Realm of Shadows Roguelite & Scoring

Realm of Shadows was a Kickstarter from 2022 published by Gabe Barrett.

Here you find actually fun rulebooks that fit in your game box. One for The forgotten road, the other for Last Stronghold. Both are excellent games - provided you use the ruleset here.

USAGE:  either download onto your iPhone, eReader or print at school/office then cut margins and bind into a booklet (it has been tested to fit on a pnp box).

The  reason that these files are not free is that to make them required a lot of work, skill, several iterations and attention. Nobody else was capable to do this. You can watch the dev log on my youTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlkfrSsT8HVgr1oGcaWz1LvfF3fCFtAfJ

As for intellectual property aspects: the creative components (images, logo) are of course Gabe's, I'm not claiming ownership of his product. A good analogy would be a car with crappy fuel vs a car with ideal fuel, you would pay for ideal fuel too. Decide for yourself, check out the free DEMO files.

Unfortunately his rulebooks traditionally aren't very good, for example 

(-) there is no terminology, 

(-) no scoring, and 

(-) very little agency. It has 

(-) no difficulty settings, at least very poor ones, and in unsuspected places;

(-) messing up / using synonyms without definitions.

Finally, Gabe stubbornly sticks to 

(-) sans serif no matter what, even when everyone knows white on black gives headaches. 

You can check the bgg entries if you think I'm exaggerating. Gabe is very creative and productive, he just needs some guidance. But not from me, I've given him tons of constructive feedback, and he just doesn't get it.

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