Black Knife Assassin
Elden Ring-inspired monster for use with the Shadowdark RPG
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Elden Ring-inspired monster for use with the Shadowdark RPG
SVD Press approved! An introductory fourthcore dungeon adventure for four to six 1st-level characters. Centuries ago, the four deities worshipped by mortals – Kishar, Kotaresh, Lyth, and Asar-Segt – threatened to drown the world in a flood of saltwater to punish the living for their impiety. The oracles and witches of the realm struck a desperate bargain with the gods, however, and convinced them to spare the world. In exchange, the mortal kingdoms were bound todemonstrate their faith once...
Guide for converting Crater of the Flaying Star from 5E to Shadowdark
Since the time when the gods first created mortal life, Charon, the infernal boatman, has ferried the dead across the River Styx and into the world beyond. In exchange, he has collected an eternity’s worth of tolls, from the simple copper coins of peasants to the mythic and mystical relics wielded by those who shaped the land of the living. It is these treasures that you seek to claim. Crown of Charon is a multi-session deathtrap dungeon crawling adventure on an epic scale, designed to...
Since the time when the gods first created mortal life, Charon, the infernal boatman, has ferried the dead across the River Styx and into the world beyond. In exchange, he has collected an eternity’s worth of tolls, from the simple copper coins of peasants to the mythic and mystical relics wielded by those who shaped the land of the living. It is these treasures that you seek to claim. Crown of Charon is a multi-session deathtrap dungeon crawling adventure on an epic scale, designed to...
Tabletop RPG dungeon generation inspired by Joris Dormans’s 2017 roguelite Unexplored
Table for restocking dungeons after downtime
Boss monster for use with the Shadowdark RPG
SVD Press approved! FOURTHCORE ALPHABET is a reference for D&D Dungeon Masters who are building and running dark, deadly dungeons. Each chapter of FOURTHCORE ALPHABET spotlights a different element of fourthcore dungeon design, beginning with a short essay that describes how the element fits into the fourthcore aesthetic. These essays are followed by a table with which you can generate hundreds of examples using only your twentysided die. The primary purpose of this book is to stand...
It has been generations since a magical cataclysm ravaged the world, turning a fertile planet into a feral wasteland. The sun, which once brought warmth and beckoned crops, now looms titanic and black, its dim crimson light bleeding through cracks in its blistered surface. Those who remain huddle together in city-states, each ruled by a beautiful and cruel Sorcerer-Queen who wields the peoples’ fear of magic like a cudgel. It is upon the remnants of the pre-cataclysmic civilizations that the...
Deadly one-shot dungeon for the Shadowdark RPG
Generate ideas for interesting encounters on the way to the dungeon
Generations ago, the Onyx Crucible erupted, and the rule of the dancing girl who became a tyrant was buried under ashes. Those in the shadow of the black volcano, freed from their shackles, scattered back to the homelands from which they were taken. However, the mountain no longer stands cool and silent. In the darkness of the new moon, hellish fire pulses once more from under the volcano’s cursed kaldera. It is within this fire that the ruthless Sickle-Dancer stirs in her soot-darkened...
Deadly sword-and-sorcery dungeon delve for use with the Shadowdark RPG
Deep in a wasteland cleaved by a sierra of ebon mountains, a young woman was unshakeable in her faith in the Great Scorpion of Khemet. She dwelled as a scribe among the priestesses of the Scorpion Temple, chronicling tales and composing songs of the venomous faithful as they marched toward the glorious Final Age. Then, on a night soft with chanting and prayer, a purple worm burst from the walls of the temple, devouring the young bard. However, she did not perish, but rather emerged from the...
Deadly sword-and-sorcery dungeon delve for the Shadowdark RPG
SVD Press approved! A fourthcore dungeon adventure for four to six 14th-level characters. A half-marilith, half-medusa druidess lich known as the Hate Blossom lairs in this dungeon, having been run out of mortal society and shunned by demonkind. She possesses the petrified-yet-still-living body of Melenkir, the first human arch-mage and the single creature to remember a ritual that may save the realm from an extraplanar threat. Only slaying Hate Blossom or convincing her to lift the curse...
Unique monster for use with the Shadowdark RPG
Doom Has Come to Stormhold! A rotting wind has blighted the capital city of the Empire of the Iron Falcon, followed by an invasion force of long-dead warriors. Before the undead phalanxes tore down the Tower of Triumph, the Council of Six divined that the source of the siege was the Necropolis of the Mailed Fist. For thirteen generations, the Empire interred its sacred dead and mythic relics in the Necropolis. But the sins of the First Emperor have finally brought down hellish retribution,...
Eons ago the emerald-skinned war goddess Sekhmet came, the Lady of Slaughter radiant and terrible atop her lion steed. With the blade of her jeweled khopesh Sekhmet carved death and disease across the quivering cities of Ra’s enemies. Those who knelt were rarely spared, but the Eye of Ra fell upon a chosen few— and it was these captives that Sekhmet corralled into servitude, to heap the foundation slabs of her numberless cenotaphs. Ages passed, and the kingdoms Sekhmet brought to heel were...
Deadly head-to-head tournament gauntlet for use with the Shadowdark RPG
Guiding principles for converting modules to Shadowdark
Simple Affinity Publisher template for Shadowdark RPG projects
A free B/X-compatible module created as part of Dungeon23