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This implies Shadowdark is a Hack n Slash, which its absolutely not. In general it sounds like a mix of a) bad/inexperienced DM b) not...

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...

House rules, baby! I used d&d standard array for stats. Full HP at level one. Etc Etc. Shadowdark is great because it's easy to mod

Yeah, that was a weird take.

Thats...not true.

Yeah, it's a rational choice. It does sound like the Lurking Fears people and other con DMs really crapped the bed, though.

Yeah, that is a bad DM implementation. In my Shadowdark campaign, there's been one round of combat in the last two sessions, because the...

So the experienced, and 'professional' DMs all failed to actually run the game.

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...

Dropping a boulder off a cliff onto an enemy camp while they sleep is technically combat, but one with probably just one big roll.

Two other observations: Sometimes I think that advocates for Shadowdark, or OSR/NuSR in general, exaggerate the avoidance of combat...

I ran a bunch of one-shots before the full book was even out. In those games, characters died. They let their torches go out in battle...

This right here.

Two feuding bards?

Gotta love folks popping in full of aggro and derision and demanding assistance.