Shadows of Malice is an imagination-driven, overland adventure in the spirit of the early role-playing games without a game master. Players control avatars, heroic champions imbued with the power of Light and a unique mastery over Light. Each turn, the players move through the Realm, confronting their fate, battling creatures with deadly abilities, and engaging the services of cities and mystics in order to gather the potions, treasure and soulshards they will need to defeat the stronghold Guardians, now mindless and aggressive defenders of their Wells. The Light or Dark nature of each Well is revealed only when its Guardian is defeated. Meanwhile, Xulthûl’s Shadows are thickening in the Shadow Realm… preparing their own malice…