Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Scribe]

Righteous Vow 3 is over 10K USD.
Sapphire Seas is at almost 7K USD.

 

[zottel]

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Trilemma Adventures

Short role-playing adventures, musings on the hobby, illustration, and further afield.

blog.trilemma.com

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Funny, I stumbled on trilemma yesterday. What I read so far seemed very good and varied and very to me.
Skerples wrote one of the adventures that caught my eye, about a haunted house with a squatter problem. Will drop this in my city for sure, should be a hoot!

 

[numtini]

Anyone know where I can find some free mini dungeons? I suppose I could make some but I'm lazy.

itch.io is the place to go for pay what you want Shadowdark. if you hang around the Discord, you'll see a lot of suggestions.

 

[Scribe]

Man, I want to support everyone working in the Shadowdark space, but I also have no need whatsoever for another KS product every month.

Or 2... lol

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Man, I want to support everyone working in the Shadowdark space, but I also have no need whatsoever for another KS product every month.

Or 2... lol

Yeah, we've definitely reached firehose levels.

Even just going with Shadowdark-statted adventures means backing a ton of projects.

(I actually am an apparent weirdo who is just fine with grabbing any old OSR adventure, rather than Shadowdark-specific ones, although Shadowdark is how I stat my own work.)

 

[Reynard]

Man, I want to support everyone working in the Shadowdark space, but I also have no need whatsoever for another KS product every month.

Or 2... lol

Yeah, we've definitely reached firehose levels.

Even just going with Shadowdark-statted adventures means backing a ton of projects.

(I actually am an apparent weirdo who is just fine with grabbing any old OSR adventure, rather than Shadowdark-specific ones, although Shadowdark is how I stat my own work.)

I worry about design sensibilities. Shadowdark is "easy" to design for, but it seems like a lot of folks really lose the thread on the ethos.

 

[Scribe]

I worry about design sensibilities. Shadowdark is "easy" to design for, but it seems like a lot of folks really lose the thread on the ethos.

I do wonder how solid that ethos is.

I try and keep my stuff as simple as possible, just clean.

 

[overgeeked]

I do wonder how solid that ethos is.

I try and keep my stuff as simple as possible, just clean.

Right? It just strikes me as a particular refinement of the broader OSR. A few unique bits, sure, like most OSR games, but also not wildly different or unique. Not saying it’s bad. But looking at pure text I don’t know that I could pick Shadowdark out of a dozen other, similar OSR-style games.

 

[Scribe]

Right? It just strikes me as a particular refinement of the broader OSR. A few unique bits, sure, like most OSR games, but also not wildly different or unique. Not saying it’s bad. But looking at pure text I don’t know that I could pick Shadowdark out of a dozen other, similar OSR-style games.

Simple systems, clean, light matters, with RNG?

Something I'll think on at the gym.

 

[Reynard]

I do wonder how solid that ethos is.

I try and keep my stuff as simple as possible, just clean.

I'm thinking more about what we often see in class design.a lot of folks seem to want to drag SD back toward 5E in that regard, and I think it usually ends up not working.