The “offices” of Schwalb Entertainment will be closed from January 9th until January 18th for a convention. Please note any orders that require shipping placed during this time will not ship until the 19th. You can still order digital downloads from the shop and product through DriveThruRPG and physical books from Studio 2 Publishing. The Demon Lord makes no apology for any inconvenience this might pose, though Rob does. Thanks and keep fighting the Void!
Find out the latest news and releases for Shadow of the Demon Lord and Godless from Schwalb Entertainment.
We’re delighted to announce that in addition to the Portuguese edition of Shadow of the Demon Lord being in the works, our friends at Black Book Editions is launching a French translation of the game. You can find the details in French here, but here’s what they have to say in English:
As many might already now, here at Black Book Editions we love fantasy settings. So when D&D, Numenera and Warhammer veteran Robert Schwalb announced that he was developing his own game, we were certainly intrigued! After a very successful Kickstarter campaign, we all got to discover Shadow of the Demon Lord – and we weren’t deceived! A simple to grasp system that offers lots of possibilities and a dark setting that will highlight those heroic moments of your characters (as long as they can resist the corruption of course…), the ones who have the force and will to oppose the Demon Lord! We were hooked and we are now proud to announce our partnership with Schwalb Entertainment to bring this game to France in 2017, starting off with a selection of its best adventures and rules supplements available so far! We will soon be walking in the shadows together!
I’m super excited to be teamed up with these guys and I know they will do an excellent job spreading the shadow across the world!
Schwalb Entertainment will be attending Winter Fantasy from 2/3 to 2/6 and the offices (heh, there’s really just a basement and a crowded room) will be closed until 2/8. Thanks and we hope to see some of you at the show!
It is with great regret that I have to announce I will not be attending Gamehole Con this upcoming weekend. Over the last month, a family member has been struggling with complications and after a surgery and attempts at rehab, and her situation appears to have take a turn for the worse. I was thrilled to have been invited to attend the show and had every intention of blowing minds with Shadow of the Demon Lord, but with the complications we’re facing, I have decided to stay home this weekend and support my family. I apologize for the abrupt cancellation, but life rarely cooperates. I do hope to catch you at a show sometime in the near future and hope you have a blast at Gamehole Con without me.
I’m reluctant to say “never,” but it’s safe to say you’re not going to see a gigantic setting book for Shadow of the Demon Lord any time soon. Why? Well, it’s Steve Kenson’s fault. Many years ago, at one of the Green Ronin summits, Steve and I were discussing settings and adventures and he planted the seed in my brain that settings were best revealed through adventures rather than through giant gazetteers that must be read, digested, and, effectively, mastered to use properly. He pointed to Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, Temple of Elemental Evil, the Dragonlance adventures and other classic scenarios that zoomed in on an area and brought it to life. Sure, we had the Greyhawk box, but it was all presented in broad strokes (and with curious attention on trees). If we wanted more information about the world, the adventures provided the stuff we needed to understand the plot, environment, and characters. And that was enough.