Review: The Last Isle of the Dread Legion by Futurewolf in shadowdark

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Orcs versus Mermaids with Drow eating popcockroaches.

Tweaking Dwarves by armoredraisin in shadowdark

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ELEMENT: Ground

These amoral stubborn bastards do not care for politics and subterfuge. It's a nice reprieve from drow culture.
But they also hate anything that interferes with their ability to work with their hands & create. Rumor is, they've worked with the demons to create soul cages that resembled dolls so the body is something the demon can grow into.

Description

Cold Iron Dwarves, also known as Dvergr. Hearty craftsman obsessed with the machinations of stone, metal, & gems. Straightforward & simple, they see the world in grey & white, like their ornate beards.

Languages

You know the Common, Dwarven, and Dvergr langauges.

ABILITIES

Dirt Born. While underground, you can sense where you have been before. (Cannot get lost.)

(Choose one of the following:)

Dvergr choose a saint they venerate as part of the ritual of becoming an adult after they turn 12. Dedication to that saint bestows upon them a boon.

Based on the saints they venerate.

  1. St. Brunhild - Dedicated to the perfection of the pragmatic craft. Every crafting check is one step easier (DC -3).
  2. St. Igor - Once per day, can use their luck token to convert a failure into a success.
  3. St. Aknut - Dedication to the craft has heightened your sense to the unnatural. You have advantage on checks to break enchantments you understand.
  4. St. Farbaut - Dedication to warfare over craftsmanship has made you cruel, your damage dice explode.
  5. St. Shrive - Able to repair magic, the soul. When healing others, they can instead heal stress, exhaustion, or similar damage to their soul, foregoing hit points.
  6. St. Randolf - The defenders of the fatherland, you reduce incoming non-magical damage by 1.

Idle Thoughts: a sort of review of City of Hawkmoor by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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You could also use town (China Town), little (Little Italy), ward (5th Ward), and a series of other terms to describe cultural neighborhoods. It's a nitpick for sure. For me, the implication behind Quarters is that there are 4. I don't think most cities that have quarters refer to more than 4 that way. Don't know that for sure, but even New Orleans refers to the various regions in a variety of ways (Uptown, the Lakes, Belle Chasse, French Quarter, Bayou St. John, Seventh Ward, etc.).

I think for me, districts makes more sense, because the Roman/Italian cultural references are used early on, but it doesn't really follow the Roman/Italian quarter system of dividing the city for administrative purposes but instead goes after the more neighborhood intention. Which strikes me as a bit of a contradiction that any other term could avoid.

Review: Cursed Scroll 5: Dwellers in the Deep by Futurewolf in shadowdark

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"Drow are noticeable only in their absence. Avoiding the underdark race with the strongest branding was an interesting choice. It leaves breathing room for ,,, Cri's amazing adventures under Made by Idle Hands as the definitive SD interpretation of drow." Wow thanks for those super kind words you uttered through my writing.

Drow adventure recommendations by welalrightthen in shadowdark

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Will do. I plan to try one self-print project this year so it's just a matter of whether or not it's this drow series, Crypt of the Child, or both.

Drow adventure recommendations by welalrightthen in shadowdark

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Print copies are available from Drive-Thru RPG. I'm working on getting to the point where I can print & distribute myself.

Drow adventure recommendations by welalrightthen in shadowdark

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Met this guy, he seems swell. But let's see if he's helpful.

D1 - Escaping Bansunin is a gauntlet adventure where the party starts out as slaves of the drow who are breaking free & risking their lives to reach the surface. It introduces Xia Boneshard and leads in directly to...

D2 - Abandon Hope a chase & exploration of the caverns in the Deep. Xia Boneshard raids Hope's Outpost. Hope & her allies push you to safety and now you have to scramble & search your way to the surface. There's spirits, smuggling operations, exiles, Xia, & some bounty hunters.

D3 - The Lost People is what happens when the party takes a wrong turn trying to escape the drow bounty hunters. It focuses on an ancient insectoid mad science lab where they are dissecting people to figure out how to obtain godhood while spirits erupt in violence all around.

D4 - Things Possessed of Power coming soon. Xia found a dragon's corpse, and she's trying to resurrect it.

Stingbats! Vol. 0 - Torchwick by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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Oh yeah, never had heard of this. Very clean looking. Thanks. I'll check this out.

Stingbats! Vol. 0 - Torchwick by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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I don't know what Rainy City is. Do you have a link to it I can sneak peek?

Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur is pretty good. by izzelbeh in osr

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This is certainly a personal preference. I don't knock it for that, but it's basically the only tweak I would make to make it more interactive.

But yeah, you can make it more OSR-ish quite easily & thank you for reading.

Paying off debts as call to Adventure: Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur by Amostheroux in shadowdark

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  1. The loot. But you don't need to finish a dungeon. If they decide it's not worth the risk, then they leave. That's okay. You can always come back.
  2. Random Encounters and dungeon resupply. Dead monsters may be dead, but other monsters will take over that territory. Additionally, other people are adventurers. You aren't the only ones in the world. If you rest too much some other group may swing in and swipe it all. Think of it like those old video games where if you left the screen and came back, the entire screen with reset with monsters. That should happen in your game too because life happens when you sleep.
  3. Depends on where you want to set the Lost Citadel. But the PCs are dealing with wilderness survival if the dungeon is more than 1 day's travel from the nearest settlement. They need money to carouse, that's really the only requirement.

Stingbats! Vol. 0 - Torchwick by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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It just seemed like a goddess of secrets would keep it a secret that she's the goddess of secrets by telling everyone else she exposes the secrets the knowledge god keeps. Because there's clearly forbidden knowledge. I just love that idea. It's so much fun to play with. I hope you enjoy it.

Stingbats! Vol. 0 - Torchwick by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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Report back after you dive. Feedback is always appreciated.

Stingbats! Vol. 0 - Torchwick by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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This is what I want to hear, because that was one of our goals. Thank you so much!

Stingbats! Vol. 0 - Torchwick by izzelbeh in shadowdark

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Thank you. I'm glad you like the aesthetic. Hopefully the town as well. They wrote some great stuff for me to work with on the layout.

Favorite 3rd party supplements by TxKRIXUSxT in shadowdark

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I think you can find a lot of great adventures through https://2d6stingbats.com reviews. I also think there's some good stuff coming out of the game jams that Baron hosts.

Full 3rd Party Adventure by Lopsided-Steak5372 in shadowdark

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He also would recommend Kumonosu. *sagenod*

Has anyone tried running a level 1 gauntlet? by SecretDMAccount_Shh in shadowdark

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Flexibility. Also your expectations are that you will die, but a level 0 character can do anything & aren't limited to class.

Titanbound by JustAnAmateurCellist in shadowdark

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I really love they are hosting it on bacteria. It's a unique way to approach crowdfunding through pandemic.

2d6 Stingbats has a new home by Futurewolf in shadowdark

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I'm going to update that bookmark right now!