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  1. Fenris-77

    Shadowdark Let's make Shadowdark monsters!

    The idea of spawning other monsters needs to be handled delicately, IMO, althought it's an awesome idea. A key deisgn point is what level is a given swarm going to used for. I think that low level foes can still be great in high level adventures, but I also think that spawnign new monsters is...
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  3. Fenris-77

    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I'll freely admit that its a hack of Johann Nohr's layout from Into the Odd and Mork Borg. I liked it too much not to use it.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I agree completely, and for me this is why my RPG book purchases aren't really primarily about what I'll use but rather what I think is awesome (and might use, maybe). I get all kinds of ideas for my own scribbled notes when I read great books.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I'm slowly moving toward a standard dungeon room page layout that I'm happy enought with to stop messing it about every time I do a new adventure.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    And that's a problem because? As a very small publisher I can tell you that the creative part I can do, but the costs of printing and other logistics I simply couldn't (can't) afford to front the money for. In many cases if people want nice physical books from small, publishers, especially...
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    There's a guy on the Arcane Library Discord who's hard at work on one. He's running camapaigns, so it must be in some kind of playable format. He's a decent fellow too. Linky.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    So-so? The physical product is taking what feels like forever though.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Thanks! I have a whole creator theead on the Arcane Library Discord if you wvwr want to see more. Pretty much all the pages of my upcoming projects get posted at some point.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I feel you. I've been farting around for a week with scale for my mapping. I got back in the saddle yesterday and got 6 pages of writing and layout done. I feel much more productive.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I hope y'all will be this excited when I eventually run a KS. :)
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Huh, you know what happens to casuals...
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    PCs aren't helpless in the dark either, just really disadvantaged. A clever player can probably find ways to manage some scouting.
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    OSR What's Your Best Drop-In Content For A Sandbox?

    Trilemma adventures are my secret sauce for this. They are all mini or small dungeons, all with awesome maps and writeups, and all done in a system agnotic fashion. It's great and everyone should own it.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I try to make sure that the are occasionally dungeon arwas that are lit, for whatever reason. Not to many, but a few. Other than that, 'scouting the dungeon' in SD is neither easy nor safe. Aa a basic mode of adventuring it also takes a lot fo the fun out of the game, so there's that. I think...
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    I went with the slipcase and special edition core rules. That tier seemed like a pretty good deal, although I don't recall what it cost.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Maybe? Random dungeon encounters are sometimes just the room monsters wandering around though, so it tracks.
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    Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

    Ave Nox is awesome. I give it two big thumbs up, and an unexpected third small thumb as well.
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