Demidirge is a level 0 funnel adventure for Shadowdark RPG.
You are a tunneler.
Trapped in a buried cathedral below a sentient sea of acid, your life is ruled by wraith-priests and an unseen Queen who spies through stolen eyes.
Armed with rotten tools and contraband fossils, you must obey, toil, and conspire to escape - before you're recycled in boiling fungal baths.
In this scenario, your players control several level 0 tunnelers attempting to escape The Malic Mindshaft, a subterranean gulag. Survivors awaken in coffins on the overworld as level 1 adventurers. This makes the module an ideal gauntlet for opening your campaign: it is largely setting-neutral, as the entire experience unfolds within an enclosed shared nightmare ecosystem.
Demidirge includes:
- A subterranean tunnel system ruled by an unseen Queen and her candle cult
- Tunnel map and keyed locations
- GM toolkit for encounters, tunnel weather, discoveries, and anomaly tracking
- Rival crews, covert orders, quota races, and ghost elections
- Acid-drenched formic foes that evolve over time
- Hand-drawn dark fantasy ink art
- Character creation tables & NPC generators
- Tools for expanding the adventure into a longer campaign
