Hello everyone !!
After a quick look at whq Shadow over Hammerhall some info about the Gameplay/rpg aspect
1) The game is with a GM, it's a great step forward. You play it with 1-4 players and 1 gm. The GM option are increasing and there quite a few nasty action you can do (ambush, getting renforcement, retreating..)
2) You can buy/sell stuff, visit the town between mission and try different activity (common stuff for PC in a town ^^)
3) Equipement, skill and artefact look more interesting.
4) The cute Archimaine have to be found if i read correctly (check one of the pics)
5) There is 10 npc stats bloc, they are retro compatible with the silver tower.
6) Check the pics about adversary action, you see you can ignore behavior table an play the monster as you decide.
7) 3 levels of difficulty (heroic,legenday,hardcore) hardcore is group die = you die ^.
8) A lot of the level are linked by staircase where you can go deeper or go the Cinderfall district.
9) You can use all the silver tower hero.
If you look closely at the different image you can notice the change, the possible action etc...
Honestly the game seem 100 times better than the first version (that was good too), i am super hyped to try it as a gm. The first campaign is interesting and of good duration.
The rules look easier and have more depth at the same time ! I think it will be super easy to create extra campaign/map as the layout is completely different than the silvertower. With the awesome community we have now, i am sure a lot of homemade campaign are going to spawn !! Official Expansion pack are easy to imagine too.