foundryvtt-shadowdark is a community contributed and maintained system for playing the Shadowdark RPG with the Foundry VTT virtual tabletop software.
Core Rule Book Content
- All Weapons, armor, gear
- All Ancestries, Background, Classes, Deities
- All Talents with Roll Tables
- Spells (Teir 1-5)
- all 238 monsters from the core rules book
Cursed Scrolls zines (1-3) Content
- All classes, background, weapons, armor
- Talents and tables
- New spells (Teir 1-5)
Quickstart Set Content
- Both the Player Guide and the Gamemaster Guide from the Quickstart are available as journals
- Included adventure: The Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur
- Compendium of pre-generated characters
- Magical items
- Wizard Mishap tier 1-3 Table
- Macros for The Lost Citadel available: random beastman NPC, random ettercap NPC, random encounter check
Sheets
- Automated checks with calculated modifiers:
- Attack checks (based on equipped weapons)
- Spell checks, with spells lost on failure
- Stat checks
- Tracking of permanent or temporary conditions and effects
- Items
- Automatic tracking of gear slots, including augmentations from talents
- Light source item tracking, automatically sets the light settings for your tokens
- Selling of treasure and gems
- Items can be equipped, carried or stashed
- Characters (Players)
- Calculated HP (augmented by talents),
- Calculated AC (based on equipped armor)
- Luck token tracking in normal or pulp mode
- Monsters (NPCs)
- Fix HP or randomized by hit dice
- Basic attacks, spells, features,
Character Management
- A character generator for quickly rolling new characters
- Import existing characters from Shadowdarklings.net
- A guided level up process based on class details
- Automatic roll tables for randomizing talents
Customization
- Support for creating custom:
- ancestries, classes, languages, talents, monsters
- weapons, armor, properties, spells, magic items
- Active effects on talents can modify the data of the actor:
- Advantage on Initiative, HP rolls, Spell casting
- Ability score modifications
- Pre-defined talents for core classes
- Weapon mastery calculations
- Additional damage dice during Backstab
- Spell advantage on named spells
Light source Tracker for GMs
- Track the remaining burn time of Light sources
- Douse individual Light sources, or douse them all at once
- Tracks associated actors per player. A character must be claimed by a player to enable tracking
Macros
- Useful macros compendium with tools for running the game
- Macros for drawing traps, hazards, random ruin encounters, rumors, what is happening, random magic item names
- Import, items and spells from source material PDFs
Monsters
- Import monsters from source PDFs using the Monster Importer
- Support for monster token image remapping from a custom module or supported product. e.g. Pathfinder Token Pack: Bestiaries module
Localization
- Full support for English and Swedish translations
- Best effort support for French, German & Finnish translations.
- Please see the Translation information on our Wiki for details on how to help with existing translations, or with getting new languages added
Code and content contributions are welcome. Please feel free to submit issues to the issue tracker or submit merge requests for code changes.
Details for how to get started hacking on the system can be found in the Wiki
foundryvtt-shadowdark is an independent product published under the Shadowdark RPG Third-Party License and is not affiliated with The Arcane Library, LLC. Shadowdark RPG © 2023 The Arcane Library, LLC.
The software code that makes up the core of this system is published under the MIT license (see LICENSE.txt).
The Arcane Library logo, and additional Shadowdark RPG images included within foundryvtt-shadowdark are used with the kind permission of Kelsey Dionne and Arcane Library.