Instantly clicked on this video! Thanks so much for the mention, JP. I actually used these tables to inspire the layout and some contents of the first dungeon I wrote for the book :)
I thought you'd like to know that after sitting on the fence about Delve, and then watching this video, I backed your Kickstarter for the Shadowdark version
Shadowdark is a fun game and a wonderful resource for running games "on the fly". I love how it all connects logically. Your map-making plan is a great mind map. I taught high school for 31 years and mind mapping is an invaluable organizational skill. It's nice to see it put to such great use here.
Great reminder of the charts. Almost ran an impromptu OSE or Shadowdark game last night but thankfully we ended up with enough guys to play our regular 5E campaign. Was getting anxious for a bit because I didn't have a time to try and pull together a pre-written game and could have just randomly generated a dungeon for the guys to explore if I would have thought about using the charts like this. Next time I will be ready!
I love shadowdark bc it is so quick to make a dungeon for the night. First, I build chaos into my games. For example last night the players were raised with delivering a vampire to the head wizard. I planned to have the mission switch from kill the vampire to rescue the vampire half way. The whole campaign is on the players first adventure the players might have worker for an evil necromancer to give them a magic item. The vampire is a peaceful nerotic germaphobe whole believes in all the conspiracy theorizes who is an old friend of the wizard. The vampire knows the necromancers plans so they are trapped and need to be reduced. The first thing I do is come up with an over arching reason, evil necromancer, then roll a random adventure from page 122-123. Then I makeup an npc for them to meet. A talking valley girl skull, punk rock troll who is tone deaf, a bugbear with a lost pet basilisk, etc. This give the players something to interact with outside of combat and make them easy to rp. Next I build the dungeon using this video. th-cam.com/video/8EbyklQRj_8/w-d-xo.html Finally, I roll random events from 142-185 during the session, but during the dungeon I use the reaction chart on 112. These bring out an amazing way to make the world seem real. Last night I rolled during a dungeon there were beastmen fighting a giant centipede and were neutral to my players. My players ran in smashed the centipede and started high fiving the beastmen. It turned to this whole thing into a party and everyone had to mime at the table what they were wanting and traded rations for items. So long story short embrace the random table and it should take 20 minutes to an hour and you will be surprised at what happens. PS there are so many stories I did plan from just last night. Pps the best night are on where we have to stop from all the laughing.
I bought a few of Kelsey's games before Shadowdark, and they are so easy to pick up and play, she is a very talented writer/game designer. When I saw the Shadowdark Kickstarter I had to back it! Maybe the tidy version could be one of your zines for the month? 😁
You have likely given us enough to finish it out on our own, but I am guessing that you will do a nicer job than I could, so sure, please do it all up nicely so we may play in your dungeon. Cheers!
I just became a patreon and I LOVE all your content. I love your drawing style; i've been practising myself by drawing magic item cards. Nowhere near the quality of your work but i would have never thought it would turn out this fine. Your zines are amazing, the style, the content, everything. I just wanted to let you know; keep it up. I love it a lot! Thank you
My Flik Silverpen’s drawing guide came in the mail today and I was surprised to also get your printed dungeon on a 5x7 card in color! You need to sell a set of these JP. Great one-shots for an evening of SD, D&D, etc Such a wonderful idea! Thx. 👍🏼
Great vid. What I love about your content, and this one is a great example of it, is that you show such passion about your work. No matter how simple or complex, you do it with imense enthusiasm. Thanks for it :)
You are so energetic it is obvious you love what you do. It is inspiring. I can't wait for your Kickstarter; you said it was coming soon what feels like months ago. I keep looking for it thinking I might have missed it. When the kickstarter comes out will your other books be available to get from the kickstarter as well? I really want to support you and I think I will enjoy and love using your products. I would love for you to clean up the map and notes to then make them available to download. That would be awesome!
I just knocked out an entire low level sandbox using the generator in a few hours, and throwing out about 1/3 , but that used to take a week! Are we going to see a play of your dungeon?
Cool video. If you were playing at the table would you show the players the map or would you Just describe it ala theatre of the mind. This is the hardest part I'm struggling with as a "never played" / first time and probable forever gm. I've run a handful of games and I've had my players select a mapper and they've drawn out my description on graph paper to varying levels of success combined with ultimate dungeon terrain board I made, this especially becomes difficult as I'm trying to run larger dungeons now to take full advantage of the torch timer. I've considered grabbing a tablet and running a vtt but I'm somewhat repulsed by the idea, I've also tried using dungeon tiles I made but again it became kind of tedious.
I’ve done it both ways. I’d say try it out both ways and see what works best for your table. Sometimes it’s fun to let the players find a map in the story then you can just hand them the map.
Instantly clicked on this video! Thanks so much for the mention, JP. I actually used these tables to inspire the layout and some contents of the first dungeon I wrote for the book :)
Can’t wait to see the dungeons you cooked up and to make some of my own with Delve!
BOB SIGHTED IN THE WILD
I thought you'd like to know that after sitting on the fence about Delve, and then watching this video, I backed your Kickstarter for the Shadowdark version
Ha, that's fun, I also instantly clicked this video. Love this game. Also super looking forward to Delve for Shadowdark.
Omg JP! This is so cool! 😃
So great seeing Shadowdark continuing to get all the praise it deserves
Just love the idea of the minions under the ice, this would be so dramatic and climactic
The shadow dark generation has been so helpful in my home games. It gives you just enough prompt to kickstart your imagination.
GREAT video as usual, JP! Thanks so much for the shout-out. I truly feel honored to be mentioned next to Sly Flourish/Mike Shea!
