A Shadow Over Traldaxia

02/10/2024

Just wanted to say thanks! We just hit a hundred followers! Will do a few updates tomorrow.

Thanks again from the whole team!

24/09/2024

More new art. If you are not aware, we have signed a deal with Fat Goblin Games to bring Traldaxia to Kickstarter in February! Trying to get our Discord community to grow as well, if anyone could follow that would be great!

Artist: Alice-Helen Zigman

https://discord.gg/sT5efCMN

31/08/2024

Deep in The Forest of the Long Night, Muma Padurii lurks and plots. Is she the future of Traldaxia!

https://discord.gg/W2zEq36c6Q

Map Art by Blazing Scales (http://instagram.com/blazingscales)

17/08/2024

Got art in for our cover! First pass at layout. Just a screenshot so forgive the quality!

https://discord.gg/ASQjYsqDGB

Thanks, https://www.facebook.com/AliceHelenZigman

12/08/2024

Hwy everyone,

Here is a new project I just signed on to consult. More info as we continue down the creative path.

Serenissima Obscura Coming in 2025! Serenissima Obscura is an extensive setting guide and horror scenario for Venice in 1507. Below the surface of this most serene of all cities, an old evil has dreamed up a nightmare that seeps into the mundane. The adventurers will face conspiracies, mystical conv...

10/08/2024

A Shadow Over Traldaxia

In Romanian Tradition, music and dancing are very important. To bring this to our game we decided to included dances as Talents that may be learned on a roll of 12 or 2 (and using Choose A Talent). We have three types oof dances: Utility, Offensive and defensive. When you learn a dance you roll on a chart and the result determines how skilled you are. You can use downtime activity to improve your skill level if you roll badly.

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26/07/2024

Hello there!

We’ve just made our Discord server a reality. As it’s new and we’ve just created it, it doesn’t have much in it currently, but we’re planning on adding things as we move forward.

We excitedly await for you to join and engage with us. If you have any questions, suggestions, or ideas to discuss, feel free to ask them on the server.

https://discord.gg/ASQjYsqDGB

Thank you and have a good one.

Join or the crâsnic will come for you!

21/07/2024

So, who do our Traldaxian's worship? Although other gods exist, the most revered is Zalmoxis. The problem, he is missing

11/07/2024

Paul is hard at work designing printable paper minis! Just one more option we are exploring.

07/07/2024

Back cover art by Maciej Syncerek

06/07/2024

So, we are playing around with printable paper minis as an option. I really got the scale wrong on the first try! Project has been taken over by Paul, our resident expert on these things.

We also took the game to a local game night to play with some people. Printed it out for the first time! Here are some shots of pre-gen characters and the book.

Sorry I have no idea why pictures are upside down!

01/07/2024

A Shadow Over Traldaxia:
Well, we had planned a different post to start the week off , but since Greg Christopher announced his new project, this seems more appropriate:
Greg has graciously signed on to be our first guest writer for our upcoming Kickstarter! We are super excited to see what he will add to the setting!
Please check out his great work here:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/486419/ShadowRim
And please follow us here:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61561632959309
Thanks everyone!

We are team of TTRPG creators based mainly in Brasov, Romania. We are excited to bring the culture and history of ancient Transylvania to your table.

28/06/2024

A Shadow Over Traldaxia Development Post #1:

When we started this project we a had to make some decisions. First, how much of the real world we would use in our fictional version. Second, what history/stories did we want to pull from.

For the first one, we settled on the fact that fantastical creatures and other species do exist, the game is inspired by fairy tales and folklore, but they are not just walking around in the cities. It is a human centric world, and these mostly reside in our Magical Locations, are hidden away from the common people or are true terrors come to life. Next the world outside of Traldaxia is alluded to, but mostly in vague terms (the lands near the southern seas, the western lands, etc.). Readers should get the references to Romans, Turks and Vikings, but we dont spend time detailing the outer world.

Second, we decided on pulling from stories and tales that are primarily Dacian in nature. If too much Thracian/Greek/Roman influence mixed, we tried to separate it out. So some historians may see some things missing (certain deities for example), but we wanted to hone in on this particular area. We also opted for mostly pre-Christian influence as far as the stories we pulled from, so some things you might expect may not be there (sorry no Dracula, although to make up for it we have three types of vampires).

We also left the world at a point where it needs heroes, and is a young kingdom where they can grow in influence.

Zalmoxis has disappeared and the Zmeu is rising! Will you rise to the occasion?

NOTE: The following has not gone to the editors yet! So please excuse any small errors, if their are any!

Alex and Marc

28/06/2024

So what to talk about first? Well, leading up to this point I have spoke with many other creators in the Shadowdark community and they all asked how we go to this point. So how about a little story time so you know something about us.

I, Marc, moved to Eastern Europe around 5 years ago. Initially I lived in Ukraine, my wife's home country. I intended on taking the time to finally write full time and relax after 25 years of being a chef. That went well as i was able to write for several small TTRPG companies and I researched and released a series of books based on Ukrainian folklore for Old School Essentials. Then the war started and we ended up in Romania. Brasov to be precise, where I was able to start a weekly D&D campaign.

I had just finished my second Kickstarter for my MisAdventures original game system and was looking for a new project. Shadowdark had just come out and Alex, one of the players is an aspiring writer and suggested we work on something together. And thus, Traldaxia was born. A fictional Transylvania roughly set in the Dacian time period with elements of the rich folklore and fairy tales of these beautiful lands.

We recruited another of our players, Paul and off we went. Creating and playing games in the world. Once we saw we had something pretty great, we recruited artists. Maciej joined us from Poland, William (a long time collaborator) joined us from the US and then Blazing Scales from Ireland.

Then my friend Mihai (a local Brasov musician, and the creator of the Traldaxia soundtrack, more on that later) introduced me to Alice, another local. She will be doing all of the full page illustrations for the book and the cover.

Now we have a 200 page plus book, ready to go except for a few pieces of art!

So whats are symbol! The traditional weapon of the Dacians, the deadly Falx. Under and beside are the sun and moon.

Designed by Paul, somehow he understood my babbling!

Next up- A brief history of Traldaxia!

27/06/2024

Welcome everyone, thank you for taking the time to check out our new project!

Bun venit tuturor, vă mulțumim că v-ați făcut timp să verificați noul nostru proiect!

27/06/2024

Welcome all to Traldaxia, a revisioning of ancient Dacian history, Romanian folklore and mythology for the Shadowdark TTRPG Game System.

We hope many of you will join us on this new venture. First post, so I would like to introduce some of the team!

Alexandru Ion Coca: Words, dreamer, friend

Marc Braden: Words, bad Romanian pronunciation, lay-out

Paul Martisca: Words/Ideas. spot art, fixes our mistakes

Shirley Dearen: Another fixer of mistakes

Alice Helen-Ziegman: Art, great to have a glass of wine with

Blazing Scales (http://instagram.com/blazingscales): Map, Art

Kaua Da Silva: Art

Maciej Syncerek: Art, patient

William Henry Caddell: Art, amazing eye

We will be uploading quite a few posts here in the first week to get this going, so hope you like it all.

KICKSTARTER in September or October 2024!

Picture : William Henry Caddell, Solomon Rocks near real world Brasov