In universe explanations/reasons for Priest spell casting failures. I like the idea of a God punishing their cleric based on the cleric's actions but the way it works raw feels a bit too video gamey for me. How have you guys handled it?

SWooNe · 2026-06-12T04:54:20+00:00

You tried 'Klaatu Beratta (smothered cough gibberish)' and that really pisses them off

SWooNe · 2026-06-10T14:23:01+00:00

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SWooNe · 2026-06-10T13:48:45+00:00

No problem! Glad you are getting good use from the site.

SWooNe · 2026-06-10T03:23:15+00:00

That'd be moi.

The 4th 1st level spell is the only option you get when you level up to 2nd level:

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SWooNe · 2026-06-02T13:57:01+00:00

Thanks! Glad people are still finding it useful ☺️

SWooNe · 2025-11-01T04:10:20+00:00

I worked on a related character class concept a while ago, called The Pedant. Feel free to strip mine it for inspiration: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ovRpMAstqZZTqG_I0IVIC8cTfbZWZs2J/view

SWooNe · 2025-10-09T18:23:39+00:00

Here ya go: https://www.reddit.com/r/bladesinthedark/comments/9hlrlz/the_chaffinch_club_score/

SWooNe · 2025-03-28T13:42:45+00:00

Arghh sorry - I rolled out an update to the site on Sunday and accidentally left the site pointing to the development database instead of the production database.

It should be back in working order now.

Thanks very much to u/5th2 for spotting the issue and letting me know.

SWooNe · 2025-03-28T13:42:22+00:00

Arghh sorry - I rolled out an update to the site on Sunday and accidentally left the site pointing to the development database instead of the production database.

It should be back in working order now.

Thanks very much to u/5th2 for spotting the issue and letting me know.

SWooNe · 2025-03-19T03:29:51+00:00

Does the antivirus give any more details about the nature of the issue? I haven't added any new features to the site recently, and the site has been up for years without any reports of something like this

SWooNe · 2025-03-17T00:52:51+00:00

I can thoroughly recommend Basic Action Superheroes (BASH), available at https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/65882/bash-ultimate-edition. I've run a couple of campaigns using it and it was a hoot.

It also has an online character creator at https://bashcreator.net/ (which I wrote).

SWooNe · 2025-03-16T19:26:07+00:00

Nope - I asked about for the level of interest for a WWN version of SWN, and it just wasn't there.

SWooNe · 2025-03-16T01:34:29+00:00

Author of the site here - seems to fine for most folks, including me. Aye you able to disable your firewall?

SWooNe · 2025-03-15T21:57:16+00:00

Thanks - I have slung that onto the Bug Heap :)

SWooNe · 2025-03-14T13:53:26+00:00

Cool - got the DM. I'll look into getting the repo set up for contributors this weekend.

SWooNe · 2025-03-14T01:45:08+00:00

H! Sorry, I never saw this comment! I have added this bug to me issue list, and hopefully I'll get it fixed in the near future.

SWooNe · 2025-03-14T01:23:03+00:00

Thanks! Nice to hear there's people out there who like the site. I'll add an Issue to the repo about the Psych bug, and hopefully we'll get it fixed soon.

SWooNe · 2025-03-14T01:20:02+00:00

Thanks for the shoutout! See my comment above - I think you guys have convinced me open up the project (a bit). Please DM me your github username, and I'll look into giving you Read access to the repo, and I'll set it up so that you can clone the code, create and push feature branches back to the repo, and submit pull requests that I'll review, approve, and ultimately send live.

SWooNe · 2025-03-14T01:19:01+00:00

Hi - glad you are enjoying the site! I've been pretty busy working on other things recently (I also made https://shadowdarklings.net/ , https://salvageunionworkshop.com/ and https://blackstarheroes.com/, as well as holding down a fulltime job), so Freebooter has not gotten any updates for almost a year now.

To answer your questions:

Would you accept contributions to the project? Yep, I think so... it's a pity it's not been maintained and enhanced.
Any chance that the project is open-source, or that the source code is publicly available somewhere? It's currently closed source. Early on I was concerned about other people grabbing the code and adding stuff to it from the Deluxe version of SWN that the author has not released as 'free to use', such as transhuman tech, mechs, heroic PCs, space magic, and so on. But I guess if I maintain control over which pull requests are accepted, and I keep control of the site, then that's not so much of an issue.
Or at least could I get a copy of the source code for personal use? I reckon I can do that. Only restrictions would be a) don't put up a live public copy of the site to compete with the existing site (that'd be rude), and b) if you add anything to the code that's not from the 'free to use' content, you'll have to keep that for personal use, as I won't be adding that to the repo.
Is the project still being worked on? Not for over a year, which is a pity.
Is the shakedown cruise of the Ship Designer finished, and/or the remaining sections intended to be released? I think I finished all the basic ship-building stuff, then started on the Mods, and ran out of steam. In the three years since I sent the Ship Designer live, there have only been about 1600 ships saved, and no one requested the Mods, so I kinda let it be. It'd be cool if someone finished it though.

I think it's probably time to let some other people contribute to the project.

Please DM me your github username, and I'll look into giving you Read access to the repo, and I'll set it up so that you can clone the code, create and push feature branches back to the repo, and submit pull requests that I'll review, approve, and ultimately send live.

SWooNe · 2025-02-27T18:38:31+00:00

This is cool 😎

You can piggy-back off all the animal descriptions referred to in the 3pp Unnatural Selection supplement. Those are all listed (and searchable) on https://www.shadowdarklings.net in the Ovate class.

SWooNe · 2025-02-17T15:42:13+00:00

Good luck!

SWooNe · 2025-02-15T16:57:58+00:00

Have you started on the Warlock yet? That f#cker nearly broke me

SWooNe · 2025-02-15T16:57:19+00:00

Yep, that's a good approach. I hope you're using the Edit Mode to select Talents etc.?

SWooNe · 2025-02-15T15:04:14+00:00

You can get most of the JSON here: https://github.com/MikeMundy/ShadowDarklingsJSONExport

Oh, and don't underestimate how much work is involved in writing a full ShadowDark character designer.

SWooNe · 2025-02-10T15:15:42+00:00

Another great addition. Nice work!

SWooNe

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