Weekly Drop 030 - Darkness & Night (Patreon)

Every light casts a shadow, but what happens when the darkness starts fighting back? This week, we're exploring the stranger side of the night, where echoes and emotions best forgotten in the darkness resurface. And as our Darkness & Night theme draws to a close, don't forget to look up at the stars. Not everything in the dark is out to get you. ✨

With this content, the Darkness & Night theme concludes! You decide the next theme, join Discord, and vote now in the exclusive patron polls. It was definitely a blast to do, so I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

• Monsters (with variants): Whispering Echo (CR 1), Weeping Echo (CR 7), Howling Echo (CR 13)

• Item: Slumberweave - a dream catcher to improve your long rests (common to rare)

• Spell: Traumatize - a powerful illusion spell that turns a creature life into a series of traumatic memories (level 8 illusion)

• NPC: Maela Starrest - A relaxed goliath stargazer who maps constellations and spends her nights studying the mysteries of the sky.

• Encounter: Dying Light (APL 7) - A solitary lantern stands between the party and an encroaching darkness that hungers for its light.

This week's highlight goes to the three echoes! I created these monsters ages ago, and I've loved them ever since. That is why I gave them a complete overhaul (a bit embarrassing how badly I designed monsters back in the day, but the concept was good!). I've kept the things that made them special in the first place: their unique mechanics, their wonderfully unpredictable nature, and, yes, how swingy they can be. But what I love most is the implied lore behind them. These creatures are fragments of an ascended mortal, each embodying the traumatic emotions that shaped their mortal life and were shed during their ascension: betrayal to fear into hopelessness that ended in utter rage.

(And if you missed it. The fourth echo, the crying echo, is featured in my latest quip here on Patreon.)

As promised, additional content for the players at your table: 100% exclusive to Patreon.

• Item: Black Candle - a magical candle that sheds darkness instead of light (common)

• Spell: Eventide - a spell of massive scale able to turn a whole region into darkness (level 7 evocation)

• Feat: Eclipse Born - become able to switch between the power of light and darkness at a whim

More content is added every week - and past drops continue to expand with VTT support.

🧟 Monsters

• Whispering Echo

• Weeping Echo

• Howling Echo

🗡️ Item

• Slumberweave

• Black Candle

⚡ Spell

• Traumatize

• Eventide

⭐ Feat

• Eclipse Born

🧝 NPC

• Maela Starrest

⚔️ Encounter

• Dying Light