Shadowdark RPG Core Rulebook

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• the most gamery one I did was definitely Blood on the clock tower
• welcome to time Jinx you know we almost called this the dating game but they sent us a cease and desist
• the outlier doesn't know they're the outlier it could even be you so think about whose answers don't quite fit or seem a bit odd then on your device vote for whom you think the outlier most likely is
• the curtain for hypnot is about to go up you'll love it there's hypnosis and people thinking they're cartoon characters or inanimate objects then they have to figure out each other's identities laugh Riot
• sadly it was a bunch of you know get this old white men that weren't all that excited about the fact that there was a young woman that wrote a wrote a like a basically an RPG based on D and D that was people were that was doing well and so they were just like shock and awe
• I posted a video of uh of uh the the computer reading Ticket to Ride rules I just threw it up see what would happen in your feed throw it out in the world yeah
• it's actually like reading stuff out of order
• I've never seen that kind of play it's never been done I mean yeah he's and here's this thing that sucks is he's his YouTube channel he's a kid right so he can't have comments turned on
• the lead actor in parasite the main the father not the not the um the businessman father that's it yeah it's a it's odd yeah

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• the most gamery one I did was definitely Blood on the clock tower
• welcome to time Jinx you know we almost called this the dating game but they sent us a cease and desist
• the outlier doesn't know they're the outlier it could even be you so think about whose answers don't quite fit or seem a bit odd then on your device vote for whom you think the outlier most likely is
• the curtain for hypnot is about to go up you'll love it there's hypnosis and people thinking they're cartoon characters or inanimate objects then they have to figure out each other's identities laugh Riot
• sadly it was a bunch of you know get this old white men that weren't all that excited about the fact that there was a young woman that wrote a wrote a like a basically an RPG based on D and D that was people were that was doing well and so they were just like shock and awe
• I posted a video of uh of uh the the computer reading Ticket to Ride rules I just threw it up see what would happen in your feed throw it out in the world yeah
• it's actually like reading stuff out of order
• I've never seen that kind of play it's never been done I mean yeah he's and here's this thing that sucks is he's his YouTube channel he's a kid right so he can't have comments turned on
• the lead actor in parasite the main the father not the not the um the businessman father that's it yeah it's a it's odd yeah

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• Monster low-light vision — Most monsters cannot see in the dark.
• Mundane magic items — Includes items with minor but useful effects, like a candle that dispels foul odors.
• No continual light — Continual light spell removed to enhance the dark setting.
• Spellcasting failure — Spells can be used until a failure roll occurs.
• Torches last one hour — Torches last an hour of real game time, requiring a timer.

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• It's weird to be not talking about fumbling in the fourth quarter, so.
• We're not here to talk about the Minnesota Vikings. We're here to talk about the Necromancer's game live on Kickstarter right now.
• So, you know, and I think you introduced your uh your kid to being a Vikings fan recently and and and prepped him for the heartache that it would cause us.
• My first DM was one of the guys from Delbo Games, guy named Steve Peterson. Not Steve Peterson of Chaosium fame, but a different Steve Peterson.
• If you're playing a white box or an O&D game, you're fragile. Uh, and you don't want to fight stuff cuz you don't get a lot of experience points for fighting stuff. You get a lot of experience points for solving things, accomplishing objectives, and for for gaining treasure.
• The focus of the game being on, you know, rescuing the prince or the princess or or uh, you know, as opposed to slaying the giants that have them prisoner.
• The Necromancer's game is really different than a lot of OSR games because it's heavily focused on a long-term campaign.
• The only thing in the Necromancer's game that is unique to the Necromancer's game, meaning the rules, um, that would not, you know, wouldn't translate over to fifth edition or something like that are the character class rules.
• The number one reason people should back it now is because every time we get another stretch goal more stuff goes into it, right? So the customer is going to get a better product.
• The challenge with printing in the US is that US printers are set up really well for doing things like textbooks. And so um black and white printing is not any cost differential from color printing in the US. Color printing is very very very expensive uh in the United States.
• I wanted to make sure we didn't have supply chain disruption. And it wasn't one of those things where I did 50 or 80 or whatever thousand, you know, tens of thousands of dollars of my customers money and then got in a position where I had to not deliver it.
• Honestly, Shadow Dark has taken the universe by storm. The mechanics are excellent.
• Part of my motivation, this was supposed to be a Kickstarter a month and a half ago, but she she called me and said that she was emailing me the press package for the Western Reaches. I called Zach and said, 'Stop. We're not launching.'
• About two-thirds of my box set is compatible with Shadow Dark.
• Shamelessly stealing this about a year ago. Um, I deleted the continual light spell from my game.
• I thought that was a genius mechanic and I flagrantly borrowed that from Shadow Dark as a rule.
• The mechanic where you roll success against a difficulty class check or whatever to use your spells you can use them as many times as you want until you fail.
• The mundane magic items that you know, why would a farmer want a plus one sword? Well, he wouldn't. He'd want a plow that work twice as fast or things like that.
• The Ranger just always gets lost.
• If you're rolling dice and you're having fun, then you're winning, right?
• Rules are guidelines if it makes sense just let it happen you don't need to roll it's it's when do you roll dice and when do you not roll dice and so just that's awesome when know when you should roll and know when you shouldn't bother.
• I think that if so so actually it really dawned on me right now what I would say to somebody who's been running games for 30 years is adopt the concept of rulings, not rules.
• The bard wins about three-quarters of the time because the ranger misses his tracking role, but the bard rolls a one and makes it, you know, nice.
• The standard answer back then is roll 86, right? And so, you know, and if you're if you're smart, maybe you have a better chance.

