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Shadowdark RPG (Hardcover Book + PDF)

This item is currently on backorder. All orders placed are expected to ship in February. Backordered items placed before that date are expected to ship in November. You will still receive the PDF immediately when ordered. Orders that contain this and other products will ship when the entire order is available.

Old-school gaming, modernized. Jump into the critically-acclaimed TTRPG that raised $1.3 million on Kickstarter! One book, all you need to play.

Shadowdark won the 2024 Three Castles Award for best game design, as well as four gold ENNIEs: Product of the Year, Best Game, Best Rules, and Best Layout & Design.

This is the hardcover book plus a free PDF download. Just want the PDF version? Link here.







Customer Reviews

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Keith
Fantastic!

Love this system! Takes me back to gaming in the 80s. The book itself is high quality, with a great design. Thank you for restoring my faith in RPGs!

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Josiah Pisciotta
Expensive but good

Great art and nice style. Pretty well organized book. Rules are good even if I wouldn't use all of them. Overall a good OSR addition, but expensive.

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Craig Smecher
Great

Great

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Cameron Bartkey

The cover is a bit loose upon receiving it. I can re glue and fix the binding but I am it sure how much of the pages can be glued to the back of the spine.

Hey Cameron! The pages are not supposed to be glued to the spine -- they are smyth sewn, which means they're stitched onto a flexible backing that is supposed to lift up off the spine in a V shape. This is the sturdiest way to bind a book and allows the pages to lie flat. Please send a photo to contact@thearcanelibrary.com if this doesn't sound like it explains the binding you're seeing. If there's an issue, we'll replace it!

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Jean-Philippe Paquin
Clear, concise, evocative … love it.

Great book. Can’t wait to put it in practice. Gives guidelines, generates reflections and triggers imagination. Will see how effective in game but I expect it to be very easy to reference. Art is old fashioned, nice and creepy in the way that only black and white can.