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Hidden deep in the borderland forest, bandits lurk in the ruined castle of a long-dead border lord. Their incessant raids draw a band of neophyte heroes to the derelict keep. There they discover fouler, more odious dangers lurk below the ruins. Dare you brave the terrors of the Shadowed Keep to crush that which lurks within or will darkness shroud the surrounding lands? Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands is an adventure for 1st-level characters compatible with OSR games. Designed for the Duchy of Ashlar campaign setting the adventure can be easily inserted into a GM's home campaign. Early 2024 Edition This is the Early 2024 edition of Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands. This edition is the culmination of multiple playtests, additions, suggestions, revisions and corrections spanning over a decade of play and development. Subsequent editions of the adventure will build on what lurks within these pages. For you, these updates are free. Once you’ve purchased Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands, you unlock all future digital editions of the adventure (for your chosen edition or game). Update Log * Early 2024 Edition: Extensive expansion of the town of Dulwich. * Late 2023 Edition: Extensive proofing and editing. Running the Shadowed Keep Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands is designed for a group of 1st-level characters. The adventure is set in the Duchy of Ashlar, which is part of the Gloamhold campaign setting, but can easily be inserted into your own campaign world. The keep’s location—a bluff surrounded by dense woodland—is generic enough to fit any but the most atypical campaign. Similarly, the one-time ruler of the fortress is nothing but an adventurer made good and not the scion of some noble house. The Shadowed Keep on the Borderlands is a sandbox adventure—the characters can explore the various zones of the keep in almost any order. Thus the characters will find some areas easier than others, and they may never even discover other portions of the complex (particularly locations D14 – D16). Similarly, there is no time pressure during this adventure—the characters can explore the Shadowed Keep at their leisure. If you would rather a faster-paced adventure, consider placing a rival group of (black-hearted) adventurers in the area also intent on exploring the ruins. This gives the characters an impetus to explore swiftly and potentially sets up a climactic fight with the rival adventurers somewhere in the ruins! Once the party has cleared the keep the characters can move on to their next adventure or they can claim the fortress as their own. In this way, the keep can become the focus of an entire campaign as the characters battle to clear the surrounding woodland of enemies (or explore the deeper caverns below the keep) while repairing the shattered fortress. The obstacles to successfully completing such a task are legion. (Refer to “Further Adventures” for more details.) Characters completely exploring the keep and defeating all its challenges should reach 4th-level by the end of the adventure.

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Land of Mist for Old-School Essentials - What is Land of Mist? Land of Mist is a campaign backdrop and third party supplement for use with the popular role-playing game Old-School Essentials (OSE).Inspired by classic tabletop fantasy worlds, it is a whimsical realm infused with magic and mystery. Contained within the book: A Unique Campaign World 9 Character Classes 7 Character Races Options to play Enlightened Monsters, Hedgewitch Spell Casters, and Lycanthropes Procedures for Underwater Adventuring, alternative Domain Management...

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By Creighton Broadhurst Glowering amid dark rumours and terrible stories of desperate adventure, death, betrayal and glimmering treasures squat the unutterably ancient halls of Gloamhold. This crumbling, benighted, haunted dungeon complex of unknown, but undeniably vast, extent is buried deep within the grim and brooding spray-drenched headland of the Mottled Spire. It is a place of legends, madness and death. Within this towering, wave-lashed shard of limestone lies the labyrinthine passageways and chambers of Gloamhold’s outer reaches and, beyond them, the benighted precincts and canals of the legend-shrouded Twilight City. Gloamhold is designed for use with any edition of the world’s most popular role-playing game. Although much of Gloamhold remains unknown—nothing more than the subject of wild whispers and rumours—knowledge of a few locations has come to light through the explorations of brave (or foolhardy) adventurers. * Rivengate: Of dark and forbidding aspect, the lower portions of once mighty Rivengate collapsed into the sea long ago. Built by unknown hands remnants of the citadel yet cling to the cliffs. The Splintered Stair links Rivengate to the cellars buried below the Shard. * The Murkwater: Only skilled or lucky captains dare to sail into the gloom of Rivengate’s gaping maw. Within flows the dark and treacherous Murkwater; the seething, foam-flecked waters below Rivengate are particularly hazardous because of the jagged rocks fallen from above. * The Twisted Warrens: Honeycombing the rock above the Murkwater, the Twisted Warrens are a confused and convoluted network of natural caverns and passageways inhabited by derro, troglodytes, dark creepers and worse. * The Breathless Narrows: A network of flooded, fractured caverns radiate outwards from beneath the Murkwater. The water therein is only fractionally above freezing and explorers need magic to survive for any length of time in this airless, lightless world. * The Twilight City: Buried in an immense cavern, the Twilight City sprawls across a series of low islands struggling above the cold, dark waters of the Sunless Lake. An ancient place of stone ziggurats, fetid and twisted canals and cyclopean architecture, troglodytes fleeing the ruin of their ancient mighty empire built the city aeons ago. At the city’s heart stands the titanic Whispering Fane built about the Daemonic Maw. A wide passageway—The Ebon Road—links Gloamhold to the Ebon Realm. Praise for the Gloamhold Campaign Guide “This is a great product for anyone interested in running an old school, gritty, sandbox sort of a game. I’ve been anticipating the release of Gloamhold for several months, and it does not disappoint. I really like the gloomy feel of this place for a megadungeon setting and the space it allows for me to continueu to develop this to my own taste.” Customer Name Withheld– (five stars) “Creighton Broadhurst is a true master of concise writing: The sheer attention to detail and evocative concepts evoked within these pages is amazing. Via a scant few words, he manages to conjure up the weight of aeons, the gravity of history grinding down the accomplishments of bygone eras. If anything, this, to me, feels like the design-incarnation of the old Ozymandias-sonnet. The sense of an ancient world waiting to be explored, of untold stories long gone, the sense of antiquity that is so incredibly hard to convey – Creighton nails it absolutely perfectly. Gloamhold is a ruin; it is a place where the world has moved on; it is not a deserted remnant, though. Instead, this book provides a toolkit to make the overall complex your own; it establishes the tone and themes of the complex perfectly and provides a wide array of diverging challenges you can start pondering, as the complex and its depths beckons. This does *FEEL* like an old-school dungeon in the best of ways, exemplifying the virtues of old-school, while not shying away from the advancements made within the gaming-world. In short: This is an amazing sourcebook for the complex; it has me rather stoked to explore the premises and the Ashlar\’s wilderness and promises to be an excellent representation of what a mega-dungeon could and should deliver. I should also mention that this is a great read. I am not kidding when I\’m saying that I actually had fun reading this book, and when you\’re reading as much RPG-material as I do, that\’s not an occurrence you\’ll feel daily anymore. In short: This is amazing. Support it. Get it. I can\’t wait for more Gloamhold. 5 stars + seal of approval. If you\’ve been looking for that traditional, old-school, Greyhawk-ish style (not Castle Greyhawk – the setting!), then this will have you smile from ear to ear.” –Enzeitgiest (five stars + seal of approval)

