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Castle Gloomshroud Digital Download!
🕑 Added 2024-09-30 23:04:24 +0000 UTCA terrible floating castle appears, the moon covers the sun, your village suffers a foul curse. The infamous demon lord, Nikolas Von Shroud, has arrived. You have 13 days until the sun returns and everyone in the village turns to dust… or suffers an even worse fate.
Castle Gloomshroud is a spooky, Castlevania-inspired one-shot adventure. See if your players (the intruders!) can survive 15 areas of this monster-filled floating castle!
You can download a PDF of the Castle Gloomshroud from the link at the bottom of this post.
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DRAGON TOWN UPDATE
This is the 3 year anniversary of writing adventures on this Patreon. It all started with Dragon Town and the Shadespear Mountains zine. Because of your support I've been able to collect a bunch of these zines into a big hardcover book and do it in a way that is EXACTLY I how I imagined it. A real dream project. So a big thanks to YOU!
The Kickstarter campaign for Dragon Town and the Darkness Below is going great so far! We're getting very close to unlocking the $60k stretch goal for the Magic Apple Dice Bag (it's designed to look like a little burlap sack!)
Evan Diaz (creator of Nimble) made this awesome video flipping through the book and talking about how easy it is to convert the system neutral enemies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R49XpyG7GQ
And Mike Shay (Lazy DM and City of Arches) has some really lovely things to say about Dragon Town too:
https://youtu.be/q1cAAB2z2TE?si=9hCadXcK6h60_CEX&t=315
The amount of support I've received on this project has been completely overwhelming. It feels like no amount of thanks is enough. My plan is to keep making the raddest stuff I can come up with and hope you dig it!
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BILLING AND SHIPPING UPDATE
Remember that the Patreon billing structure is changing to subscription billing. Existing patrons will continue to be charged on the first of the month. New or returning patrons will be billed each month based on the day you joined (sign up September 15th, you get charged again October 15th, and so on). If this causes ANY problems, please send me a message on Patreon.
For Legend Tier Patrons, I'm still working with Patreon support to resolve the missing address issue. Hopefully, I will have a fix soon and can print labels for the last two Star Borg zines. Additionally, I want to get Castle Gloomshroud sent off to the printer ASAP so I can get these in the mail to hopefully reach you before Halloween. If all goes according to plan you should be receiving 3 zines this month. Fingers crossed!
Comments
Christopher Leigh-Davidson
I hate to be a pest but I haven’t received mine.
JP Coovert
Later this week!
Christopher Leigh-Davidson
Have these been shipped out already?
JP Coovert
Around there! On the left side above the tags and below "For Legend Tier Patrons"
JP Coovert
This one is a little lighter than normal. Use whatever game you like and adapt monsters to that system. Most games have equivalents to the types of monsters in this adventure. The players (intruders) explore the castle. Start at the Silent Forest. Roll a random encounter and describe what happens. Roll another encounter as the players explore. On a repeat roll or whenever you feel like moving on they can proceed to the next area. Or you can totally pick the encounters you want to run in each area and prepare it like a traditional adventure. Really it's however you want to run it!
mAc Chaos
This is the first encounter I have with one of your adventures. How does it work? I open up the gloomshroud PDF and I see some monster listings, and rooms. Is the idea I roll a dice for these to select random encounters? Can you give a rough explanation of how the whole thing works?
Henry T Stewart
I'm sorry - I'm not seeing it. I'm looking around the Share button / the top of the comments.
JP Coovert
Look for the little paper clip. "Castle Gloomshroud v1.0 Pages.pdf"
Henry T Stewart
I can't find the link "at the bottom of this post".
JP Coovert
Hah! Whatever works! Glad you had fun!!!!
Marty Walker
Just ran this using Teenage Mutant Tunnel Goons of all things haha. It was a blast!!
Justin S Davis
Thanks for the update!
JP Coovert
I'm having serious problems with Patreon at the moment that is keeping me from mailing the last two zines to everyone. Until those go out I don't feel right making them available for sale on the site. I will make an announcement on here when they are shipped and on the site!
Justin S Davis
Hate to nag, but when are the StarBorg hardcopies going up in the store? Dying to get 'em!
Jean-Claude Tremblay
Thank you!!!
JP Coovert
Thanks! I'm very tired ;)
JP Coovert
Yes I will! That's a big part of the Kickstarter :)
Cooper McCullough
So impressed you put this together and launched a kickstarter all in the same month! Well done!
K and S
Quick question will you be shipping the dragon town and the darkness bellow book?
K and S
Thinking of running this with knave!!
K and S
This is dope!!!
JP Coovert
No guidance! Shadowdark would be perfect. Basically all of the monsters in this are in the core book. But I would just grab a few stat blocks based on what level the players will be (Damage, AC, HP) and then just use the abilities/attacks listed in the adventure.
Nate Campbell
Absolutely love the vintage Nintendo vibe of the cover art!
Miguel Garcia Jr.
Super dope. Is there guidance in your other Zines for running in various systems? I have my eye on ShadowDark.
Michael Putlack
Yassssss!!!!
