I Review the 2024 D&D Player's Handbook and Shadowdark!

Professor DM reviews the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook AND multiple ENNIE award winning Shadowdark TTRPG! (Ep. 409)

BATTLEZOO BESTIARY ELEMENTAL STORM!

[Jorphdan]

I mean Shadowdark seems pretty cool, cause I can see the pages in your review. 😆

[BlaueEnte_]

Shadowdark and Kelsey deserves every good thing that comes their way, amazing book.

[scottlette]

Congratulations to Shadowdark, and its creator, for winning that sweet Ennie.

[logarithm]

i love how shadowdark is sort of a reaction to literally every race having darkvision in 5e

[LenGrady]

The blurs crack me up- well played, sirrah.

[chuck-n-debtaylor]

“The more annoying the Bard, the more satisfying it is to kill them!” I did laugh out loud for this…thanks DB 💪👍🏻

[TheCastleKeeper]

Kelsey won't strike you - very safe of you!

[Tulkash]

“I’ve seen Riverdance and MY WIFE loves it”.

I see what you did there, good sir!

[philmophlegm]

Shadowdark would be great if you could actually buy the damned book! I don't know what it's like in the US, but here in the UK, it's essentially a PDF-only product for most people. You can't even buy it direct from Arcane Library at the moment (August 2024). You can pre-order for the next print-run, which would cost me £48 here in the UK (which is already pretty pricy to be honest), and then the cheapest and slowest shipping on top of that is £14 with an unknown courier or £48 with FedEx. So £96 for one book! There are no UK stockists. Not one. There was no retailer pledge option for the kickstarter. They don't have accounts with _any_ UK wholesalers. They don't even offer a print-on-demand option through something like DriveThru. I bought the PDF and it does look good, but call me old-fashioned - I want a physical product.

[danddjacko]

I think showing the pages of the Shadow Dark book, while the PHB was obscured, was pure genius 😁👍

[AJBernard]

Professor DM blurring the cover image of the 2024 PHB in the first seconds of his video is one of the most awesome things I've ever seen a DungeonTuber do, and my already immense respect for the Professor doubled.

Dude. Yes. 1000%.

[aaronfrey]

I love Shadowdark way more than current D&D because of it's simplicity and dangerous vibe. But while the SD rule book does have only four classes, they have released companion material with a bunch other ones, including Ranger and Bard.

[israelmorales]

This comparison became something "unintentionally" satirical.
I need to try Shadowdark, and now more with the Oyster Shuckle brothel.

Thx for the video PDM!

[greetingcardboy]

My jaw is on the floor. I had heard about how amazing Shadowdark's art was, but that was astounding to see. Sold, sold, sold! And thank you!

[psyjax]

I've been playing Basic Fantasy for a couple of years now. It's simple and straight forward. It's great to play with my kids who can grok the rules pretty quickly and jump in to some exciting adventures.

[hrothgarrannulfr]

Absolutely hilarious that you blurred out the stuff from the WotC book.
Thank you for sparing my eyes!

[chancerusso]

You said in the video that you get the PDFs for the D&D books. You meant you get the DDB version. They do NOT give PDFs for their books. But you know this already.

[tednovy]

I need to get my eyes checked, selective blurriness; but one thing is clear, I always watch Dungeon Craft content.

[donwebster]

Glad to hear about Jorphdan, but equally glad to see a review hear.

[FablesD]

We ran a shadowdark oneshot where we merged good society into the rules to run a high society "knights tale" inspired adventure. Way easier that 5e.