SoloDark Episode 2: Through the Woods

[@lionelhutz3142]

I can't believe how Shadowdark and SoloDark have taken off! Lots of great channels playing this RPG now. Congrats on your masterpiece {chef's kiss}

[@cimerians]

Solo Dark the best thing there is. Thanks so much for this and the solo episodes!

[@blainroman7317]

Thanks for continuing the adventure! So much fun! Great story-telling, fast gameplay makes for a satisfying experience!

[@DungeonMasterQuest]

it is remarkable how much fun one can have playing rpgs, rooting for the characters on each roll!

[@NocturnalPeacock]

These are so fun to listen to while drawing/Preparing a session! Thank you Kelsey! :)

[@Arcahnslight]

Kelsey that cactus behind you has a like 87% chance of being a mimic. Thought I'd warn you haha

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

I think I saw it move!

[@francoisdumont4105]

It's great to see the hexcrawl rules in action.

[@ToddPutnam]

Great job on the storytelling. Terrain looks good too.

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Thank you, Todd! That means a lot coming from you! :)

[@kquixotic]

I'm so glad to see another of these. It shows how easy, inspirational and engaging the Solodark method is. Fantastic job weaving the random elements together as well!

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Thank you so much! :)

[@MarkCherkowski]

"ShadowDarkness" 😄

[@mrsolotabletop]

That edit was perfect!

[@MandatoryFunTime]

Nice criticals! What a rough couple of days for the party, lol. Hopefully next episode will be a little more forgiving.

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

I was sooooo relieved when we were able to avoid more random encounters! I genuinely thought that dire wolf was going to TPK us for a minute.

[@rotchcrot]

Great narrative!

[@dylanbederman2691]

I never thought this would be something I would be interested in, but I'm actually so invested! So fun!!!

[@kalleendo7577]

Awesome!!

[@phillipmerritt1428]

I enjoyed the video, it sounds like your type of Solo gaming is going work for me.

[@RyanManly]

I love this idea! 15:42 I'm writing it down, and hopefully, I remember to do something similar the next time I have my players in a similar situation. Lowering the DC and rolling once feels much cleaner than multiple rolls and is kind of like "Taking 10".

[@dantherpghero2885]

What kind of adventurer are you? You forgot to loot the bodies! They could have had rations on them.

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

GOBLIN RATIONS?! Botulism and intestinal chaos! ;)

[@billcedarheath387]

@@TheArcaneLibraryIntestinal chaos is the fantasy equivalent to the sci-fi jet pack. 😂

[@zednumar6917]

​@TheArcaneLibrary that is how spells like Cloudkill get invented by wizards.

[@UnwalledGarden]

This is so fun!

[@runopologist]

I'm having so much fun with SoloDark and these kind of playthroughs are really inspiring!

[@MarkCsigs]

Yes!!

[@christopherhunt1957]

Fun video. Looking forward to the next installment. I started my SoloDark campaign on vacation in July and it's going strong. Six PC's have been listed on the roll of honor. What has really surprised me is how actual roleplaying situations occur in the game...dialogue and all. Some of the adventures have been quite exciting; so much so I'm converting one of them to run at Gary Con.

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Solo gameplay can be so inspiring! I'm glad it led to ideas you could use in running adventures for other people. :)

[@xer0vi]

I love the Willowman spell. It's my favorite Tier 1 spell. This is awesome. I'm glad to know that even in Solodark it's perfectly okay to let GM instincts take over. I was worried I wasn't using the Oracle dice enough. Lol

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Totally! I just use the Oracle and Prompts when I don’t already know what to do or need a direction and want to keep away from my clichés.

[@EdwinSteiner]

Encounters are so deadly in ShadowDark. I still remember the hag with her two boars that almost took out my entire party.

[@rafaeljoseph3951]

This is so fun! I'm starting to really love solo ttrpg playthroughs, they're so unpredictable

[@Adelbercht]

Thank you so much, I didn't know I needed this! Apparently, I have been forgetting certain rules of SoloDarking, but now I have renewed my knowledge. It was great seeing the events unfold the way they did.

[@immaculateboy]

The witch mini looks fantastic

[@jcraigwilliams70]

I just sat down to do some work and saw the email with the cran-gelatinous cube (awesome!) and the link to this video. Work can wait!

[@Arcahnslight]

Which email list are you on? I usually get Kelsey's emails but haven't in a while. I hope I didn't get removed 😕

[@jcraigwilliams70]

@@Arcahnslight as far as I know, just the standard Arcane Library list. It came this morning.

[@zednumar6917]

Is it cylindrical?

[@jcraigwilliams70]

@@zednumar6917 ha ha! That would have been perfect.

[@Jack-zn6qm]

those dice are cool I wanna get some,

[@macoppy6571]

It is as if the dice conspired to showcase a wide selection of wonderful features from both SoloDark and core ShadowDark. My copies of both are serving me well, with similarly enjoyable results.

[@davidvalero9859]

THANKS Kelsey!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@MGunnarson]

Really enjoy your presentation for solo play! Can you share what kind of dice those are? (Particularly those big-digit d6’s!)

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

I love these dice! They're by a creator called Monomakes -- I put a link to his shop in the video description. 👍

[@MGunnarson]

@ Appreciate ya Kelsey. FWIW my table has been playing shadowdark consistently since our print copies arrived! Thank you so much for all your hard work on such a great game!

[@jessedotson5998]

Love it, keep them coming!

