Tag: Shadowdark
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Shadowdark Session Recap: 11/1/2024 Geeks & Games – Shadow Deaths
Summary The party discovered a ruined gatehouse with a bridge spanning a chasm, their curiosity drawing them to explore further. While clearing rubble from a stairwell, they were suddenly attacked by a troll that nearly killed one of their companions before dramatically leaping into the chasm while engulfed in flames. After camping and returning the…
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Shadowdark Session Recap: 10/18/2024 Geeks & Games – Shadow Deaths
Summary The Shadow Deaths, a brave adventuring party, found themselves approached by two individuals after a period of revelry in the city of Pitden. Giselle, a local herbalist, hired them to hunt a fearsome manticore dwelling in a ruined tower northeast of the city, offering gold and potions as payment. A barbarian woman named Thraani…
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Shadowdark Session Recap: 10/17/2024 Online – Holy Divers
The Unholy Divers, an adventurous group, explored the Temple of Aberlach, facing challenges and battling animated Stone Guardians. They discovered a skeleton with a silver warhammer and a mysterious lantern, sparking discussions about the dungeon’s history. The journey involved strategy, exploration, and overcoming obstacles in a perilous underground environment.
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Shadowdark Session Recap: 10/04/2024 Geeks & Games – Shadow Deaths
Summary The party, consisting of Grimdar Thunder, a dwarf priest, Ember, a kobold wizard, and a dwarf warrior named Thru, embarked on a perilous journey through a swampy region. Their adventure began with a whimsical encounter with mischievous Fairies before they reached a mysterious cave entrance. Upon entering the cave, they startled a Lone Goblin…
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Shadowdark Session Recap: 10/03/2024 Online – Holy Divers
The party traveled from Barglen to Needle over five days, encountering fleeing soldiers and discovering a devastated marketplace due to chaos involving dragon-headed soldiers summoned by a wizard named Khemsha. They sought information from Archmage Asmodie, who assigned them to explore ancient ruins to the west. There, they faced hazards, giant lizards, and battled giant…
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Shrine of the Jaguar Princess by Sersa Victory
A Shadowdark adventure designed for 4th level PCs. I ran this in Shadowdark for a group of five level 4-6 PCs, and made some slight changes to the adventure (running it in West Marches instead of a one-shot). It was decent, but not great, and suffers from an absolute TPK factor, with lots of instant…
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Monastery of the Mellified Monks by eyesforteeth (Adapted for Shadowdark)
OK, I love weird, funky adventures. This was great for several reasons – the plot hook involves a noble who wants to eat a mellified monk for “virility”, there’s a zombie bear that breathes swarms of bees, a honey ooze. While not superb, it’s pretty darn good. Also, it’s short and sweet, playable in one…
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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.
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