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Prismatic Wisdom Random Blogwagon: https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/random-blogwagon I don’t really have a complex opinion on the nature and use of random tables other than they are some good shit.

Canadians of a certain age will already know what I’m talking about.

When I make adventures I like deep cuts, punchlines, and secrets buried deep enough the players may never find them.

This is a list I have been updating on the Shadowdark discord server since 6/16/2023 Particularly Important The Shadowdark RPG 3rd-party publisher license FAQ Shadowdark RPG Creator Kit Generally Awesome Bre’s Zine Resources Explorers Design blog.

A snapshot of a setting.

This deconstruction of its subgenre serves as a brutal indictment of value extraction.

I was prompted in a private message to share my item saving throw conversion for Shadowdark, so here it is.

Alright so this is based on running a whole lot of published adventures that were not written for Shadowdark, but observing certain elements gelling particularly well.

The Adventure This is a roughly OSR-agnostic puzzle dungeon that fits into my standard 3-hour session.

D60 fun jobs for kids from an early modern urban fantasy setting, and a quick mechanic for running a gauntlet with child PCs in Shadowdark I wanted a background table modified to fit my home setting, for use with a gauntlet (funnel, meatgrinder) I’m writi…