A new season, a new one-shot for Shadowdark! BE NOT AFRAID! Step right up to this beautiful temple of Madeera, the rumored prison of the Spawn of Memnon …whatever that is. Will you be the first to find it? This one-shot adventure presents a library temple full of pilgrims, cultists, demons, and angels. The PCs […]
Last week I launched my first Kickstarter, and I announced it everywhere *except* on my own blog for some reason, so… better late than never! Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/josephrlewis/shadowdark-triple-feature There are several rewards here, but the primary one is a set of high quality printed editions of my new Shadowdark one-shot adventures: Let’s Slay a Dragon, Kneel […]
I was lucky enough to attend the first ever Between Two Cons gaming convention in Portland, OR . I had a great time, ran a game, played a game, sold some merch, watched 3 podcast recordings, AND I ran a little workshop in which 30 people collaborated to design a one-shot adventure. Basically, we walked […]
Welp, I’m launching my first Kickstarter this summer. On July 14, you’ll be able to back some high-quality prints of my three new Shadowdark zines. In fact, the zines are too slender to be available through print-on-demand, so this Kickstarter is the *only* way for me to get you these very nice prints!
I’ve written a new one-shot for Shadowdark. As is so often with me, it’s an update on a classic, so let’s jump in a hole and fight some gobbos: All hail Krunshlik, king of the goblins! They say he wears the Black Briar Crown! They say he eats human hearts! There have always been goblins in the Brambles, but now […]
Sometimes I just want to write a fun little one-shot… so I did! We all go into dungeons all the time, but I feel like we don’t get to fight dragons nearly enough. So here’s a handy way to do just that: “Let’s Slay a Dragon!” is a Level 4 Shadowdark one-shot point-crawl through a […]
Recently I re-watched Conan the Destroyer, thinking it couldn’t be as bad as I remembered, and then discovered that yes indeed, it was pretty bad. And I caught up on the story about how the producers wanted to make a PG-rated sequel, with more comedy and less quality, hoping it would make more money, blah […]
I’ve released a new adventure for Shadowdark! House of the Wasp is a Level 5 Shadowdark dungeon delve into a samurai castle where you can seek out a masterwork weapon, be trained by the Wasp Clan masters in various skills, help the Rat Clan ninjas to steal the secrets of the Wasp, or help the […]
My new adventure Lovely Jade Necropolis is now available! It is currently available in PDF on DriveThruRPG and Itch.io. (And it will be available in print very soon on many sites!) This is a long adventure for Levels 3-5, with GM Guides for Shadowdark, Old School Essentials, and Cairn. The product includes: What’s it about? […]
I’ve written a new adventure… Lovely Jade Necropolis is a classic dungeon delve heavily inspired by the poetry and fiction of Clark Ashton Smith, featuring two warring necromancers and their undead servants striving against the hidden Twilight Empress of the fey for control of a fabulous jade palace… It’s for Shadowdark, Old School Essentials, and […]