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I absolutely agree. A high page count demands a lot of the reader and when it is not justified, I almost get mad because it feels like the author don't respect the readers time. And I have read 400+ page books with slow pacing that I absolutely loved, its definitely possible and I am not...

I was that other person in the other thread. I don't want to argue for argues sake, but when people actively misdescribe the game I like and tell its bad design, I can get heated, I'll admit that. In the other thread it was claimed that a) combat is rigged against you from a math perspective b)...

That is a fair point. The SD rules are quite brief especially on expectations and how the game is actually supposed to run and kinda expect people to already know OSR principles. Of course its not to take 100% literally (especially at higher levels you also can just win some easy fights), but...

Avoidance or trying to get in advantageous situation is exactly that. Its stated by most OSR creators in their blogs and products. Here an excerpt from Shadowdark: "Battles are fast and deadly. Being clever is crucial for survival." The implication is clear: If you run into every combat, you...

Of course the rules are 80% about that fail state, because that is when your characters die. You want to have precise rules here. The foul rules of basketball are quite precise, that doesn't mean the game is about fouling the other players, but these are the moments of contention. Ok, but this...

The options are not presented as options, that is what I mean. You get monsters in a specific environment, often in a specific situation. Like 3 Lizardmen arguing around a campfire. Now the players need to weigh their options, for example: do they try to sneak around, surprise them, intervene in...

No, the goal is rarely to kill a monster. The shadowdark (and OSR in general) intention is that the monsters are a danger/challenge to your mission which is not to kill monsters in most cases, but get treasure or reach a quest goal. Killing monster gives you 0 XP, so "kill the monsters" is not...

This implies Shadowdark is a Hack n Slash, which its absolutely not. In general it sounds like a mix of a) bad/inexperienced DM b) not understanding the system/not using it as intented (no reaction/morale rolls) c) maybe a bad conversion of an adventure that was not written for shadowdark...

Puh after 3 months I finally finished "The Way of Kings". I was excited for it, because many Sandersons fans said this is his magnum opus, his epic fantasy that is much more fleshed out than his other earlier novels. If flashed out means to tack just more padding onto it, I would agree but I am...

The anime is definitely quite faithful! Although the detailed texturing and linework of the manga cannot be fully adapted it really takes care to use the panel compositions and bring them into animated form. One difference that some manga fans did not like that much about the anime is that it...

Really? Feels to me like quite similar in tone to Vox Machina, which has a lot of comedy like that. The original material is from what I've seen more on the darker side than Vox Machina. (I only have seen parts of CR campaigns, don't have time for that weekly unedited 4 hours)

The final chapter of Vinland Saga was released yesterday in Japan and the English fan translation today. It feels a bit weird to me, because I was invested in this story for almost 6 years when I watched the 14th episode of the first season of the anime adaptation and realized that I was...

The witcher is a very interesting fantasy series with a lot of switches in vibe. I did like that, but I know a lot of readers disliked when the author did some, lets call it experimentations with the writing style. Its mythology is also quite heavily inspired on european (especially slavic, but...

While battling myself through "The Way of Kings" I've read "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Huge" by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Very positively surprised by this book, a booktok hype that it is actually worth the hype. I really liked the structure with the narrative frame of the journalist interviewing...

I mean I really dig the snippets you post here from time to time

edit: because of network issues the previous post was posted twice. I can't find a way to delete his one here.

The Arcane Library kickstarters are the fastest I backed :D. I got shadowdark before other campaigns I have backed long time before that and right now the first cursed scroll was released as pdf and I think it autumn we will have all or most of the pdfs. Sure its not the same like right after...

I agree, but than we need a completely different system. Like "being hard to hit" should not be able to translate into a swashbucker being in a tank role. But than it again becomes much more complex and I wonder if that is worth it. But I am open to get positively surprised by game designers.

I 100% agree with the statements of the rules being not the important part of RPGs. But with playing characters with bad stats on purpose, be sure that the rest of the table is ok with it. Nothing more annoying than a game where you want to experience a heroic story and than you have a barbarian...