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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8966828" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>In the OSR space, 99% of dungeon crawler games are building off of a platform resembling OD&D (most famously Swords & Wizardry) or BX (most famously Old School Essentials). Almost no games are stripping down a 5E platform other than Shadowdark and 5 Torches Deep, which also adds new systems, which Shadowdark doesn't really do.</p><p></p><p>And, as [USER=52905]@darjr[/USER] said, Dionne has a reputation among a lot of DMs for writing <em>great</em> adventures, which famously can be run cold, without even reading the adventure first ahead of time (obviously, it's better if you do) and still have a solid experience. I've run either three or four of her adventures and every one of them was a success, something I don't think I can say about any other designer in my experience.</p><p></p><p>She's also got a YouTube presence, and is a known quantity in that space, so after a few reviews she requested to have done (most notably with Questing Beast, the big dog of OSR YouTubers), a bunch of the other D&D YouTubers, who tend to run in packs after whatever the new shiny subject of the day is, all jumped on board and began reviewing the very robust quickstart rules she released as part of the campaign.</p><p></p><p>TLDR:</p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If she's not doing something new, it's still uncommon, and familiar to the mass of 5E fans, rather than most directly appealing to the smaller crowd of old school fans;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">She has put in the work and has an established reputation as an excellent designer;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The YouTube community is helping elevate what even she thought would be kind of a niche product.</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8966828, member: 11760"] In the OSR space, 99% of dungeon crawler games are building off of a platform resembling OD&D (most famously Swords & Wizardry) or BX (most famously Old School Essentials). Almost no games are stripping down a 5E platform other than Shadowdark and 5 Torches Deep, which also adds new systems, which Shadowdark doesn't really do. And, as [USER=52905]@darjr[/USER] said, Dionne has a reputation among a lot of DMs for writing [I]great[/I] adventures, which famously can be run cold, without even reading the adventure first ahead of time (obviously, it's better if you do) and still have a solid experience. I've run either three or four of her adventures and every one of them was a success, something I don't think I can say about any other designer in my experience. She's also got a YouTube presence, and is a known quantity in that space, so after a few reviews she requested to have done (most notably with Questing Beast, the big dog of OSR YouTubers), a bunch of the other D&D YouTubers, who tend to run in packs after whatever the new shiny subject of the day is, all jumped on board and began reviewing the very robust quickstart rules she released as part of the campaign. TLDR: [LIST=1] [*]If she's not doing something new, it's still uncommon, and familiar to the mass of 5E fans, rather than most directly appealing to the smaller crowd of old school fans; [*]She has put in the work and has an established reputation as an excellent designer; [*]The YouTube community is helping elevate what even she thought would be kind of a niche product. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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