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• D&D 5e mechanics — Implements a fair number of mechanisms from Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.
• OSR — Part of the Old School Renaissance movement in tabletop role-playing games.

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• Origins was great. Um, which is weird because the last couple years I've my feelings coming out of Origins were like I don't know why we attend this convention.
• I do think that Origins is much more a players convention um as opposed to an exhibitor convention.
• it is a 4X space game, but it actually has little standandy planets that that kind of poke up and and uh you know, when you set up on a table, people see it and they're like, "Oh my gosh, what is this?" it has a great factor for far as far as drawing people in.
• I do believe that there is, and I'm not saying this person I spoke to felt this way. I'm just saying I do believe there is a certain level of resentment towards and not by everyone just a small percentage towards the success of Shadow Dark because it's almost too popular.
• the one thing I just can't stand about being an old school D and D player is the fact that I am associated with and I've done a rant about this for a bunch of old white men that that just don't want things to be different, don't want things to change, don't want and just these go woke go broke piece of tried I'm trying not to swear much here, but I mean these go woke go broke turds, these uh uh you know just bigoted racist misogyny pieces of crap that just, you know, they're getting older and they're just cemented in their ways and you're never going to change their minds and never going to do anything.
• Well, there's bad people on both sides.
• And I should have said that and I'm and I like to this this moment I mean because it gives the person the moment to say oh well what I meant is this or whatever or what I meant is oh I don't really like how I mean I'm just trying to I don't want to put words in this person's mouth but I don't want to say I don't want to I want to I don't want to put I don't want to have people say oh well you know just because you don't like gay people that means you're a horrible [__] and and and that you're a racist, bigoted, homophobic piece of crap, whatever.
• It is only when you actually start confronting those situations and confronting the way you feel about them that that you really start growing and you really start realizing, oh my gosh, you know, maybe maybe I'm I I maybe this this this middle of the road mentality isn't for me. And you have a light bulb moment and you realize that you need to go all in. on one side or the other.
• And I do say the right way. And I I and and I I I guess yeah, I mean, there might be one or two of you still left out there that that that listen to me and watch my videos that uh aren't going to agree with my political ideas.

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• no darkvision for PCs — it says it basically nobody no player character has dark vision. Nobody can see in the dark.
• OSR — And it has a lot of OSR stuff.
• torch management — and it has one of the best rules ever, which is just your um you when you when you light a torch, it lasts for an hour.

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• It's with Charize Throne. Like there's an Old Guard 2 and everybody's like, "Oh my god, there's an Old Guard, too. How amazing."
• Charliss Therone as an immortal like a from ancient history, like ancient times. like she's been alive for thousands of years.
• She's badass.
• The whole team of immortals is badass.
• Oh, I started watching Squid Game season two because I never and I saw Squid Game season 3 is out and I'm like, guess I better watch season two.
• Do any of you guys watch Yellow Jackets?
• Watch it. Lord of the Flies and um yeah, like a Lord of the Flies kind of thing.
• Kabuki Kid says yellow jacket is good.
• I know I'll end up buying like Shackleton base, even though I don't need it and I won't play it, but I'll be like, "Oh, I should probably get this because it's supposed to be really good."
• I remember going to that movie with my buddy Scott and I remember and I was like because he said I heard somebody say it was really good and I was like well we should go check it out
• and I remember we went to it thinking you know this is before you could look [ __ ] up and like see everything and know everything, right? And so nothing about it. We went we went we went to it
• and I remember I mean we couldn't breathe. We were laughing so hard
• It's absolutely insane.
• remember the little like um like they would get done with a a scene and then they would have that like music cutaway of everybody dancing.
• The second and third one sucked.
• I mean um the first one though. I mean uh what was it was magical
• you shot me. You shot me right in the arm.

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