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Shadowdark Review (Extended) (Patreon)

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2023-02-19 23:10:30
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PDM reviews an advance copy of Shadowdark from Arcane Library. Not to be missed. 

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Shadowdark.mp4

Comments

Bagel-Man

Excited to watch this later!

Gregory Helding

I can’t wait to back this game! (And play it at my table!!)

MrGunn

I will be pledging for certain. I just signed up for the HarnWorld Hardcover, super pumped about that. If you have never seen HarnWorld you are missing out, check out it out on Columbia Games Inc for more info. I am probably gonna skip the DCC monster manual, not my tea. Keep up the great work, even if you don't normally endorse Kickstarters, it is good to know about the interesting ones.

MrGunn

PDM, don't worry about your TTRPG having to be 'different', everyone likes pizza and hamburgers. Do your version of a TTRPG aka Deathbringer, your passion and innovations will make it fantastic and something people will want. I also think expanding on your Cloque House horror rules would be cool too, I thought they were great.

William Smith

I have been a huge fan of Kelsey’s Shadowdark work for a short while now.

GM James

I've been running my most recent campaign with Shadowdark, and I absolutely love it. I'm really excited to back the kickstarter.

Doan Roessler

I've been playing this game since Kelsey released the quickstart. It is now my and my family's fave version of d&d to play! Can't wait for the full version!

SJBehindtheScreen

Full agreement. Kelsey is a great designer and fully engages with the community. Get the game, Shadowdark is very good!

Jon Rennick

I’ve been using the one hour real-time torch rule from the quickstart in my Deathbringer game. It works really well! Especially with the slot based inventory.

Elated Muse

Now, I am excited! You have been hanging onto that for a while! This is sounding like the kind of game. I really want to run! Knowing goodman games is coming out with dungeon denizens. I can imagine this will be a perfect fit with that as well.

Masterhit

All over this kickstarter!

Jay

Already signed up for launch notification for Shadowdark. Always, look forward to supporting Kelsey as well as other independent creators.

Jay
>>102285800

Not familiar with HarnWorld. Thanks for the tip. I will check it out.

Elvis Ramone
>>102285800

I forgot about Hârn! A favorite system neutral world that did not get the love it deserved. I really think they added a system because so many people did not understand the idea of "here's a world, well flushed out, play it with your system." Glad to see Columbia Games still around.

David Ford

I need another rules set like I need a hole in my head. Hey! What’s that? A hole in my head. 😀 Seriously, thanks PDM. It looks great and I’m off to back it now.

jnlsn family

Cool, but even this will be overshadowed by the greatness of The Lost City.

The Tabletop Engineer

Dan, I absolutely CANNOT WAIT for this game. I love OSE and will continue to play it, but this is going to appeal to my son and his friends with some of the similar 5e mechanics. Shadowdark looks incredible!

Chuck Thorin

I love Shadowdark. I discovered it when the old Beta rules were up. I grabbed up the Quick Start and Cursed Scroll Zine No 1 (Yes, Kelsey has already written some extra stuff for Shadowdark). There's a generous Third Party license for it. And yes in my current Deathbringer game, I'm using the spells from Shadowdark. And finally, Shadowdark works seamlessly with UDT using zoned combat. I can't wait for this one to go live at the end of the month.

Brent Norton

I will definitely back this product.

Jim Van Cura

Thanks for the OSE encorpqoration/comparison

NØKKEN_WAITS

this sounds awesome!!!! As a DM who is head over heel in love with Mork Borg, I can't wait to see this.

ViggenCA

Absolutely looking forward to this one on release. Here's hoping shipping to Canada will be reasonable enough for physical copies.

Bark Madly

Those random tables *would* make a great DM screen! Love that idea!

Raven Shadowz

I would also recommend getting her Shadowdark Quickstart, you get a lot of material for just $20 and it's worth it, even though things have changed since what happened with the OGL. You will not regret buying them.

Graham Kane

Ok, you had me at the character sheet, I'm definitely backing this. This (alongside Deathbringer and ICRPG) is basically the game I want to play. It looks like the perfect way to introduce die hard 5E players to a grittier, old school game in a relatively painless way! I watched Kelsey's video she made about how the OGL debacle was affecting this project and potentially her future career and my heart went out to her. This is the perfect example for all the people whose reaction to the OGL scandal was "what's all the fuss about?"

Jason Sunday

What is the launch day for this?

Matt Thompson

I got to play test Shadowdark with Kelsey and the game is amazing. @Jason Sunday - the Kickstarter launches 28th February.

Jibcutter

Great vid, had never heard of this one before now. Since joined their discord and Kelsey said the following last night regarding KS launch time: "I think it will be at 6:30 am eastern, which I know is a bit odd, but I don't know exaaaactly when some YouTubers plan to post Shadowdark videos that day, only that it will be in the morning... so I want to have it all live before that 😅 I think catching the eastern timezone in the morning is also a good thing

Gregory Helding

The Kickstarter is live! And already smashed its funding goal.

Ed Krystowski

Nice RPG. I don't follow kickstarters, but hope she does well as I see a lot of potential in her work. Esp. love the carousing mechanic. Great stuff!

Steven Fader

Backed at the highest level, thanks for the tip. Looks great!

Cee-Jay

Hey Prof, was this paid endorsement? If/When you do a paid endorsement, is that the kind of thing that you'll disclose to us? Great video and sounds like a solid system.

Daniel Defazio
>>103157974

No. I don't do paid endorsements. I DID take payment from Goodman Games and Kobald Press because I wrote for them.

Cee-Jay
>>103157974

Thanks Prof. I fully support you in getting paid however you like, I just want to know when it's a paid endorsement or not. So I appreciate the quick response very much. The reason I asked is that Shadow Dark ended up being promoted by pretty much every creator I frequent at nearly the same time, so it kinda felt like a big, coordinated media blitz. Not that there is anything wrong with that, just wanting to be clear. Love your content, thanks so much!

Staffaramus

Jumped on the first day! Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Tyler Efaw

Thank you for the review. I've heard great things about Shadowdark and you've solidified my backing,

Darrin

I felt compelled to back it.

Daniel Defazio
>>103157974

It's funny. We KNOW each other and communicate regularly--but I never spoke to Ben Milton, Baron DeRopp, or Hankerin' Ferinale about Shadowdark specifically. Ben and I are doing a panel at GenCon so our last few emails are about that-I never thought o ask him what he thought of SD at any time.

Jesper Wallin

I joined the backing movement right away too!