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Stingbaats! Vol. 1 Is Accepting Submissions
I’m a little late to the party but after the incredibly awesome and successful indie Shadowdark zine, Stingbaats! Vol. 0, submissions are being accepted for Stingbaats! Vol. 1. Go here for more info, and to submit your work: Stingbaats! Vol. 1 – Creator Packet by stingbaats The theme is for this first issue is what…
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Review: Saint Kaelen’s Lantern
Today we’re looking at Saint Kaelen’s Lantern, a Shadowdark adventure for levels 4-5 by Gianmarco Bellucci that takes place in a dungeon of 109 rooms across 10 floors. Maybe not quite a megadungeon, but a kilodungeon? The eponymous lantern is a sentient artifact whose acquisition kicks off the adventure. It has multiple mechanical effects and also…
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Review: The Tragedy of Ravenmere Manor
Today we’re looking at The Tragedy of Ravenmere Manor, a Shadowdark adventure for levels 3-4 written by William Harshman. It is a gothic horror adventure through the titular 18-room manor designed to be run in a single 4ish hour session. The setup is simple: a man named Victor hires the party to retrieve his brother…
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Review: Things Possessed of Power
Today we are looking at Things Possessed of Power, a Shadowdark adventure written by Nick Campbell for levels 3-5. It is the fourth in a series of drow/underdark themed adventures that takes place in the author’s Kumonosu setting, his own spin on the deep world that lives in the night below the surface. The previous…
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Review: Race for the Crown
Today we’re looking at Race for the Crown, a Shadowdark RPG adventure written by Alan Tucker and published by Jeff Stevens Games. This is an adventure for levels 4-7 and takes place in a 4-room dungeon. Hey that’s like 20% more efficient than your standard 5-room dungeon. Sometimes, a picture truly is worth a thousand…
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Review: In the Halls of the Maneater
Today we are looking at In the Halls of the Maneater, a Shadowdark adventure by Laurin-David Weggen. Maneater is a level 1-3 monster hunt through an 18 room dungeon written for the Soulblight: First Cycle setting, which is set “during a time between the Stone and Bronze Age of its world”. But it would not…
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Review: Final Torch #3 – Shards of the Frozen North
Today we are looking at Final Torch #3 – Shards of the Frozen North World, a Shadowdark adventure by Ross Mahler. This is a mini-setting and hexcrawl including three adventures for levels 1-10. It takes place in a particularly cold corner of the world of Lethalia (bit on the nose, innit?) and also has a…
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Review: The Infected Abbey
Today we are looking at The Infected Abbey by Perdido Press – an ambitious level 6-8 adventure in which players explore a ruined abbey overcome by a mysterious madness. The adventure features over 60 areas to explore, spread out over 3 levels of the abbey and the environs beneath. A hundred years ago, the founder…
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Review: Trouble in the Tree of the Ancient Kings
Today we’re looking at Trouble in the Tree of the Ancient Kings, a journey through a 32-room dungeon inside of a giant tree by Emily Wynn for levels 3-5. A very old, very enormous tree with magical powers has begun to whither and brown out of season. Inside, an evil wizard has corrupted the trees…
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Review: Flameless Forge of the Dverg
Today we’re looking at Flameless Forge of the Dverg by Pakkanen. It’s a 23-room dungeon in an abandoned (OR IS IT?) dwarven forge for levels 1-3. It was originally written for the setting of Cursed Scroll #3 but could be dropped into just about anywhere. The setup is that, long ago, a community of dwarves…