Hot Springs Island (Shadowdark/OSE)

Hot Springs Island is a system neutral fantasy setting with amazing art, back story, and faction play … but it is also ridiculously high prep. I created this guide to prep the island for my own Shadowdark campaign and while I did so, I also provided a lot of notes on Old School Essentials.

To use this guide you will need Dark of Hot Springs Island and A Field Guide to Hot Springs Island from Swordfish Islands. You will also need Shadowdark from Arcane Library, Old School Essentials Advanced Fantasy from Necrotic Gnome, or the OSR rules set of your choice. It will work best with Shadowdark but should still considerably reduce the prep required for running Hot Springs Island with any OSR rules set.

In the interest of not infringing the copyright of either the setting or the rules, this guide is mostly an index and fleshes out only when it is not feasible to point to existing statblocks as the equivalent to Hot Springs Island monsters.