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Go check out Stingbaats! Vol 0
Some of my favorite Shadowdark creators and community members have put together a free zine: Stingbaats! Vol 0 is a well-designed, richly detailed and frankly beautiful book that describes the town of Torchwick. You can drop it into any setting but also has some content that fits very well with The Gloaming from Cursed Scroll…
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Review: The Spear of Horrendous Iron
Today we’re looking at The Spear of Horrendous Iron by Samuel McClure Taylor – a small but dense regional adventure for level 5 PCs. In its own words, Horrendous Iron is “an oldschool-ass dungeon adventure with all the classics: a town with a problem, a forest, and a dungeon.” Here at 2d6 Stingbats we would…
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Review: The Syndicate
Today we’re looking at The Syndicate by Micah Abresch. It’s an adventure and collection of related encounters and campaign supplement for the author’s Aetherdark setting. Aetherdark, if you haven’t heard of it, is a Spelljammer-esque sourcebook for Shadowdark that includes rules, random tables, monsters and just about everything else you could want to run a…
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Review: House of the Wasp
Today we’re looking at House of the Wasp by Joseph R. Lewis. In this adventure for level 5 parties, our intrepid crawlers will infiltrate a 29 room dungeon full of animal-themed martial arts clans where a masterwork weapon called the Parasite Spear waits for anyone brave and skilled enough to reach the end and seize…
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Review: Bloodstones – The Crown of Blood and Ice
Today we’re looking at Bloodstones – The Crown of Blood and Ice by Legend of Talik. This is the third published adventure in the “Bloodstones campaign”, for levels 3-4. I haven’t read any of the others but this one had neat cover art so here we go. As near as I can tell after reading it, there…
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Review: Soulblight – Hamartia
Today we are looking at Soulblight – Hamartia by Laurin-David Weggen. Hamartia is billed as a “hexcrawl setting” and also includes a 40-room dungeon, all wrapped up in the vibes of Reconquista-era Spain. The region is a collection of islands that serve as a penal colony for the nearby kingdom of Verocia. I hope you like words because Hamartia…
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Review: Take the Tower
Today we are looking at Take the Tower, a level 0 gauntlet adventure by Alex Dworman. It takes place in a 33-room wizard’s tower where the players will command a horde of would-be heroes dying gruesome and often hilarious deaths as they try to make it to the top or at least steal everything that…
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Review: Crownphage Vol. #1: Stone Tears
Today we’re looking at Crownphage Vol. #1: Stone Tears, a city supplement and level 2-3 investigation adventure by Arthur Marques. It’s got a basilisk right on the cover, so I’m in. The first impressions are that the designer approached this with thoughtfulness and intentionality. They did their homework and read some of the classics and sought…
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Review: The Breeding Pools
Today we are looking at The Breeding Pools by Nick Campbell aka Cri aka Made by Idle Hands. At least I think it’s by Nick. He didn’t put his name on it anywhere but I downloaded it from his itch.io so that’s what we’re going with. Regardless of authorship it’s a 12-room dungeon for “low” levels…
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Review: Righteous Vow Vol. 3 – The Mountain Dragon’s Brood
Update Feb 9, 2026: The author has graciously made the Nazulgrath expansion free. In consideration of this very positive change I am updating the score to 5. Today we are looking at Righteous Vow Vol. 3: The Mountain Dragon’s Brood. This is a 176page regional adventure with a hexmap and a few keyed dungeons, similar…