[@BeCorbie]

Finally a new SoloDark episode

[@HorizonOfHope]

I love how the rules include a weather table. I'm using this in all games now. It makes such a big change to encounters and exploration if it's raining, or if it's stinking hot. Want to push a brisk pace? Good luck in scorching heat! Want to avoid being tracked? That's hard with all of this mud you are churning in your wake. Also, I swear your dice are cursed. Torson's mishap last session and then you rolled a 100mi journey with little food this session. :P

[@YannMiollan]

Yessssss I love your solo plays, they're amazing!!! I was impatiently waiting for it! I also love the little corrections you add to the video! :)

[@ScottBaker_]

Thanks for another fun solo session.

[@TeamCGS2005]

Just heard about this game from watching geek gamer's channel. Thanks for this. Subscribed.

[@fractos1701]

Woah, thought they weren't going to reach Episode 3 for a minute! This is great :)

[@sirguy6678]

Great video and fun story!

[@endfinum]

very cool episode!

[@dylanhyatt5705]

Is the 'Oracle' table in the SD Rulebook? Highlight for me: the mouse speaking to Torson. Thanks another lovely adventure.

[@Arcahnslight]

It's in the Solodark supplemental rules

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Grab the free SoloDark download in the video description! It has all the extra rules I'm using for solo gameplay in it.

[@dylanhyatt5705]

@@Arcahnslight Thanks - will add to my SD collection soon. Currently in my group we are playing a rules heavy and math laden system - but Shadow Dark is next on my table and what I love about SD is that the math in the system, though simple, is really well worked out.

[@morgan9mail]

Shadowdark has been just wonderful for me, so I highly encourage anyone to use it. It just works, and there's no trigonometric hoops to jump through every round of combat. Solodark is phenomenal as well. I'm on my third campaign with it!

[@RPG_Bliss]

Sending ❤your way! Ty for part 2

[@TheFatalT]

Really enjoying these,

[@MultiProGGer]

That d4 is really cool. Took me a second to realize that it's in fact a d4 and not a weirdly shaped d6 :)

[@RollingSoloRPG]

Episode 2 is finally HEREEEEE!🎉🎉❤❤🎉🎉

[@Arcahnslight]

More Solodark ❤❤❤

[@johnberry5296]

I was so looking forward to this!!! Who makes those splendid dice?

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

They're by a creator called Monomakes! :) I added a link to his shop in the video description. Well worth checking out.

[@johnberry5296]

@ Thank you 🙏

[@michaellegg1631]

Good one

[@jcraigwilliams70]

17:11 Was that an hour already? :P

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Hahahaaa! I film just using natural sunlight through a window, and sometimes clouds roll over and it looks like it went from day to night! I might need to knuckle down and set up some real lighting...

[@ashtowner]

Those trees look so cool! Do you remember where you got them?

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

I got the base trees at a Michaels in their diorama section, and then I followed Dungeon Craft's video about improving their bases with a hot glue gun and some ordinary washers! :)

[@stevebladek1441]

Wanted to ask about how you checked for potential change of terrain. Send like you went with one check out day rather than by hex. What's your thinking on that?

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

You can definitely do it hex-by-hex, but I wanted to keep the procedure moving quickly so switched over to checking day-by-day. I also figured the forest was super big due to previous rolls, so it made sense to check a bit less frequently!

[@jessefonder]

you paint those?

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

Hey Jesse! :) Yep... that's why the eyes look like fried eggs, hahahaaaaa!

[@BobIrving2]

Wait, you get your luck token back on a nat 20? How did I not know that? My players will love this!

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

This is a rule specific to SoloDark (since there isn’t a GM to award luck tokens), but you can implement this in normal games! An alternative method is to give a luck token out when a player rolls a natural 1 to make the critical failure suck a bit less. It’s pretty flexible! :)

[@BobIrving2]

@@TheArcaneLibrary I give them each a luck token at the beginning of each session but that idea of awarding one when you roll a nat 20 (or 1) is pretty killer. Gonna have to try that next time.

[@mad-zr8wy]

Have a feeling the dwarf was only there for comic relief

[@denisselara9324]

Hello! I am learning to play Shadowdark with my sister and we are having a lot of fun playing the Lost Citadel. I have a question about crawling rounds vs combat rounds. Do combat rounds overlap with crawling rounds? Let's say combat extends for more than 2 rounds and we are in a risky area, do we roll for another random encounter in the middle of combat? Also, when an encounter ends, do the characters that haven't taken their initiative get an action before the combat round ends or does it fast-forward to the next round? By the way, really fun episode. I'm rooting for Lienna and Torson! You've inspired me to try Solo play and I'm loving the Shadowdark random tables.

[@TheArcaneLibrary]

I’m glad to hear you and your sister are having fun with Lost Citadel! :) Combat rounds and crawling rounds overlap. They are actually the same except for two key differences: 1. You do not roll for random encounter checks during combat rounds. Start the countdown for a random encounter check over once you start crawling rounds again (AKA don’t count combat rounds against the timer). 2. You can regroup during crawling rounds, which is not something you can do during combat rounds. Regrouping allows the characters to move and act as one whole they’re exploring. You can see more about that on pg. 85 of the Core Rules, or in the Crawling section of the QuickStart Guides. I hope that helps. Happy gaming! :)

[@toddjeppe1774]

Where did you get that dice box?

[@abendspiele]

First! D: