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Watermarked PDF. Softcover, Standard Color Book. Average Rating ratings. Customers Who Bought this Title also Purchased. Reviews Please log in to add or reply to comments. The game has the lethality and free-form rulings of OSR with the tactics, streamlining, extreme PC customization, and advantage-type mechanics I enjoy from modern systems. Hi, if I get the PoD version here, will it have all the Revised edition changes?

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Are those made in this PoD version? Greetings Friends, Is it possible to get this book without a background on the pages print-friendly , like the wonderful Terrible Beauty? Thanks a heap, Bob. That seems a little overpriced. You should look to buy the retail version. If I were to order a print, would I receive a print of the most recent version of the PDF including all the changes? April 15, pm UTC. I purchased the Premium Hardcover and it has held up really well to a lot of use and travel.

One of the players in my group got the Softcover and it started falling apart 2 weeks in to the campaign. What's the quality of the books structure soft and hardcover? Anyone who's used this book for a few months who can verify how well they hold up? Yes, examples are on page 11 and page What is funny is the hyper-focus on skin colour. We should strive to live in a world where skin colour is as interesting as hair colour. Others whisper that the orcs have made unholy pacts 14 You stole a knife from a dashing knight.

Whether true or not, the rumors have the Faerie Queen. Rising Fury When you take damage, you make your next attack roll before the end of the next round with 1 boon. Orc Age 3d6 Age 3 You are a child, 8 years old or younger. Orc Build 3d6 Build 3 You are short and wiry. Orc Appearance 3d6 Appearance You are grotesque. Your face is a mass of scar tissue. Thick scars crisscross your body, held 3—5 together with crude, leather stitching. Swaths of open sores weep streams of pus, and you reek of excrement, blood, and rot.

You are monstrous, with thick, brutish features, 6—8 weird growths sprouting from your skin, and nasty scars that cut jagged lines across your thick hide. You are ugly. You have thick tusks jutting from your 9—12 broad jaw, a sloping forehead, and tiny eyes set deep in your skull. You are an orc of typical appearance, dirty and 13—15 unkempt. Your body is in your way. Without maim your fellows, and you are in pretty good 17 health.

You strive to right the wrongs. Gain 2 Corruption. Gain 1 Corruption. Professions Professions are occupations, pursuits, and areas of knowledge, You spent 1d6 years in the fighting pit, testing your skills 3 against other orcs for the amusement of the crowds. You were branded as a traitor and cast out. Starting Professions You have scar tissue over half your body from 8 when you were caught in the blast of a spell.

You begin with two professions. You can choose any profession you like or let the dice decide. In the latter case, roll a d6 and You escaped your slavery and have lived in the 9 wilderness ever since. Languages You fell in love with a human and were spurned for 11 your affections. You can trade out a profession to learn to speak another language or gain the ability to read a language you already You sired or gave birth to 3d6 children.

Roll 3d6 again and subtract that total from your total know how to speak. You speak one additional Using Professions 13 language. Professions describe what your character knows how to 14 You received an education. You know how to read do and how your character fits into the setting.

They act as the Common Tongue. You saved an important noble from an Profession Types 16 assassination attempt. You are a scholar.

You can read and write 17 your fortunes in the world. You can recall killed. The Gods of Blood and Iron visit you in your 19 Common. You work in a trade. Roll a d20 and dreams. You can recall information 2 related to your trade and, if your trade involves manufacturing, you know how to produce goods Orc Personality related to your trade from raw materials. You engage in illegal or illicit activities. Orcs are more than the killers the emperor made Martial. You joined the army, law enforcement, or them to be.

They are people, with hearts and 4 the local militia. You believe you must rise above the savagery and find your place. You belong to a religious institution. Roll a 5—6 The world is going to Hell.

You say, let it. You take care of yourself, take what you want, 7—8 Wilderness. Choose a manufacturing trade. Examples Martial Professions include baker, blacksmith, bookbinder, brewer, 3 d20 Profession d20 Profession carpenter, chandler, cobbler, dyer, glassblower, jeweler, leatherworker, mason, potter, printer, and tailor.

Choose a medium. Examples include painter, 2 Detective 11—12 Patroller 4 poet, sculptor, and writer. If you choose poet or writer, you can read and write one language you know. Choose a style. Examples include 9 actor, athlete, comedian, courtesan, dancer, orator, puppeteer, singer, and storyteller. Choose a labor. Examples include chimneysweep, 2 Barbarian 13 Prospector 13 gravedigger, porter, stevedore, and street-sweeper. Choose a good.

