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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

    It is a very interesiting setting, as a player and DM ; Redwall OSR? How could I NOT ; no one has done animal races, more options ; Loved the setting. ; Looks good ; Redwall. RPG. Say less. lol it also looked very intriguing and I try to only back things that strike ; My girlfriend loves small animals and D&D ; love the concept. I hope it wont be a reskinned osr but rather a real integrated animal kingdom dark ; mausritter/humblewood meets shadow dark, cant wait ; I liked it ; I like Shadowdark/OSR games and the setting/theme looks cool. ; Liked concept, intrigued by artwork ; My wife wanted this as a birthday gift ; Beautiful animal artwork and atmosphere ; sounds fun ; looked interesting SD expantion ; Love of Shadowdark rules system paired with childhood nostalgia of Redwall ; Really into Shadow Dark currently and the anthropormorphic animals in this product called to me ; Read all the Redwall books with my son and was excited to see this. I don’t even play at this poi ; Great presentation with the appearance of high production value. Great art and a reasonably priced t ; It’s a very specific niche of fantasy that is underrepresented ; Uh redwall. Yes please. ; I love both Shadowdark and the concept of this project. ; Cute animal hexcrawl! ; Am a therapeutic game master; animal stories go a long way towards healing kids with cancer. Thanks ; I really like Shadowdark and Redwall. Why not both, together? ; Love Shadowdark. Love Redwall. ; Always looking for more settings for my game and i fell in love with the art and Idea of it ; I run a middle school rpg club and this seemed like a great fit to get kids playing and/or into read ; I like the appearance of the artwork, plus the setting looks like something i can easily get my kids ; Played in a streamed game with you yesterday & really enjoyed the game & setting ; Looking for all things Dragonbane ; Love the concept. I am writing my own animal based classes based on the Cobbin from Dolmenwood and t ; The idea caught my interest. ; I love Redwall ; Its my speed, whilst I never read Redwall, I did the Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Dun Cow, an ; Design matches Shadowdark aesthetic and the content looks excellent. A great expansion with fantasti ; I like the style and aesthetic of the setting and am looking forward to playing Shadowdark in more w ; Looks interesting ; Because i like Shadowdark and your setting seems pretty nice! ; Grew up on the Redwall Series ; I adore redwall and this was a no-brainer ; I love mouseguard, redwall, mausritter, and especially Shadowdark! ; I heard Professor DM speak highly of the project and it piqued my interest ; It looked like a fun spin on Shadowdark that will make the game more attractive to play with the fun ; shared interest ; I have been a fan of redwall since i was young and love dark/horror settings so this sounds like an ; Im a big fan of the concept and the shadowdark system. I really loved the idea of a dark fantasy set ; I

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