Savage Age of Shadow

The Savage Age of Shadow is a pet project to bring the world of Aryth and the Midnight campaign setting created by Fantasy Flight Games to the Savage Worlds games. The lands of Eredane have fallen to the orc hordes, minions of the Shadow in the North. The banished god, Izrador, having corrupted the very magic meant to imprison him has cut the world off from the other planes. Having failed in his first two attempts to take the world by force, he conquered it by corrupting men and sowing seeds of suspicion and mistrust. Now, his word is absolute and the orc warlords he commands brutally enforce his will. Magic and literacy is outlawed. Worship of other gods is punishable by death. The human lands of Eredane are conquered, dividing the dwarf clans in the east and the elven forest strongholds in the west. But men are resilient and a resistance is growing.

What follows is a (very) brief introduction to the setting and the basics of what players need in order to create characters in Midnight. For complete information on Aryth, the world of Midnight, you should pick up the Midnight 2nd Edition from DrivethruRPG.

Savage Age of Shadow

Introduction

One of my favorite OGL settings was a dark fantasy world created by Fantasy Flight Games (in the heyday of d20, they were cranking out quality products left and right). The best way to describe it would be Middle Earth, but Sauron won the war. There's a lot of very Tolkien-esque concepts in the…
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Races of Eredane: Humans

Note: These translations are based on Midnight, 2nd Edition and are compatible with Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition (and not the current Adventure Edition). Updated translations for these ancestries are forthcoming. In this post, I bring you the human races inhabiting Eredane. The ancestral lords of…

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Races of Eredane: Elves

Note: These translations are based on Midnight, 2nd Edition and are compatible with Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition (and not the current Adventure Edition). Updated translations for these ancestries are forthcoming. The elves of Eredane are children of nature, inhabiting the Great Forest of Erethor.…

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Races of Eredane: Dwarves

Note: These translations are based on Midnight, 2nd Edition and are compatible with Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition (and not the current Adventure Edition). Updated translations for these ancestries are forthcoming. The dwarves are an ancient people, their society structured along family lines. Like…

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Races of Eredane: Descendants

Note: These translations are based on Midnight, 2nd Edition and are compatible with Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition (and not the current Adventure Edition). Updated translations for these ancestries are forthcoming. The elves are considered to be elthedar or the elder fey and they did not always…

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Races of Eredane: Servants of Shadow

When Izrador sealed the world’s planar connections, many fiendish creatures were trapped on Aryth and became infernal servants to the Shadow in the North. While many serve the dark god Izrador, it is the orcs and goblin-kin that act as his shock troops and warlords. Humans, dwarves, elves,…

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The Resistance

I started putting together a one-shot adventure to run at RinCon 2017. I've been focused mostly on the adventure, so much so that I almost forgot I needed to create the pre-generated characters. These are a bit rough and will be fluid as I continue working on the adventure (and hopefully after the…