• tiberius@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Shadowdark has very appealing features

      • real-time torches
      • simple ancestry
      • 2 page classes
      • limited carrying capacity
      • shorten stat block
      • high risk high reward casting system
      • loot based xp system
      • large font

      It’s a nice refreshing meal of OSR while still holding a 5E blankey.

  • Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@dice.camp
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    5 days ago

    I understand that in some countries, Call of Cthulhu is more popular than D&D, based mainly on a series of video interviews by Don’t Stop Thinking asking about various DungeonTubers’ local scenes. Pathfinder was also lesser-known outside the US at the time of those interviews, though that might have changed by now since the interviews happened before the OGL debacle of 2023.

    • Kichae@wanderingadventure.party
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      4 days ago

      Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary Paizo has absolutelly shit international distribution, and primarily relies on licensing deals for translations (which means there are limited translations). So it’s both incredibly expensive to get the books outside of North America, and to get it in yout language you have to wait months to years.

      Even here in Canada it can be a pain in the ass sometimes.

      • Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary@dice.camp
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        5 days ago

        Yep! The relative smallness of D&D in Japan is only secondarily about Sword World existing, and primarily about just how popular CoC is there, from what I can tell. CoC seems to just generally be better-known internationally than Pathfinder is, or was at the time at least.

  • nocturne@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    My d&d group tried daggerheart for a few sessions. It felt very incomplete. We have discussed trying draw steel, but I could not get everyone to commit.