Hello! The book is lovely! I was wondering if you had considered releasing a more print-at-home friendly pdf option with the background texture removed to save on ink? Thanks for including solo play options, I can't wait to try it soon!
Saw this on sale and had to pick it up, loving the slow fading away and mystery of the setting and really intrigued by the resource management aspect and how strange and flavourful the spells feel. The Heron's Path system also immediately feels like it would be so interesting in a longer campaign, really excited to run this!
I really enjoyed this game. I found the setting to be highly evocative; the text and illustrations made my mind wander and left me eager to try it out.
I loved the magic traditions, though I was a bit frustrated to see that most spells are focused on causing or healing damage. I felt the effects could be more creative.
I appreciated that the brief bestiary has its own flavor and doesn’t just adapt traditional creatures to the setting.
The system seemed quite interesting, although, just by reading, I have trouble imagining how material from other OSR/NSR games might be adapted to this one. It's something I need to experience in practice to fully assess.
Overall, very well done! Shadows of a Dying Sun is a very intriguing game, both in terms of setting and mechanics.
Is there any plan for a license for third-party creations?
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Hello! The book is lovely! I was wondering if you had considered releasing a more print-at-home friendly pdf option with the background texture removed to save on ink? Thanks for including solo play options, I can't wait to try it soon!
Hey! At this time, there are no plans for a release like that.
No worries, thanks for the reply!
Saw this on sale and had to pick it up, loving the slow fading away and mystery of the setting and really intrigued by the resource management aspect and how strange and flavourful the spells feel. The Heron's Path system also immediately feels like it would be so interesting in a longer campaign, really excited to run this!
Thanks for the kind words! Hope you love it!
Nails the baroque, evocative tone of the "dying earth" genre perfectly.
I really enjoyed this game. I found the setting to be highly evocative; the text and illustrations made my mind wander and left me eager to try it out.
I loved the magic traditions, though I was a bit frustrated to see that most spells are focused on causing or healing damage. I felt the effects could be more creative.
I appreciated that the brief bestiary has its own flavor and doesn’t just adapt traditional creatures to the setting.
The system seemed quite interesting, although, just by reading, I have trouble imagining how material from other OSR/NSR games might be adapted to this one. It's something I need to experience in practice to fully assess.
Overall, very well done! Shadows of a Dying Sun is a very intriguing game, both in terms of setting and mechanics.
Is there any plan for a license for third-party creations?
Hey Bruno! We hadn’t discussed it, but we’re certainly open to it! We’ll look into it.
Regarding the magic, a fair critique. I (Alan) have been dabbling in some expansions, but we haven’t gotten there yet.
https://northernlightsfoundry.com/compatibility-resources/under-a-dying-sun/
Here you go!
on page 39 the art is a 1-for-1 depiction of an elden ring boss. just wanted to point that out in case of copyright.
Thanks for the heads-up! We’ll take a look (we used stock art, so we’ll get a solution in place).
your welcome, smaller projects than this have gotten into trouble over copyright so i just wanted to warn