d8 Shadowdark House Rules (S5E1)

With help from the Lair community, we collected eight house rules for Shadowdark. On this episode, we run through these rule hacks, offering our thoughts on how they might impact the game. Most of these are not rules we’ve tried ourselves, so we’d love some more field reports! And yep, we’re looking for even more rules variants. Leave your feedback and/or house rules in the comments, or email us at podcast@lairofsecrets.com. 00:00 Introduction to House Rules 00:25 House Rule 1 - No Torch Alarms by Sly Flourish 02:16 Digression: David's real-world LED torch timer 04:14 House Rule 2 - One Hour Minus 1d12 on Torch Timers by Sly Flourish 07:30 House Rule 3 - Add Henchmen to Mitigate TPKs 09:39 House Rule 4 - Constitution Score as Hit Points 13:32 House Rule 5 - 30 minute timers for torches 16:22 House Rule 6 - Sneaky Triggers 18:43 House Rule 7 - More Magic Missiles 21:12 House Rule 8 - The Crawling Clock 27:21 Obligatory Banter: Finishing the U.S.S. Enterprise 32:50 R2-D2 Model Rocket Complete! 35:07 Anticipating the Mars Lander 37:19 David's Theatrical Debut in Dracula 43:43 Celebrating Milestones and Future Plans