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DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for 1st Edition and B/X
DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for 1st Edition and B/X

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for OSR Games Out Tuesday

03/18/2021 / / 0 Comments

The 5th Edition version of DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor has been out for a hot minute, and right on its heels is the OSR version compatible with B/X and AD&D-style OSR games!

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor

Subscribe for an email update here at the site, or check itch.io and DriveThruRPG early on Tuesday morning, March 23rd, as the new version drops! Built for compatibility with Old School Essentials, Swords & Wizardry, OSRIC, and all your favorite retro-clones!

Adventure Features

  • An adventure for 4-6 adventurers of levels 10-14 in your favorite OSR system of choice.
  • An easy reference layout, with each dungeon on just a couple page spreads, and concise descriptive text to make it easier to run on game day!
  • Monsters, magic items, NPCs, and preparation lists are all in a separate, printer-friendly appendix PDF to make your life easier! You can even cut up the magic items into individual reference cards for the players.
  • SRD links throughout the text so you can reference spells, monsters, items, and more. Don’t like our layout? Snag the SRD stats and do with them what you will!
  • Monsters and magic items pulled from a huge variety of OGL sources, as well as some newly created ones. Don’t like the adventure? Steal the monsters and magic items and make your own!
  • All the stats you need to run the adventure are provided; no need to hunt down other books.
  • Cartography by Dyson Logos, but with some artful Photoshopping to give each a floor of the manor a unique layout.
  • Separate PDF with all keyed and unkeyed maps, so you can print them or extract them for virtual tabletop play.

Coming Tuesday 3/23 to both itch.io and DriveThruRPG!

If you like DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor, check out the start of this storyline in DD-01 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. You can also pick up the setting — including not one but three settlements full of plot hooks, NPCs, new monsters, and more — in Adventures in Dalentown. Both can be found at DTRPG and itch.io; links are in our shop!

Tabletop One-Shot Megabundle
Tabletop One-Shot Megabundle

Get the Tabletop One-Shot Megabundle at itchio Now!

02/27/2021 / / 0 Comments

The Tabletop One-Shot Megabundle has gone live, featuring our game, DeScriptors: Definitive Edition!

Per the bundle page:

Want to take a dip into indie tabletop, but you’re not sure where to start?

 

This bundle contains 45 standalone titles from 33 indie creators.

Everything in here is designed to be easy to pick up and play, and you can use these games for one-shots, mini-campaigns, or to fill in whenever you’re down a person for your regular campaign.

There’s even three worldbuilding guides and a dungeon-crawling computer RPG mixed in.

This bundle helps support 33 indie tabletop creators to make fun (and sometimes weird and experimental!) games.

 

The titles in this collection range from tactical action to mellow and chill, with lots of options in between.

Get fully equipped today with the One-Shot Megabundle!

Spearheaded by Sprinting Owl Designs, this incredible bundle of games is only $33 — that’s $1 per creator — but nets you 45 unique, standalone titles by all sorts of amazing indie tabletop role-playing game designers. As mentioned, it even mixes things up with worldbuilding guides and a dungeon-crawler video game, so there’s literally something for everyone.

Pick  up the Tabletop One-Shot Megabundleup now!

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DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown
DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor out now!

01/26/2021 / / 1 Comment

After an awfully long time fidgeting with the layout and presentation of this thing, we’re finally releasing DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor! This follow-up to DD-01 can easily be run as a standalone house of horrors-style 5th edition adventure as it contains all the lore you need. But there are a few connections to DD-01 that can really expand on that adventure’s storyline, or inspire even bigger adventures elsewhere!

Easy Reference Layout

What we’re hoping you find really useful is the layout: it uses a landscape format for presentation on your computer screen, or if you print it out, this format allows quick and easy reference of maps and room descriptions all in a simple, minimal spread. You can even just put up the current level on your DM screen since none of them are more than 3 or 4 pages.

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor adventure layout

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor adventure layout

Monster & Treasure Cards

The appendices include ALL the monster and magic item stat blocks, and they are formatted for ease of use as well! The monster stat blocks are either in 2 column spreads or entire pages, so you can cut up the spreads and arrange the monsters by encounter or use these as initiative cards/tents, or whatever.

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor monster appendix

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor monster appendix

Magic items are similarly laid out so that they don’t break over columns whenever possible, allowing you to chop them up and use them as reference cards or player handouts without any fuss.

