"Light Ring" I've been using to help both myself and the other players visualise what can be seen, and how much of the map I should reveal
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"Light Ring" I've been using to help both myself and the other players visualise what can be seen, and how much of the map I should reveal

u/TheBeardedRoot — 3 days ago

Video/Audio of Kelsey running Shadowdark?

I've found a couple, but if people could share any that they know of then I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

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u/TheBeardedRoot — 7 days ago
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Recommendations for dungeons/scenarios that involve fairies?

I put myself in a bad spot by creating a hook about fairies without really thinking where it would go. I am now at the point where I need to decide where it goes. It's sort of a changeling-adjacent situation, but I'm happy to take any and all Fey related suggestions for inspiration.

So far I have:

The Gardens of Ynn

The Fall of Gutmond

The Forest of Doors

Letters From The Dark III: Tales of the Fey

We're playing Shadowdark but of course I'm open to anything!

I don't want to spam the thread with my "thank yous" so I'll leave it here. Great stuff being shared. Thank you!

u/TheBeardedRoot — 26 days ago

Ideas for a Fay dungeon?

I have Gardens of Ynn and Letters From The Dark 3 to draw from. But I'm wondering if anybody has other suggestions for resources, or if there are any ideas you came up with yourself that I will steal.

I'm also wondering if you've experienced any pitfalls with running Fay stuff that I should avoid?

u/TheBeardedRoot — 1 month ago
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What is your personal approach to introducing hooks to players in a sandbox?

I'd love to hear different ideas and perspectives on this.

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u/TheBeardedRoot — 1 month ago

Just ran my first session of a campaign on The Isles of Andrik

Two of the three PCs died in the third room of the first dungeon to two giant centipedes.

Shadowdark!

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u/TheBeardedRoot — 2 months ago

LV1 Dungeons that I can slot into a hex map?

I'll be running Isles of Andrik and I'd like a few small/medium LV1 dungeons to have at hand.

I'm not used to running games that have dungeon crawling. I've made a few dungeons using the generator in the book, but I'm not entirely confident in what "works" yet. I'd be more comfortable for now using ones that come recommended!

I have ran Scarlet Minotaur but that's the only time I've ever ran a dungeon.

I can easily tweak the theming of the dungeon to match my needs, so anything you can think of would be great! Thanks!

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u/TheBeardedRoot — 2 months ago

Running Trial of the Slime Lord last minute and needed a Raka Ooku mini (WARNING: VERY SCARY)

u/TheBeardedRoot — 2 months ago
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1980s illustrations for The Lord of the Rings by Alexander Korotich

u/Jokull_Idason — 2 months ago

What's your personal approach to running hex crawls from the Cursed Scrolls?

How do you begin? What kind of prep do you have ready? Do you start with a more guided session and then open things up to the players, or just go full sandbox from the start? If it's the latter, how do you mitigate the risk of being in a position you can't improv through? What is your favourite type of hat?

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u/TheBeardedRoot — 3 months ago

Feedback on the content of this scenario, please! (I'm not worried about typos/design/art right now)

The left page is done (Unless I missed something which is entirely possible!). For the righthand page, I'm wondering if the text itself makes sense to a person who might run this. Some things are intentionally left vague, but if there's a part that is straight up confusing then that's not what I want at all.

I'm not worried about typos right now, or that some parts are hard to read. That's the next step. I just need the content itself to be final before I can actually design those parts properly to make them legible and pretty. It's the rough version before I start nailing down the artistic details.

Thanks!

u/TheBeardedRoot — 3 months ago

Any tables you like to lean into? There are the ones in the "main" books (Core, Feretory, Heretic), of course, and I know about the more well known sites, like Glumdark and Tablemönger. Also things like Dngngen and The Monster Approaches.

But I'd like to try experimenting with using lots of tables because It's not something I normally do. Give myself a challenge to work in things from tables when running the game and just go with them.

I'd appreciate any suggestions and ideas. Thanks!

u/TheBeardedRoot — 4 months ago