Character Creation Guide for Shadowdark RPG

A simple, two-page guide for creating Level 0 & Level 1 characters for Shadowdark RPG. It has all the essential details that new players need to fill out their sheet and will help minimize the amount of time everyone spends flipping through the book.

Page 1 includes:

Ancestries

Core classes

Coin (gold) info

Armor & AC basics

Weapons & key details

Alignments & their corresponding deities

Backgrounds

Languages

Page 2 includes:

Bard & Ranger classes

Tier 1 Spells

Basic gear & key detailsLevel 0 essentials

Crawling kit info

A reference for modifier numbers

This guide is now feature-complete, so the only updates from now on will be for fixing errors and improving readability/usability.

Special thanks to those who commented and gave feedback via the Arcane Library’s discord server: StLion, Arthil, Merethif, Fenisko, Kustenjaeger, Sarah Angell, dialectikal, Joshconcarne, Luke of Blue Skies, jdn, Doc, Kiwi4BBQ, KeroZelvin, Seabiscuit, Graham Ward

This guide is an independent product published under the Shadowdark RPG Third-Party License and is not affiliated with The Arcane Library, LLC. Shadowdark RPG © 2023 The Arcane Library, LLC.