ShadowDark: Ancestries
The desire to explore dangerous environments for a chance at riches and powerful items can emerge in any ancestry. Here are extra options when you create a dungeon crawler. Mushroomfolk Humanoid fungi that prefer to dwell in darkened caverns. You do not understand any written or spoken languages. Telepathy. You can speak mentally with creatures […]
ShadowDark: Expanded Gear List
Sometimes when you’re crawling through a forgotten mausoleum, exploring a perilous cave, or looting an occult temple, you need a specific piece a gear to escape with the riches you have found. This expanded list of gear may be useful in your adventurers. One of these items can be the difference between a horrible death […]
Arcane Mycology
During their explorations, adventurers will come across a variety of strange fungi. Some of these mushroom species have been affected by the strange energies that reside in underground caverns, or by the magical influence of different planes. A character proficient with an herbalism kit can harvest a patch of mushrooms that can be sold to […]
Faction: The Midnight Veil
As adventurers progress in their journey, they will come across groups of non-player characters united by a shared objective. These groups could be a secluded monastic order atop a mountain, a village of ordinary people safeguarding one another from the perils of a nearby forest, or even the premiere thieves’ guild of a capital city. […]
Ancient Relic Treasure
The treasure found in the depths of a dungeon, a tomb in a long-forgotten mausoleum, or in the lair of a dangerous creature doesn’t have to be just coins, gems, and magic items. Various relics of historical importance are also worth looting as collectors and scholars who focus on certain cultures or lines of study […]
Feat: Reptilian Ascension
Lizardfolk are an ancient people. Their origins are unknown, but there are times when their saurian ancestry expresses itself in unique ways. These lizardfolk change physically as their body adapts them to a more potent form. Other lizardfolk will see these changes as a sign that they are blessed as champions by divine intervention, transformative […]
Feat: Draconic Ascension
Kobolds are said to have been created either by dragons in need of faithful servants or by some divine energy that changed an existing people who worshipped dragons. This can sometimes have a profound impact on a specific individual. In some cases, a kobold may display their draconic ancestry so strongly that they undergo physical […]
Undead Hunter Background
You were one of the few in your community that survived an attack from a horde of undead. This experience left you with a hatred for the undead and the tools and knowledge of how to defeat them. You have seen first-hand the destruction they can reap and gained the knowledge on how best to […]
Monster Flavor: The Planes
There are times when the barrier between planes grows thin, or experimental magic unleashes strange energies upon the local area. Such events can result in creatures being altered by extraplanar influences. These alterations can be applied to existing monsters in the form of templates, reflecting the ways in which they have been transformed by these […]
Planar Feats
Somewhere in the distant past of your family line, one of your ancestors had a powerful encounter with the Inner Planes. This ancestor’s mind may have travelled through the Astral Plane or their soul could have been disrupted by Ethereal energy, but the result was a transformation to your bloodline which has expressed itself in […]