The Old Blood

The Old Blood is an investigative city crawl adventure forShadowdark RPG  (or any OSR-style system), designed for experienced players levels 1-2

UPDATE: Fixes an error with the page order in the original pdf

Set in the decaying city of Brannam, players unravel a web of fear, blood, and buried secrets. A local alchemist has begun killing in secret, rekindling old fears of an old terror. The city's decline threatens to spiral into collapse, and far below, something older and hungrier waits to wake.

This adventure includes:

3 separate dungeons (The flooded Sewers, the forgotten Catacombs, and the cursed Ruins of Edric von Braech's keep)

Open ended design and layered mysteries with multiple outcomes and failure states

A fully explorable city with random encounters, evolving factions and escalating panic.

Custom rules for spell mishaps, nightly murder checks and decay events as Brannam unravels

88 pages of modular content designed to drop into your campaign

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This adventure is released under Creative Commons CC0. All original writing, layout, and design are dedicated to the public domain. Use, remix, or republish freely. Some referenced mechanics (e.g., Shadowdark RPG) are under separate licenses  see the LICENSE file and PDF for full details.

Background art elements were created using AI generation tools and composited manually. Full attribution is included in the PDF.