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Review: Cursed Scroll IV – River of Night
Today we’re looking at River of Night, a Shadowdark adventure by Kelsey Dionne and published by Arcane Library. This is the first release from the Western Reaches kickstarter and the fourth entry in the Cursed Scroll series of zines. As is tradition with the Cursed Scrolls series, River of Night is 68 pages and contains a couple of new…
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Review: Tyrant of the Pendulant Keep
Today we’re looking at Tyrant of the Pendulent Keep by Scott Craig of Cutter Mountain Simulations. It is the latest in a series of four-page dungeons and this particular one was published on my birthday. So it better be good. The location itself is 26 rooms and very distinctive, being a keep hewn from enormous stalactites hanging…
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Review: Ward of the Eye Tyrant
Today we’re looking at Ward of the Eye Tyrant by Derek Ruiz and published by Elven Tower. Elven Tower has been producing Shadowdark content since the early days of the system. I remember they got some feedback then that their adventures had a bit too much of that 5e feel. Let’s see if anything’s changed. The adventure…
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Review: Grotto of the River Pirates
Today we’re looking at Grotto of the River Pirates by Ryall Hancock Hyatt. We’ve got a pirate hideout with a hidden temple to a frog demon that has corrupted the pirate leader and some of the denizens of the nearby caves. It’s kind of like Goonies, Temple of Doom, Alien and The Shadow Over Innsmouth…
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Review: Sapphire Seas
Update: In my initial review of The Sapphire Seas, one of my biggest gripes was with the layout. Menagerie Press has gone through and revised the entire ~400 page document to make it much more navigable and reader-friendly. The table of contents has been pared down, formatting is much improved and the whole thing just looks much…
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Review: Soulblight – Swords and Sorceries
Today we are looking at Soulblight – Swords and Sorceries, a collection of 7 adventures and 2 settlements by Laurin-David Weggen. Although it is ostensibly for his Soulblight setting, any of the adventures could easily be dropped into any other setting you desire. So what is a Sword and Sorcery story? Besides the swords and…
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Review: Delve
Today we’re looking at Delve, a collection of adventures for Shadowdark by Robert “Bob World Builder” Mason and the folks at Eventyr Games. It bills itself as “a complete guide to building and surviving deadly dungeons with 200+ pages of dungeon-building tools and plug-and-play dungeons – and more monsters, treasures, player options, and traps than you…
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Review: Lair of the Forgotten Queen
Today we’re looking at Lair of the Forgotten Queen by Caleb Paulson. The premise of this four-part adventure is that the PCs are looking for three keystones (found in each of the first three dungeons) needed to unlock the fourth dungeon, the titular Lair of the Forgotten Queen. In the first dungeon, Grotto of Gelid Flame, rooms and…
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Review: Battlezoo Kickstarter Preview
Today we’re looking at the Kickstarter page for Battlezoo from Roll For Combat. Yeah, this one’s a little different. Work’s been rough and I’m traveling this week so I’m being lazy. Battlezoo is a collection of 3 books that includes a bunch of new monsters, some new player options and rules for harvesting monster parts. At least…
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Review: The Zircon Zephyr
oday we are looking at The Zircon Zephyr by Cameron Maas & Jason Terry. Full disclosure: I have done some Shadowdark adventure editing for Jason Terry, although I was not involved in the creation of this adventure in any way. This 9-room crystal on the back of a giant crab was written for the Appendix N game jam…