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Something like Magic of Incarnum or the Pact/Binder of Vestiges would be cool.

Until this thread I didn't realize how many games were actually out there! Now if only days had more than 24 hours and weeks more than 7 days...

OK, I'm a forever DM of like 40 years and I needed to hear this! My campaigns usually have a "save the world!" vibe from early on and in my current campaign I found myself being exhausted by the arms and intelligence race vs. the team of "bad guys." So tonight I stepped off the DIRE CONSEQUENCES...

I've only run one game, but the players kept two staggered torches going. I had my tablet on one stand and my phone on another, both running Torchlight timer. They reported that it added to their anxiety, which was music to my ears as a DM.

I guess this is as good a thread as any to ask for SD advice. I noticed that the whole torch/threat of darkness was less dramatic that I expected. Even with having a torch go out it was pretty easy for a party member to light a new one. I made it a DC 12 check if they weren't in combat and DC 15...

It ran great but I chickened out and leveled them to 3 so that there was less chance of a TPK (I was trying to win them over to SD and killing them all would not have helped with that). It turns out it was a little too easy for level 3 characters but they also got really luck rolls and neither...

I also didn't get a single random encounter in 5+ hrs of play! Finally the players were like "oh just hit us with a wandering monster already or it won't feel like old-school D&D." I ran a published adventure called "Tomb of the Dusk Queen" by Sersa Victory (best. Name. EVER!). I fell in love...

(PS: Daggerheart was great also and probably more in line with what my players are looking for. But I think SD will be our "who wants to play even though not everyone is available" game.)

And it was great! We played a marathon session in a room we rented in a gaming store during which we played a couple of hours of Daggerheart for the first time (it was a very short intro adventure) then about 5 hrs of SD. The players, who all but one cut their teeth on Basic/1st edition, forgot...

Wow, this is a GREAT resource! Thanks so much!

This community is so helpful! I'm not surprised given the whole SD vibe but I am grateful. BTW, my own plug for anyone looking for a long SD adventure is Shrine of the Jaguar Princess. I would run that but it is too high a level and way too long for a 4-hr one-shot introductory adventure...

Oh, the Gygax Appendix N. Sorry I had brain-flatulence. Thanks for the advice everyone.

OK, I kinda feel like an idiot, but my Shadowdark doesn't have an "appendix N." Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

I'm getting ready to run my first Shadowdark adventure and I REALLY want my gaming group to like it as much as I do. I am a D&D forever DM of many years and am proud of the D&D campaigns that I generate and run. I bought some SD adventures and am impressed with the ingenuity: the traps, special...

I regularly use Poisoned or Incapacitated for a number of rounds dependent on the severity of the affliction and/or "save ends." I plan to start using the 2024 Exhaustion rules more. Not terribly imaginative but each is quick and easy to implement in the moment and all are definitely things the...