Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Also, the reprint/lightly updated edition of Into the Cess and Citadel is up on Kickstarter now. I had been hoping this would be a campaign for their oceanic sourcebook, but they're making progress on that, per Bluesky.

 

[Xenolith234]

How do you think Shadowdark would run in Ptolus?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How do you think Shadowdark would run in Ptolus?

I have been running Ptolus since 2006 under multiple systems (3E, Castles & Crusades and 5E).

I think Shadowdark would handle the Dungeon aspects of the setting extremely well as well as the warring thieves guild intrigue. The big cosmic stuff available at high levels will be a lot harder to do -- the big endgame dungeon will be a nightmare to convert, for instance, especially since hacking one's way through it is a big part of what's required to save the world -- but that's really the only real problem I see.

Ptolus is one of the best urban fantasy RPG settings ever (arguably the best) and I think a campaign centered on Delvers Square in particular will work amazingly in Shadowdark.