Scale & Shadow: Part 1, The Woodland Pyre

The golden age is long over. 

Whether by cruel kings, savage beasts, or unwise wizards wielding forgotten magics too great to be contained–dark times are upon us. The only hope for a comfortable life is to delve into what ruins remain to plunder the treasures of your ancestors to sell to the greedy and the foolish. 

Be warned, as if flies to a candle, the worst monsters are drawn to the brightest lights and no one is left to save you in the darkness. 

The heroes of legend have died long ago. All that remains is:

Scale & Shadow

In this episode:

The Village of Hommlet has grown up around a crossroads in a once unremarkable woodland.. Once far from any important activity, it became embroiled in the struggle between gods and demons when the Temple of Elemental Evil arose but a few leagues away. 

Luckily for its inhabitants, the Temple and its evil hordes were destroyed years ago, but Hommlet still suffers from incursions of bandits and strange monsters. 

But how long can they hope the dark entities will remain chained away in the depths of the Temple’s dungeons?

Art by Dave Trampier and Dave Sutherland
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The cast of Scale & Shadow is:

Austin as Kastr the fighter

Brandon as Lohan the thief

Jacob as Rokai the wizard

David as the Game Master

The music you heard was:

H. Werewolf and Eleven by Kaupe

and Mass Extinction, Nightmare City, and Unholy Spirit by Karl Casey at White Bat Audio

Additional voices for the show include:

Scott as the narrator

Our cover art was created with MidJourney

Scale & Shadow is an actual play of Dungeon World, a game by Sage LaTorra and Adam Koebel
We drew inspiration from The Village of Hommlet (1979) by Gary Gygax and Against the Cult of the Reptile God (1982) by Douglas Niles.