Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

Scribe · 2026-03-14T19:17:29+0000

Fenris-77 said:
I'll eventually be putting boats into Ashalom (which I realized when I read you post). We should all put our heads together here and gin something up. My mechanical stuff is all ccby4, so me using it in the book won't stop anyone else from using it too.

Lemme go take a look at CS2 and noodle on it for a bit.

Yeah I misspoke, Mounts in CS2, Boats in CS3/4, but now that I think about it, Aetherdark has some stuff too, Space Boats, but its still boats?

Fenris-77 · 2026-03-14T20:32:31+0000

Scribe said:
Yeah I misspoke, Mounts in CS2, Boats in CS3/4, but now that I think about it, Aetherdark has some stuff too, Space Boats, but its still boats?

I did a simple spaceship system that I was very pleased with for a Trophy game I wrote called Vac Suits and Duct Tape, so I'll probably start at least in part with that.

zottel · 2026-03-14T20:57:56+0000

Heard Pirate Borg has good ship rules. Didn't find the time to read through my copy, but my guess is pilfering from pirates pays off!

Scribe · 2026-03-14T21:19:33+0000

zottel said:
Heard Pirate Borg has good ship rules. Didn't find the time to read through my copy, but my guess is pilfering from pirates pays off!

Yeah, I just wish in an ideal situation that stuff like Mounts/Boats/Weapons was part of the core license for SD itself.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-15T00:57:05+0000

Scribe said:
I found this Shadowdark Tools

And it has filters for the Monsters from CS 1/2/3. I thought the Cursed Scrolls were not as 'open'?

They are not. People are going to eventually stretch Kelsey's good will too far.

Also, making new Shadowdark monsters is super-easy. There's no reason to steal Kelsey's closed IP, folks. Just make something that fills a similar role, but is all your own!

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-15T00:57:38+0000

Scribe said:
Yeah, I just wish in an ideal situation that stuff like Mounts/Boats/Weapons was part of the core license for SD itself.

I suspect, once Western Reaches is out, she makes key stuff like that open, or at least a version of it.

Scribe · 2026-03-15T01:14:04+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
They are not. People are going to eventually stretch Kelsey's good will too far.

Also, making new Shadowdark monsters is super-easy. There's no reason to steal Kelsey's closed IP, folks. Just make something that fills a similar role, but is all your own!

Thats what I figured. I've started building out new monsters for my book, and had some time playing around with affinity today, much easier to get a handle on than LibreOffice I find!

Almost done with my templating, and then I can migrate everything into this and it should be (I think) way way easier to adjust/expand upon.

Fenris-77 · 2026-03-15T02:16:30+0000

zottel said:
Heard Pirate Borg has good ship rules. Didn't find the time to read through my copy, but my guess is pilfering from pirates pays off!

Duh. Why didn't I think of that. Mind you, I only need river boats for this particular project, so probably nothing bigger than a big longship or dhow.