Sunday, November 8, 2026

[Now Available] Expanded Goblinoids -- A Shadowdark RPG Supplement

Designed for use with the Shadowdark RPG
By James Mishler and Jodi Moran-Mishler

Expanded Goblinoids for Shadowdark RPG
Expanded Goblinoids for Shadowdark RPG

Expanded Goblinoids includes an entire new milieu for goblinoids for the Shadowdark RPG.

Expanded Goblinoids provides the Game Master with a unified origins and milieu for goblinoids such that they are available as unrepentant and irredeemable enemies and yet, allows for the existence of goblin-blooded player characters. It also provides a range of goblinoid types, from small and cunning to large and blundering, and everything in-between.

Designed for use with Shadowdark, easily adaptable to any other classic style OSR Role-Playing Game.

Expanded Goblinoids includes the following materials:
Conjure Goblinoids Spell
Conjure Panoply Spell
Goblinoid Basics
Goblin-Pits
Goblinoid Mutations
Goblin-Bloods
Goblin-Blood Ancestries
Goblinoid Backgrounds
Goblinoid Weapons
Clan, Tribe, Horde
Non-Goblinoid Leader Table
Goblinoid Lairs
Goblinoid Treasure

Details on all six goblinoid sub-types, including Description, Society, and sub-type Mutations, plus stats for Whelps, Common Goblinoids, Bullies, Bosses, Clan Chiefs, Tribal Kings, three distinct Mutants, and Fiend-Speakers for each sub-type:
Kobolds
Goblins
Orcs
Hobgoblins
Gnolls
Bugbears
Worgs

Plus:
Names, Epithets, Quirks, and Clan Names
Fiend-Speaker Class
New Monsters – Gloops, Green Slime, and Sanguine Slime
New Treasures
Wilderness Encounter Table
Dungeon Encounter Table

60 pages (57 pages of content)

AND NOW, A WARNING: My Shadowdark products add further level of complexity to the rules and to play than a typical Shadowdark player might desire. The difference in complexity is about that between the Basic rules of a game and the Advanced rules. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN FURTHER COMPLEXITY IN YOUR GAME. YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED!

$6.00


Sunday, September 17, 2023

[Now Available] Hawkmoor Geographica -- A Shadowdark Campaign Setting

Designed for use with the Shadowdark RPG
By James Mishler and Jodi Moran-Mishler

Hawkmoor Geographica describes the geography of the Great Enchanted Vale, a campaign setting designed for use with the Shadowdark RPG.


It is the second installment in the Hawkmoor Campaign Setting and includes:
  • Descriptions and encounter tables for 70 geographical regions of the Great Enchanted Vale, including Accursed River, Aerie Stream, Alicorn River, Alicorn Vale, Black River, Boneholt, Cliffs of Insanity, Doomfells, Dreadwood, Druasweald, Druidholt, Dwarrowbergen, Edhelwen, Enchanted River, Fireswamp, Frogmarsh, Frostfields, Gigabolt Stream, Giggleflow, Glitterstream, Goblinskull Meadow, Goblintops, Goldflow, Grayflow, Great Alfweald, Green Vales, Hawkmoor, Hellflow, Horrible Highlands, Howlingwood, Mt. Icingdoom, Indigo Plain, Ironflow River, Jundian Meadows, Madmarsh, Obsidian Peaks, Ogrish Uplands, Old Dwarf Road, Orcian Wastes, Orcrise, Pagena Plains, Plateau of Pagena, River Icingdeath, River Jorn, River Jund, River Kelume, River of Doom, River of Flowers, River of Lost Souls, River of Shadows, Scarlet Stream, Screaming Stream, Silverstream, The Sink, Skullmire, Star Ruby River, Stardust Ridge, Stonethorn Plain, Sweetwater, Talath Meril, Thunder Peaks, Toadsquat Fields, Vile Stream, Violet River, Viridian Doom, Weeping River, Windrush, Witchyflow, Wizard Vale, and Woodflow.
  • D100 Random Encounter Tables, each including 100 lines of encounters with guidance, for: Farmland Encounters, Fey & Sylvan Encounters, and Highway Encounters.

This booklet provides you with everything you need to get started adventuring in the Great Enchanted Vale. Of course, at this broad and shallow level of detail, the Game Master still needs to do some work to make the setting their own. More details on the City and realm of Hawkmoor will be made available as they are revealed.

Note: The Map of the Great Enchanted Vale is available separately, at the Pay What You Want rate.

48 pages (45 pages of content), $6.00


Wednesday, August 2, 2023

OK, so maybe I spoke too soon...

 ... at least, as far as the James Mishler Games company blog goes.

Because I've got news...

I've got a booth at Gary Con XVI next year!

Didn't think it was going to happen, but I was able to squeak in. Thank Gary!

By then I'll have some special print products for Shadowdark, Hawkmoor, and Labyrinth Lord 2.

More news as events develop...



Thursday, May 4, 2023

Intermittent Activity Warning

Well, the Shadowdark Kickstarter was an amazing success, and I am eager to get my books – I went all in with the Crawling Group level, so that the players in any group I run will have everything at their fingertips. The PDFs are all amazing, but I’m still old school when it comes to having the real deal and can’t wait to get my hands on that premium basilisk-skin tome!

One thing the success of the Kickstarter has created is an amazing mass of new Shadowdark players and hopeful publishers. It seems something new is coming out every day now. Lots of new designers who are eager to show the world what they have to offer.

I think for now I’m going to sit back and enjoy reading the works of others, rather than diving right in and adding more to the corpus of Shadowdark third-party works. I want to see what others have to offer, before dive back in. Dan Proctor continues to work on Second Edition Labyrinth Lord, so it is also a wait and see on that still, as well.

A few stupid hiccups aside, Hasbro remains quiescent on the OGL front. So, I’m leaving the existing OGL products up for now. Hasbro can change its mind on that as quickly as a Pinkerton can kick in a door, so make sure you’ve downloaded all my products you have purchased and saved them on backups.

It is back onto hiatus I go. I’ve been reading some books and comic books and watching a bunch of movies. Just enjoying leisure again, rather than pounding madly at a keyboard like a man possessed. I suppose it is because right now gaming sessions have been few and far between. Maybe once I get back to gaming more regularly, I will again feel the need to pour words into a computer and share them.

We shall see. Until then good gaming!