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…

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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

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