Shadowdark! A limited engagement in the Forlorn North

Come out to Pandemonium on Wednesdays nights to play Shadowdark, an eldritch-fantasy tabletop RPG where you play fledgling adventurers looking to steal fortune and glory out of the jaws of Deadly Places Where They Really Shouldn’t Be.

WHAT MAKES THIS ttRPG SPECIAL?

Shadowdark is a rules-lite game where your brain and wits will keep you safer than your hit points or armor class ever could. It’s a game where the ultimate enemy is not the monsters roaming subterranean halls, but the Dark. Torches burn for one hour of real time the moment you delve into a dungeon, and when they go out, the Darkness comes in.

HOW WE WILL RUN THE GAME

Shadowdark: The Folorn North, will be a limited engagement of one-shots with the story – and primary goal – emerging from play. Put another way, the players will choose what leads and adventures to follow out of a list of rumors the GM provides, and we’ll sort out the consequences of their decisions in each subsequent session. 

Ultimately, we’ll be running this game as an open-table, meaning that you can attend as many or as few sessions as you’d like. Just note that you might get more out of the experience if you’re able to come back!

And where are we adventuring? None other than the Isles of Andrik of the Folorn North, a land ruled by viking jarls, woodland vaesen, and other creatures – large serpents, no less! – of the sea and the sky. If you want to check out the land and see the history of the table (and opportunities present), you can check out the information kept at our virtual bulletin board (via this link). It will update between sessions!

WHAT SHOULD I BRING? DO I NEED TO MAKE A CHARACTER?

Imagination and a willingness to help fill in details of the world will be important for players to bring! Otherwise, all materials – pencils, character sheets, dice, and miniatures – will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own. This is a d20 system, so the standard polyhedral dice are what you need.

For characters, players will have three options: use one provided at the table (pregenerated), arrive ~15 minutes prior to the event to make one (it’s that fast!), or come to the session with a new character you’ve already made. For more information on that, feel free to read the Player’s Guide, at the link here. Just note that the GM will ask new players to stick to one of the core classes (Fighter, Priest, Thief, Wizard + Ranger and Bard) and ancestries, as other options will be unlocked via play!