ShadowCrawl

ShadowCrawl is my personal mashup of ShadowDark, DCC and Cairn. The document itself is only meant to replace the Shadowdark Player Quickstart Guide and it should be used in conjunction with the Gamemaster Quickstart Guide or some other game mastery books, such as The Monster Overhaul by Skerples. ShadowCrawl should in no way be seen as a challenge to ShadowDark or the intellectual property of Kelsey Dionne and the Arcane Library - imitation is the sincerest form of flattery as they say.

The objective was simple: make a game that can run OSR adventures and DCC adventures easily. I knew I wanted classes and levels (which are not present in Cairn) but I also wanted to remove the attack roll from combat and use only 3 stats, like Cairn. I had already made an Alternate ShadowDark ancestries and classes document, so I started with that and just kept rolling.

Note that as with most of my projects, I provide the source document so that you can make a copy and change anything that you want. I do not own any of those ideas, they are part of the great tradition of roleplaying games: take what you want, make up the rest.

I hope you like it and I welcome all respectful comments.