Merit Leveling for ShadowDark RPG

Merit Leveling is something I've come to love in recent years. While ShadowDark provides a much better leveling experience than most TTRPGs through its XP system, for me it's still something I don't prefer managing. So here we are!

This supplement provides a way to relatively autonomously - using the loot classifications as defined in the ShadowDark Game Master guide - level your party up over time. For example: if your party only ever received normal treasure every session, it'd take them 60-70 sessions to go from levels 1-10. If they choose to sit in town and RP the entire session, then they understandably won't receive XP. Likewise giving them fabulous and legendary loot greatly increases the odds that they receive much more XP, and should be used sparingly as a result.

This supplement also contains a few optional rules to remove all dice rolls, and to reduce the amount of experience the party gets if you wish to give out more fabulous and legendary loot than suggested in the Game Masters guide.