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Welcome to EruditeDM.com, your go-to source for RPG resources, tools, and inspiration tailored for game masters and tabletop roleplaying fans. Whether you’re running intense Shadowdark RPG adventures, exploring Dungeons & Dragons, diving into other OSR (“old-school renaissance”) systems, or crafting your own homebrew world, Erudite DM offers random tables, maps, lore-rich content, and creative tools to support your journey. Explore encounter ideas, worldbuilding advice, new character classes, monsters, NPCs, solo RPG, and GM tips designed to help you run smarter, faster, and more immersive games.
Weaponry: Rondel Dagger
Your fighter is locked in melee against an Orc or a black knight. On your attack you drop your shield and try to grapple with him. On the next attack roll you successfully knock him prone and pin him on the ground. Now it's time to draw the long deadly...
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Weaponry: The Bardiche
Continuing my series on interesting historical weapons for use in Shadowdark, I give you the Bardiche. Like some other medieval weapons, the Bardiche came from its primary use as a practical tool in agriculture or animal husbandry. A polearm of sorts, farmers used a very similar tool to behead oxen...
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Weaponry: The Falchion for Shadowdark
Slash, bash, and chop your way through Shadowdark melee battles Recently, I created a video series about weaponry in Shadowdark, highlighting some additional selections from European history to add more tactical options and flavor for players and the GM. The free pdf below is yours to download, and there are...
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Video: Advantages of Duet RPGs with Tim Shorts
Duet games are one-on-one games where a GM runs the game with only one player. As a kid, we often played AD&D this way circa 1980. The player might run alone facing dangers and reaping the awards all to himself, or he might play an additional character, or a sidekick,...
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