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Unfortunately WotC did exactly this with an official bestselling module :) Siderant about Tomb of Annihilation, has nothing to do with...

Tomb of Horrors has entered the chat :-)

Having killer stuff in the first minutes of play is just poor design for a tournament adventure.

The exact opposite of what the impulse should be for a con game. DMs should be giving more latitude in general in those cases, not less...

You can start characters with max hitpoints. Use the pulp mode, which gives characters more luck tokens. And you absolutely don't have...

in addition, the full game includes a lot of extra tables and things, making it even easier to run on the fly.

https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/collections/shadowdark-core-rules/products/shadowdark-rpg-quickstart-set-pdf

Maybe what I (and maybe we) are feeling is that Shadowdark needs to feel a bit more heavy metal. A number of the artists in the core...

The perfect kind of random tables: Where you need them and helping the DM say something other than "uh, there's four orcs in this room."

Great idea. I am fully in love with shadowdark after a few one-shots and plan to start an open table sandbox in shadowdark in autumn.

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same tired old arguments about the OSR scene and OSR-style play. There are plenty of...

Back on-topic, "stop looking at your character sheet." This really depends on the system, and how much the PCs care about succeeding-...

I always thought of skilled play as how well players handle the abilities of their characters to accomplish goals within the game. Like...

Pan's Labyrinthe taught me that under no circumstances do you eat the magically preserved and presented food or the evil EYE HAND...

Oh, man, I can see in my mind's eye trhe kind of GM that hurt that player. "You didn't say you were wearing underclothes with your...