I really wanted to do a quick review, and it’s going to be a challenge to wrap this up in fewer words than the product itself. Mainly because I ooze words. That’s an appropriate analogy, because I’m looking at a Shadow of the Demon Lord product.I’m looking at the one-shot adventure called Killing the Dragon. Casting the Shadow This
Read moreDay twenty-nine. What Has Been The Best Run RPG Kickstarter You Have Backed? I can’t speak to best run, because I don’t know how organized or successful the numbers looked on the company side of things. From my perspective, as a backer, I can say that the return on investment that I got both for Fate Core and for Shadow
Read moreHere we are at day nine of the RPG a Day series of questions for 2017. Today’s question is as follows: What is a Good RPG to Play For About 10 Sessions? Oh, this is an easy one for me to answer–I would definitely answer Shadow of the Demon Lord. I’ve done it! The game is actually designed to be
Read moreFor anyone interested, the next session of the Shadow of the Demon Lord actual play is up on my YouTube channel. Check it out if you are interested. The session clocks in at 3 hours long, and went in some surprising directions. Looking forward to the next session, and please leave a comment here, there are anywhere you can find
Read moreFantasy roleplaying settings where priests get specific, unique powers from other spellcasters often eventually detail individual gods and the priesthoods that follow them. One of the traps that a lot of these supplements fall into is a discussion of the god themselves, avatar stats, and actual facts about what the god has done in the setting. Often left out are
Read moreWhen I have biases that I can identify, I like to throw them out there. I don’t know why, but I’m a sucker for cold settings. Maybe it’s because I saw The Empire Strikes Back more than any other movie in my formative years. I don’t really prefer cold weather, per se, but I love visualizing a cold and icy
Read moreSettings that want to convey a sense of history often have an ancient, fallen empire or two in their past. This give a sense of the passage of time, a delineation of what was “before” and what was “later.” It also creates a far removed source for all kinds of things modern people in the setting might bump into. Tombs
Read moreAmong some gamers, it has become a point of contention whether you are “pro-Tolkien” or “anti-Tolkien.” Some of this comes from remarks that Michael Morecock has made about Tolkien, casting his own work as rejecting many of the notions that Tolkien’s work holds as fundamental. Another aspect of this divide can be found in Gary Gygax’s general disdain for Tolkien’s
Read moreThe lower planes have a long and illustrious history in roleplaying games. One of the first illustrations I remember looking at in my Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 1stedition books was “A Paladin in Hell.” Given the dark fantasy themes of Shadow of the Demon Lord, a supplement all about Hell and its inhabitants probably isn’t a surprise. One thing to
Read morePreviously, we looked at some rules heavy supplements for Shadow of the Demon Lord. While the mechanical resolutions in the game tend to be fairly straightforward, there are lots of modular elements in the game that allow for various sliders when it comes to complexity and granularity in the game. Individual elements don’t tend to be too complicated, but there
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