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Delta Green: The Conspiracy (APU8148)

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Cthulhu Dark - Cthulhu Dark is a tabletop roleplaying game of cosmic horror, in the style of H.P. Lovecraft.It's about the things we fear, amplified until they are unbearable. It's about stories that genuinely creep you out, not well-worn tropes and creatures you've seen hundreds of times before.And it's about bleak horror, in which humans are powerless when confronted by hyperintelligent alien horrors. You can't beat them. You can't fight them. You can only watch, run, hide and fear.If you love Cthulhu...

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Gods of the Forbidden North: Volume 1 - On the arctic frontier, at the border between the mountains and the wastes beyond, looms Castle Thar-Gannon. For centuries, the Skull God ruled his domain from his blackened throne. But twenty years have passed since the routing of his armies, and the castle lies abandoned with riches unclaimed. Yet, death still lurks in the shadows of the ruins. An ancient doom arises from the depths of this place... Gods of the Forbidden North is a massive, three-volume mega-adventure series written for...

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Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game (Slipcase) (APU8116)

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(.ZIP) This is a 1st Edition campaign setting. It includes a the enchanted castle (central location), towns and numerous regional sublocations. It's an homage to the original ill-fated Palace of the Silver Princess, Module B3, complete with decapus and pink-hatted hero. I assure you that both the decapus AND the pink hat can be found in the module. Palace of the Silver Princess was evocative for me. It was a wonderful set of images and ideas. It formed the seed of this campaign, based on a love story, a dragon, a ruby sword, and many other ideas. With these raw materials (reimagined) I have built an enchanted castle that I think stands up, and pays a high compliment to the material that formed its inspiration. With this purchase you get all 4 PDFS:COTSP Main Module: This book is JUST the Silver Castle. It includes background and material for making characters plus encounters for the journey to the castle. But the bulk of it is just the key for the 8 levels of the castle (470 locations).COSTP Appendix and Compendium: This book contains regional sub locations including the three towns, factions, and a handful of sub-adventures including: Ironback Mine, Crandi Croft, Rovon's Tor and more. New spells, magic items, monsters, and class variants are all included along with a treatment of the 9 Hells intended to supplement Ed Greenwood's original work. This volume also gathers a few salient bits from old Dragon Magazines and either tweaks them or organizes those ideas into quickly referenceable formats.COTSP Tables and Handouts: This book contains the full monster roster for the campaign with all stat blocks; 8 NPC adventuring companies; Details for the Campaign Overview (how to win); Rumor tables; Encounter Tables; Treasure Tables; Potion Descriptions; Money Exchange and Treasure Chart; and all Handouts.COTSP Maps &amp; Extras: is a Full Color book containing all maps and heraldry for the campaign.You also get a ton of high quality maps, art, handouts and bonus supplements, including:Silver Castle Excel Sheets that contain 575 NPCs from the campaign in sortable columns; a fresh, ready-to-use calendar of the World of Adummim with the date the campaign begins along with noteworthy developments (you'll be able to track time like a pro and keep notes on the dates because each day has three sub cells for morning/midday/evening) The sheets also include a Wilderness Day Planner; a calculator for Spell Research and Magical Item Crafting; A Combat Round Tracker; A Tracker for the Silver Castle; and a sortable catalog of most of the new items, spells, monsters, and so on. Note that this is an excel workbook. It is not a polished product. It's just the sheets I used for working on, and now use while running, the Silver Castle Campaign.Bonus Wilderness Attrition &amp; Event Table PDF containing some tables for hex crawling in the wilderness that are supplemental to the Silver Castle campaign.

HU7 Castle of the Silver Prince Campaign

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