Shadowdark looks so good!

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If they had several exclusive classes for each ("dwarven tunnel warrior," "dwarven treasure finder," "dwarven rune mage," "dwarven battle priest"), would that have made a difference?

 

[JohnSnow]

If they had several exclusive classes for each ("dwarven tunnel warrior," "dwarven treasure finder," "dwarven rune mage," "dwarven battle priest"), would that have made a difference?

That would’ve been fine. But it seems more complicated than just giving us a dwarf, elf, halfling and human as, y’know, not classes.

 

[darjr]

Live now. It was suggested that the Bard should have to be a fighter then cleric then thief first, lol!

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[overgeeked]

For folks making either homebrew or third party content, there's a CC-Attribution art pack available: Art Assets Pack for ShadowDark by Arcanum Game Studio

That’s great stuff. I see it being used far and wide in the OSR scene. Not just for Shadowdark stuff.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That’s great stuff. I see it being used far and wide in the OSR scene. Not just for Shadowdark stuff.

It's of really high quality too, which isn't always the case with these sorts of packages.

 

[overgeeked]

It's of really high quality too, which isn't always the case with these sorts of packages.

Yeah. I really like the faux Mike Mignola style. And it's in 300dpi...so print ready art. That's incredible.

 

[Quickleaf]

I am running Grizzled Adventurers again this weekend (third time in five weeks!) and I'm strongly considering using the Shadowdark quickstart rules on my side of the DM's screen. I like the use of a single d20 resolution system, rolling high, advantage/disadvantage, etc.

At a glance, it looks like using the Grizzled Adventurers character playbook and standard OSR monsters will work out fine, if less deadly than RAW Shadowdark. (I run pretty dangerous dungeons in general, so it's not necessary, IMO, to make them harder.) I'm especially looking forward to no darkvision and the real time torches rule.

I will report back after the game.

Wow! Nice to see someone else enjoying Flatland Games' stuff. I'm a big fan of Beyond the Wall and Through Sunken Lands!

 

[Autumnal]

Shadowdark turns out to be just about exactly what I wanted but had not articulated to myself yet: a modern core, simplified to the complexity level of older versions. That would do most the job, but the way wizards and priests use up spell slots, or don’t, turns out to pretty well fix my decades-long problems with Gygaxian magic, without the complexities of 4e. So I’ve signed up.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Wow! Nice to see someone else enjoying Flatland Games' stuff. I'm a big fan of Beyond the Wall and Through Sunken Lands!

I love the playbooks and subsystems each game includes. Even if I run Shadowdark as-is, I can definitely see using the Beyond the Wall setting creation system and the on-the-fly adventures in each system.

 

[deganawida]

Just now getting to peruse this. Okay, this is good. Wizard spells being less reliable? Priests having to make penance? I’m in. Great power should have greater restrictions or chance to fail IMO.