Character professions and background elements are good sources of inspiration. THE OLD WOOD The Old Wood is a dense tangle of oaks, maples, and elms that covers a considerable area west of the Black Hills, a rolling landscape from which miners extract coal. Once the wood was a prime timber resource, but the 2 shadow of the demon lord woodcutters ceased their operations after being driven out by its enraged guardian, a mythical being known as a leshy. Since then, the wood has reclaimed much of its lost territory, swallowing up several tiny villages and the roads connecting them. The hexagonal grid map shows the area where the adventure takes place. Each hex is 1 mile across. EXPLORING THE WOOD The density of the wood, combined with uneven terrain, makes travel slow.

It takes 1 hour to cross from one side of a hex to the other. When the adventure begins, the characters have become lost in their flight from the ambush. Have the players choose one member of the group to take point. At the end of each hour the group travels in a particular direction, have that character make an Intellect challenge roll with 2 banes, reducing the number of banes by 1 for each wilderness profession he or she has. On a success, the group exits the hex in the intended direction. On a failure, the group exits the hex one step to the left or right; for example, a group that was traveling north would exit to the northeast or northwest.

Should they run out of food, they can forage by spending 1 hour searching their hex. Each foraging character must make a Perception challenge roll. On a success, the character finds enough food to sustain himself or herself for the rest of the day. If the total of the roll is 20 or higher, the character finds food for up to 1d3 other characters. PERILS The Old Wood is as dangerous as its reputation suggests. Some hexes contain keyed locations labeled with numbers, which are described in the following section.

The group must stop when it enters a labeled hex that has not been cleared and encounters the challenge there. For each hour the group spends in an unlabeled hex, roll a d6. On a roll of 2 or higher, the hex is empty and remains so until after the group completes a rest. On a 1, something significant happens. Creatures encountered in the hex remain until slain or driven off, or until after the group completes a rest, at which point the hex becomes empty once more. Traveling the Forest Path: If the characters manage to find the road again, they can move along it at about 3 miles 3 hexes per hour. The bandits are watching, however. Each time the group enters a hex using the road, it triggers a peril on a roll of 4 or lower on the d6 instead of on a 1. Once it has been defeated, replace this result with 1 ghoul.

The center of the rain moves 1 hex to the west each hour until it stops. If that number drops to zero, the group encounters no more bandits. FOREST COMBAT The Old Wood can be of great aid to the characters or a complication that must be overcome in a fight. The forest canopy blocks out the sky, though during the day enough light passes through the leaves and branches for characters to see normally. At night, the wood is dark. The trees are fairly dense. Such cover counts as being from an object for the purpose of attempting to hide. Hostile creatures typically start combat 2d6 yards away from the group. You decide whether or not they attempt to sneak up and surprise the characters. Keyed Locations The following hexes are labeled with numbers, indicating that they have interesting features or dangerous creatures, or otherwise challenge the group. Defeating hostile creatures in the hex changes its status to unlabeled for the purpose of exploration if the characters come back later.

Start: The adventure begins here, in the middle of the forest, about 2 hours after the attack on the caravan. Until the characters complete a rest, this hex is considered safe. Afterward it becomes potentially dangerous, like all other unlabeled hexes. Ambush Site: This is where the bandits attacked the caravan with which the characters were traveling. Two of the wagons caught fire and continue to burn for 1d3 hours after the adventure begins. During this time, any character who gets above the canopy can see the smoke. The attackers left a few dead horses and guards along the road where they fell, and 4 bandits still watch over the site. They remain until after the characters complete a rest, then abandon the site and return to their camp see area 8.

ghastly appearance until after he or she completes a rest. The apparitions linger in the area until just before sunrise. Characters searching the site find one crossbow, a case with twenty bolts, two swords, seven days of travel rations, and a healing potion. If the group is small, you can have the characters find an injured caravan guard with 5 damage who joins the group. Use the patroller statistics for the guard, adding whatever interesting details you choose. Misty Clearing: The trees give way to a small clearing where nothing grows, the bare dirt strewn with small rocks. Curls of yellow mist rise from the ground and dissipate to fill the air with a curious metallic odor. When a living, breathing creature moves into the clearing, it must succeed on a Strength challenge roll or become diseased. On a success, the creature becomes immune to the toxic mist until after it completes a rest.

