Tabletop Roleplaying Games

5 readers

1 users here now

A community for discussing tabletop roleplaying games and related hobbies. **Related Communities:**

founded 1 year ago

What do people think of Shadowdark? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by FrostBolt@kbin.social to c/RPG@kbin.social

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's a new system whose Kickstarter raised $1.3 million since February. I'm curious about it but would like to hear more people's thoughts.

Some background material:

Shadowdark Fixes Everything Wrong with D&D 5e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyaEk0O3Yy0

Publisher's site, where you can download a free quickstart set of PDFs
https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sexybenfranklin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think the "torches last a real world hour" is a cool mechanic, mostly for pacing reasons, but otherwise I am mostly uninterested in a game that got extremely astroturfed in the rpg subreddit.