What do people think of Shadowdark?
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
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What are your thoughts on it, @FrostBolt ? Have you played or run it?
I haven't played or run it; however, I've been watching videos on it and reading the free quickstart.
After more reflection, I probably won't be using it. It's very much in the OSR vein, and I am finding I'm getting tired of the medieval fantasy tropes. I'm mostly looking into Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition right now.
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.