Fungus Patch: The air in this section of forest is redolent with rot. The source of the stench is the decaying corpse of an ogre, dead three days and bloated with foul gas. Growing in the meat are 2 fungal mites: mobile, dimly sentient fungi that feed on rotting flesh. They look like mushrooms with red caps, about 1½ feet tall. Should a living creature come within short range of the corpse, the mites pull free and lurch toward the intruder to attack. The ogre is nice and ripe. If it takes any damage, the pent-up gases cause the corpse to explode, throwing blood, gore, and bits of bone from a point in its space in all directions out to short range.

Each creature in the area must get a success on an Agility challenge roll or take 1d3 damage; any that take damage must then get a success on a Will challenge roll made with 1 boon or gain 1 Insanity. Characters searching the area around the ogre discover a large burlap bag that holds a wheel of cheese, half a decomposed sheep, 4 ss, 27 cp, and a sword. Haunted Ruins: The ruins of an ancient tower rise from the center of this hex, reaching a dozen yards or so high. The top fell years ago, scattering rubble over the ground to the north and east of the tower. All four can be found with enough successes. These apparitions ignore the group and are immune to all attacks and effects. Any character who sees them must make a Will challenge roll, gaining 1 Insanity on a failure, or 1d3 Insanity if the character is already frightened.

On a success, that character is unaffected by their 4 shadow of the demon lord A creature diseased by the mist must make a Strength challenge roll whenever it completes a rest. On a failure, the creature takes a cumulative —1 penalty to Health, which lasts until the creature is no longer diseased. After three successes, it removes the diseased affliction. Psychotic Woodcutter: One of the more dangerous denizens of the woods is a cursed woodcutter a skinchanger. By night, he transforms into a bizarre possum-human hybrid that attacks anything it encounters, tearing its victims apart with sharp teeth. The woodcutter has lived alone so long that he no longer knows how to speak. Should the characters befriend him while in his human form, he urges them through pantomime to flee from his presence when it draws close to dark.

Lonely Cottage: A humble cottage stands in a small clearing. The walls are timber, with a stone chimney climbing up one side. The roof is sod. The cottage belongs to a hermit named Rena. She was driven out from her home in Verge, which lies some distance to the south, and has eked out a living here ever since. She does this for them just once. She can also give them guidance about how to get out of the woods, granting the lead character 1 boon on the Intellect challenge rolls made to avoid getting lost. Eaters of the Dead: A pair ghouls lair in a small cave at the bottom of a sinkhole in this hex, where a pool of rust-red water collects and almost covers a pile of bones. The ghouls leave skulls around their territory to warn off enemies.

No more than one ghoul is present at this location at a time. Bandit Camp: The bandits, of which there are twenty, gather in a large camp near the pool in this hex. They live in homespun tents held up by wooden poles and build rings of stones to contain their cook fires. The Desolation stretches beyond the Northern Reach, a blighted place, poisoned by dark magic and infested with undead. Fools and heroes alike test their mettle against the dangers this land poses, forcing them to contend with blood-thirsty vampires or dust storms of apocalyptic proportions. This sourcebook reveals one of the most dangerous places in the lands of Rûl, providing new options for players and Game Masters alike, such as:. Tombs of the Desolation reveals more details about the world of the Demon Lord, giving you all the tools you need to tell stories set in a desert wasteland! All across Urth stand doorways to hidden places. These are the realms of the faerie, entire worlds of magic and wonder, fear and horror.

