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Shadowdark RPG Deep Dive

The Lazy RPG Podcast - D&D and RPG News and GM Prep from Sly Flourish

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The Darkest Dungeons: The Slot Based Encumbrance

The way the slot based encumbrance work actually feels like it's coming from the game darkest dungeons. If you've ever played the video game darkest dungeons this is exactly how it works. Torches matter a lot. You need to light your torches to keep the area dark or lit so that the monsters aren't so hard and you're not getting attacked all the time. It uses treasure based experience which is the way kind of old school D&D did itYou got experience points based on gold value and stuff like this. This one abstracts that as well so you essentially have like zero XP for like mundane stuff that doesn't really matter One XP for sort of like normal treasure three XP

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