Shadowdark First Impressions! | Bun & Games RPG Podcast - #4
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I ramble about my experience with Shadowdark while alienating people who like THAC0, Mork Borg and other content.
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If you notice the beginning cut weird, the opening song which was supposed to be royalty free got claimed this time but not the last 3 times. Anyway, I opted to cut it to keep the video monetized.
I call it 5e lite with a splash of DCC.. played my group about 30 sessions and they had fun.. I run mostly DCC now though
This game hits right for me and my group because I wanted something simpler than OSE, darkness being meaningful (no ancestry with darkvision) and for spells like Magic Missile and Fireball (sorry WWN). When you treat Shadowdark as a canvas instead of an entire painting it's great.
I think that is a great way to put it. I also agree that it's simpler than OSE, but I also think the character builds/classes more compelling when I both played and ran the game.
I think DC20 is the next flavor of the month. It has some neat stuff too blending pf2 and 5e together. I passed on the Kickstarter because im gonna dump my cash on Caverns of Thracia DCC stuff.
That was a sound decision I think
At 16:00 about THACO, agreed. THACO is confusing as hell!
Oh shit, hey Blerdy! I've seen your stuff, it's really good! I should sub already. And yeah I am excited to see what comments I get about THAC0.
"Let me know what you'd like to see in future episodes"
I look forward to your Mörk Borg apology episode. You monster.
I think the core of Shadowdark is really fantastic. I play mostly DCC but if I were to heavily homebrew a D20 system I would start with Shadowdark as the base.
Shadowdark sounds like a fun little game.The torch gimmick sounds really interesting, almost like Darkest Dungeon
Darkest Dungeon feels like a HUGE inspiration for this game. When people talk about wanting to do a Darkest Dungeon game, I would absolutely use this for it.
Whole heatedly agree with this entire discussion.
When I see Mork Borg mentioned I always think, "Nanu Nanu, you will be assimilated"
noooo
It's fine to me. It not going to replace DCC for me ever but it's definitely got some good ideas.
I'm glad I limit my social media interactions. I missed out on the hatred against Shadowdark rpg I guess because of that. I did go all in on the Kickstarter for Shadowdark rpg. I only have a couple issues with Shadowdark which I can tweak easily and have to use it the way I want to. It feels like a less over the top gonzo DCC rpg as an aside. Which isn't a bad thing in my opinion. DCC rpg can be a bit too much for some, though I'm a big fan personally and own most of it as well.
Basically I'm not much of a fan of D&D overall, some editions can be more fun than others but its all interesting. If I run D&D, I'd rather run a variant of it like Shadow of the Demonlord, DCC or Shadowdark. All three can be a lot of fun to run or play in. Though honestly I'm more of a skills based generic system fan, like GURPS, Savage Worlds, Basic Roleplay systems from Chaosium (CoC, RQ etc).
Firmly in the bucket of 'neat, but what else you got' for me. OSR F20 game with some ideas but a little too safe to catch my interest.
Topic suggestion: turning grid map dungeons into point crawls?
thac0 is a bit of a pain but as a way to make it easier it was just replaced with your attack bonus. If you think of it as "To Hit AC 20" instead then in modern terms, with no attack bonus you need a 20.. as you level up to say lvl 3 and get a +2 attack bonus then you only need an 18. Thinking of it that way look back at the chart and it makes it seem less complicated.. i still dont care for it though.
Too many bad words in this discussion. Please include more advertizer friendly words in the future like unalive.
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