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I wholeheartedly disagree. Shadowdark is an excellent OSR engine and the darkness mania is selling it short.

Some effects would hit them all. Multiple monsters could also attack multiple torches. I did not mean that the torches were like...

The conversations around most games sell them short. Over on the Shadowdark Facebook group, you'd come away with the impression that...

If you've got multiple torches burning, things that take out your light are going to hit them all. You don't want to be caught in the...

Every torch being held is a shield or a weapon not being held. The overlit party will be weaker elsewhere.

Wildshape is one of the most useful abilities in the whole game. As above, couple it with casting some spells before shifting and it...

100%! Pocket druid is absolutely a thing, riding along on the rogue as they sneak about, or hiding in the pocket of the bard when they...

Druid was my favourite class when I was playing 2014. I found many uses for wildshape from scouting, sneaking, tracking, eavesdropping...

The sheer amount of shenanigans you can get up to in the Exploration Pillar more than justifies wild shape. In fact, most druids could...

Well, this is a strange phenomenon. The correct term is narrativism, and narrativism supporting games. Whenever I see the term...

I played in the Minotaur scenario. We should have had a TPK with the Minotaur fight, cause we were stupid, but a few lucky rolls saved...

I've found that with Duet play, it can be really awesome because the single player character can be the main character. No spotlight...

At a guess the reason being Ben can’t afford to print the tens of thousands of copies required for the economics of scale to kick in.

I'm assuming that Darrington either doesn't expect the demand to be so con tinuously high, or they have to scramble to get any reprints...

I'm pretty sure Darrington is not planning, or even hoping to bring down D&D. Darrington is excited about Daggerheart and definitely has...