OSR Fans Celebrate: Kelsey Dionne’s Shadowdark Triumphs with 4 Gold Medals in Epic Ennie Awards Sweep

3 Aug at 16:00

A party of adventurers, rendered in black-and-white in the style of a medieval wood carving block print.

The Shadowdark tabletop role-playing game won the leading reward in this year’sEnnie Awards And that’s not all! A panel of experts provided the old-school-inspired RPG 3 various other gold medals also, consisting of Best Game, Best Layout and Design, and alsoBest Rules That provides designer Kelsey Dionne and her group at The Arcane Library regarding as tidy a move you can enter Gen Con’s greatest honors program.

Shadowdark was a little bit of a sluggish shed amongst specialized followers of the TTRPG style, where it went far for itself primarily through word of mouth in the years complying with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it took a prominent Kickstarter campaign in 2023 to absolutely bring the game right into the general public awareness. There it increased almost $1.4 million– a substantial amount for a TTRPG of any type of kind, not to mention a throwback such as this one. Its a rules-light system that equates well for gamers that reduced their teeth on fifth version Dungeons & &Dragons It’s best for Game Masters and teams seeking even more flexible, much less direct experiences.

While physical duplicates of Shadowdark are presently marketed out, you can pre-order one from the following printing for$59 If you do, you’ll additionally obtain accessibility to a PDF variation of that web content quickly. There’s additionally a free quickstart, including slim pamphlets for both gamers and game masters alike. It includes a starting dungeon crawl entitled Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur.