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Shadowdark RPG Quickstart Set (PDF)

Experience the world's greatest roleplaying game in a whole new light. Lift your torch, draw your blade, and enter the Shadowdark! 

The FREE Shadowdark RPG Quickstart Set is the perfect way to introduce you to the game!

The Quickstart contains two 68-page, digest-sized booklets that give you all you need to play and run thrilling Shadowdark RPG adventures for 1st-3rd level characters.

The set also includes eight 1st-level characters with gorgeous, full art on one side and game statistics on the other. 

Inside the Player and Game Master Guides, you'll find:

  • Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaura 1st-3rd-level dungeon crawl where characters can delve for legendary loot... but where pushing their luck might result in an encounter with the infamous scarlet minotaur!
  • 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: priest, fighter, thief, and wizard
  • Full character creation rules for making custom crawlers
  • A form-fillable character sheet PDF

Want the physical print + PDF version? Link here.


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Anonymous

Nice.

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Peter Sheehan
Shadow dark

I personally love the content so far as a player and a dm. Me personally someday would love a Druid class, gnomes and what are your house rules outside rules for traveling say in a town in regards to torches. Very happy customer

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Joshua Santos
Seems petty

The system seemed interesting until it was made very clear that you're not intended to have multiple light sources running outside of very specific circumstances. Add in that any given light source is only good for 1 hour of player time per unit of fuel, the locked in limit on player inventory, and the relative weakness of a thief being on par with the wizard and it feels unnecessarily focused on giving any GM the tools he doesn't need to cause a tpk once he's of the mind to do it.

Doesn't help that I've seen some ttrpg combats go for two hours of real time and the thought of having to handle a single light source mid-battle just feels like more busy work intended to cause a tpk.

Hey Joshua! I think there's some rules confusion here -- you are absolutist able and intended to have multiple light sources going at once. I just didn't want that to confuse readers!

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Joseph Mills
I love it!

Simple and powerful. The way it is meant to be!

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Matthew Maynes
Great starter set

This is a good way to get to the TTRPG hobby. I also have the book and have enjoyed it thus far.