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Heya,
I'm working on organizing a collaboration between all of the Shadowdark creators from Appx. N Jam. If you're interested find me on the SD Discord or msg on bsky.
Neat little dino-island!
I wonder what’s to be done, though. Sure, one could avoid the Pterodactyl to finish the ritual, but how will we get of that island?
Ok, im gonna run this one. That's so good i'm gonna rut it, no jokes. Maybe next week. That's clean and good, just perfect. I'm gonna play it.
Stellar adventure; such a great set up and so much more than your run of the mill dinosaur island adventure. Excited to run it for my table.
The map on the cover has a lot of great detail. Maybe a strange comparison but Izzitz really reminded me of Starscream, the best transformer. Cool take on a dinosaur adventure that isn;t just being chased around non stop by mindless blood thirsty dinosaurs.
Very unique and memorable adventure that manages to be fantastically light-hearted! (poor Aldo!)
Well written, and consistent with the Shadowdark RPG style! The formatting is clean, I love that the map doubles as a cover (almost like an establishing shot, too!). The random encounters are good too, I love the variety. The storm mechanic is a clever way to make sure the adventure continues to escalate. Great job!
Novel mechanics like the storm are awesome to see for Shadowdark! In a way it's a lot like framing the random encounters of a typical dungeon to an outside space and that just makes all kinds of sense in a system that dispenses with overly complicated systems.
I am not specifically a dino kid, current or former, but this and their sentience might have converted me.
All in all a very tidy little point crawl that could easily evolve into a mini hexcrawl if you were to develop just a few more pages. Very fun stuff!
My final thought is that with the exception of the 4 spell scrolls bringing the average for loot up this is maybe just a little stingy on loot, totaling maybe 10xp depending on your reading of the rewards. This is of course a very personal design choice.
Getting Jurassic park vibes going on here. Cool adventure to explore and witness dinosaurs! Nitpick is the spelling but besides from that, a worthwhile adventure to play. Great map design!
Love sapient saurians with dastardly agendas. Very fun contained adventure here! The map is wonderful.
Noticed a handful of spelling errors, but nothing that confuses reading of the adventure.
I love the cover map a lot. It gets better the closer you look. Great use, overall, of the Shadowdark format - nice and clean and easy to use at the table.
A dinosaur that wishes to be dragon! I am already signed up, I've boarded the boat, I am wrecking it against the reef, my body is ready to be transported up the mountain to the ritual chamber.
Brilliant stuff! Very pulpy map and the dinosaur kid in me is incredibly satisfied haha. Love that the dinosaurs are actually sapient too.