Showing posts with label RPG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RPG. Show all posts

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Pseudodragon

This is a personal project I've been working on for years. It started as house rules for my Pendragon campaign. It basically allows you to use Pendragon for other historical settings in antiquity, and to play characters that arent knights. It converts BRP d100 content (spells, monsters, magic, etc) from other games to a d20 Pendragonish system. I tried to ensure it follows the Chaosoum rules for fan-made content. Feedback welcome. Still a work in progress.


Shadowdark Downtime Activity: Side Quest

The base Shadowdark rules provide two downtime activities: carousing and learning. It seems like there is room for more options. I enjoy downtime as a way for players to flesh out the personalities of their characters. 

Here is a downtime option I am proposing: a side quest.  This enables a character to pursue an adventure "off camera" between the main adventures that the GM narrates. The goal is to enable this with minimal time and effort required at the table so that it doesn't distract from the main storyline. 

The idea is inspired by solo quests from the Pendragon RPG. 


Link to Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U401DIMaSi7KowEmN_jvw7hP8ye8u_L6zUFms62MsSo/edit?usp=sharing

Comments allowed in Google Doc. Feedback welcome!

Shadowdark Warrior/Mage

My very first D&D character in 1980 was an elf, and so I've been in love with various fighter/magic user character types ever since. Here is my attempt to create one for Shadowdark. I made a deliberate effort to make it weaker in combat than a fighter and worse at spellcasting than a wizard so as not to supersede either standard class. I might have overdone it, in fact. Let me know what you think.
I suspect some will say "Just play a Knight of St Ydres or Necromancer" but that doesn't scratch this itch. For me, the appeal of a warrior mage is that they are seeking occult knowledge. I want them to have to hunt for spells, rather than have them granted.

Link to Google Doc:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ia1h3ybSkGkg2A8U9VVMV8Zzn6ITOZXUfX80iTc_sKw/edit?usp=sharing

Feedback welcome, including comments in Google doc.