Hiya all! Interested to hear what some more experienced players think about some homebrew rules I've compiled here. I plan on running a Western Reaches campaign once that drops, and have a few rule changes I'm considering including.

**Dungeon Delving**

The *Weapons & Combat* rules mostly came from Sly Flourish and my brain. The *Miscellaneous* ones are from a few sources, most notably Lockpickery being basically Bob World Builder's system for lockpickery in DnD. Pulpy Luck is a modified version of *Pulp Mode* informed by an Inspiration variation found in Valda's Spire of Secrets that I thought was neat.

**Resting**

This idea is straight from Nimble Co., I really liked the concept so I wanted to include it here! I can't recall exactly where the Fasting rule came from though, I probably stumbled upon it on reddit somewhere.

**Random Encounters**

I really, really like Goblin Punch's [Underclock](https://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-underclock-fixing-random-encounter.html) system for random encounters, and I saw some variations by [Busy Wyvern](https://busywyvern.com/2025/01/31/exploring-new-mechanics-for-shadowdark-campaign-check-in/) for Shadowdark (including the rename) that I wanted to include. I tried to trim it down as best as I felt was fair, and included a table of events that happen on specific Crawl Clock values inspired by u/ExchangeWide.

**Class Options**

This is meant to be a handout to players, so I thought it'd be nice to include just a brief list of the official Shadowdark class options. Deffo gonna have to modify once the Player's Guide drops, though!

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Anyway, that's what I've been cooking up. All of the art within is public domain, and the PDF was compiled using u/sibling_dex's Homebrewery template (found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowdark/comments/1hyuv4o/shadowbrew_a_homebrewery_template_for_shadowdark/)) that I lightly modified to make the page title fonts the right font and include the proper horizontal line graphic under the title on the first page. Enjoy!

A few homebrew rules I've cobbled together for my upcoming westmarch campaign