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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 8968895" data-attributes="member: 20323">Totally, as a GM I adore books like Beyond the Wall and WWN which have a far greater lifespan than the confines of the system they're presented with because the worldbuilding / player group building tools are so well-developed.Shadowdark left me really on the fence. I really liked Kelsey's Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse and listened to several of her video blogs about her approach to various issues facing GMs, and I was excited about Shadowdark. But when I read through the playtest player/GM booklets, I realized it felt like a reskin of B/X with a light coating of 5e without much in the way of innovation. Based on what I've seen, it's not really compatible with 5e either; so, that reason for getting it instead of B/X or OSE goes out the window. I'm sure her layout and organization will beat B/X out of the water, but if I want a B/X experience I feel like I already have things for that.It's a hard sell for me because I can't really see what Shadowdark is offering... if it's just a miscast system and two house rules ("always in initiative" & "torch time = real time") then that's more like a fantasy heartbreaker I could tack on to anything I do. The way she talked about it, versus what was in the playtest, I don't know, I found it hard to remain excited.</blockquote>