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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9426661" data-attributes="member: 11760">Technically, I said it was a great class. (It's really good!)I've done a lot of five room dungeons in Shadowdark and run two games set in a megadungeon I've made. That said, I bought Into the Wyrd &amp; Wild (forest sourcebook) to use with Shadowdark and may well pick up Into the Cess &amp; Citadel (urban sourcebook) to use with it as well.While the torch timer is iconic, it isn't as important as it's sometimes made out to be. I played with a bunch of Shadowdark newbies in the past week and they never let their torches go out, once they knew 1) real time torches are a thing and 2) getting jumped in the dark will be extremely bad for them. (I rule that monsters get advantage on attacks and PCs get disadvantage, going off of 5E invisibility rules -- it's been a bloodbath whenever it's happened in the past.)I think Shadowdark, like many RPGs, works well with some sort of time pressure, but that can be all sorts of things. I've seen people who run sci-fi games with an hour of breathable air, for instance, but in an urban game, there could be a Grand Theft Auto-style heat level from authorities or something else.At this point, I view Shadowdark as an extremely flexible ruleset for running OSR games and my preferred dungeon crawler, but it's not limited to either of those things, by any means.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9426661, member: 11760"] Technically, I said it was a [I]great [/I]class. (It's really good!) I've done a lot of five room dungeons in Shadowdark and run two games set in a megadungeon I've made. That said, I bought Into the Wyrd & Wild (forest sourcebook) to use with Shadowdark and may well pick up Into the Cess & Citadel (urban sourcebook) to use with it as well. While the torch timer is iconic, it isn't as important as it's sometimes made out to be. I played with a bunch of Shadowdark newbies in the past week and they never let their torches go out, once they knew 1) real time torches are a thing and 2) getting jumped in the dark will be [I]extremely[/I] bad for them. (I rule that monsters get advantage on attacks and PCs get disadvantage, going off of 5E invisibility rules -- it's been a bloodbath whenever it's happened in the past.) I think Shadowdark, like many RPGs, works well with some sort of time pressure, but that can be all sorts of things. I've seen people who run sci-fi games with an hour of breathable air, for instance, but in an urban game, there could be a Grand Theft Auto-style heat level from authorities or something else. At this point, I view Shadowdark as an extremely flexible ruleset for running OSR games and my preferred dungeon crawler, but it's not limited to either of those things, by any means. [/QUOTE]

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