Shadowdark RPG for Foundry VTT

foundryvtt-shadowdark is a community contributed and maintained system for playing the Shadowdark RPG with the Foundry VTT virtual tabletop software.

Features

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

Video Tutorial

Community Contributions

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

License

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.