Midnight - Tome Of Sorrows. Vol 1. Under The Shadow.pdf - Midnight - R5700

Credits

Chief Editor and Project Lead: Mike McConnell (Ashrem Bayle)

Shadowkind Publishing

(aka the “LXP”)

This is where the work got done. Nearly everything in this book can be attributed to those on this short, but impressive, list.

Todd Antill

Kane

Dirigible

Shadowfane

Emiricol

SJE

Tailspinner

Mark Howe (Neo)

Mike McConnell (Ashrem Bayle)

Additional Material: Wil Upchurch.

Layout: Mike McConnell (Ashrem Bayle)

Cover Art: Mitch Cotie

With additional help from:

Gormash: Energy Focus feat, Sundragon2012: Health/Battle Point system conversion, Siridar: Soul Blades, Soul Stalker Feat, Soul Hunter

Feat, Ancestral Weapons, Judd Karlman: 1d20 Ways to Start a Midnight Campaign.

The sample Commoner PCs originally written by Mike McConnel (Ashrem Bayle) and ﬂ eshed out by Sir Osis of Liver, Shadowfane,

Swashbuckler, Misha, Emiricol, and Tailspinner.

Whisper Adepts, Smugglers, Aradil’s Eyes, Sarcosan Knights, Agone’s Coil, Erethor Tea, The Roll of Years, and the Adventure Hooks have all

been previously released on the Against the shadow website.

Special Thanks:

T odd Antill for creating our home ( www.againsttheshadow.org) . And his selﬂ ess acts of generosity.

Greg Benage at Fantasy Flight Publishing for working with us to make a good looking product.

and ﬁ nally....

Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc., Christian T. Petersen and especially Wil Upchurch and Jeffrey Barber , for making the best

fantasy setting in print!

Credits

Contents

Introduction 4

Chapter 5:

Midnight Campaigns

Midnight Timeline

Chapter 1:

Heroes of Eredane

New Human Subraces

1d20 Ways to Start A Campaign

DM Advice

Commoners as PCs

Chapter 6:

What Lurks After

Midnight

Monsters of Midnight

Sample Characters

Prestige Classes

New Feats

Organizations

Chapter 2:

Shades of Magic

Colors of Magic

Archons

Demons

Devils

Dragons of Aryth

God Touched Regions

Breaking a Black Mirror

Appendix

Errata

Spells in Midnight

103

New Spells

Weapon Hardness and Hitpoints

104

Astirax Magic Sense

D&D 3.5 Updated Midnight Spell List

106

Magic Items

Chapter 3:

Blood of the Battlefield

Health and Battle Points

Declaration of Open Content

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and the d20 System Trademark license ( http://www.wizards.com/d20 ).

Even though this netbook is free, its content is still governed by these

licenses and reuse of the materials found within must conform to the

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All rules material within this book is Open Content. You can use this

material in your own works, as long as you follow the conditions of the

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put it in a book that you publish and sell.

Not everything in this book is Open Content, however. The names

of creatures and characters are designated as Open Content, as are

any game statistics, mechanics, and rules derived from the d20 SRD.

The descriptions of characters and the characters’ backgrounds, setting

information, story, and other background information are closed content

and cannot be republished, copied, or distributed without the consent of

Mike McConnell and Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc.

The following are designated as Product Identity pursuant to section

1(e) of the Open Game License, included in full at the end of this netbook:

the MIDNIGHT name, logo, and trademark, the graphic design and trade

dress of this book and all other products in the MIDNIGHT line, all

graphics, illustrations, maps, and diagrams in this book, and the following

names and terms: Aradil, Crown of Shadow, Eredane, Izrador, Shadow in

the North, and Night King.

MIDNIGHT, its Product Identity, and all Copyrighted images and

graphics are used with permission by Fantasy Flight Publishing,

Inc.

Defense

Weapon and Armor Degradation

Temporary Constitution Damage

Chapter 4:

Ways of the World

Cold Weather Exposure

Starvation and Thirst

Overland Movement

Hunting

Fishing

Meat Freshness

Disease

Fishing

Food Storage and Freshness

Contents

Introduction

Tome of Sorrows

It has been almost two years since the idea for Midnight

germinated in our brains at the Fantasy Flight ofﬁ ces. When

the idea was ﬁ rst ﬂ oated around, we all knew immediately

that we had something special on our hands. It was hard to

pinpoint exactly what excited us so much, but there was a

deﬁ nite intangible quality that drove us forward to make

the product. In the six months since the book’s release,

we’ve seen the setting embraced by fans the world over

in a way that we could never have predicted. The crowded

d20 market made many fans’ heads reel, and capturing the

imagination of so many people seemed to be nothing more

than a shot in the dark. I think we were wrong, however, and

the fans are still on the lookout for high quality, innovative

products, even as they plunk down their cash on their next

temporary ﬁ x.

What is the Tome of Shadows? What you see before you

is the culmination of months of work. While a true labor of

love, that’s not to say it was easy. Of course, nothing worth

doing ever is.

I discovered Midnight some months ago during a

discussion on www.enworld.org . Wil was answering

questions about the setting, and the answers he gave struck

me as very intriguing. From what I could tell, it was as if

the fellows at Fantasy Flight Games had probed my mind

and extracted the most interesting elements of a campaign I

had been dreaming up for years. They then took that chaotic

mass and gave it purpose and order, grafting new ideas and

concepts I had never even thought of. In short, they gave

me the campaign setting I had always wanted.

