Four Against Darkness--help me out

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[@GeekGamers01]

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[@madquest8]

That was the best non skippable advert I've ever seen. 10/10.

[@davidwilliams4006]

four aganist darkness work well with Pocketlands overland adventure rules (has a conversion table in the back). I combine both of their rule sets (new and old),for a balanced form of a map crawl.I just started using "tales from the adventures guild",which someone has alredy posted about ,which has rules for with only 1-3 characters , and used it have a new character set off for the first time by themselfs to join the adventures guild in the next settlement to find adventure and make new friends.

[@GeekGamers01]

Yea Pocketland Overland adventures are great. I have those-failed to mention it.

[@TomeAlone]

Hey just wanted to drop a note as not commented here in a while but I got your amazing book! It's so helpful and really has improved my games. Thank you for all your doing for the soloers!

[@GeekGamers01]

Thank you SO much. I’m really glad you have found it useful & I thank you for letting me know. Modiphius likes it if people post comments on their site (if that’s how you got it) so if you are so inclined to do that, I’d appreciate it. Thanks either way for commenting here

[@TomeAlone]

@@GeekGamers01 Your so welcome 🤗 I pre-ordered it from there so will go back and drop a comment of support! I just have been busy but your really making the solo experience for me ☺️ so wanted to say thanks again!

[@GeekGamers01]

@@TomeAlone thank you, really!

[@theylive1681]

The new intro is EPIC!!!

[@MeanderingMikesManCave]

A bunch of Four Against Darkness books I didn't know were out! I had to buy about half of these!

[@GeekGamers01]

Glad I could help ;)

[@shaneconner5659]

We're all waiting for the 2nd edition! lol

[@phaedruslive]

Allegedly it's supposed to go clear to 12th level. Really, I'd settle for more room shapes and maybe d12 tables for encounter variety.

[@GeekGamers01]

Yes I would like a d12 baseline too!

[@phaedruslive]

@@GeekGamers01 What I've done is buit a pre-encounter system. So default enemies would be 1-3 or 1-4. But if I roll a 4-5 I'd use something from fiendish foes or warlike woes. Also, I tend to add the level of my highest character to the number of minions I encounter. I want to keep it scary, the way a mythical underworld should be.

[@GeekGamers01]

@@phaedruslive I love this. I just bought about $60 worth of stuff that people recommended including warlike woes and the guild book and something else.Devouring dead, I think

[@phaedruslive]

@@GeekGamers01 Breachers of the Bone Belfy is an interesting one as well. Once you've lost 4 characters in your travels you can try and escape their hell and return to life.

[@Quidadte]

You deserve all this !

[@paulrouleau1972]

Man-Eater! is a forest hex map adventure that is quite fun.

[@GeekGamers01]

Thanks I haven’t heard of this & will look into it.

[@TonyLS9A]

Loved the advert. Wow, can’t believe I said that. I just got notified my book is on the way.

[@GeekGamers01]

Oh wow that’s great! I have been trying to get info on the shipping from the publisher and haven’t. :) If you can post here when it arrives I’d be grateful

[@christinea.2123]

Modiphius has told me 3 times the book is shipping soon - I ordered it back in April - but still no book. First they told me mid-July, then they said September - I hope to get it soon.

[@GeekGamers01]

I have asked directly and when I have an update I will post it here

[@dafrca]

Someday I hope to own a printed copy of "SOLO GAME MASTER'S GUIDE". Too bad they still failed to ship in the US so far.

[@GeekGamers01]

Appreciate the support. As you know, worldwide shipping is an issue right now. Books have been awaiting entry to Detroit for some time… I will try to post any definitive update I get as soon as I get it so stay tuned to any “update” video I post.

[@rafaelosuna4784]

You should check out the new book "tales from the adventures guild" and if you like outside adventures there's "forest of the spider queen" dungeon deck.

[@GeekGamers01]

Thanks for the book suggestion-I will look it up. I neglected to say that I have some card decks, in fact did a vid on them lol. I think I have that one.

[@defleshedbuttocks]

+1 for the new book "tales from the adventures guild"

[@GeekGamers01]

@@defleshedbuttocks thx to you both. I just looked it up but so far it’s only in hardback and that plus shipping is too much… hopefully it will be in paperback eventually.

[@lazywarlock8]

@@GeekGamers01 where did you find it? I can only find pdf.

[@GeekGamers01]

@@lazywarlock8 I think I saw it at Lulu but only in HC.

[@Joshuadmathews]

