The Arcane Library’s Shadowdark RPG quickstart is over 130 pages long and free.
Kelsey Dionne pitches Shadowdark by saying;
Experience the world’s greatest roleplaying game in a whole new light. Lift your torch, draw your blade, and enter the Shadowdark!
The quickstart is actually two 68-page books; one Player Guide and one Game Master guide. The digests are enough to get running in the Shadowdark and all the way to 3rd level characters.
The free download offers;
- Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur, a 1st-3rd-level dungeon crawl where characters can delve for legendary loot…
- A classic, hand-drawn adventure map + player-safe JPEG for virtual table tops
- 36 spells, 19 magic items, and 52 monsters
- The four core classes: cleric, fighter, thief, and wizard
- Character creation rules
- A form-fillable character sheet PDF
Shadowdark RPG is what original DnD would look like after being redesigned with 50 years of innovation and new ideas. It’s our “sixth edition!”
The game is fast, familiar, intuitive, and deadly. It’s built for sword-and-sorcery adventures where fell monsters slither in darkness and frosty gems glint upon forgotten thrones, waiting to be discovered.
In Shadowdark RPG, real time comes into play. A torch only holds back the looming darkness for one hour of actual game time! There isn’t a moment to spare when your only light source is guttering low…
Quick Links
- Download: Shadowdark RPG quickstart
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