Midnight’s fans are not just roleplaying enthusiasts,

though. I’ve found them to be some of the most imaginative,

energetic DMs and players in the hobby. They have

spontaneously created material, asked probing questions,

and put their hearts into the setting since day one. When

I created the Yahoo! Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/

midnight-d20) I never expected the level of feedback and

support that the setting would get, and I still enjoy reading

people’s campaign logs and conversion ideas. Midnight has

been converted to more systems than I’ve ever seen, and I

think that speaks to the fact that it is a setting with mythic

appeal outside the game system for which it was written.

At this point, I was suffering from the ever dreaded “DM

Burnout”. I was getting tired. My well of creativity was

running dry. Maybe this would do the trick? When I ﬁ nally

got my hands on a copy of the Midnight Campaign Setting,

I immediately fell in love. Sparks of creativity erupted like

a ﬁ reball . It had been years since I had such a desire to

game, and I took to it with newfound zeal.

Of course, there is never enough. I saw a few little

things left unchanged in the d20 system that I could tweak

to further bend the rules around the Midnight ﬂ avor. So I

went to work on my house rules. A small change here, a

major overhaul there and it was ﬁ nished. Or so I thought.I

released my house rules to the public over at Against the

Shadow to see what like minded individuals would think. It

turns out many agreed with my changes and my take on the

world. Eventually, what started out as a simple set of house

rules, bloomed into the netbook you see before you.

This netbook represents the culmination of months of

hard work by Midnight fans across the world, brought

together by the excellent fansite, Against the Shadow

( www.againsttheshadow.org) . The great work of that site’s

webmaster and the fans who frequent it can be seen in this

netbook, which is as extraordinary a fan production as I’ve

ever run across. I’m proud to be associated with such a great

community of fans, and I hope that we can keep ﬁ ghting the

Shadow for many years to come.

I gathered to myself many of those fellows, those with

quality ideas and large post counts who weren’t afraid to

let their opinions be known. They had a good grasp on

the world of Midnight, and served to further fuel my own

growing love for the setting. Thus was born the netbook

committee, or as we have come to call ourselves, the

League of Extraordinary Posters.

Wil Upchurch

Co-Designer of Midnight

As it turns out, the guys I picked wasted no time in

throwing themselves into the project. Midnight oil began to

burn, and the Tome of Sorrows emerged from the Shadow.

We hope you enjoy it.

Mike (Ashrem Bayle) McConnell

Editor of the Tome of Sorrow

Introduction

Chapter 1

Heroes of Eredane

This chapter offers a host of new options for Midnight

PCs. Here you will ﬁ nd rules for starting characters off

as commoners, as well as two new human subraces, new

prestige classes, new feats, a variant of the Mystic heroic

Path and four organizations that may help the PCs ﬁ ght the

forces of the Shadow.

great ease. While they have few ﬁ xed settlements, there are

places that have been used as campsites for generations of

the same tribe. Extended family groups called tohmar are

the basis for the culture, centered around a hunter-chieftain,

with rank being based on closeness of relationship to this

leader. Above this are tribes, collections of loosely related

tohmar. Asmadarins dress in functional leather or woolen

breeches, regardless of gender, and tend to go shirtless or

wearing only a breastband for females. Around this garb

goes a very long dyed woolen scarf or sash, with patterns of

colour used to mark social position or prestige.

New Human

Subraces

Asmadarins are ferociously devoted to their horses.

Each individual believes that the spirit-riders of the Sorshef

send a soul-sibling to each person, and that this soul is

reincarnated into every horse that person ever rides. For this

reason, Asmadarins always call their horses by the same

name. Although gemstones are almost without value in the

rest of Eredane, in Asmadar they have always been used as

love-tokens and marks of bravery, as going into the Desert

of Tears is a risky proposition at the best of times.

Asmadarin

In the early years of the second age, the Sarcosans

came from over the seas to Eredane. Although the majority

of them settled in fortresses along the Kasmael coast, a

number also brought their herds and crops to Asmadar,

the large island off the south-eastern shores of Eredane. In

the intervening millennia, the mainland Sarcosans and the

colonists of Asmadar have diverged in culture and blood,

the latter becoming accustomed to a nomadic, non-sessile

life. They raise the Sarcosan adoration of horses to a higher

form, and can live off the land in a way that would put the

city-dwellers to shame. On the other hand, they have lost

many of the Sarcosan social skills from their long period of

independence and wandering lifestyle.

Prefering to ﬁ ght from the saddle in all circumstances,

Asmadarins are undoubtedly the ﬁ nest light cavalry this

side of Pelluria. Like the Sarcosans, they wield the ceduku

for preference.

* +2 Dex, -2 Int : Asmadarins are lithe and agile, but their

culture lacks a sophisticated level of science.

* +1 to all Reﬂ ex saves : Asmadarins are a naturally quick

and wily folk.

* Bonus skill points : Like all humans, Asmadarins push

themselves to learn and adapt. They gain 4 bonus skill

points at character creation and an additional +1 every time

they gain a level.

* Bonus general feat : Asmadarins have the human knack

for picking up specialised talents.

Asmadar is a warm, rich land, it’s soil suited to the light,

sporadic agriculture of the Asmadarins, and it has suffered

less of the shadowblight than anywhere else on Eredane, save

the Miraleen forests. A nomadic folk, they dwell is conical

tents called tipi , which can be put up or packed away with

Chapter 1: Heroes of Eredane

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