u/gnome-lackey

Follow along to find out what happens, or for the free dungeons that I will be creating during play. I will post them eventually.

https://matthewpfister.substack.com/p/torchkeeper-the-saga-begins?r=3e6pc5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hail and well met strangers,

What Is This?

If this is your first time seeing this, let me break it down for you real quick:

“A manor wanders from town to town. Everyone swears it's always been on the block; no one can say when it arrived. Inside waits the Daughter — the guilty conscious of a dead girl, who hunts the ones who took her parents, and believes everyone is guilty. Including you. Find the bodies, bring down the house, and set her free.”

What Changed?

After having read through the reviews for my other adventures, I took the time to run through my shortest one. It grew from four pages to eight — every one of them earning its keep. They make the GM’s life easier.

Questions that went unanswered are now resolved, monster stats are present, keys are easier to parse , and the map has icons to make it more accessible.

Read the full story here: https://matthewpfister.substack.com/p/gnomies-workshop-returning-home

Links to copies at your favorite store are in the blog post.

Hail and well met strangers,

What Is This?

If this is your first time seeing this, let me break it down for you real quick:

“A manor wanders from town to town. Everyone swears it's always been on the block; no one can say when it arrived. Inside waits the Daughter — the guilty conscious of a dead girl, who hunts the ones who took her parents, and believes everyone is guilty. Including you. Find the bodies, bring down the house, and set her free.”

What Changed?

After having read through the reviews for my other adventures, I took the time to run through my shortest one. It grew from four pages to eight — every one of them earning its keep. They make the GM’s life easier.

Questions that went unanswered are now resolved, monster stats are present, keys are easier to parse , and the map has icons to make it more accessible.

Read the full story here: https://matthewpfister.substack.com/p/gnomies-workshop-returning-home

Links to copies at your favorite store are in the blog post.

Hey folks — I've been chipping away at this one for a while and it's finally done, so as usual, I'm giving it away free.

Under a Smiling Moon is a 1–2 session adventure for levels 2–4. The pitch: the fur trade out of the Castle Town of Telegrin has gone silent, and the Gem Lords down south want to know why. They send the party north to find out. What's waiting is a ruined trade town where the dead outnumber the living, and the living are kept out by a gnoll curse.

What's in it:

• A fully-keyed castle + town, three explorable districts, and a prison tower
• The Smiling Moon curse + the Hunt — an escalating endgame with a printable tracker sheet to run it at the table
• New gnollish monsters: the Heckle, the Whimper, and Whoop (plus lore)
• New treasure, odd NPCs, and a gnoll ancestry + name generator if a player wants to drag a gnoll into your next dungeon

Written and photobashed by me.

Let me know what you think! Find it at one these stores today!

https://rpg-trader.com/products/7274/under-a-smiling-moon
https://gnomelackey.itch.io/under-a-smiling-moon
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/575404

Hey folks — I've been chipping away at this one for a while and it's finally done, so as usual, I'm giving it away free.

Under a Smiling Moon is a 1–2 session adventure for levels 2–4. The pitch: the fur trade out of the Castle Town of Telegrin has gone silent, and the Gem Lords down south want to know why. They send the party north to find out. What's waiting is a ruined trade town where the dead outnumber the living, and the living are kept out by a gnoll curse.

What's in it:

• A fully-keyed castle + town, three explorable districts, and a prison tower
• The Smiling Moon curse + the Hunt — an escalating endgame with a printable tracker sheet to run it at the table
• New gnollish monsters: the Heckle, the Whimper, and Whoop (plus lore)
• New treasure, odd NPCs, and a gnoll ancestry + name generator if a player wants to drag a gnoll into your next dungeon

Written and photobashed by me.

Let me know what you think! Find it at one these stores today!

https://rpg-trader.com/products/7274/under-a-smiling-moon
https://gnomelackey.itch.io/under-a-smiling-moon
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/575404

Here is the link:

Moth Mother, Moth Mother

Here is the link:

Moth Mother, Moth Mother

CC Welcome.

Previous post https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/1uepb89/opinion_of_adventure_cover_round_2_thoughts/

CC Welcome. Original is the last image.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/1ucyu78/comment/othv61e/?screen_view_count=2

Art by: https://unitsix.itch.io/

Blog post: https://matthewpfister.substack.com/p/gnomies-workshop-eerily-quiet

What do you all think it is? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Art by: https://unitsix.itch.io/

Blog post: https://matthewpfister.substack.com/p/gnomies-workshop-eerily-quiet

What do you all think it is? Would love to hear your thoughts.

I just released Tower of the Mothman, a Shadowdark-compatible adventure set near a failing lumber town, an abandoned lighthouse, and a swarm-infested horror from the void.

The lighthouse is rotting.
The woods are crawling.
Pimsburg is almost out of time.

Inside you’ll find:

• A faction-driven town on the edge of revolt
• Corrupt mill owners, desperate villagers, trapped pirates, and a guilty witch
• A ruined lighthouse dungeon filled with clues, hazards, and treasure
• A deeper Mothman den with light, swarm, infection, and survival mechanics
• Daily faction encounters that escalate the crisis over time
• Mutiny and Revolt Pressure systems
• Multiple entrances and routes through the adventure
• New monsters
• Magic items and special treasure
• Choices involving pirates, villagers, corrupt aristocrats, and a desperate witch

It’s built for investigation, negotiation, sabotage, rescue, faction play, and gross bug-horror dungeon crawling.

You can grab it here:

• Itch.io
• DriveThru RPG

Would love to hear what people think.

I just released Tower of the Mothman, a Shadowdark-compatible adventure set near a failing lumber town, an abandoned lighthouse, and a swarm-infested horror from the void.

The lighthouse is rotting.
The woods are crawling.
Pimsburg is almost out of time.

Inside you’ll find:

• A faction-driven town on the edge of revolt
• Corrupt mill owners, desperate villagers, trapped pirates, and a guilty witch
• A ruined lighthouse dungeon filled with clues, hazards, and treasure
• A deeper Mothman den with light, swarm, infection, and survival mechanics
• Daily faction encounters that escalate the crisis over time
• Mutiny and Revolt Pressure systems
• Multiple entrances and routes through the adventure
• New monsters
• Magic items and special treasure
• Choices involving pirates, villagers, corrupt aristocrats, and a desperate witch

It’s built for investigation, negotiation, sabotage, rescue, faction play, and gross bug-horror dungeon crawling.

You can grab it here:

• Itch.io
• DriveThru RPG

Would love to hear what people think.

Hey Gnomies,

I posted a new workshop update on Substack showing the current progress on Tower of the Mothman, my next free Shadowdark dungeon.

This one is a point crawl built around a dying lumber town, trapped pirates, a desperate witch, mercenary-backed aristocrats, and a ruined lighthouse hiding something much worse beneath it.

I’m experimenting with a middle ground between my previous projects: bigger than my 4-page dungeon Hunted House, but much smaller than the 70-page When the Shimmer Fades. Right now, it’s coming in around 30 pages.

The post includes a few spread previews, the point crawl map, and some notes on where the project is at.

I’d love to hear what people think, especially from anyone who has run or designed point crawls before. Do you like them as a tighter alternative to hex crawls? Do they lose anything, or do they just cut out the empty space?

Here is the link