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That's also a really cool idea, and makes me wonder how my players would've handled that... As is, they just made sure Ikram's village knew he was an evil dude and that they wouldn't support him anymore. If I'd played the archmage angle, he might've turned into a recurring Big Bad, even!

Fair criticism; I never really ran the wizard as a combat obstacle, only as a social encounter who locked the party in the cellar and ran away when they smashed open the trapdoor (he's less of a battle mage in my mind and more of a deranged scientist). If you want to go the combat route and have him "defeatable", the mage statblock would probably be a much better fit. Or, hey, use an apprentice statblock. The dude captured a child to experiment on, he's not necessarily strong.

So, yeah, totally fair. Don't know if I thought more than two seconds about that stat reference. Sorry ^^

Hi, just a heads-up, in the PDF on page 2, Writing, Game Design, Graphic Design is credited to "Thomas Soundtrack", which I suspect is incorrect ;)

It’s not dead, but due to real life happening and some of the core editing team inexplicably dropping off the face of the earth, it stalled for a while. Things are picking up, lately, though, so keep your fingers crossed!

Plans, certainly. Time, at the moment, not so much :( I’m glad you like it, though!

Sadly, no. It’s in progress, but currently stalled due to an overload of real life :( His art does rock! And there‘ll be more in issue 2!

Weird answer: maybe! (Not a pro either.) I have never really thought about it and am not sure how it’s important, because all I use page numbers for is finding my place in a book, but I guess now I’ll read up on what’s the „done thing“ and maybe change it next time 😊

It should work now, we reuploaded the files.

There's 24 pages in the roll table booklet, jam-packed with tables (see screenshots).

Yeah, we’re facing some issues on that front. I’ll let you know when it’s resolved.

Oh no! I guess all of us missed that one. Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it ASAP (at least in the PDF).

ETA: It is fixed now, in PDF and POD.

Thanks for pointing that out! Apparently the itch.io search only searches titles, so I changed the title of this page. The zine can now be found by searching "Shadowdark".

Excellent point, immediately rectified. (Did I mistype “Sh*ts in the Dark” at first? I sure did! 🙈)

I’ll post a devlog update here. Also, if you’re on the ShadowDark discord, there’s a thread there as well.

There absolutely is! We'll be opening submissions for issue #2 soon.

Thanks! ☺️ Wanted to cover at least 365 different prompts (plus some to spare) and 400 seemed the best number to settle on. I’ve been rolling on the table 3 times for each prompt to get maximum combo inspiration!