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  • Redwall Meets Shadowdark RPG

    Brave animal folk battle in ruins, swamps, and forests filled with ancient magic 🗡‍
    Dark Forest is a campaign setting for the Shadowdark RPG where brave animal folk venture through towering groves, hidden abbey crypts, and long-forgotten ruins. Build your hero from 12+ new ancestries and 4+ new classes like warrior, warmonk, scout, and sage. Stock your world with 30+ spells, 50+ magic items, and 60+ monsters shaped by ancient magic. Explore Antallia's four regions with factions, settlements, and hooks, supported by ready-to-play adventures, VTT tokens, and maps. Old-school hand-drawn art and a digest-sized hardbound book with silver-ink dust jacket bring it to life. Back Dark Forest on Kickstarter.

    About

    John & Nicole enjoy making games and creative projects for tabletop, and RPGs like D&D. John is a Professional Game Master who was featured in Bloomberg Business and he runs TTRPG games around the globe. John is also an animator, artist, writer and director, and has helped make shows like Arcane, Hotel Transylvania, and Surf's Up. Nicole grew up in a board game crazed family - they hold board game Olympics. She is also a director and public speaker who teaches kids to unplug from the Media Matrix. MacKayla Clark (10 yrs old) helped create their new Haunted Halloween: The Trick-or-Treat Game.They have successfully launched nine Kickstarter campaigns, with more exciting projects in development.

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    Reviews

    The animal theme and forest environment got me interested. ; I love Shadowdark and old-school art. And having animals as players is something different ; I’m trying to get into something dnd-ish but have no idea and 5e seems complicated. Plus bunnies ; Im not yet familiar with the Shadow Dark system, I was simply drawn to Dark Forest because it seems ; The project seems thought out, and it’s for shadowdark. ; Redwall fan, shadowdark fan, project looked excellent in execution and on point in how it represents ; Ive had an interest in things like Watership Down, Redwall, Mausritter, Burrows & Badgers and B ; Like the setting ; I love redwall ; I try to back any high quality OSR / Shadowdark project if I am able. ; Looked interesting ; While I love the gritty woodland animal theme, my players will easily adapt to the familiar rules. ; The Redwall series was my favorite in childhood so the tagline pulled me in and the content convince ; It reminds me of Redwall ; Bob World Builder ; I love Shadowdark and Redwall! Also, as a GM, I’m looking more for creative settings to run games ; Looks like it will be fun to play and or run this campaign and Im building my shadowdark library and ; I believe in you and what youre trying to make is super cool ; I have been waiting for its launch. Love ShadowDark and this looks like a great edition to the overa ; ShadowDark is a phenomenal RPG ; I love shadowdark ; I like both anthropomorphic fantasy and OSR ; Ive been wanting to play a dark fantasy rpg set in a animal world like Redwall and this checked all ; Interesting setting for shadowdark - whimsy not grim ; Love the theme ; Playable races and setting ; Hopeful that its like a homebrew system Ive designed ; The art grabbed me; then I saw that it was tied to 1E/Shadowdark and had to back it. ; I love fantasy stories and D&D. This looked like it might be a lot of fun to play with my frien ; I am a big fan of Shadowdark and I really like Red Wall. This seems like a great project. ; I love the idea of the animal species for a change of pace and love old school rules ; I love dnd and I love redwall ; Love the system and style ; I love the Shadowdark ruleset and the theme just sounds amazing. ; Love animal characters ; Love the world of Redwall. ; Looks like an incredible setting! ; Love Redwall ; redwall, Shadowdark, ; I love the art, and the overall vibe looks cool. ; Love the setting ; I love the art aesthetic. I loved red wall and this is the art style that I imagined redwall to have ; I love The Redwall novels. And play a lot of DND as well as Daggerheart, DC 20. ; I wanted something different on my bookshelf ; Looked interesting with shadowdark rules ; Im a fan of Shadowdark and forest creature settings. ; I like the idea! ; Theme, art and large collection of existing minis & scenery (for Burrows & Badgers) ; Ive heard great things about both Shadowdark AND Redwall. Combining them sounds like a lot of fun. ; Interesting settings, Shad

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