The Implicit Worldbuilding of the Shadowdark Core Rulebook

The Shadowdark RPG presents no established setting for your games - and yet the book still gives you lots of details about the assumed world your game will take place in! And we can learn a lot of interesting things from what the game implies will be true about your homebrew worlds… Thanks so much to WorldAnvil for sponsoring this video! Visit https://www.worldanvil.com/supergeekmike and use the promo code SUPERGEEK to get 51% off any annual membership! https://www.worldanvil.com/supergeekmike Chapters: 00:00 - A Different Type of Campaign Setting Review 02:13 - How Character Rules Establish the Tone 05:00 - The Gods of Shadowdark 12:00 - A Word From Our Sponsor 13:22 - The Status Quo for Everyday People 16:12 - Picking Up Details from Monsters and Random Encounters 25:01 - What We Learn From Location Names 27:29 - The Mystery of Gehemna and the REAL Arcane Library 28:47 - Building Your World Through Emergent Gameplay 30:36 - Outro Recommended Reading Creating Shadowdark Characters Teaches You the Gameplay Loop (And It’s Also Very Fun!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn94DAIxO9A When Did the Gods Become the Excuse for Evil Orcs? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aOp_NgPneA Why I Don't Like the Forgotten Realms (as the Default 5E Campaign Setting) https://youtube.com/watch?v=BJ0T6BFCWv8 How are Adventurers Perceived? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjwQmPRdiVw Displaced Persons: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0210.html Who Are the Best D&D Villains? | Villains in RPGs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-hlhYHOepc Mercer TRIED to Fix D&D’s Riddle Problem… - Vox Machina, Ep. 49 | Critical Role Demystified: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JH8DH7PPuKo Decline Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Lost Frontier Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Thunder Dreams Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Loopster Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Unanswered Questions Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Crypto Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hush Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Controlled Chaos - no percussion Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Investigations Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Dreams Become Real Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Tempting Secrets Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Echoes of Time v2 Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The Pyre Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ #shadowdark #osr #arcanelibrary #ttrpg #rpg #dnd Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMDXcgoyTb1EsvuymqDgRuQ/join PATREON: https://patreon.com/supergeekmike DISCORD: https://discord.gg/adJ3whS3NY TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/supergeekmike NEWSLETTER: https://www.supergeekmike.com/newsletter ____________________________________ WEBSITE/BLOG: https://www.supergeekmike.com/ WISHLIST: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3FH8UCEB06ZN9?ref_=wl_share NON-AMAZON PRODUCTS WISHLIST: https://throne.me/supergeekmike/wishlist Address for Packages: Mike Christensen 100 W. High St., #1326 Moorpark, CA 93021 - PLEASE don't address things to "SupergeekMike"; I need to show I.D. when I pick up packages, and that isn't the name on my driver's license Address for Letters: Mike Christensen P.O. Box 1326 Moorpark, CA 93020 TWITTER: https://twitter.com/supergeekmike INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/supergeekmike/ TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@supergeekmike TWITCH: https://www.twitch.tv/supergeekmike ____________________________________ More Links, including my Lonely Flans: https://www.supergeekmike.com/links