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The article on Rascal does have some great info, but not the technical stuff, unfortunately. EDIT: Looks like some tech answers here.

Found the confirmation that the original is included: Goodman Games: Bob Brinkman:

That's how Dark Tower was: original module reprinted unchanged (except hardcover and possibly some copyright updates) in one book, then a second book with the full module plus expansions all converted and almost entirely rewritten for 5e or DCC, plus a third book of related, additional 5e or DCC...

Writing adventures for publication is hard, so I don't mind this stuff. Sometimes you have to "bound the rails" as it were, so in moments like these, I'd just straight up tell my players (either in session zero if it's not too spoilery, or in the moment if it is), "Hey, this part's something...

I found it quite easy to excise most of the real-world deity references, at least in FR; haven't revisited Planescape in many years where calling out specific gods mattered, so didn't bother with that yet. The Mulhorandi pantheon is filled with alternate names from Thay, or can be swapped for...

Alas, Knave 2nd edition doesn't have anything of the sort. But I believe Errant has several downtime systems that could be lifted quite easily into Shadowdark.

Goodman is all about the dungeon crawls, but their take on Isle of Dread shows they can do a lot with wilderness. Maybe a topic for another thread, but I'd be curious to see what others would put on a list of iconic old school wilderness crawls and the like that Goodman could do in the OAR line...

Good enough for now! That's great to hear. I pick up DCC system modules (like the DCC version of Dark Tower) specifically to convert it to Shadowdark. This would be a major boon and project for SD. And in case Kelsey and crew are listening, I'm offering my services as editor and/or developer...

WAIT WUT?! More details, plz

Looking forward to absolutely warp the heck outta my gaming shelf by putting this new and expanded version on it ;-P

That would be my guess. I doubt he has much hindrance in setting his salary pretty high given his background, and since he's not operating a sole proprietorship, his take home is safe even if the business takes a hard turn for the worse.

Commoditizing each individual game element is definitely not a sustainable model. An AL version of this is going to be such a small audience, many who aren't looking for high buy-in; they just want a game to play in! Even DDB is removing piecemeal/micro transactions, and Hasbro is already in...

That whatever the benefits of NFTs and the blockchain in general, they are likely not the best solution for the problems they are trying to solve. Which are mostly problems that vanishingly few people see as problems in the first place.

They really offer a lot of the same stuff in different ways, if that makes sense. In Sentinels, you fiddle with the reading the dice results a bit (mid, high, low) whereas in MHR you fiddle with what SFX to apply to the results (spending Plot Points to add more dice to the total or various other...

Yeah, the preview was extremely comprehensive, which I love. Definitely let me know everything I needed! Thanks again for pointing it out.

I have not. I see it brought up in these terms often, though, so I really ought to do so!

Not sure if you've made your decision yet, but I'll add my two cents. Marvel Heroic is the best, because of how it does such a good job of threading the needle of a highly narrative/fiction-first game with a fairly trad mindset, all in a medium crunch game that really nails the roleplay aspects...

Big same. The same players that puzzle over their sheet for a painful 2 minutes every time it's their turn in 5E are the same players who in Shadowdark play combat-as-puzzle like they are Special Forces who can run trigonometry calculations off the top of their heads. It doesn't make any sense...

I can't even begin to count the number of 5E D&D sessions I've played across something like a dozen or more groups, but I can count on one hand the number of fights that were less than 45 minutes.* I pine for the days of either (a) playing with people that make fast decisions and resolve their...

"Crunchy, tactical, on a grid" and "plays fast" is not something I've honestly found yet. Seriously. Every game that supports the first half of that equation only vaguely ever brushes past the second half when the entire party really dives in and does the homework to know what their characters...