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On my YouTube channel, I organize and host a TTRPG livestream/actual play every Monday night at 8 pm ET. In the past two years, we have played Shadowdark and Lamentations...

Your Shadowdark or D&D players have been travelling on the old road for days when they finally see a town in the distance. It rests between two small mountain ranges,...

I spent some time today drawing up a regional map for my weekly Shadowdark game. We play with Discord and use Roll20 to show maps and occasionally move tokens. I...

If you watch the EruditeDM on YouTube, you know I have been playing Hyperborea 3e on Monday nights. And the best part is that you can watch the livestreams at...

Michael Putlack of @NightNoonGames joins me to talk about his Kickstarter based on the Hungarian folktale, Son of the White Mare. The adventure is the central theme of Putlack's new...

Wow! 800 subscribers. Thanks to all of you who watch my videos and enjoy the livestreams with my friends. I try to keep it interesting and fun. Keep liking, sharing,...

Do yourself a favor and pick up this book by American writer Christopher Buehlman, a USA Today bestseller. It is a haunting gothic tale set in France during the Hundred...

I am happy to announce that my first two zines have gone Copper level on Drive-Thru RPG. Woohoo! Thank you very much to everyone who has bought the zines and...

By the late 14th century, European warfare had changed in fundamental ways. Knights and men-at-arms increasingly fought on foot, armor had become heavier and more sophisticated, and the sword alone...

Light is one of the quiet tricks Shadowdark pulls on you. Not cinematic light, not “for atmosphere only” light, but real, anxious, constantly-depleting light. The kind that makes players glance...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Never one to be happy with the status quo, recently I thought about expanding the spell list for wizards and priests in my Shadowdark game. Even though our wizards or...

Popular YouTuber and TTRPG reviewer Dungeons and Dyslexia, reviewed Saints of the Shadowdark this week bringing a fresh outside perspective of my second zine designed and written for Shadowdark RPG....

The knight pants steadily, loudly on one knee. Sweat pours down his face and beard. He and the northman take turns digging up the grave until they tap on the...

Watch my walk-through review of EruditeZINE No. 2 "SAINTS OF THE SHADOWDARK". It includes the one-shot Shadowdark adventure, SAINTS BENEATH US for character levels 3-5. The new zine is only...

Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to try many other ttrpgs as often as I would like. Conventions are a great way to sample other RPG systems and settings. And...

Welcome back, friends!  Prolific TTRPG publisher and writer Greg Christopher, aka "Chubby Funster," joined me last week on a YouTube live stream to discuss his French medieval-themed setting for Shadowdark...