Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Fenris-77]

I have to eat dinner, but when I'm done I'll open an OSR Layout and Design thread and we can all discuss fonts, gutters, and use of white space to our heart's content.

 

[Scribe]

I have to eat dinner, but when I'm done I'll open an OSR Layout and Design thread and we can all discuss fonts, gutters, and use of white space to our heart's content.

 

[Fenris-77]

We can has layout thread. It's posted.

 

[Mannahnin]

I've got some stuff going into affinity now, and I really dont want to work today, would love to just tinker with this.

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I often end up staying up far too late fiddling with design after all my other stuffs are taken care of. I feel you.

Me last night doing post-first session work on the scenario I'm running.

 

[Scribe]

Hmm, Boats, Mounts, and the Cursed Scroll spells.

Its all going into the Western Reaches right? I'll probably just reference it.

 

[Mannahnin]

Wow, thanks a ton! That insight really is all I could have hoped for, I really appreciate you taking the time out of your day for such a detailed and well-informed response.
I was tending toward Stonehell already, because it is my most recent purchase, after having read tenfootpoles review of it.
If I can ask another question, how much of the book do you think I need to read before starting play?
My plan is to read the whole introduction, and the surface level, and see where the PCs may go from there, and read up on the possible entries to the levels below, just to be safe if the party somehow beelines their way down. Additionally, I will probably read the whole Appendix.
Probably will take some time, with prep and getting the first date set, but I hope to give a brief report about how it goes. Just need to get the ten candles session going that I started on a few weeks ago...

Most welcome!

Coming back to this I remembered that this is a Shadowdark thread, and of course Shadowdark uses much lower treasure values than Labyrinth Lord, which Stonehell was published for. Usually in converting treasure values from an LL / OSE / B/X / BECMI / OD&D / AD&D module you want to divide them by 10. So you want to remember to double or triple and then divide by 10, of course.

I think your plan on the reading sounds about right. Reviewing the surface and the first level seems like the essential bits, with the appendix not a bad idea.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hmm, Boats, Mounts, and the Cursed Scroll spells.

Its all going into the Western Reaches right? I'll probably just reference it.

Yes, it should all be in either one or both of the Western Reaches books.

 

[Scribe]

Yes, it should all be in either one or both of the Western Reaches books.

Yeah, really going to need those books. Pretty sure I saw a Chaos Priest Spell list as well in a preview.

 

[zottel]

Most welcome!

Coming back to this I remembered that this is a Shadowdark thread, and of course Shadowdark uses much lower treasure values than Labyrinth Lord, which Stonehell was published for. Usually in converting treasure values from an LL / OSE / B/X / BECMI / OD&D / AD&D module you want to divide them by 10. So you want to remember to double or triple and then divide by 10, of course.

I think your plan on the reading sounds about right. Reviewing the surface and the first level seems like the essential bits, with the appendix not a bad idea.

Heh, good to know on the treasure. My first instinct would have been to just divide by ten, as that is what I have always heard regarding old systems -> shadowdark.