How To Make A Shadowdark RPG Character

Follow along and make your own 1st-level Shadowdark RPG character!
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[@luther_pendragon]

I have played DnD since 1981. I am very proud of you for what you created here. It shows both respect for the past and courage to innovate and improve. You are one of my new heroes in a world where we have to escape to DnD to have heroes.

[@risusrules]

I prefer random down the line for Stats and this character is why. I immediately thought of a "disadvantaged" former solder who was disabled in a war. Having recouped, as best he will, he would of been a Chaotic Wizard for me, put off by the inabilities of the Priests to heal him, and is now searching for the power to reverse time to change the past, or maybe revenge, or maybe regrowth, or maybe.... yeah, wouldn't have had all these thoughts with a bog standard type with average+ stats.

[@m.a.packer5450]

In all honesty, this feels like a lot of the same, and I see no "improvements" on what old school games did. As a newer gamer, I can honestly say that older systems did it better, especially BX D&D, so I'll be sticking with Old School Essentials

[@august3777]

I’ll be backing the project next week. I NEED to have the zines and mini adventures not just the core rule book. But congrats on the kicker starter so far. It’s blowing up.

[@seanhillman1016]

Comes with a form-fillable? That's fantastic.

[@guzimirHR]

Glad to se the ball rolling on Shadowdark- wish all the best to the project and here's hoping that everyone enjoys playing it. It seems you have done exceptional and wonderful job- congratulations! 🌹

[@primusinterpares5767]

I think poor Nattias got injured in battle, with physical stats like that :(

[@DareToWonder]

Soldier could mean an office clerk or janitor

[@xxjj4082]

I also started playing DnD 1981/82. "I am very proud of you for what you created here. It shows both respect for the past and courage to innovate and improve" -this is an ABSOLUTE TRUE!! As soon as I read bout this game, I was in. THANK YOU!!!

[@ljmiller96]

Maybe your character was permanently injured as a soldier and that's why the starting scores were so low. BTW already backed for the physical core rules.

[@theflyinggoat4503]

It would be great to see more "How To" videos, specifically things like building encounters using not only the monsters in the tomb but creating monsters with the monster generator and make it weird tables.

[@FlintFireforge]

I love that you brought titles back. I loved the titles of 1e and 2e, so much flavor.

[@DM_DooM]

I have ran Shadowdark a couple times now, It is so utterly refreshing to play. Most of us long time DM's have been homebrewing a Frankenstein version of 5E and BX for a while, To finally have it codified in an official looking book is a God send!

[@JasonFuhrman]

Please, please, PLEASE make a Foundry module for one of the upcoming stretch goals. Congrats on the huge success!

[@plaidpvcpipe3792]

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[@corneelvandriel1286]

I don’t tend to comment on videos but I’ve been playing since 1996 and I love what you made. I can’t wait to get my limited edition book! I’m really excited for this, you’re on to something big!

[@Fhoulghoul]

Backed the Kickstarter yesterday! I gotta say I really appreciate how professional and well-thought out this game is. The synthesis of 5e style approach to intuitive rules with the setting/art/gameplay of OSR is really genius. Post-OGL drama my game group is really diving into these styles of games. We are currently running Shadow of the Demon Lord and then have a small Knives in the Dark game and now we have Shadowdark queued up after that!

[@estebanrodriguez5409]

After years of seeing the horrors of war, old Nat decided to follow a more safe carrer, dungeon delving. We are going to follow his progress with interest.

[@jcraigwilliams70]

I really like what I have seen so far. The only little nitpick for me personally is alignment, because I never felt that being Lawful automatically made you good (Demonic Pacts) or that breaking laws made you automatically evil (Robin Hood). So when there are only the 3 choices, I find that about 90% of the population should be neutral, with Lawful and Chaotic representing extremes

[@dizzyizzylizzie]

My husband is a veteran DnD player. I joined in at 5e 😅. When he showed the campaign for this, I was a bit nervous since I'm so used to the easy mode that is 5e. But after seeing how to build a character and your enthusiasm for your project, I think this will be a lot of fun!