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Review: Legacy of Iskald
Today we are looking at Legacy of Iskald by Brynjar Már Pálsson. It’s a level 3-6 viking-themed regional adventure covering 12 points of interest around the titular Iskald mountains, a 24-room dungeon and several smaller keyed locations. Hey, if you want a viking-themed adventure “Brynjar Már Pálsson” is probably the sort of name you should…
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Review: CozyBlight
Today we are looking at CozyBlight by Laurin-David Weggen. CozyBlight is billed as a “cozy reimagining” of the Soulblight setting – after constant complaints about the unrelenting bleakness of the original setting, and perhaps in consideration of the financial windfall a product with more broad appeal might bring, Mr. Weggen has taken an angle grinder…
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Review: The Shadowed Village
Today we are looking at The Shadowed Village by John Simpson, a short adventure for levels 3-5 that takes place primarily in a 21-room manor. The author describes the manor as a “puzzle box”. The setup is kind of cool. The local sorceress, Alana Field, tried to cast a spell to end a drought afflicting…
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Review: Sepulchre of Dusk
Today we’re looking at Sepulchre of Dusk, an “introductory” adventure by Scott Craig that consists of an 18-room dungeon. Introductory is a word which here means “level 1”. It’s a classic tomb-robbing, prisoner-rescuing, goblin-slaying romp. The adventure begins in medias res. The setup where a bridegroom is kidnapped by goblins, the party investigates the ambush…
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Review: Crawl from the Catacombs
Today we’re looking at Crawl from the Catacombs, a 12-room gauntlet by Connor McCloskey. The PCs wake up in a crypt, having died at some point, with no memory of their past selves. They roll names on two combined d6 tables with results like “mummy guts” and ” fungus ass”. And then they dive straight from the…
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Review: The Last Isle of the Dread Legion
Today we are looking at Last Isle of the Dread Legion, a level 1 adventure by Grim Games. This is a sort of point crawl across an orc-infested jungle island where the party has been shipwrecked. Check out that cover art. It looks like it was made by an extremely talented 6th grader and I…
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Review: Cursed Scroll 5: Dwellers in the Deep
Today we’re looking at Cursed Scroll 5: Dwellers in the Deep a Shadowdark adventure by Kelsey Dionne. This is the latest release in Arcane Library’s series of zines that include classes, monsters, and adventures focused around a particular theme or region. In this case, the focus is a sort of underdark analog called Morzomotha and…
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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…