The Carouser's Guide to the Shadowdark

A complete downtime system for the Shadowdark RPG.

40+ Tables for Carousing in Shadowdark
Relax, refresh, and revive with carousing tables that let you revel from the lowest levels of the dungeon to the top of a wizard's tower.

Pool your party's gold. Pick a tier. Roll a d8. Read the result. Every outcomeearns XP, even if you wake up in the gutter.Not everything worth doing happens in a dungeon or a tavern. At the end of asession your characters get the chance to transform their hard-won gold intosomething stranger. A bar fight that becomes a love story. A bet that turnsinto a rivalry. A drink with a stranger that leaves you marked for death bymorning.

What's inside
Six Areas. Castles, cities, dungeons, forts, towns, and wilderness. Each withits own quality rating. Common, Uncommon, or Rare.Forty-plus tables. Six unique location tables for every area. And uniquesecondary tables for allies, enemies, rumors, trinkets, and treasures.Hundreds of outcomes. No two carousing sessions look the same.

A shared scene system. Let the whole table share the story of their revels.One player's enemy is another player's befriended rival. Bar fights becomebets. The GM weaves results into a single narrative.

XP on every roll. Every result, even the bad ones, returns experience.Downtime is never wasted.

Built for Shadowdark RPG
Designed to drop into existing campaigns at any level. Compatible and balanced with Shadowdark's existing downtime mechanics. Plug-and-play tables let any GM drop them into their existing campaigns.