Shadowdark Western Reaches Stretch Goal: New Classes

[WanderingMystic]

Out of curiosity, how does that impact play? Are players too bold and less careful? Do they "cheat/cheese" using knowledge gained from a failed battle? Does it still feel meaningful despite death being a speedbump?

So players are still careful because if we do not make it alive back to our camp site we lose any equipment and loot we have gained since the last time we camped. It is not a cheat because when we die we wake up knowing that we were killed and how the battle went. It allows for our dm to throw more powerful boss type enemies against us that we can learn how to beat. It does mean that we might go into an area or attack a boss that we know is going to be powerful before we should just so we can get a gauge of how tough it will be. Then we know if we have to go back to a lower powered area, if there are specific strength that we have to be able to defend against and what not.
And btw the dark is still terrifying.

Over all it is fun knowing that our characters won't stay dead. Our cleric who rolled a 1 for her starting hp died 13 times before she got to level 2

 

[Bill Zebub]

Over all it is fun knowing that our characters won't stay dead. Our cleric who rolled a 1 for her starting hp died 13 times before she got to level 2

I hope her character's name is Kenny.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Other possibilities for new classes:

• Multiclass characters, combining two to four of the core classes in various ways
• BD&D style racial classes, although I suspect a lot of Shadowdark fans would rebel against that

 

[Scribe]

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I realize that my life is currently in a state of annoyance. I realize this is completely 'first world problems' and that I'm just being a complainer.

That said, I'm sitting on now 5 classes, that I would like to spend my very stupidly limited free time finishing, but I want to know what shes going to do first.

 

[Distracted DM]

I think it would be interesting if the SD Barbarian leaned more heavily into the 80s Barbarian Movie tropes, which were less about "rage" than they were about pure oily muscley power: unarmored defense and feats of strength, mostly.

I think this was the 2e barbarian.. as opposed to the 2e berserker. Both existed, separate kits.

 

[Fenris-77]

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I realize that my life is currently in a state of annoyance. I realize this is completely 'first world problems' and that I'm just being a complainer.

That said, I'm sitting on now 5 classes, that I would like to spend my very stupidly limited free time finishing, but I want to know what shes going to do first.

I just wnet ahead and put my three new classes in my most recent project. I'll roll the dice on what gets published. The two entirely new ones are skill monkeys (merchant and sentinel) so no real worry there, and the other is a hack of desert rider which I think is unlikely to get done for reals either.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

...

I realize that my life is currently in a state of annoyance. I realize this is completely 'first world problems' and that I'm just being a complainer.

That said, I'm sitting on now 5 classes, that I would like to spend my very stupidly limited free time finishing, but I want to know what shes going to do first.

I think the mechanics are probably safe no matter what. You can probably just reflavor them, once the word gets out on what the names of the two classes will be.

Martial class on Sunday. Maybe we'll get lucky and she'll say the name of the spellcasting class at the same time.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Martial class on Sunday.

I haven't been following updates closely....where is that announced?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I haven't been following updates closely....where is that announced?

Stretch goals on the Kickstarter page.

 

[Fenris-77]

I voted Barbarian and Alchemist.