Unnatural Selection and Into the Shadowlands - Shadowdark Supplements Flip-through and Review 

OH HEY! Thank you so much for the review of Unnatural Selection! So happy that you enjoyed it! And after reading some of the comments here, our purpose was to help ease the transition from 5e to Shadowdark (because you better believe we want to open the WORLD to OSR). And we worked extremely hard to make sure that even the Fiend won't be an overpowered version of the fighter, and I think we were successful! There are times when our players feel like the Fiend is underpowered, and there are times when they feel like, "Oh man, that one particular talent SAVED our asses." And that's ultimately what you want. The goal was to make sure that the 4 main classes were always the most powerful, and that ours were great alternatives to add flavor and options.

Dungeon Damsel and Co. have really been working hard to keep everything in Unnatural Selection within the spirit and the "power" of the Shadowdark corebook, so much so that some of the earlier iterations for some of the classes were practically underpowered. Playtesting and typo fixing will officially resume once the holidays are over.

Lol I own both, great additions to Shadowdark. Which I full support I have left Wotc behind. 1e feel 5e mechanics. Which I fully support, and it doesn't line the pockets to the greedy Dragon.

I think it’s funny that someone COULD NOT WAIT to put in finesse weapons and make Dex OP. 😂

20:12 - Into The Shadowlands flip-through begins.

I did not know about Into The Shadowlands. I will have to pick that up if DriveThru will get caught up with their print on demand. Thanks for the heads up.

With races I've come to ignore many of their mechanical "extras" and only focus on the ability bonus. I can hear players raging about their 120' dark vision and +5 AC they get from garbage already. Since no races have downsides, I over corrected and negate much the dumb positives, just leaving the More strong, More magical, or More dodge mechanics behind. "Everyone can be super heroes, everyone can be super, and with everyone super no one will be" -Syndrome

I was waiting to see if you would cover Unnatural Selection. Happy to hear your thoughts and how much of the content would port over into your Curse of Strahd game. Also cheers and happy holidays. RedMage!!

some interesting stuff, but just trying to re 5e everything doesn't appeal to me. Thank you for the overview

I hear zelda in the background! Love it!

Too bad about the power creep… I appreciate the review. Saving me some money, I think for me, it’s best to stick to the core book.

NOICE good overview

This, and the video on Shadowdark proper were very up my particular alley for n the hobby. Thanks so much! You got a new subscriber in me. Looking forward to checking out your upcoming (and older) content!

The music in the background is pretty cool.

This is a great review I had already backed Unnatural Selection, and so glad I never bothered with Into the Shadowlands. I was wondering, are you going to do a review of ShadowSun (a really good Shadowdark version of Dark Sun)? 😈😈😈

Assassin (Into the Shadowlands) seems like a weaker version of Thief tbh. Assassinate doubles damage. Backstab doubles damage on 1st level, but triples on levels 2-3, quadruples on levels 4-6 and so on. 10th level Thief rolls 7d6 for damage when hitting with shortsword (so they deal 7-42 damage) 10th level Assassin rolls 2d6 for damage when hitting with shortsword (technically they roll 1d6 and doubles it, but still range is only 2-12). Or am I getting something wrong?

Seeing these supplements is sort of my concern with Shadowdark, starting to look a lot like 5E.

Does the Unnatural Selection Fiend class seem more powerful than the standard Shadowdark Fighter class?

@RedMageGM Do you think the Into the Shadowlands classes would be better dismantled and their abilities handed out piecemeal as class-specific magic items for the classes they otherwise tread on? Or are the abilities so similar that the double-dipping would feel uninspired?