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Haldrin the Lich – Shadowdark Gloaming Session 42 Lazy GM Prep
Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Mike prepares for his Shadowdark RPG campaign, the Gloaming! Join the City of Arches Kickstarter! Shadowdark RPG Campaign Notebook available to Sly Flourish patrons Visit the Sly Flourish Blog Subscribe to the Sly Flourish Newsletter Support Sly Flourish on Patreon Buy Sly Flourish Books Shadowdark RPG Cursed Scroll 1 Dyson Maps
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hey friends it's your pal mike shea from sly flourish here with another episode of sly flourish's lazy gm prep in this weekly show we go through steps from return of the lazy dungeon master while preparing for my sunday role-playing game in this case i am running shadow dark the rpg the four-time award a gold any award-winning rpg shadow dark with cursed scroll one the one of the three cursed scroll books that includes a setting known as the gloaming
This is session like 41 or 40. I think it's session 42 of Shadow Dark. So anybody who's been like, ah, Shadow Dark's fine, but it's really only good for one shots or short campaigns. I beg to differ because I have run 42 sessions, which is about as long as I've run for any campaign. So Shadow Dark has been working very well for a long campaign.
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in my little sly flourish empire to the patrons of sly flourish thank you so much for your outstanding support last week our heroes were on a hill after having wiped out a group of the knights of saint yidris corrupted knights of saint yidris who have now gone full evil and had like a cesspit filled with dead bodies which was like a hot tub for three rocks along with a bunch of corrupted knights
The characters dealt with these knights, wiping them out, and they had three guards remaining. And there was going to be, like, an interrogation of the guards. And I'm always a little worried about interrogations, because I never really want characters to do, like, tortury kind of stuff on guards, even though... And there was a lot of talk about, like, these guards are...
You know, they've now burned a bunch of villagers like these are bad guys. Right. And should we just and there's no justice here anywhere. There's no you know, the realm around this whole place is so corrupted that nobody's going to like take them to trial. So should we just kill them all?
Well, I decided to push it a little bit and remove that problem, that ethical dilemma from the character's hands by having two of them explode and turn into marrow wolves, marrow marrow fiends. So now the characters are fighting two marrow fiends who I think ate the third. I can't remember. Did they eat the third or did the third get away?
One of the new characters who was a new character from the formerly killed character was one of the prisoners of these guys who is still remaining. And they saved him and now have him in their group while they fought the Marrow Wolves. The Marrow Wolves were pretty tough.
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