Recent content by Argyle King

Also, within that same general ballpark, my question was from the standpoint of trying to better gauge the mentality behind Shadowdark design. Those examples were chosen because they are normal adventure scenes in fantasy novels and movies that ttrpgs may seek to emulate. Even at the smaller...

Could be the case that they aren't the games for me. There are rpgs that do handle things like that (and do so without needing to be war games). Personally, I think it's more interesting to have breadth of play rather than continuously stacking of numbers. Aye, PCs are exceptional, but I find...

•Dragonlance - yay 👍 •Larger Dice - okay, cool (though, smaller than the 50mm and 33mm ones that I have) •"There's 35 dice, with 7 different tiers of rarity which use "an innovative blind-box experience"' -booooo Not a fan of the Labubu approach to dice. The dice and boxes look cool.

That is how I imagine it in my mind, and that is what makes the most sense to me. Contemporary D&D typically doesn't play out in that way. I've been open to trying other games that handle such situations that are closer to my expectations. Maybe the Titanbound project for Shadowdark will offer...

I appreciate the feedback. The reason I ask is because there are areas of 5E where I wanted some more granularity. With Shadowdark being a game that aims to be stripped-down 5E, I'm not sure if that means some of those areas are even lighter. In particular, for contemporary D&D in general, the...

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After work, I returned home to discover a package from MythMere Games near my door. The contents were the OSRIC 3.0 project I had supported on Backerkit. ++This included the following items: OSRIC 3.0 Player Guide, landscape OSRIC 3.0 Gamemaster Guide, landscape* OSRIC 3.0 GM Screen Cult of...

No worries. I wasn't offended. I didn't want to elaborate because I'm trying to keep my comments predominantly positive. While I can enjoy putting together a build, I tend to better enjoy options that have tradeoffs. I also prefer complexity that allows for breadth of play (leading armies...

Could be the case. That doesn't particularly apply to me, but I can see how that would be the case.

Thanks for the responses. Yeah, my initial impressions of SD were a little flat. Given the [+] nature of this thread, I don't feel I should rehash why here (but am open to discussing elsewhere). +Titanbound seemed like a cool concept that I could adapt to other things without too much work...

I may have asked these in the other thread, but I don't remember: •Is Shadowdark a stripped-down 5E with OSR sensibilities? I've heard it described that way, but I'm curious to hear what others think. I'm trying to better understand what makes SD a different experience from what WotC is...

That depends on what your preferred style of play is or what areas of the rules you would like fleshed out more. That being said... •The Crawl! fanzines have things that I use. Each one is small enough and varied enough that you can pick and choose what's important to you and get it at a...

One of my favorite add-on options from the current Whiterock crowdfunding campaign is the Tournament of Pigs boxed set. I got the DCC version, but there is also a 5E version. "Tournament of Pigs is an unforgettable D&D 5E/Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure that has players taking the role of...