Creating Shadowdark Characters Teaches You the Gameplay Loop (And It’s Also Very Fun!)

The Shadowdark character sheet pretty much teaches you how the entire game works, and it’s very cool!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Getting Into Shadowdark
01:24 - The Character Sheet
03:53 - Stats, Race, Class, and Background
07:34 - Leveling Up and the Level Range
09:39 - Spellcasting and Spell Slots
12:00 - Deities, Alignment and Class Titles
15:25 - A Word From Our Sponsor
17:20 - Level 0 Characters and the Gauntlet Mode
18:36 - Creating Characters: Our Priest is a… Ranger?
22:22 - Creating Characters: A Very Cool Thief Character
24:26 - Creating Characters: The Witch is Such a Cool Class!
29:47 - Creating Characters: Creating a Completely Random Character
31:30 - Final Thoughts
35:02 - Outro

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