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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!

Updated 23 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryGame mod
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorJadeRavens
Tagsdarkest-dungeon, Dark Fantasy, delve, expansion, grimdark, ironsworn, Supplement, torchbearer, torchlight, Tabletop role-playing game

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In order to download this supplement you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Darkest Delves v1.2 - Torchlight for Ironsworn Delve.pdf 2 MB
Darkest Delves v1.1 - Quick Reference.pdf 1 MB
Darkest Delves character sheet (portrait).pdf 3 MB
Darkest Delves character sheet (landscape).pdf 3 MB
Darkest Delves - Classic Dice Hack.zip 5 MB

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Hey, just a heads up unrelated to this supplement but I see you rating projects and due to itch’s crappy system anything other than 5-star reviews equals 1 star. If you don’t mean to 1-star a project, then 5-star it.

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Thanks for letting me know! I didn't realize this, and I'll definitely correct it. I was curious so I did a bit of research, and sure enough there are some strange quirks to how Itch.io handles ratings nad reviews. Apparently "reviews" aren't public and ratings are only there to drive algorithm traffic. Not how I'd do things (and contrary to how we're accustomed to things working on online marketplaces) but oh well. Now I know! Cheers 

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Very cool concept. I've play Ironsworn for awhile now and I love making it just a little more detailed. Adding this lighting concept just makes delves and dark journeys that much more...creepy. I love it. Great idea, and very well implemented.

Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying it! 😎🔥

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The prompts are so evocative and the mechanics so exciting I cannot wait to use them in my homebrew setting. Good job!

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Thanks, so glad to hear you're enjoying it!

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This is awesome stuff. Mechanically, it is solid and adds just a little extra challenge, along with some potential opportunities. Narratively, it has some great ideas for a (literally and figuratively) darker Ironlands.

Thanks so much for your kind words! You Shed More Light and rolled a strong hit, so the community takes +1 freebie.