Shadowdark: Western Reaches Live Stream AMA

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Can't lie, that strikes me as a worrisome idea. But I'm sure Kelsey will figure out how to do it correctly.

It's a one year duration and only available to wizards who get access to the spell from that Cursed Scroll, and she's designated it as only for Lawful wizards.

And if all else fails, she says that darkmantles permanently dispel magical light sources.

 

[Scribe]

It's a one year duration and only available to wizards who get access to the spell from that Cursed Scroll, and she's designated it as only for Lawful wizards.

And if all else fails, she says that darkmantles permanently dispel magical light sources.

It's also Tier 5.

 

[Arilyn]

And monsters can steal the lighted object and run away with it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The City of Masks in Cursed Scrolls #6 is going to permanently ruin the argument that Shadowdark is for dungeon crawling only. Urban intrigue in a non-crapsack city and featuring the swashbuckling Duelist sounds great, though.

I thought her tone when talking about Judges Guild's City State of the Invincible Overlord -- where everything is awful, worse even than Lankhmar -- was interesting. She's no edgelord.

 

[overgeeked]

The City of Masks in Cursed Scrolls #6 is going to permanently ruin the argument that Shadowdark is for dungeon crawling only. Urban intrigue in a non-crapsack city and featuring the swashbuckling Duelist sounds great, though.

I thought her tone when talking about Judges Guild's City State of the Invincible Overlord -- where everything is awful, worse even than Lankhmar -- was interesting. She's no edgelord.

That’s one thing I don’t get about the discussion surrounding Shadowdark. It’s not a grimdark edge lord game. At least it’s not presented as such. Some of the art is downright goofy, there’s some levity in the writing, and some of the carousing results are hilarious. This isn’t a dark, dark, and more dark game. It’s just lethal.

 

[Bill Zebub]

And monsters can steal the lighted object and run away with it.

Yup. She pointed out that monsters (presumably mostly the dark-dwelling ones) hate hate hate light. Imagine how much more they hate MAGICAL light!

All sorts of fun opportunities to mess with the players.

All in good fun, of course.