Shadowdark looks so good!

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yes, please, on a Discord torch bot.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Session 2 last night. First thing's first: some one needs to make a Torch bot for Discord.

The party was down to 5 characters -- one of the 6 initial PCs was skilled in the previous session, but another player dropped out so the dead PC's player just took on that role.

When last we left the grave rob---er, heroes, they were in the dark with the Scarlet Minotaur having emerged from its lair upon hearing the sound of the fight the PCs had with the ettercaps. The minotaur ended up going into the labyrinth following the ettercap trail, so the PCs were able to pick up the pieces and then go loot the lair. They did not spend long there, though, afraid the minotaur would return, so they moved on and kept accidentally going the opposite direction that would actually take them to their ultimate goal. Then, the worst thing happened: a random encounter was rolled and it was in fact the SM! It followed the scent of what they had stolen and now they were trapped with no choice but to fight for their lives.

And holy crap -- the dice were on the PCs' side in a BIG way. Those 5 1st level PCs KILLED the Scarlet Minotaur with only two PCs going down -- and those rolled really high on their death turns so they were stabilized.

We ended shortly after. The PCs have holed themselves up in the armor room for the moment to bind their wounds and figure out what to do next. The death of the Minotaur will not go unnoticed by the beast men for long, but to what result?

Isn't Shadowdark a joy to play? It's like years of using complicated machinery to make stuff, and then you realize that all you really need is a small box with some basic hand tools.

(The analogy I was going to make was writing enterprise apps in Java or .NET on an IDE, and then one day popping open a simple text editor to solve some math puzzles in C. But I figured more people would understand the tool analogy.)

 

[Reynard]

Isn't Shadowdark a joy to play? It's like years of using complicated machinery to make stuff, and then you realize that all you really need is a small box with some basic hand tools.

Or like working extra hard making complex burgers with all kinds of flavor profiles and special ingredients, and then just making a simple cheeseburger with good beef, good cheese and great bread.

 

[darjr]

Troll Lord Games added a stretch goal to support Shadowdark for “The Hermit”, Gary Gygaxs last adventure. https://discord.com/channels/425649158255411211/572575925045035029/1182363353616760912

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ckg/gary-gygaxs-the-hermit

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Shipping now underway. Looking forward to a lot more groups checking this out in 2024.

 

[Lidgar]

Yep, received my shipping notice today. Looking forward to reading it over the holidays.

 

[darjr]

Demon Dogs! Where’s mine?!

 

[SPECTRE666]

Shadow-Notice received! Books are on the way!!!

 

[kapars]

I’m jealous. I keep checking my address survey, paranoid that I got something wrong. No notice yet.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I’m jealous. I keep checking my address survey, paranoid that I got something wrong. No notice yet.

Apparently 2/3 of the books are already out the door (it's good to have a big successful Kickstarter campaign, I guess), so you and I should be getting our emails soon.