view the original as weaker.
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On Downtime and Demesnes (Basic D&D) by Hack & Slash Publishing
Used this for alternatives to Shadowdark’s carousing rules. Chock full of ideas on downtime, includes random outcome tables for piety, carousing, gambling, pit fighting, crafting, and a whole slew of other options. Great book to get ideas going.
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Papercraft Minis by Okumarts Games
These are wonderful papercraft minis by Okumarts Games. These simple to assemble, affordable, color papercraft minis have a ton of personality. I love using them at the table, even though we don’t use miniatures for combat.
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GameMastery Chase Cards Deck from Paizo
These chase cards contain a series of obstacles and events for use in a fantasy RPG chase scene. While intended to be used for Pathfinder 1, I’ve successfully used them several times for Savage Worlds Pathfinder. I think these would also work for Shadowdark without much modification, and plan on trying this when appropriate.
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Dungenerator Series 2 Card Deck by ROLLINKUNZ
Colorful, inky cards to randomly generate a dungeon as I GM’d. I bought these cards on Exalted Funeral after missing a Kickstarter for them. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite what I aimed for in-game. The deck may be better as a prep tool to map dungeons and create a layout. Using it to create a goblin…
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Seasons in Shadow for Shadowdark RPG by Gaffer Games
We use Seasons of Shadow in our Shadowdark West Marches campaign as an alternative to carousing after adventures. So far, several good storylines have come from the supplement. It is available as pay what you want (PWYW) on Itch.io.
Dubious Heroes 