- HumbleDark: Humblewood x ShadowDark
The Humblewood campaign is done! We banished the Scorch, fought for the Humblefolk, and accumulated a little gang of cute, - Day 12To view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Tome of World Building: Chapter 5.I – Cultural Basin, Geography.To view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Sword& NSR zineHey all, I got the opportunity to do a little bit of layout and art in this great little zine
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- Five Magic Rings
Today’s all about that most classic of fantasy treasures: the magic ring! Of course, the genre’s great flagship is literally - Day 6To view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
- Beyond the Pale – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Day 2
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- WatcherDM 2025 Round-Up
That’s a wrap on 2025, folks! Whether you’ve been through the year with us, or if you’re looking back on - Cairn 2e Player’s Guide – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- The Perfect DnD Christmas Gift
What to get that special nerd in your life? Dice! The answer is Dice. They’ll use them all the time, - Cursed Scroll Zine, Vol. 3: Midnight Sun – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Cancelled after prep – Baker’s Doesn’t
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- Unboxing DolmenwoodTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
- More Fallout Monsters for Troika!
Building on last week’s monsters, we’ve got even more baddies for our Fallout-inspired Troika hack! Combine this with the d36 - Cursed Scroll Zine, Vol. 2: Red Sands – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Fallout-Inspired Troika Monsters
Today we’re doing monsters, tuned for use with our Fallout-inspired Troika hack. Let’s get started! d36 Fallout Troika Monsters 11. - Cursed Scroll Zine, Vol. 1: Diablerie! – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- New Hex TemplateTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- RPG Mounts
Spare me your horses! I want your craziest RPG mounts, and I want ’em now! My hope is you’ll add - Solodark – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- One-Shot Adventure Recipe
A friend asked, so I must answer: what’s the secret recipe for a successful one-shot adventure? Of course, it’s more - Chaos CrierTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Community Love and the Nanite Agenda!
Who knows the mind of a grey goo nanite swarm intelligence? MOTHERSHIP PCs with Sophontology and the readers of this - Black Sword Hack: Ultimate Chaos Edition – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Session 5 – Ophideus Green and the Black Evil15th of 11 – Year of Blue Echoes. Despair! I am broken. My most reliable ally, how can she be
- ProtoCON BC Report!
We’re fresh back from ProtoCON BC 2025 and ready to tell you all about it! Brought to us by masterminds - CY_BORG – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Curse of the Conquerorhttps://watcherdm.itch.io/curse-of-the-conqueror on Itch if you want to support or spread this The Jam is still going on if you want
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- Mythic Bastionland: Foretold
To view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a - Blood Prairie: Doom of Derricksland
Our latest Blood Praire recap’s tragic finale is here: the Doom of Derricksland! Start at the beginning, or check here - MÖRK BORG – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- The Beacon – ClassThe Beacon is a character class for Shadowdark to tap into the fantasy of the torch-bearing trailblazer, the trap-finding delver,
- Blood Prairie: Back to Derricksland
We return to the Blood Prairie for more adventures back in Derricksland! We’re picking up at Session #2! If you - A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Session Notes from Chang’e, Session 417th of 10 – Year of Blue Echoes. Isadora, Calavera and I (Dunlan) headed out after purchasing equipment. Evynor wasn’t
- Jurassic Dread
We’re taking a break from our most recent Blood Prairie recap to talk about tonight’s game: Jurassic Dread! Brought to - A2 Secret of the Slavers Stockade – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- West Marches (Schadengard), Session 2A fresh company of casters and priests banded together to return to the recently discovered compound. In attendance: Imem –
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- Blood Prairie: Derricksland
We’re back in the Blood Prairie! Our Wednesday night crew, TTRPG hustlers all, recently did me the honour of playtesting - A1 Slave Pits of the Undercity – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Troika Adventure: Crashed in the Coin Tree
I’ve entered IRON DM 2025! First up, a Troika-adventure with too many exclamation points! For the uninitiated (i.e., me, a - Gradient Descent – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Review: A3 is Bad, Actually
Gird yourselves, friends, because we’re trash-talking a forty-four-year-old module today: A3 AKA Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords! - A Pound of Flesh – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Back to the Blood Prairie
We’ve wrapped another Blood Prairie Campaign! At this point, we’ve completed four full games of Blood Prairie, with one ongoing. - Thumbnails for Shadowdark DrawtoberTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- West Marches (Schadengard) play report.To view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- Old School RevolutionEvil Tyrants are as much a fantasy staple as dragons, but rarely as simple to kill. Real world tyrants have
- Humblewood
I got to play Humblewood last night! Gabriel ran it way back in the day (see his review), but this - Mothership Player’s Survival Guide – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- The Devil in DnD
I’ve had devils on the brain, of late. There are many reasons for this. Greedy Devils: A Privatized Little Hell - Mythic Bastionland – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- World-Building Signposts
World-building is one of the most popular parts of DMing. It’s the bait on the hook; it’s what pulls us - Realms of Peril – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $2 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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- A Privatized Little Hell Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/watcherdm/a-privatized-little-hell God’s been robbed. We’re breaking the thief out of Hell to find out where he stashed the goods. Are - Creepy Combats!
Combat can be heroic and exciting, dangerous and desperate, or (my favourite) CREEPY! There’s an old adage about Musical Theatre - A Street-Level Guide to Urban Troika Volume 1 – Flip Through and ReviewTo view this content, you must be a member of WatcherDM’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a
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