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Omens and Tarot in Mork Borg
A little system for how to narrate when an omen is used to re-roll in Mörk Borg.
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Fresh Mork Borg Content
A while back we launched the Black Candle Games Itch.io page for our experimental and very short-form content and we just wanted to let you all know since that’s not something we were very public about. Truth be told it has been quiet around here for some time but that’s Read more
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Pixels and Polyhedrals: The Immolator
Immolators are a really cool enemy concept in that they are pretty easily taken down, but if you do it the wrong way it can be disastrous. If you do things right, by taking them out with fists and blunt weapons they’re pushovers. However, if you shoot or stab them they become running, howling, immolating menaces.
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Crucible Dev Blog: Pacing
It’s been a few since we’ve unveiled Crucible, but it’s time again to dive into discussing it, since our first public play test is hopefully coming in November! Hurt Me Plenty One of the biggest things for us to get right when designing Crucible was the frequency and fervency at Read more
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Pixels and Polyhedrals – Cacodemon
It’s time for another installment of Pixels & Polyhedrals! We’ve had Crucible on the brain lately and have been doing a fair amount of “research” by playing lots of old shooters. Today in the Demon Lord Discord, someone brought up the idea to make DOOM demons for Shadow of the Read more
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Introducing Crucible
Greetings, Mortal Here at Black Candle we have always loved video games. The idea of splicing our passion for them with our fervor for tabletop RPGs comes intrinsically. We’re all PC gamers and technology professionals so it’s hard to not become inspired by the games we play on the devices Read more
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Interview with Rob Schwalb
We were lucky enough to have sat down and not only talk to Rob Schwalb, tabletop industry veteran and creator of Shadow of the Demon Lord last week about his upcoming products, but we also got to him to join us as a player to kick off our Campaign! There Read more
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Transient Death, A New Item
Transient Death is an item that didn’t quite make it into Insupposable Instruments that Jerry just couldn’t keep his hands off of. It’s is something you might find among a witches belongings, in a den of dark magic, or within the many crowded shelves of an old shop. We’ve tweaked Read more
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Beginner’s Guide to Shadow of the Demon Lord
Shadow of the Demon Lord is the premiere release from Schwalb Entertainment, a company run by Robert J. Schwalb (Dungeons & Dragons 3e – 5e, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying, Warhammer Fantasy 2e, etc.) himself and was Kickstarted just over 3 years ago with great success. Since then, Read more
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Pixels and Polyhedrals – The Meathead
Picking up from where we left off in our last installment of Pixels & Polyhedrals, today we’ve got yet another monster from Hunt: Showdown for you, the meathead! Oh, did you think Shadow of the Demon Lord already had enough undead? Well you’re wrong. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes, Read more