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Wow, did not know that :(
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Same...but my list of 'favorite rules' is pretty long!
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Interesting. I thought it was much better than Red Rising, which I DNFed after just a few chapters because I found the prose so bad and...
Feb 19, 2026
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This is lowkey one of my favorite "rules" of SD.
Feb 19, 2026
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I really like the Shadowdark approach. Basically for thief-y kinds of things, Thief characters are assumed to be successful if they...
Feb 19, 2026
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This comment might shed some light on the debates raging in a couple of other threads about "playing your attributes". OSR has a "Cops...
Feb 19, 2026
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I was surprised. I though there were more robust random monster tables. The random encounter tables provided are cool, but they are very...
Feb 19, 2026
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I've started "The Strength of the Few" after waiting for weeks for my spot in the library queue and paused it after a few chapters. I...
Feb 19, 2026
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People may also be interested that Audible sucks hard, ethically speaking (as expected of Amazon). Consider taking that into account...
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Cursed Scroll 5 is out. :love:
Feb 19, 2026
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Its just unintuitive. It makes more sense for most people to add an attack bonus to an attack roll than the targets AC. There is a...
Feb 18, 2026
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Its clean, it doesnt bother going into detail that should be reserved for a technical design or legal document, it understands that the...
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I completely agree - I love stocking dungeons with random procedures and than find a scenario/narrative based on the random outcomes...
Feb 18, 2026
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Obviously, I have fleshing out and clean up to do, but in general that is the process. it took longer here because I was documenting...
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The annotated map:
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