Welcome to Shadowforge.games, home of Shadowforge Studios — a very pretentious way of saying “my game design studio.”

I am currently developing the ShadowRealms Fantasy Role-Playing Game. ShadowRealms is a classless, levelless fantasy RPG built around a d20 die pool system. It features deep tactical combat, detailed critical damage mechanics, and an expansive magic system spanning Arcane, Occult, Primal, Divine, Psychic, Alchemic, and Artifice traditions.

ShadowRealms draws inspiration and mechanics from a wide range of tabletop role-playing games, most notably Shadowrun, Rolemaster, and Dungeons & Dragons.

I’m releasing ShadowRealms as an open-source SRD, so anyone can take it and build with it however they like. My only metric for success is seeing it make its way to as many of your tabletops as possible.

The full rules will eventually be available here in both PDF format and a fully hyperlinked web version for easy reference. For now, I’ll be posting portions of the alpha builds if you’re interested in following along, with a complete, playtestable ruleset planned for release no later than the end of summer.