Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Scribe]

It's funny, I'm finding myself maxed out on buying Shadowdark stuff

I also wanted to come back to this.

First.

I just had a windfall and bought the Western Reaches boxed set

All of the third party stuff is a sign of a healthy community around the game, but I'm finding for my home game, homebrewing adventures, monsters, etc., is so easy that I haven't been tempted by anything for a while now.

I'm kind of feeling this, I guess depending on the content. Between what I have created for myself, the core material (core book, western reaches, cursed scrolls) I've been asking myself what else I still would want, let alone need.

Aetherdark still looks cool for SpellJammer type action, but until its in print form I struggle to read it, and then I am just a sucker for the small crawl format so cannot miss that one, and then I'm interested in Bloodmoor and their previous Shucked Oyster just to see what that was all about.

I know Stronghold/Bastion type play was referenced a few pages back, I dont know if anyone has filled that gap yet, but unless someone start's releasing 'not-Planescape' I think I'm pretty set or am just happy to make my own stuff.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I think what's great about Shadowdark is that people are using it both as a system to play all sorts of games and also as a game with its own implied setting.

So for the folks who don't seem to have seen a new game system since the early 1990s (which appears to be a huge proportion of the Shadowdark Facebook group, for instance), the whole d20 revolution generally is an exciting innovation for them. For them, wanting to do all sorts of games using the Shadowdark system makes a lot of sense. They may not even be aware that there are other modern games out there that tackle the same subject matter. (I would probably just go with Outgunned over making a modern action game out of Shadowdark, myself.)

But I just want Shadowdark to run darker, weirder, more dangerous OSR fantasy games, so I'm not interested in most of that.

That said, an influx of new/returning gamers coming to Shadowdark and using it to build new stuff is likely going to bring in some different approaches to the current game development scene, which is exciting and fun.

 

[Scribe]

But I just want Shadowdark to run darker, weirder, more dangerous OSR fantasy games, so I'm not interested in most of that.

This is why I want to check out Bloodmoor and Shucked Oyster. They seem really weird. I also have the Glumdark book coming I had forgotten I backed...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

This is why I want to check out Bloodmoor and Shucked Oyster. They seem really weird. I also have the Glumdark book coming I had forgotten I backed...

Glumdark is so good and so deeply weird. The PDF is a delight. I can't wait until I get the collector's edition with its black-painted edges in my hot little hands.

 

[overgeeked]

Glumdark is so good and so deeply weird. The PDF is a delight. I can't wait until I get the collector's edition with its black-painted edges in my hot little hands.

What’s this? To the internet…oh. Oh that looks nice.