Shadowdark Western Reaches Stretch Goal: New Classes

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Is there psion for Shadowdark?

Nope. Outside of the mind flayers brain eaters, there's no real presence of psionics in the game at this time. I could definitely see her going for a psion ahead of a 5E sorcerer.

 

[Scribe]

Is there psion for Shadowdark?

Not yet. If she doesnt go that path, I'm going to get mine out there though.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I love that her Ranger is more Aragorn and less Pet Master or duel wielding fighter with magic powers.

RIGHT?!?!?!

 

[Bill Zebub]

How about a spirits-oriented "primal" caster. E.g., Witch Doctor, Shaman, etc.

Or is that considered culturally insensitive now?

 

[Scribe]

How about a spirits-oriented "primal" caster. E.g., Witch Doctor, Shaman, etc.

I'd be all over that. I was looking at recreating my Ele Shaman at one point.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How about a spirits-oriented "primal" caster. E.g., Witch Doctor, Shaman, etc.

Or is that considered culturally insensitive now?

The core idea is fine, I think. It's just what sort of trappings are put on it.

Kelsey so far seems to know how to avoid caricaturing real-life cultures -- the Basilisk Warrior from the upcoming River of Night issue of Cursed Scrolls isn't anything like any existing culture I know about, while still being coded as not European, which I think is probably the right balance to strike.

 

[Aldarc]

Nope. Outside of the mind flayers brain eaters, there's no real presence of psionics in the game at this time. I could definitely see her going for a psion ahead of a 5E sorcerer.

Not yet. If she doesnt go that path, I'm going to get mine out there though.

Even a halfway decent Psion, which would be better than anything WotC did for psionics in 5e, would get me to highly consider Shadowdark.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Even a halfway decent Psion, which would be better than anything WotC did for psionics in 5e, would get me to highly consider Shadowdark.

Shadowdark is very light mechanically, so her "halfway decent" take would likely be very simple.

 

[Scribe]

Even a halfway decent Psion, which would be better than anything WotC did for psionics in 5e, would get me to highly consider Shadowdark.

I'm almost done but the news of 'new classes' has me paused as I dont have a ton of time anyway.

 

[Nightfly]

I think we all agree that the weirder Kelsey gets, the better. I love the new Delver and Duelist classes, which don't really correspond to anything in established D&D tradition, and more power to them.