Shadowdark Session 0

4/26/2026

• hangout chatty
• does Shadowdark sound fun for us? (not much comment in chat, so probably?)
• rolling characters
  • screenshare so all on same page, go slow and steady
  • select/roll for a background
  • roll for abilities (in order) FIRST (3d6, reroll WHOLE SET if no stat is 14+, may make ONE swap), then select a class
  • ancestry, class, talent, HP, title, alignment, gold & gear
• setting scene
  • how do we know each other
    • stuart is rich, sophia is poor, how do we give sophia money
  • low-fantasy by implication
    • magic is rare and special, especially wizard magic
    • dungeons (including ruins, castles, wherever darkness reigns) are dangerous and its OK to leave and come back
    • knots of civilization and safety are small and precious and few and far between
  • world-building
    • what is a weird quirk/feature of the world/area? (sky islands, living constellations, hollow earth, rats EVERYWHERE, dragon kings/overlords)
    • implied cataclysm/apocalypse/collapse--why the hell are there all these abandoned spaces to go delving in?
    • DAN: meteor showers, random and sporadic
      • Bonebreakers Guild
      • harresting of meters: metal, crystal
    • KIM: concept of being dragons around in leadership rolls
      • Dragon Girl (like horse girl)
      • ambassadors to dragons
    • STUART: noble but he doesn't want to talk about it, donating to charitable causes to be among the people
      • Philanthropic tendency amongst the wealthy--social contract
      • patron-scientists who contract out to study the Shimmer
    • SOPHIA: highly saturated in color and texture as indications where the apocalyptic event happened; extends to animals and creatures; a real chernobyl but colorful and pretty - THE SHIMMER
      • a particular kind of asteroid; asteroid that contained something that spread
      • color saturation in an area indicates a rift in the fabric of the universe; site where another plane peeks through