The Cursed Flames is a fast, brutal escape one-shot for Shadowdark RPG. Designed for 3–5 characters, Level 2–4. Built for one intense 3 hours session. Minimal prep, ready-to-run structure.
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Cursed Flames is an intense one‑shot for Shadowdark RPG, designed for a single session packed with tension and an unrelenting escalation of horror.
It’s made for groups who crave risk, emotional payoff, and narratively charged sessions - perfect as a one‑shot, campaign opener, finale, or a shocking twist in a longer arc.
Write better adventures, faster.
We love weaving tales of terror and courage - but we all know that feeling, don’t we?
It’s deep night, candles flicker on the table, and the grimoire before you is still blank.
Time has fled, devoured by duties and mortal unease, and you wonder: Will I conjure a nightmare worthy of fear… and memory?
We love weaving tales of terror and courage - but we all know that feeling, don’t we?
It’s deep night, candles flicker on the table, and the grimoire before you is still blank.
Time has fled, devoured by duties and mortal unease, and you wonder: Will I conjure a nightmare worthy of fear… and memory?
Cursed Flames is a one‑shot for Shadowdark RPG, forged to blaze through your nights of play - when darkness calls, and heroes dare to answer.
Inside you’ll find:
- A dungeon with 29 locked chambers
- Events that awaken when torches fade
- Curses, illusions, random encounters, and time‑sensitive rooms riddled with environmental threats
- An optional starting village
- Treasure, path, wizard mishap, secret and side‑effect tables
The characters find themselves in the heart of a dungeon, having just reached the treasure chamber… but their triumph soon reveals itself as a trap, orchestrated by a being from beyond this world — an entity that challenges them to escape alive before the cursed torches burn out.
This is not an adventure of leisurely exploration or careful strategy. It’s a desperate race against time, where every choice matters, resources are scarce, and failure means not merely death… but eternal damnation.
WHO IT IS FOR
Not everyone dares to cross the borders of light. Cursed Flames was born for those who walk between fire and the abyss - for those who find comfort in the whispers of darkness and beauty in ruin.
Perhaps it was written for:
Perhaps it was written for:
- Those who still tremble, yet feel the call of the unknown and long for a path already traced through the shadows;
- Those who have already faced the night, but seek new flames to master, new curses to awaken;
- Those who offer shelter to wanderers and desire a ready‑made ritual, one capable of ensnaring every soul that listens;
- Those who share the torment, united by the pleasure of losing themselves together in a single story - fleeting as a dream, and dark as a prophecy.
Cursed Flames is an intense one‑shot for Shadowdark RPG, designed for a single session packed with tension and an unrelenting escalation of horror.
It’s made for groups who crave risk, emotional payoff, and narratively charged sessions - perfect as a one‑shot, campaign opener, finale, or a shocking twist in a longer arc.
Write better adventures, faster.
We love weaving tales of terror and courage - but we all know that feeling, don’t we?
It’s deep night, candles flicker on the table, and the grimoire before you is still blank.
Time has fled, devoured by duties and mortal unease, and you wonder: Will I conjure a nightmare worthy of fear… and memory?
We love weaving tales of terror and courage - but we all know that feeling, don’t we?
It’s deep night, candles flicker on the table, and the grimoire before you is still blank.
Time has fled, devoured by duties and mortal unease, and you wonder: Will I conjure a nightmare worthy of fear… and memory?
Cursed Flames is a one‑shot for Shadowdark RPG, forged to blaze through your nights of play - when darkness calls, and heroes dare to answer.
Inside you’ll find:
- A dungeon with 29 locked chambers
- Events that awaken when torches fade
- Curses, illusions, random encounters, and time‑sensitive rooms riddled with environmental threats
- An optional starting village
- Treasure, path, wizard mishap, secret and side‑effect tables
Those who answer the call and become followers shall receive a gift — a mini adventure, a fragment of darkness to enrich their future journeys.
But beware: those who offer a contribution of 1 euro shall forge a deeper pact… and receive a second mini adventure, born from the heart of cursed flames.
The shadows are waiting. Heed their call and seal your vow to unlock two additional gifts from this dark and damned world… Shadowdark.
