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Of course everything can be covered by DM fiat, and of course common sense should take a role. At the same time, there has to be a...

I misunderstood the thread question. I had ran Shadowdark vanilla before but just apply houserules to different tables and one shot...

I plan and intend to wait until after a campaign. I would like to give the designers a bit of credit for their work and see how they...

I can't say I've never houseruled early -- mostly in my youth -- but generally even if I scrunch my nose reading something in a book I...

Chesterton’s Fence. I want to get a good handle on the system as it’s meant to be played before changing things. A few sessioms or...

For most of those, unfortunately, the answer is: it depends. Cortex Prime is more of a toolkit than a completed game. You can build it...

This game gets brought up a lot and I have always sort of just glided past it. But I want to know more, and was hoping some folks could...

"There's no such thing as 'bad publicity'." I'd rather have people slamming my product online than saying nothing at all 🤓

I'm a fan of the AD&D 1e Assassin's Backstab, which had a 50% chance of outright slaying the target regardless of its Hit Points :p...

After I see a rule in action.

After reading the book, and possibly after reading some reviews and discussion about the game. It of course might sometimes be necessary...

Yeah sometimes we can miss the forest for the trees. Definitely the situation here. There has to be a point where the rule ends and...

My BBEG, Magic User(Illusionist)/Fighter, was so much fun. An early trick was to have a 10 deep pit in front of him covered with an...

Shadowdark Before: Spells work at least once before fizzling in any given day. Lvl 1 Magic User becomes nigh useless if spell is...

After I read a good review of the game, I'll have a basic understanding of what I'm changing (like converting dice pools to 1d20). But I...