Options include arms, 14 4 Gatherer 15—16 Refugee grains, livestock, slaves, spices, and textiles. Choose an instrument. Examples include 7 Hermit 18 Tracker 16 percussion, string, and wind. You can read and write one language you 1—2 know. You travel from place to place, preaching your faith to any who will listen and rely on the charity of 3—4 believers.

You can read and write one language you know. You cloak yourself in deprivation to bring you closer to your gods. You might scourge yourself, deprive 5 yourself of food and drink, or find other, creative ways to make yourself suffer. You hold religious beliefs deemed dangerous and heretical by the leaders of your faith.

You have been initiated into the Old Faith. You are a religious leader in your community. You know how to read and write one language you know. Acolyte of the New God. You study to become a priest in the Cult of the New God.

You know how to read and write 11—12 one language you know. You serve an inquisitor or witch hunter. You travel to sites deemed holy to members of your religion. You preach on street corners, beseeching people to seek redemption as the end is near. You were raised in a temple. You were likely an orphan and brought up by the clergy. Wealth The Game Master will sometimes look to your professions 3d6 Lifestyle to judge whether an activity you describe results in a success or failure. A profession could grant a success or it might Destitute You are penniless and live on the 3—4 streets.

Getting By You earn enough to meet all your Since a profession can be anything that involves a lifestyle 9—13 expenses. Rather than become a comedian, 14—16 you can save a little. You can Wealthy You live very well. You have nice clothes substitute chimney-sweep for laborer or pastry chef for 17 and fine accommodations, and you have probably not gone without for a long time.

Before making a substitution, talk to your GM to Rich You want for nothing. You likely come from make sure it is appropriate for the game. Starting Your fortunes earn you many friends and many enemies. Keeping your professions and ancestry in mind, come up with a story for how your character came by Comfortable this lifestyle. Your starting wealth tells you the equipment you have You have a dagger, a staff or club or sling with 20 stones, when the adventure begins. For details on equipment, see fine clothing, a backpack, a cloak, a week of rations, a Chapter 6.

Rich 2 A reliquary containing a small bone. You also have a personal servant, a guard, 5 A pet mouse, squirrel, or rabbit. Interesting Things 8 A snuffbox filled with snuff. Your character begins the game with one interesting thing. An interesting thing could be an unusual item, a character 10 A fist-sized egg covered in blue spots. To determine your interesting thing, roll a d6 to see 13 A box of 1d20 iron nails. Then roll a d20 and 14 A vial of sweet perfume or a bottle of rotgut.

A tiny metal box with no opening that makes a faint 1 A bar of soap or a towel. A tiny portrait, a lock of hair, or some other favor from 3 A glass ball filled with water in which swims a tiny living someone who loves you. A curious odor, a pungent stench, or a skin condition 5 A brace of conies or pack filled with pots and pans.

Half a treasure map, a map of a foreign land, or a large, 6 A flower that never withers. A bag of 2d6 rocks, acorns, severed heads, or yummy 13 mushrooms. A book written in an unknown language or a book 15 15 A bag of marbles. A glass jar filled with saliva, a sack filled with rotting 16 chicken parts, or an unseemly scar.

A small bag containing 3d6 teeth, a necklace of 1d6 ears, 17 Six small cakes that can nourish the person who eats or 1d6 severed heads tied together by their hair. A phylactery that holds a scrap of paper on which is 19 19 A box of six fine white candles.

A pair of boots that grants you 1 boon on rolls to sneak 2 or a gray cloak that grants you 1 boon on rolls to hide. A set of clothing that can change appearance once each 3 day at dusk. Three small white mice that whisper strange things to 10 you while you sleep. A crystal bottle containing fluid that emits light in a 13 A collapsible pole, 3 yards long.

A shadow you cast that never quite matches your 14 15 A small box holding six sticks of chalk. A letter of introduction from a powerful and influential 15 Fear and loathing. A mirror fragment that shows a strange location on its 17 A thin shirt of mail that counts as light armor and can be reflective surface.

Roleplaying 2 A glass globe filled with swirling mist. Your character occupies a place in the imaginary world. He or she is a person with hopes and dreams, fears and 4 A pair of spectacles that sometimes let you see through biases, a history and a future, all of which inform his or up to 1 inch of solid rock.