The newest book, Tales of the Adventurers Guild has a lot of content that I think you would enjoy adding to the game. On page 60, there are official rules on how to turn the game to a solo game instead of a party of for game. These three books all go well together in helping to further expand the world: Greedy Gifts of the Guild Masters which offers a whole slew of patrons to the game and additional new rules, such as faction points, the first book to introduce faction points was Warlike Woes, which has a lot of tables for encounters that one might face on roads between towns (with most penalizing you if your resolve the encounter lethally, as you could become wanted when entering the next settlement), and my favorite of the three, Zealous Zouaves, it offers tones of new character traits and large section on knight orders and guilds for warriors to join, but the part that ties into the other books would be the section on troupe play, where your party can join what the game calls a mercanary group (but to me it feels more like something like the pathfinder's society or other such famous traveling parties, like the one on critical roll), once your group joins such group, then collectively the team earns a party skill, which everyone can use and benefit from, however, the coolest part is that a little narrative blurb is given for each troupe and it was fairly easy for me to connect these groups back to patrons or other narrative seeds from other books, such as Fortress of the Warlord. Which brings me to Fortress, although this book is a big preprogrammed campaign, its emphasis is on the type of tale one would find in a Tolkien esque fantasy story, ie, the quest across regions. Most of the story revolves forest encounters and such and so I think you would appreciate additional outdoor encounters and they even include additional forest themed spells. Chapter one is a hex crawl that offers some neat and simple rules on how to navigate through forest terrain and make camp. This maybe isn't what you are looking for, but one of my favorites is Digressions of the Devouring Dead. In my mind, it takes the "Basic" core rule book and turns it into AD&D 1e. The whole book is about creating necro dungeons, but there is a section on hardcore mode which turns the game into a more a realistic one, where keeping track of lantern oil and food rations become needed, and it has a lot rules on how to incorporate layers and staircases in your dungeons. These can easily be used to create abandoned wizard towers or perhaps abandoned mountain settlements carved into the side of cliffs. The Twisted Final Fights and the Twisted Hoards book (magical items) are also great books to add in and mix well with the other twisted books you have. I'm also a big fan of the monster card decks (there are three sets now) and not all of them are dungeon themed, persay. I know you mentioned owning some of the quest decks already, you might check into those again, too, as there are some outdoor ones that have come out in the last year, such as a swamps deck, and a roads deck where you are guarding a caravan through woods protecting it from bandits. There is also a castle raventloft themed adventure, too. Finally, there is a big town adventure book out, something like Thieves of Diarnatia or something like that. I haven't played it, but you may look into that title to see if it sparks interest. There is also book out where you fight fungal and mushroom folk. That one is called labyrinth of the lurking something. The Lantern zine you have has a starting town campaign meant to take starting heroes from level 1 to level 3 I believe. Perhaps that is why you purchased that book?

[@GeekGamers01]

Thank you SO much for this incredible answer, which is exactly the kind of thoughtful and detailed response I was hoping someone would give. With the exceptions of some of the card decks you mention that I own (but failed to mention in my vid), all of the things you write are new to me and I will look them all up. I feel my wallet shrinking already *but my gameplay increasing.* I really do appreciate the time you too to think about it and reply!

[@Joshuadmathews]

​@@GeekGamers01 I saw the Adventures guild is now in sc at lu lu it offers so much that I think it is right up your alley so some of things that I think you are looking to add in your games hopefully a lot of that is covered there. I posted your video on the facebook group, but after I did I scrolled down and found that your vid had already been shared there at least 3 other times before me haha. Another one to one day look into would Court of the Undead Viscount as half of the book is a city book with a roster of gladiator themed heroes to hire into your party and then the other half of the book is a giant gladiator battle which focuses on one to one combat verse another party of 4 combatants. Its a zanny book (a parachuting paladin is one of the combatants you could face!) but as mentioned, half of it is about shop encounters, including new weapons to purchase. With this book, and the probably 20+ additional items in the Adventures guild, and town services offered in Abyss (such as hirelings), you should have plenty of info to create interesting shops and markets to visit (especially if you turn all that stuff into randomized tables). I have pdfs and physical copies of each book. I use the physical books for play, but then I use the pdfs to copy paste to make own collection of tables to roll on combing books together. There is cite pnp arcade I think, every year they do a blck fri day thing where you can get pdfs pretty cheap. 4ad is fun playing as is but also by combining things together like a puzzle or creating your own content. For example, a working doc that I am working on is taking the 100 character traits from all the books (WA, GGG, ZZ, and maybe the Potato people book has some, too) and rewriting all of them unique rooms/encounters that give narrative buffs or minus for room encounters based off of whatever originally char trait gives. For me now, official 4ad stuff is more of a "suggestion" on what I could use books or content for, I now more enjoy taking those suggestions more like playdo and puddy morphing them into my own things. Other things I have done is used 4 milestones to create an integrated mega campaign plot that incorporates all the elements rolled, treating each one as like an episode arch to an overaching plot, like on a tv show. I've rolled two Twisted Dungeons and combined them together into one dungeon and created a story representing why both have been combined together, then I randomized sections of the dungeon representing each twisted feature.

[@GeekGamers01]

Thanks for sharing and for all your great play suggestions and the pointer to that book in paperback, which I hadn’t seen.

[@phaedruslive]

I agree. Tales of the adventurers guild is top 5. Which is saying something, considering we're at least 30 books now. Greedy gifts of the guildmaster also adds a bit of scale and direction.

[@GeekGamers01]

Thanks for reaffirming that. Everyone who comments here knows the game so well. I’m going to pick up this one at the least.

[@rafaelosuna4784]

Also any chance you can make a video of your type of gameplay in Four against darkness?

[@GeekGamers01]

I did a 4AD vid a while ago… not sure it is representative but it is an example of one way at least: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpDYc6qdqdCkhMk

[@rafaelosuna4784]

@@GeekGamers01 Will check it out!Thanks for all that you do for the solo rpg community, your a definitely a pioneer foreging new terrain!

[@GeekGamers01]

Thanks so much!

[@eriksalholm]

Hi Deborah, I’ve just ordered your book and I love your work. Thank you. I see that you have a PayPal tip jar, but would consider creating a Patreon account?

[@GeekGamers01]

Hi. Thank you so much for the comment and for supporting my work. I hope you really enjoy the book. Many people have asked me to do a Patreon but I don’t see that in the future. While I try to post regularly on KZbin, my life is very busy and a Patreon would impose posting obligations on me that I don’t want. I created the tip jar in response to people who wanted to support in that way.

[@m34nb34n]

💚 💚 🍀☘ you had me at Gnomes lol

[@swordssolitude3861]

Hey Deborah - Sorry for asking here, but I'd love to send you a review copy of something I made. If you'd like to reply elsewhere you can find my contact in my About section. No pressure. Thanks for all you do :)

[@defleshedbuttocks]

Tables For One?

[@swordssolitude3861]

@@defleshedbuttocks Yup :)