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Thanks for this! My players rescued a weaver's apprentice from a giant spider cocoon, so I will give them 1 XP for that! Loving ShadowDark RPG so much better than D&D 5e!

I wish I could have been in for the Kickstarter.

JP's whimsical art style juxtaposed against Shadowdark is tripping me out. I wish I could talk my players into trying Shadowdark. When I've tried other lower-powered systems, they long for 5e. They just like being able to kick butt from level 1. They straight up hated the DCC funnel, which I think is the coolest part of the game, but a kid rolls a 3 for intelligence and they get all kinds of upset about it.

Minor tipo, you have "singbats", which also seem like a cool monster.

Lets go $100k!

This would be awesome for Shadowdark, fingers crossed it happened. Lots of interesting stuff in the newsletter as well…looks like I shall be backing some more Kickstarters…

Nice demo! P.S Morlocks are from H.G Wells "Time Machine" book!

Backed already. Running SD solo so this is chocolate + peanut butter. For the SD module, I’d love to see a table of prompts/ suggestions in each dungeon level, for who a new PC could be when a player needs to roll up a new PC. I find that hard to come up with sometime, and so for this level having “a prisoner of faction X” or “a delver from Y” would be helpful.

This was freaking cool!

Great video. Didn't the kickstarter was going on already. Also, idk if I'm going crazy but the audio sounds a bit off to me. A bit hissy, idk.

This is y I backed it wait what will the shadowdark conversation be in print

OMG! Can’t wait for this book, JP is so cool!

Super cool video

Been following the kickstarter so glad to see somebody do it with Shadow dark

Love seeing people converting or revamping modules for their own needs.

That's sick! Also loved the "internet is a series of tubes" reference 😂

I use the same Sly Flourish template! So handy! Did you make the notion monster stats by hand or does that exist somewhere I could import? I never thought to put the Shadowdark monsters into notion it's brilliant.

thanks for sharing

Thanks. That was an interesting watch to see how the methodology can be applied.

Ok milestones…thanks! I was thinking this was to subjective a rumor they find (+1xp!) a new location unlocked (+1xp!) cool

Treasure should be a reward in itself. I never understood the idea behind giving Exp for treasure. That is so.... "capitalist" (for a lack of a better word). It really feels as far away from my understanding of fantasy as I can possibly think.

Glad you did this video-adapting OSR content for Shadowdark is not as difficult as people think it is, so I'm glad to have a good example of how to do it to refer people to!

My understanding was that the main way to get a significant reward of XP was through Carousing (it being the main gameplay loop)?? And that the XP scale of Oaths in CS3 corresponded to the XP quality chart in the base game. Ie Worthy 1XP, Mighty 3 XP, and Legendary being 10 XP.

Yup, the first half of the memo is this ain't Final Fantasy. You don't get XP just for stacking corpses. But you do get XP for treasure, for really getting into the game, and for doing clever/fun stuff. Reward your players for playing well!

You're a godsend for that Word template alone. Thanks!

I really like Shadowdark. My XP system instead of being based on gold is based on all ability check rolls: crits grant 2 xp, fumbles grants 3 xp. To me it just makes more since to reward XP based on Ability score rolls.

I think the two oaths you are describing are quite different, the oaths in cursed scroll #3 are Oaths you swear, while an Oath in the core rules that you get XP for are oath sworn to you, basically quest rewards such as being promised a title or something

Ugh... you're totally missing the point of Shadowdark. Once you start metagaming the mechanics to figure out how to exploit them just go back to playing 5e. Shadowdark is about playing old school style not exploiting the margins of game mechanics.

Reward the play you want to see. I have my settings history tied to XP. The PCs happen upon a ruined library, they look through the tomes and find one of interest. Once back to town they can study (instead of carouse) and get XP and learn about the location of a wonderous object or the weakness of a powerful enemy. Like a shadowdark description. I distill lore into bite sized nuggets. They are always on the hunt for more.

You are a champion! 👻

Any plans to do (In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe, Through the Valley of the Manticore, The Scourge of Northland? I can tell you from personal experience the second one is amazing and would be great to get other adventures of his in system's like Shadowdark.

Excellent recommendation!

Lord Percy is a retired adventurer in disguise, a level 10 thief who won his lordly title at a poker table when he cheated at cards.

@Night Noon Games tried to sign up for the mailing list to get Attack The Light #0 zine, but it send a link to a different zine.

I’m about to actually GM for my soon to be 5th grade daughter and, possibly, my wife. My original choice was the Fantasy Trip since I played it endlessly as a teenager. However, I’m going with Shadow Dark. The rules a simple and to me much, but not all, of the game’s subject matter is relatable. The new monsters, twists and turns will only add to the game’s appeal as I see it. I actually assumed you going to mention a super hero role playing game. Not as interesting to me, but super relatable to most folks. I know I’m in the minority there, but Champions was a great game-maybe my favorite. Again, my recommendation is pretty dated. Going on memories and I was never the GM.

Appreciate your work!

Nice I’m running that for October!

Great suggestion!

I played Hero Kids with my nephews and they loved it.

EZD6 has become my go to game for introducing people to TTRPGs but I think Ghostbusters as an introductory setting is a stroke of genius so I might need to figure out a way to combine the two the next time I've got someone new at my table

Thanks for exposing me to this. I might add it to my game of Knave. As someone who already likes Ironsworn, yeah oaths are cool :P

I just got into Shadowdark last week and stumbled onto your videos. Thank you for the video, rad stuff.

Totally gotta check out castle Elkenstone! Thanks for making the conversion!!

This is good stuff brother! Can't wait to play it.

10:51 that Charisma bonus of 22 on Samantha Mapleton!

Thanks!

Nice vid!