To help play your character in a consistent manner, come 9 An animated mouse skeleton. Roleplaying 13 A tiny metal ball that when released floats 1 inch above any solid surface. By answering the following roleplaying questions as if you 15 A brain in a jar. A mace made from purple metal with a name etched on 17 the haft. Relationships 18 A giant piece of charcoal that radiates menace.

How do other people make you feel? Do you like being the 20 A lifetime of regrets. Do you make friends easily? When it comes to you, is there such a thing as a stranger?

Or do you. It might be a state of 2 Cheerful Arrogant being, a relationship, an object, or an experience. You 3 Courageous Conceited might desire love, peace, or security. You might crave a 4 Dependable Craven relationship with another character. Or, you could seek out a fabled relic or victory over your enemies. You can love your family, 6 Dutiful Impulsive friends, a lover, a companion animal, an object that holds 7 Empathetic Lazy importance to you, or even your nation. Consider the 8 Fair Malicious reasons for your love.

Do they arise from an obligation 9 Forgiving Obnoxious or a duty, or something deeper and more mysterious? What is the one thing your 13 Honest Self-centered character knows and knows alone? Then, come up 14 Honorable Slovenly with a secret known only to you and maybe one or two 15 Humble Stingy others. Share your secret with the Game Master, as this 16 Idealistic Sullen information could be important to a future adventure.

How do you feel about it? Do you prefer to keep to Authority yourself or a close circle of friends? Do you prefer to be in charge? Do you like making What sorts of people do you enjoy most? Do you like decisions or are you content to let others decide? Deciding other outgoing people, or do you prefer quiet, more insular how you feel about authority will affect how your character types? What kinds of people do you avoid? Who are your fits into the group. Who are your enemies?

Obligations and Responsibility Values Do you follow through on your promises? Do you complete Name one thing you value most. Then name one thing you tasks that come to you as soon as you can or are you given could lose.

Thinking about the Good and Evil thing you value most, what makes it important to you? To what Is the world sharply divided into good and evil? Or is it all lengths would you go to secure it, keep it, or attain it? Where do you fall? Do you help others, For the thing you value least Why is it not important to act without considering your needs, or give of yourself you?

How easily would you surrender it? Or do you fulfill your own needs first, exploiting others when necessary to advance your position? Fear and Loathing Everyone fears something. What do you fear? The source of your fear could be a situation. You might fear being alone Your First Adventure or being powerless.

It could also be a physical thing such as Once you finish creating a character, you are ready to play spiders, snakes, or demons. Why does this fear have power through a starting adventure.

You play this adventure over you? How do you control your fear when you confront it? What do you hate?

The source of your fear could be Playing through a starting adventure has many benefits. Like fears, hatreds can apply to big concepts such Learn the Rules as tyranny, slavery, injustice, and suffering. Or it might be a The adventure gives you a chance to learn how the game person or organization. Think about a reason for why you plays, such as how to resolve fights, social interaction, hate the thing you do. Has it affected you directly? Have you and moving, without having to worry about too many suffered from it?

Or does the hatred reflect one of your ideals? If, for example, you attacked with a weapon, warrior or priest would be good Decisions and Outcomes choices. If you cast an incantation, you might choose magician or priest. What you do during increases whenever the Game Master tells you. So if you spend a lot of time accomplish major story objectives. Each time your level fighting, sneaking around, casting spells from incantations you increases, check the table to find out how the increase find, or do something else noteworthy, jot it down.

Building a Group Advancement The first adventure operates as the origin story for the Level Instructions characters played by you and your friends. Your character Choose a novice path from the ones might know one or more other characters that will join the 1 presented in Chapter 3 and gain the benefits from that path for this level.

Regardless, this adventure You gain the benefits from your explores the conflicts, challenges, and revelations that will 2 novice path for this level. Choose an expert path from the ones Here are some things you should do during your first 3 presented in Chapter 4 and gain the benefits from that path for this level.

Gain the benefits from your ancestry 4 for this level. Cooperation Gain the benefits from your novice 5 Learning how to work together is crucial for your group to path for this level. Look for ways to help other 6 Gain the benefits from your expert path for this level. As you Choose a master path from the ones play, note the relationships you make with other characters. These benefits from that path for this level. Avoid Conflict 9 Gain the benefits from your expert path for this level. Starting characters are fragile and have few resources.