No friends to mortals, the faeries abandoned Urth long ago, leaving their homelands to humankind to do with as it wished. Terrible Beauty presents tools for players and Game Masters to introduce faerie stories, mechanics, and themes into Shadow of the Demon Lord campaigns. Terrible Beauty opens new doors to adventure and horror in a dying world, and the options presented here will leave your game forever changed! While they readily destroy lives and laugh with glee at the rivers of tears and blood they create, they need the world as much as mortals do—for without it they too would be doomed. A shadow has fallen on Urth, a grim darkness cast by the Voice in the Void, and the devils wring their hands with worry.

Some, perhaps, might set aside their appetites for evil to join forces and take a stand against the impossible foe. Exquisite Agony offers a bevy of tools for players and Game Masters to bring Hell into their campaigns. Exquisite Agony gives you everything you need to drench your campaigns in the horror only devils can create. With the options in this book, your campaign will to descend to new depths of darkness and despair. For as long as humankind has lived on Urth, people have looked outside themselves for explanations of why they exist and what purpose they ultimately serve. They find the gods in the sky, in the earth, and even in the creatures around them. Uncertain Faith delves into the secrets of the major cults found in and around the Empire, providing players and Game Masters alike with new information to realize these organizations in play.

The information contained in this supplement brings to life the cults and religions described in Shadow of the Demon Lord, giving you everything you need to serve or oppose these powerful institutions. Do you have the faith to face the gods? It is a place of violence, struggle, and death. It is also a place where heroes are forged on the anvil of adversity. Now you can take on the role of the mighty jotun and find the destiny the gods have written for you. A Glorious Death examines the frozen wastes, the perils it contains, and the peoples living there. A Glorious Death pulls back the curtain to reveal a war torn landscape in which people live and die for the amusement of the Dark Gods. This supplement gives you everything you need to bring these lands to life!

Shadow of the Demon Lord sourcebooks come loaded with new options for players and Game Masters. Offering a mixture of setting details and rules expansions, you can find out more about the world of Urth and the people living in it, while also gaining new options for creating survivors in a world sliding into madness and destruction. In the end times, all must choose a side, to save the world or watch it burn. Buy it now from Schwalb Entertainment as a PDF , in print , or on DriveThruRPG! The Desolation stretches beyond the Northern Reach, a blighted place, poisoned by dark magic and infested with undead. Fools and heroes alike test their mettle against the dangers this land poses, forcing them to contend with blood-thirsty vampires or dust storms of apocalyptic proportions.

This sourcebook reveals one of the most dangerous places in the lands of Rûl, providing new options for players and Game Masters alike, such as:. Tombs of the Desolation reveals more details about the world of the Demon Lord, giving you all the tools you need to tell stories set in a desert wasteland! All across Urth stand doorways to hidden places. These are the realms of the faerie, entire worlds of magic and wonder, fear and horror. No friends to mortals, the faeries abandoned Urth long ago, leaving their homelands to humankind to do with as it wished.

Terrible Beauty presents tools for players and Game Masters to introduce faerie stories, mechanics, and themes into Shadow of the Demon Lord campaigns. Terrible Beauty opens new doors to adventure and horror in a dying world, and the options presented here will leave your game forever changed! While they readily destroy lives and laugh with glee at the rivers of tears and blood they create, they need the world as much as mortals do—for without it they too would be doomed. A shadow has fallen on Urth, a grim darkness cast by the Voice in the Void, and the devils wring their hands with worry.

Some, perhaps, might set aside their appetites for evil to join forces and take a stand against the impossible foe. Exquisite Agony offers a bevy of tools for players and Game Masters to bring Hell into their campaigns. Exquisite Agony gives you everything you need to drench your campaigns in the horror only devils can create. With the options in this book, your campaign will to descend to new depths of darkness and despair. For as long as humankind has lived on Urth, people have looked outside themselves for explanations of why they exist and what purpose they ultimately serve. They find the gods in the sky, in the earth, and even in the creatures around them. Uncertain Faith delves into the secrets of the major cults found in and around the Empire, providing players and Game Masters alike with new information to realize these organizations in play.

