Shadowdark “forge of foes”?

[darjr]

I just backed Creating Monsters for Shadowdark - zine w/ Mini-Bestiary on @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ting-monsters-for-shadowdark?ref=thanks-tweet

 

[Malmuria]

If Shadowdark is compatible with b/x, couldn't you just use this?

 

[darjr]

If Shadowdark is compatible with b/x, couldn't you just use this?View attachment 397613

Sure!

But there isn’t the whole new monsters, nor advice for adapting from other sources, and there isn’t the art, and the focus in Shadowdark itself.

 

[darjr]

If Shadowdark is compatible with b/x, couldn't you just use this?View attachment 397613

Also there is this.

Shadowdark Conversion Principles by Sersa Victory

Guiding principles for converting modules to Shadowdark

sersavictory.itch.io

 

[Bill Zebub]

Simple AC/HP/Attack conversions only work within the limitation of monsters being bags of hit points. In my experience, special abilities (including spells) don't translate as simply.

 

[Fenris-77]

Simple AC/HP/Attack conversions only work within the limitation of monsters being bags of hit points. In my experience, special abilities (including spells) don't translate as simply.

There are a ton of official monsters of every power level though, and I've found it pretty easy to find analogues for powers and abilities I wanted to write. For example, I just used the core Mage and Druid entries to write up a Skaven Grey Seer for SD.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I make a lot of Shadowdark monsters and the math is very easy once you try to reverse engineer a monster or two.

This is a good cheat sheet for those who want to skip that stage: Shadowdark Guide to Monster Statistics by Matt Dietrich

The project on Kickstarter looks like it'll be useful for sorting all the abilities into one spot, rather than requiring flipping through the book to find appropriate abilities. (I think that's what Kelsey has said is good about it, too.)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Simple AC/HP/Attack conversions only work within the limitation of monsters being bags of hit points. In my experience, special abilities (including spells) don't translate as simply.

Existing monsters have a ton of good abilities that one can mix and match, which covers most existing BD&D and AD&D monsters, at a glance.

 

[darjr]

Forge of Foes itself has cool ideas too.

Still I want this as a resource and I want the monsters and the art.

Plus I want to encourage more Shadowdark stuff.

Plus now I can lean on this.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Forge of Foes itself has cool ideas too.

I largely lean on Forge of Foes for its math-by-level (which is harder than Shadowdark's), but it's got a ton of good abilities to plug in for various monster types.