Demidirge SC

Fanged Funnel is a 32 page level 0 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.

The Adventure 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 monsters and ideas for their evolution over time
• Hand-drawn dark fantasy ink art
• Character creation tables & NPC generators
• NPC relation web template