The Cursed Flames is a fast, brutal escape adventure for Shadowdark RPG.
Designed for 3–5 characters, Level 2–4.
Built for one intense 3 hours session.
Minimal prep, ready-to-run structure.
Cursed Flames is an intense one‑shot for Shadowdark RPG, designed for a single session packed with tension and an unrelenting escalation of horror. It’s made for groups who crave risk, emotional payoff, and narratively charged sessions - perfect as a one‑shot, campaign opener, finale, or a shocking twist in a longer arc.
Write better adventures, faster. We love weaving tales of terror and courage - but we all know that feeling, don’t we? It’s deep night, candles flicker on the table, and the grimoire before you is still blank. Time has fled, devoured by duties and mortal unease, and you wonder: Will I conjure a nightmare worthy of fear… and memory?
Cursed Flames is a one‑shot for Shadowdark RPG, forged to blaze through your nights of play - when darkness calls, and heroes dare to answer.
Inside you’ll find:
A dungeon with 29 locked chambers
Events that awaken when torches fade
Curses, illusions, random encounters, and time‑sensitive rooms riddled with environmental threats
An optional starting village
Treasure, path, wizard mishap, secret and side‑effect tables
The Dark Deck
This deck (112 cards) is a practical tool for dungeon exploration in Shadowdark.
Its purpose is to help the dungeon stay active: to create pressure, danger, discovery, and hard choices quickly, without slowing the table down. The deck adds fast, usable pressure to exploration. Some cards make the environment more dangerous. Some introduce creatures, patrols, rituals, or signs of active life below ground. Others offer useful objects and relics that can help the party survive, but never for free.
How To Use It
The deck is divided into six families, each focused on a different part of dungeon play.
Light & Darkness
Environmental Hazards
Ruins & Ancient Mechanisms
Dungeon Predators
Patrols & Factions
Forbidden Objects
Draw from the deck whenever the dungeon needs to answer the party: when they enter a new area, make noise, linger too long, search recklessly, trigger danger, or when the pace needs pressure.
Danger Levels
The deck uses four danger tiers.
Easy
Normal
Hard
Extreme
This spread helps the deck stay tense without making every draw catastrophic. The point is escalation, not chaos.
Visual Language
The deck is also built to be easy to read at a glance. Each card type is identified by a clear main icon, so the GM can immediately tell whether the draw represents. This makes the cards quicker to parse in play and easier to organize mentally.
The characters find themselves in the heart of a dungeon, having just reached the treasure chamber… but their triumph soon reveals itself as a trap, orchestrated by a being from beyond this world — an entity that challenges them to escape alive before the cursed torches burn out.
This is not an adventure of leisurely exploration or careful strategy. It’s a desperate race against time, where every choice matters, resources are scarce, and failure means not merely death… but eternal damnation.
WHO IT IS FOR
Not everyone dares to cross the borders of light. Cursed Flames was born for those who walk between fire and the abyss - for those who find comfort in the whispers of darkness and beauty in ruin. Perhaps it was written for:
Those who still tremble, yet feel the call of the unknown and long for a path already traced through the shadows;
Those who have already faced the night, but seek new flames to master, new curses to awaken;
Those who offer shelter to wanderers and desire a ready‑made ritual, one capable of ensnaring every soul that listens;
Those who share the torment, united by the pleasure of losing themselves together in a single story - fleeting as a dream, and dark as a prophecy.
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Those who answer the call and become followers shall receive a gift — a mini adventure, a fragment of darkness to enrich their future journeys. But beware: those who offer a contribution of 1 euro shall forge a deeper pact… and receive a second mini adventure, born from the heart of cursed flames. The shadows are waiting. Heed their call and seal your vow to unlock two additional gifts from this dark and damned world… Shadowdark.
A supplement featuring 10 mini-adventures: compact dungeons designed for a single session. Each includes a small table of narrative hooks to easily integrate the adventure into any ongoing campaign. Suitable for any Shadowdark RPG table, these ready-to-use dungeons are available whenever needed.
LOREFORGE KIT
LOREFORGE I 10 One-Shot & One System to run them all open, read and jump straight into the action in 15 minutes! LOREFORGE II Ten personalities, ten fates, no stats, 10 pre-written NPCs for your adventures your world needs souls, not numbers. LOREFORGE III The best villain isn't the one your players hate. It's the one they secretly fear they might understand. 10 pre-written villains for your adventures every great story needs a shadow. Not to extinguish the light, but to give it shape.
THE LAST HARVEST
One week. One village. A sickle that waits.
Every year the field ripens.
Every year something is left behind.
In Fienerba, nobody talks about the harvest. Everyone lives it.
The Last Harvest is a system-neutral module for experienced storytellers:
a horror story rooted in a rural setting that can work with any game system
and focuses on moral tension, repetition and meaningful silences.
Seven Days. A story with no truth, only questions.
A village that doesn’t want to be understood, only remembered.
In it you will find:
• A complete setting (Vallombra).
• Ambiguous NPCs.
• Useful objects, symbols and superstitions.
• An adventure with multiple endings.
• No rules. Only atmosphere.
Not everything that sprouts wants to be harvested.
BLACKWATER BAYOU
This guide contains detailed setting instructions to enrich your game world. In it you will find:
A detailed description of the geography of Blackwater Bayou, from stilt villages to docks submerged in fog.
Various interesting locations, including remote villages, ancient trading posts and the mysterious ruins of forgotten civilizations.
Unique non-player characters, each with a hidden history that can be uncovered or exploited by adventurers.