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor magic item "cards"

Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor magic item “cards”

SRD Reference Links & VTT Support

Plus, there’s an appendix of handy lists to help make prep way easier. And on top of that, we’ve linked all the monsters, traps, and magic items throughout the text of the adventure. So, if you hate our layout tricks, just pull up the stats (from 5eSRD.com) on your own and format them however you like, even if that means just having a billion tabs open in your browser of choice. For VTT folks, this is a great way to get what you need to import into your VTT of choice. Oh, and all the maps are included in a separate appendix, for easy printing or porting into your VTT of choice.

Enjoy the adventure!

If you like DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor, check out the start of this storyline in DD-01 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. You can also pick up the setting — including not one but three settlements full of plot hooks, NPCs, new monsters, and more — in Adventures in Dalentown. Both can be found at DTRPG and itch.io; links are in our shop!

Logo for Let's Start Over, Shall We? MCU-inspired Marvel FASERIP Actual Play Podcast
Let's Start Over, Shall We? Logo

Let’s Start Over, Shall We? The MCU-inspired FASERIP Actual Play Podcast

12/29/2020 / / 0 Comments

Here’s a belated announcement if there ever was one!

I’m the Judge (read: 1980’s term for the Game Master) of ‘Let’s Start Over, Shall We?‘, the Marvel Cinematic Universe-inspired actual play where a massive cast of MCU fans play the 80’s/90’s Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game by TSR. Additionally, we have only one rule: the dice fall where they may. Affectionately referred to as the ‘FASERIP’ system, this ridiculous game system is proving to be a blast for us as we mess up the Marvel Cinematic Universe real quick!

Even though we might sound like it, we’re not some big, well-funded program! We’re a bunch of MCU fans playing a fun game together. So don’t judge us too harshly! We’re producing the podcast so all of our players can stay up to date on the continuity. However, it sure helps that mastermind Leon Doell has been editing and polishing the episodes so they sound utterly marvelous!

Follow along in the fun, and if you’re interested in running one-shots that might expand our continuity as things go awry, we might still be recruiting!

Find us on your favorite podcast listening service via Anchor.FM. Also, keep an eye on the LSOSW social at Twitter and Facebook to get engaged, yell at my rules mistakes, and catch some cool content! We’ll release heroic and villainous character sheets, fun in-world asides, episode summaries to help you catch up or recap stuff really quick, and a whole lot more.

Stay tuned here as I share some behind-the-scenes stuff and mirror some of the content as we create it.

If you enjoyed this article, please like, comment, and share! Use the widgets to subscribe to get an email as soon as I publish something new, or check out my stuff on itch.io or in my shop, or at DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG,. I really appreciate your support.

Happy gaming to ya!

Seas of Vodari plus LMoP and DoIP
Seas of Vodari plus LMoP and DoIP

Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak in the Seas of Vodari

08/26/2020 / / 0 Comments

Last time I started a project on Greyhawk adaptations of the adventures Lost Mine of Phandelver and Dragon of Icespire Peak from the D&D Starter Set and D&D Essentials Kit, respectively. I mentioned some Greyhawk factions that I’ll post (actually re-post from my old site neuronphaser.com), but that’ll have to wait a hot second. You see, the day after writing the Greyhawk article, I got my hard copy version of Tribality Publishing’s campaign setting and rules expansion The Seas of Vodari (<– affiliate linky, if you wanna help support articles like this).

If you haven’t heard of it or checked out, hit that link above (even if you don’t want to buy it) and check the preview. It’s an awesome seafaring campaign setting made up of a post apocalyptic world of island nations, at the center of which is a raging magical storm. From a setting perspective, it’s got a lot of great ideas and tools for being a lot more inclusive than classic D&D settings (i.e. LGBTQIA representation; diverse artwork; not all orcs and drow are evil), and it doesn’t go grimdark with the post apocalypse side of things. From a rules perspective, there’s a huge amount of supplementary material on firearms, cannons, boats of all shapes and sizes, and loads of new class options, monsters, and magic items. Oh, if that’s not enough of a sell, there’s a 26 page free preview, too.

So what’s that got to do with LMoP and DoIP? Well, here’s a map and a few ideas on porting those adventures to The Seas of Vodari! Read on!

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