Since Gain the benefits from your master 10 a hit or two can knock you out or even kill you, you should be path for this level. Find Gear Starting at Higher Levels You can start the game at a higher level if you join an Your starting equipment is unlikely to carry you far. You existing group or if the Game Master decides to set the will need better armor, weapons, and supplies if you would group level higher than 0.

You create a starting character as continue. You can upgrade your gear by taking on jobs for normal, but when you finish, go to the Advancement table pay, looting bodies, and robbing your enemies. Achieve Your Objective Every adventure you play has an objective, a goal or quest Equipment at Higher Levels that drives the story. Sometimes the GM will tell you and other times you have to find out the nature of your objective Characters at higher levels have more resources than do through play.

Achieving your objective brings the story to those at lower levels. For each level, add 2d6 ss to your its conclusion, so keep working toward it as you play. You can spend these coins to purchase better weapons, armor, and additional equipment from the items described in Chapter 6. Level Advancement In addition, each time you choose a path, at levels 1, 3, After you complete your first adventure, your group gains and 7, you gain another random interesting thing from a level.

As shown on the Advancement table, at level 1 you the Interesting Things tables presented under Starting choose a novice path from the ones described in Chapter 3. Unless something interesting interferes with that Shadow of the Demon Lord. The rules cover the basics of activity, it happens as you stated and the story continues. For example, trying to the normal rules work. Such exceptions always trump the walk through a solid wall simply fails without the use of general rules described here. Supernatural phenomena, magic, and other Sometimes, an action you describe prompts the GM strangeness can defy what we deem laws of reality, bending to make a judgment about whether or not the action or even breaking them.

Aside from such miraculous events, is possible. The rules help to make the decision, often characters can do just about anything people do in the real requiring the roll of dice to decide the outcome. You tell the Game Master Time GM what your character does and the game moves Precise timekeeping is rarely necessary during play. If forward. The GM decides how much time passes. A month-long ocean voyage might be summarized with a few minutes of description, or you might play through a Making Decisions tense negotiation in real time.

Simple, ordinary actions are assumed to happen. For There are occasions where time is important. In such cases, the GM can switch to an attribute score for other kinds of rounds, segments of time that are 10 seconds long. See attacks. The creature takes cube die found in many games. You roll a twenty-sided die a d20 whenever you attempt an activity whose outcome is uncertain.

You roll one or more six-sided dice d6 for a number of effects. The most common situation is determining the Attack Roll Example damage dealt by an attack. Whenever you number on the die for a total of 7.

The rules or the GM determine what You make a challenge roll when you attempt an activity modifier you use, depending on the task you attempt. Examples of challenge rolls or a boon or bane. If the total equals or is greater being caught in a fireball spell, leaping back from a sprung than the target number, the result is a success. If the total pit trap, or clinging to your sanity in the face of something is less than the target number, the result is a failure.

For example, you make a Strength You make an attack roll when you attempt to influence or challenge roll to smash down a door, applying your harm another creature or an object.

Examples of attack Strength modifier. If you want to leap out of the path of arcane or using a mace to smash a statue. See Combat for more lightning, you make an Agility challenge roll and use information.

If you attempt the same activity again modifier. For example, if you attempt to scale a sheer cliff modifier to use when making it. Heather rolls a d20 and gets a 9. Since the total is 10 or higher, she gets a success and takes only half the damage. Bonuses and Penalties Many situations in play can confer a bonus or a penalty on a d20 roll, representing an advantage or a disadvantage.

A single die roll might have bonuses and penalties from different sources. These are cumulative, so you need to total them up and add them to the total of your roll.

Boons and Banes Circumstances can make d20 rolls easier or harder. Positive circumstances grant one or more boons, while negative circumstances impose one or more banes. Boons improve your d20 die rolls. One or more boons might apply to a given roll. For each boon, you roll a d6 and then add the highest number rolled on all the boon dice to d20 roll. For example, if you make a d20 roll with 3 boons, you would roll 3d6. Say you get 1, 4, and 6 on those dice.

The 6 is the highest number, so you add 6 to your d20 roll. Banes hinder your d20 die rolls. One or more banes might apply to a given roll. For each bane, you roll a d6 and then subtract the highest number on all the bane dice from your d20 roll.

For example, if you make a d20 roll with 4 banes, you would roll 4d6. Say you get 1, 3, 5, and 5 on those same circumstances, climb that wall. To get up to the top, dice. Since 5 is the highest number, you would subtract 5 you have to change the circumstance in some way.