Narrative hooks for missions that can unfold in the dark recesses of the bayou, where secrets and horrors wait to be awakened.
The murky waters of Blackwater Bayou hide more than meets the eye. As the game master, it is your job to slowly reveal to your
players what lurks beneath the surface and lead them on a journey that forces them to confront old fears and hidden dangers.
THE HOLLOW REMEINS
The Hollow Remains is a 116-page horror setting guide designed for game masters and players seeking dark, immersive atmospheres, without the need to build entire worlds from scratch.
Instead of rigid plots, you’ll find four richly detailed scenarios, inspired by real Italian locations and reimagined through the lens of atmospheric, visceral horror.
This book invites you to explore places where history and legend blur, where silence weighs like lead, and where something ancient stirs beneath the surface. Inside the book:
4 unique horror settings, each with its own identity, tone, and buried secrets:
Villa Alvise – Gothic horror and timeless decay in a ruined Venetian villa.
Borgo Ferro – Industrial occultism and a twisted utopia in a city dominated by factories.
L’Isola dei Poverelli – Medieval plague horror, where death finds no peace.
SonnyCon – Modern and surreal horror in a wonderland that never stops celebrating.
ONE PRIVATE DARK SHOT...
already written by us with a Cover artwork made by Alessandro
The Vault of Monsters is a chunky paperback, a little over 100 pages, packed with original creatures and drop-in encounters. Built for 5e, written for busy GMs, it's the kind of book you'll keep within arm's reach. Clear stats, usable lore, tidy tactics, plus selected battlemaps!
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The Groove, a post-human realm where living forests reclaim fallen towers and ancient ruins whisper forgotten secrets. Inspired by Princess Mononoke. Wasteland Chronicles takes you to a world devastated by the apocalypse, where cities lie in ruins, the land is contaminated and survivors struggle for resources and a glimmer of hope. The included maps take you through ruined cities, abandoned factories and radioactive areas where every step is a fight for survival.
Cyberpunk Satyr Bundle
Cyber Chronicles, a roleplaying manual that places you in the heart of a futuristic, technology-dominated metropolis where humans and cybernetics merge and the line between man and machine grows ever thinner.
Virtual Dominion – Beyond reality, under your control The boundary between reality and the digital world has disappeared. Virtual Dominion Inc. has rewritten the concept of existence, offering an infinite digital realm where identity, perception and power are as fluid as lines of code.
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G.G.G. (5 BOOKS - PDF)
Of Gangs, Guilds & Groups Sea Dogs: 5 new criminal gangs for your party to meet, 30 interaction tips for dealing with sea wolves! Town's Shadows: 5 new criminal gangs to meet on the streets, 30 interaction tips to deal with the town's shadows! Wandering Villains: 3 well-defined criminal gangs with specific goals, objectives and backgrounds. Each gang has narrative incipits to involve you in its story! Guilds of Realms: This handbook contains 3 guilds, which can be placed anywhere in your world. Each guild has its own facets, its own structure and mission proposals! Groups of Realms: Discover "Groups of Realms," the final handbook in the "Gangs, Guilds & Groups" collection by Revel Tales. Enrich your Dungeons & Dragons campaigns with three unique companies.
CHRONICLES STARTER PACK 40 NPCS +40 MAPS Horror Stories, where shadows hide unsettling secrets and darkness holds ancient terrors. In this guide, you will travel through haunted places and meet characters tormented by a dark past.
Wasteland Chronicles takes you to a world devastated by the apocalypse, where cities lie in ruins, the land is contaminated and survivors struggle for resources and a glimmer of hope. The included maps take you through ruined cities, abandoned factories and radioactive areas where every step is a fight for survival.
Cyber Chronicles, a roleplaying manual that places you in the heart of a futuristic, technology-dominated metropolis where humans and cybernetics merge and the line between man and machine grows ever thinner.
Arcane Chronicles, a setting guide for role-playing games that transports you to a world of magic, mystery, and adventure.
Cerberus Lair (5 handbooks - PDF)
100 OPENING WORDS: 100 narrative cues, which can be used by anyone to quickly set the start of their game sessions. Choose a track (or roll 1d100) and start developing!
Cerberus' Lair - Adohorn's Artifacts: 5 new arifacts of inestimable power and value. Each one comes from a different reality! Cerberus' Lair - An Unfortunate Winter: An adventure for 4th - 6th level characters, you will find dedicated battlemaps, a new monster and dedicated magic items, as well as a well-crafted story and original drawings! Cerberus' Lair - Regal's Trophies: "I'm Balatmor, Balatmor Mundis, but everyone here calls me Regal, for the sake of ancient times. If you came here, someone probably told you about us. Don't make me beg. Cerberus’ Lair - Torkhund’s Forge: 100 news uncommon and rare magic items, crafted by the blacksmith Torkhund into the forge of the Cerberus’ Lair, allow you to win the challenge that you must face in your adventures.
Dragonbane - Accidental Heroes - PDF + POD
Accidental Heroes is a tragicomic scenario for Dragonbane by Revel Tales. It’s all set on a continent where, long ago, there were real heroes. But then, one day… they all disappeared. No one knows what happened, but the fact is that no one saves anyone anymore and the world is left without heroes.
Dragonbane - The Taking of Great Mayhem - PDF + POD
A supplement for Dragonbane TTRPG.
Gray clouds gather on the horizon: dire news reaches your garrison. The fortress of Great Mayhem has fallen to a goblin attack! Great Mayhem, the ancient dwarven fortress, is the last bulwark to the north.
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