Darkest Delves

Torchlight for Ironsworn: Delve

Darkest Delves presents elegant and evocative rules for torchlight and darkness for your Ironsworn: Delve adventures.

Inspired by Darkest Dungeon and Torchbearer, these rules are designed to make darkness feel dreadful and dangerous, as well as add an additional layer of pressure and meaningful choice to your delves. 

As you delve ancient and haunted places, darkness looms with ill intent, and mounting dread presses in from all sides. Silent and unseen, evil creatures stalk the shadows, eagerly waiting for your flickering torchlight to fail.

Holding the shadows at bay, light promises safety, warmth, and respite from the horrors and madness lurking beyond its reach. Be it a blazing torch or glowing ember, you desperately cling to light as to hope itself.

Contents

• 🔥 Rules supplement (6 pages)
  • Torchlight rules, including 2 new moves: Light a Torch and Shed More Light
  • Advice for handling light and darkness in the fiction, incidental light sources, and magical light (including example luminary artifacts)
  • Advice for incorporating the Lightbearer and Shadow-walk assets
  • Two enlightened oracle tables which generate dynamic Opportunities and Dangers depending on your light level
  • Four new Dark Truths to customize darkness in your version of the Ironlands
• 📋 Quick reference (1 page)
• 📜 Ironsworn character sheets (portrait and landscape) with added torchlight tracks
• 🆕 Classic Dice Hack - variant torchlight rules for those who prefer to only use classic Ironsworn dice (d6 and d10), variant character sheets included

As seen on Awesome Ironsworn.

This work is based on Ironsworn, created by Shawn Tomkin, and licensed for our use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

🧑‍🚀 If you like Darkest Delves, check out Darkest Derelicts: EVA for Starforged!