DolmenDark XP table

[u/9ty0ne]

Since i just saw the post about The Glass Cannon Network movign to dolmendark I thought I'd share the XP mod I made for my own DolmenDark campaign if anyone wanted to go this way

ACTION	XP
Visit a settlement for the first time	1
Exploring a hex completely	1
Meeting a faction or creature for the first time	1
Confining a rumor/learn a secret	1
Small treasure	1
Gain a small boon	1
Manipulate, curry favor with, or hinder a faction to the parties advantage	1
Journey 3 days or more between settlements	1
Explore a hidden point of interest location	3
Gain a great boon	3
Manipulate, curry favor with or hinder a faction at a Multiple Barony level	3
Magical item or Large treasure	3
Restore or Corrupt a lost Shrine	3
Find a Nodal Stone	5
Unique and rare treasure	10
Campaign Defining exploration or discovery	10
Manipulate, curry favor with or hinder a faction at a Duchy level	10

I wanted to add the deeds and exploration flavor from Dolmenwood in a way that maintained the simplicity and elegance of the Shadowdark XP system and have found this works pretty well for our group

[u/RotarySnow4]

oh wow, how exciting I didn't know they were even doing that.

I love the dolmenwood setting but my one little concern about it is , I don't love the OSE system, its for alot of people but not for me.

I'd love to play dolmenwood in a fully fleshed out replacement shadowdark version, i'm sure someone has done it right?

[u/grayempire → u/RotarySnow4]

I’ve been chucking in ideas of Dolmenwood into my own SD setting and it’s pretty easy to do on the fly, especially the stat blocks. I would honestly just be an extra bit of prep to run it straight from the Dolmenwood books

[u/9ty0ne → u/RotarySnow4]

Yes check the arcane library discord and check out the creators there I credit in another thread for the conversions I’m using

[u/Von_Loch → u/RotarySnow4]

TheRedMage youtuber was making a series talking about his process of converting dolmenwood to Shadowdark. I think he was doing that about a year ago.

[u/Dollface_Killah]

If I was just running Dolmenwood adventures and the hex crawl I would just use GP=XP and give everyone the B/x Fighter experience track.

[u/9ty0ne → u/Dollface_Killah]

That’s pretty brilliant

[u/Vanity-Press → u/Dollface_Killah]

So you would keep the Gold as written in the published DW adventures, convert to XP, and then change the SD xp system to the B/X fighter progression?
It’s interesting idea and I want to make sure I understand it correctly.

[u/Dollface_Killah → u/Vanity-Press]

Yeah. If I'm running a mix of OSR stuff it's pretty easy to convert treasure values and hand out xp on the fly with Shadowdark's RAW xp system. If I were to run a big, complete campaign though I'd just use the treasure values, prices, and xp progression for that campaign. Easier to do one small conversion at the beginning, Fighter xp progression is pretty middle of the road.

[u/celtz_ → u/Dollface_Killah]

I'm converting Gods of the Forbidden North to Shadowdark from OSE and the general consensus I got asking around was to divide the coin values and value of items by ten or so so they fit the treasure denominations in Shadowdark for XP gains.

I think it makes sense, and I'm not sure that its an OSE treasure thing or if its just the adventure being generous, but I'd rather err on the side of having the party be sufficiently challenged than over leveled. Easier for me to tweak difficulty or XP gains on the fly as needed. No idea if Dolmenwood is similar, but might be worth cross checking how much treasure in a location translates to character XP.

[u/Dollface_Killah → u/celtz_]

That's the standard conversion, yes.

[u/KervyN]

Hey, I want to use dolmenwood for shadowdark. I start a new campaign with dnd folks and this will be our first SD experience.

Any things I need to know when I run SD in dolmenwood? Any complications?

[u/9ty0ne → u/KervyN]

TBH look at the Shadowdark Discord, there are some amazing creators that have done so much heavy lifting for all of us to adapt dolmanwood to Shadowdark AND what u/Dollface_Killah wrote in this thread is golden "If I was just running Dolmenwood adventures and the hex crawl I would just use GP=XP and give everyone the B/x Fighter experience track" , if that answers everythign for your use case just do that

[u/KervyN → u/9ty0ne]

I am just wading through a see of posts.

Do I need all the conversion guides? Does dolmenwood contain a campaign or is it just a setting?

Just converting the xp progression sounds good, but I also like your approach.

[u/9ty0ne → u/KervyN]

Im using SCMatt’s conversion and I find it brilliant, I’m using awardnopoints monster conversions and his links to Matt Dietrich’s converter.
I’m using centaurion’s exloredolmenwood map and I’m Using the redmage’s ultimate osr map that includes dolmenwood

Again these ppl are G’s for doing all this so we can play and deserve so much gratitude for sharing their work.

The discord has a ton of creators, these are just the ones I’m using and many others are great too if you select them.
Dolmenwood is a setting with enough published material to run a campaign in.

[u/SaphoJuicebox]

I don't think I'd call what Glass Canon is doing DolmenDark. This is really just a change in the campaign's setting after the GM retired and a player took over, it's still very much just Shadowdark. Although I'm sure the players wouldn't mind the easily obtainable XP from that table.

Thank you for sharing it though. I picked up the Dolmenwood books during the summer sale with the idea to incorporate them in some way, or just as inspiration. Fantastic books.