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Cursed Scroll for Shadowdark Issues 1-3 Reviewed

Apr 2, 2024

Author: Kelsey Dionne

Artists: Cameron Maas, Brandish Gilhelm, Dean Spencer, Carlos Castilho, Rick Hershey, Azukail Games, Jason Moser, Evgeny Turaev, Richard Sampson, Eric Lofgren, Indi Martin, Nora Back, Bradley K McDevitt, William McAusland, J.M. Woiak, and Heather Shinn

Year: 2023

Genre: OSR themed zines for the fantasy roleplaying game Shadowdark

Pages: 60+ pages per issue

MSRP: $13.99 for softcover (with PDF) each or $8.99 in each in PDF

I share a look into – and my thoughts about – the first three issues of the Cursed Scroll zine, for the Shadowdark fantasy roleplaying game, from The Arcane Library. Each volume clocks in at over 60 pages and contains a hexcrawl, an adventure, new classes, spells, monsters, and more.

SUMMARY

Each of the zines is absolutely packed with content you're going to use; from new classes to spells to hexcrawls to adventures. I happen to be a fan of Shadowdark and can see these zines being essentially must owns for those running the roleplaying game. Obviously, if you don't care for Shadowdark these zines won't be changing your mind but, I'm happy to say, I enjoy the game as well as these excellently presented issues of Cursed Scroll.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...