It’s a new system whose Kickstarter raised $1.3 million since February. I’m curious about it but would like to hear more people’s thoughts.
Some background material:
Shadowdark Fixes Everything Wrong with D&D 5e
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyaEk0O3Yy0
Publisher’s site, where you can download a free quickstart set of PDFs
https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark
I think the “torches last a real world hour” is a cool mechanic, mostly for pacing reasons, but otherwise I am mostly uninterested in a game that got extremely astroturfed in the rpg subreddit.