Shadowdark Adventures: Dark Redwood Distillery

A Level 1 Dungeon Crawl for Shadowdark RPG

Trouble Brewing in the Boughs

In one of the most explosive Shadowdark adventures yet, a cursed root threatens to ruin a treetop distillery just as an inspector arrives…

Mayor Igor Leonid’s distillery sits high in the boughs of the forest, where he’s been brewing var’vodakin—a warming spirit infused with forbidden varoot, dredged from the depths of Hel. Now the operation’s gone haywire, and Master Inspector Kostareva is en route to shut it down.

Can Your Crawlers Clean It Up in Time?

The party must ascend to the treehouse, clean up the evidence, survive the mutated var’vodakin helspawn, and outwit a would-be saboteur before the inspector shows up. Time is short. The stakes are high. The barrels are highly flammable.

What’s Inside

• 8-room treehouse crawl with exploration, puzzles, and combat

• Wilderness travel, snow hazards, and random encounters

• A cleanup mini-game where players must erase magical evidence before time runs out

• A sabotage subplot involving Ughuku, a druid guide with a grudge

• A climactic inspection that determines the distillery’s fate

• A giant rat named Vincent

Built for Shadowdark

Dark Redwood Distillery is designed for 4–5 Level 1 characters using Shadowdark RPG. It includes a player-safe VTT map and a full appendix of monsters, treasure, clues, and effects, formatted to match official Shadowdark adventures.

Light Your Torch. Scrub the Lab.

If you’re looking for fast-paced, time-sensitive Shadowdark adventures with hazards, sabotage, and gallows humor, this one’s brewed to explode.

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