The information contained in this supplement brings to life the cults and religions described in Shadow of the Demon Lord, giving you everything you need to serve or oppose these powerful institutions. Do you have the faith to face the gods? It is a place of violence, struggle, and death. It is also a place where heroes are forged on the anvil of adversity. Now you can take on the role of the mighty jotun and find the destiny the gods have written for you. A Glorious Death examines the frozen wastes, the perils it contains, and the peoples living there. A Glorious Death pulls back the curtain to reveal a war torn landscape in which people live and die for the amusement of the Dark Gods.

This supplement gives you everything you need to bring these lands to life! The world of Urth and the entire universe stand in the shadow of a dread power, a force of destruction beyond imagining. The Demon Lord, also called the Hunger in the Void, the Devourer in the Dark, and the One Foretold, draws nearer to the world, causing plagues and blights, war and upheaval, all of which harken the end times. In this supplement for Shadow of the Demon Lord, the Demon Lord and its obscene legions are revealed in all their awful glory. The Hunger in the Void shines a light on the most terrifying creatures and most dangerous threat in the game. For the terrible secrets it reveals and the bevy of new and unnerving options it offers, The Hunger in the Void is an essential supplement for Shadow of the Demon Lord.

Buy it now from Schwalb Entertainment as a PDF , in print , or from DriveThruRPG! After the Cataclysm sundered our world, reducing cities to ruins and bringing nations to their knees, a new threat unfurled its wings to cast a shadow upon our reality. Godless is a new setting expansion for Shadow of the Demon Lord, giving you all the tools you need to transform our own planet into the World of Fire and Blood. This book contains:. With Godless , you have everything you need to adapt Shadow of the Demon Lord for play in a post-apocalyptic environment, letting the players create characters who scavenge the landscape for parts, food, and fuel, while fighting off hideous mutants, invaders from other realities, and, of course, demons.

Grab the PDF on the Schwalb Entertainment store here or on DriveThruRPG! Forbidden Rules introduces a set of variant and optional rules to change the way you play Shadow of the Demon Lord. Grab the PDF from the Schwalb Entertainment store here or on DriveThruRPG! Sourcebooks Shadow of the Demon Lord sourcebooks come loaded with new options for players and Game Masters. This sourcebook reveals one of the most dangerous places in the lands of Rûl, providing new options for players and Game Masters alike, such as: Revenant, Salamander, and Vampire ancestries New paths including the Prince of Darkness and Slayer of the Dead The Blood tradition and new spells for existing traditions Details about the Desolation and surrounding lands New relics and creatures like the Cauldron of Death and the Desiccated One A new adventure! An assortment of new paths such as the Avowed expert path and the eternal guardian and troll hunter master paths.

The Fey tradition, and new spells for existing traditions. Overviews of several sample faerie kingdoms. New relics such as the Vorpal Sword and a new enchanted object table. New creatures ranging from the fair nymph to the foul jabberwock. A complete adventure for expert characters. Links Join the Community on Reddit Schwalb Entertainment on DriveThruRPG Schwalb Entertainment on Kickstarter. Categories Categories Select Category 5th Edition Accessories Announcements Developer Notes Disciples of the Demon Lord Events Expert Adventure FAQ GM Aids Kickstarters Lands in Shadow Latest Releases Legacy of Shadow Master Adventure Monstrous Pages News and Events Novice Adventure Paths of Shadow Poisoned Pages PunkApocalyptic Sourcebook Starting Adventure Uncategorized Unspeakable Things Vault Victims Villains Weird Wizard.

Start: The adventure begins here, in the middle of the forest, about 2 hours after the attack on the caravan. Beyond this distance, the creature treats darkness as shadows and shadows as lit. Pay What You Want. Great monsters, great mechanics, great theme…. You then determine background, religion, age, build and appearance with random tables. The curse lasts until lifted or until the target kills the skinchanger that cursed it. PERILS The Old Wood is as dangerous as its reputation suggests.

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