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The Expiry

The latest in The Cauldron's puzzle/adventure series for Shadowdark RPG, The Expiry is a true test of brains and brawn. 

If your players enjoy a good puzzler (and if they're fool enough to brave the nasties within) this could be your next obsession. Slot it in to an existing campaign, or run it stand-alone over two or three sessions.

Can be used with either the Shadowdark RPG ruleset or as a standard D&D adventure.

Suitable for player levels 5-7. Some demonic references.

Speaking for the RPG community, I would say the Old School Rules (OSR) adventures are having a resurgence. We've been writing for the Shadowdark RPG (think a simpler version of D&D) and it's been going quite well. Maybe you could design PC games for the same universe?

v3.1 has been uploaded (small spelling and grammatical changes).

https://cauldronrpg.itch.io/the-shadowed-village

A new (free!) Shadowdark RPG adventure. Puzzle-heavy, but still newbie friendly. Very keen to get some comments and opinions.

Player maps have been revised (taking out something glaringly obvious!).

The Shadowed Village

A new RPG adventure for the Shadowdark ruleset. If you're new to Shadowdark, this includes the basic rules, with everything to get you started -- and it's free! (At this stage we're just looking for ratings/reviews to get the brand started.)

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Find the sorcerer, save the town. But there's a catch: her manor is a puzzle-box of traps and riddles. Time to get your brain on...

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We enjoyed writing and developing this -- we hope you have many hours of fun with it!