About this game

Rating: PG-13 – Some Mature Content.

Content Warning: Violence, death.

Safety: X card

Suitable for new players: Yes

Pregenerated characters available: Yes

Shadowdark RPG is what old-school fantasy gaming would look like after being redesigned with 50 years of innovation. The game is fast, familiar, intuitive, and deadly. It’s built for sword-and-sorcery adventures where fell monsters slither in darkness and frosty gems glint upon forgotten thrones, waiting to be discovered. In Shadowdark RPG, real time comes into play. A torch only holds back the looming darkness for one hour of actual game time! There isn’t a moment to spare when your only light source is guttering low… Get ready for old-school gaming in a whole new light!

Eons ago the emerald-skinned war goddess Sekhmet came, the Lady of Slaughter radiant and terrible atop her lion steed. With the blade of her jeweled khopesh Sekhmet carved death and disease across the quivering cities of Ra’s enemies. Those who knelt were rarely spared, but the Eye of Ra fell upon a chosen few— and it was these captives that Sekhmet corralled into servitude, to heap the foundation slabs of her numberless cenotaphs. Ages passed, and the kingdoms Sekhmet brought to heel were swallowed by scarlet sand. The occult seals have broken on the tombs of her servants who were buried alive, freeing them at long last into pestilent darkness.