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What's the deal with Shadow World?

Started by Warthur, August 07, 2007, 07:14:51 AM

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Akrasia

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August 10, 2007, 12:56:39 PM
Quote from: Claudius... It's a mish mash of different ideas, some of them cool by themselves, but awful when mixed together; it felt as if the authors added every random idea they could come up with. There were so many kinds of monsters, and so much weird stuff, that I didn't know how peasants were supposed to grow food. :confused:

That's a legacy of the way that ICE developed Shadow World in the late 1980s.  Essentially, in some cases, they took some modules originally designed for other settings and systems (e.g. Call of Cthulhu, D&D, etc.) and adapted them for Shadow World.  In other cases, the authors didn't have a firm understanding of what SW was about.  The result is a weird mix.

However, if you stick to only those campaign modules and materials written by the setting's original author, Terry K. Amthor, you end up with a very coherent setting.  Aside from Amthor's superb stuff (especially Jaiman), if I were running a SW campaign I would only use the Norek city book.  Everything else isn't worth getting.
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