The Shucked Oyster (Softcover)

Designed for use with the 4-time Ennie Award Winning Shadowdark RPG, ACKS II, and other fantasy role playing games, this supplement provides an iconic drop-in location for any town or city in your campaign. The Oyster is a cursed brothel that is routinely destroyed and rebuilt after freak accidents set it ablaze! Included, you will find a slew of wild and crazy NPCs, new magic items, expanded social mechanics, unique dungeons, and enough adventure hooks for an entire campaign! The Shucked Oyster is a wild place. It serves as a nexus connecting an enormous number of people to one another. Each of the 34 fully fleshed out NPCs has their own motivations, connections, and agendas in town. Helping or hindering any one of them will light a fuse that will add all manner of fun and unexpected excitement to your game! The Shucked Oyster includes: - 264 pages of mechanics, NPCs, and flavor to seamlessly add to any Shadowdark RPG campaign - Over 100 pieces of art sourced from RPG industry leaders like Dean Spencer, Carlos Castihlo, and William McAusland, with original pieces by The - - Basic Expert, and Paddy's Parlor! This book is packed to the gills with gorgeous and evocative images to set your imagination on fire! No AI was used in the creation of this product! - A new carousing location that evolves as your players interact with it. Have you ever partied so hard that you were turned to stone? How about started a multi-story building fire? Now you can, and probably will! - New carousing outcomes connected to The Shucked Oyster that are affected by your players' choices! - Interlinked tables that provide unique circumstances surrounding how the brothel caught fire and who the town blames, will make your players time in town just as exciting as delving deep into dungeons - A full roster of 20 lovable and surly prostitutes to endlessly harangue your players in town - 12 bizarre and darkly comedic patrons of the brothel to pull your players into a labyrinth of wild conspiracies and adventures - 3 full dungeons complete with maps, encounters, and an engaging history for your players to explore - 8 new magic items, including Coward's Bane, the most badass and heroic intelligent Longsword to have ever cleaved heads from the necks of monsters - A secret history of The Shucked Oyster full of pathos and drama and a horrific curse to be dispelled by those seeking deep and engaging role play - A terrifying cult attempting to resurrect the ancient simian demon, Malchimpus - A recently awakened Vampire Lord who will soon seek to reconquer his dark empire in the countryside! Nothing can prepare your players for the chaos that The Shucked Oyster will inject into your campaign. Don't let your sleepy RPG town be boring! Come on down to The Shucked Oyster!