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Exactly. There are luck tokens, characters don't automatically die at 0 hp, spells may fizzle but they can also go on streaks and...

Shadowdark isn't neary as deadly, even at low levels, as some other OSR games. It's not 5E or anything, but it's also not OD&D. Kelsey...

I sometimes do this. I try to track down the creator's actual plays if I can. Watched some of Kelsey's walkthroughs and definitely...

Oh, there's definitely a split between D&D-as-it-was-played in the 1970s and early 1980s and what people sometimes call the NSR, where...

I never liked D&D back in the day because of the rapid character death, the horribly boring dungeons and the slow crawl of hitting every...

If this is how your GMs are running SD, no wonder you had a frustrating time. Kelsey wrote great advice for running the game in the...

Why thank you! Dopamine is always nice.

That's rough? You are good! 💪

It's vital that SD not be played like 5e or even 2e. Danger should be telegraphed so players can make informed choices. Combat will...

SD characters at 1st level are still more robust than their BX equivalents, so in terms of OSR character survivability I don't actually...

It's good. I like short, evocative descriptions. I hate long descriptions with a charging monster tucked in at the end, almost as an...

I'll freely admit that its a hack of Johann Nohr's layout from Into the Odd and Mork Borg. I liked it too much not to use it.

YUP lol. I spent like £50+ on dice between Hope/Fear pairings for this and large numbers of same-colour d6es for Outgunned, and yeah...

We had plenty of other novels to read and definitely didn't have more time! 😂 Tolkien had become a huge fad during this time period...

Well, that's not allowed! 😏 I remember when 5e first came out, someone was admiring a particular art piece and how it was so much...