Shadowdark is a fun game and a wonderful resource for running games "on the fly". I love how it all connects logically. Your map-making plan is a great mind map. I taught high school for 31 years and mind mapping is an invaluable organizational skill. It's nice to see it put to such great use here.
That's surprisingly well done random table for a core rulebook ... I usually use story dice but the way you build your dungeon is very nice. ...
Great reminder of the charts. Almost ran an impromptu OSE or Shadowdark game last night but thankfully we ended up with enough guys to play our regular 5E campaign. Was getting anxious for a bit because I didn't have a time to try and pull together a pre-written game and could have just randomly generated a dungeon for the guys to explore if I would have thought about using the charts like this. Next time I will be ready!
Thanks for this! I'm excited now to generate a random dungeon and a random adventure having seen someone go through the process! ShadowDark is great!
Just picked up Shadowdark and I can’t wait to play! Would love to see a “finished” version of this dungeon
Don't forget to make a 2d6 random encounter table.
I love everything about shadowdark and would love to run it - i hope we FINALLY get it distributed in UK
I love shadowdark bc it is so quick to make a dungeon for the night. First, I build chaos into my games. For example last night the players were raised with delivering a vampire to the head wizard. I planned to have the mission switch from kill the vampire to rescue the vampire half way.
The whole campaign is on the players first adventure the players might have worker for an evil necromancer to give them a magic item. The vampire is a peaceful nerotic germaphobe whole believes in all the conspiracy theorizes who is an old friend of the wizard. The vampire knows the necromancers plans so they are trapped and need to be reduced.
The first thing I do is come up with an over arching reason, evil necromancer, then roll a random adventure from page 122-123. Then I makeup an npc for them to meet. A talking valley girl skull, punk rock troll who is tone deaf, a bugbear with a lost pet basilisk, etc. This give the players something to interact with outside of combat and make them easy to rp.
Next I build the dungeon using this video. th-cam.com/video/8EbyklQRj_8/w-d-xo.html
Finally, I roll random events from 142-185 during the session, but during the dungeon I use the reaction chart on 112. These bring out an amazing way to make the world seem real. Last night I rolled during a dungeon there were beastmen fighting a giant centipede and were neutral to my players. My players ran in smashed the centipede and started high fiving the beastmen. It turned to this whole thing into a party and everyone had to mime at the table what they were wanting and traded rations for items.
So long story short embrace the random table and it should take 20 minutes to an hour and you will be surprised at what happens.
PS there are so many stories I did plan from just last night.
Pps the best night are on where we have to stop from all the laughing.
just WOW, love this stuff. I play 5E but love OSR stuff, Mork Borg, DCC, ICRPG and EZd6. Hoping Shadowdark is next :) I love what you do!
Awesome video!
Would be great to see a fully drawn version if the adventure. ShadowDark is awesome!
I bought a few of Kelsey's games before Shadowdark, and they are so easy to pick up and play, she is a very talented writer/game designer. When I saw the Shadowdark Kickstarter I had to back it! Maybe the tidy version could be one of your zines for the month? 😁
Yes! Can't wait for more of her adventures in the new Cursed Scroll zines!
This dungeon will probably end up in a zine later this year ;)
Fantastically creative ideas JP! Thank you! Grabbing pen and paper, dice, and my copy of Shadow Dark! 👍🏼
Checking out @NightNoonGames now! Luv’n Shadowdark!
You’re on fire lately my man
You have likely given us enough to finish it out on our own, but I am guessing that you will do a nicer job than I could, so sure, please do it all up nicely so we may play in your dungeon.
Cheers!
I've been waiting for hardcovers of your work for a while now. Excited to finally get the chance.
The notes look like a conspirarcy theorist's white board detective work. Just like it is supposed to be.
JP, I would love to see a finished version of this! It sounds like a blast to run and to add to my collection!
Love all your JP Coovert videos.
👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎
As always, your enthusiasm is inspiring. And, of course, would LOVE to see the finished dungeon map!
😃😃😃😃
I am not even lying but you are my idol
Would love to see a playable version of the map. Star borg should be fun, I love Mork Borg.
I just became a patreon and I LOVE all your content. I love your drawing style; i've been practising myself by drawing magic item cards. Nowhere near the quality of your work but i would have never thought it would turn out this fine.
Your zines are amazing, the style, the content, everything. I just wanted to let you know; keep it up. I love it a lot! Thank you
Appreciate it! Hope you keep it up too!
My Flik Silverpen’s drawing guide came in the mail today and I was surprised to also get your printed dungeon on a 5x7 card in color! You need to sell a set of these JP. Great one-shots for an evening of SD, D&D, etc Such a wonderful idea! Thx. 👍🏼
Sell the set in a custom ‘recipe box’ for quick, fun GM session planning.
Great vid.
What I love about your content, and this one is a great example of it, is that you show such passion about your work. No matter how simple or complex, you do it with imense enthusiasm. Thanks for it :)
This book is amazing, can i buy as a PDF?
Yes! Check out the arcane library website
You are so energetic it is obvious you love what you do. It is inspiring. I can't wait for your Kickstarter; you said it was coming soon what feels like months ago. I keep looking for it thinking I might have missed it. When the kickstarter comes out will your other books be available to get from the kickstarter as well? I really want to support you and I think I will enjoy and love using your products.
I would love for you to clean up the map and notes to then make them available to download. That would be awesome!
Thanks for uploading this! Very insightful
I never ended up running this one! 🤦♂
I'll have to dig it out and at least give the dungeon builder a go!
Another great vid! Thanks! :D
Great video thanks so much! Instantly subscribed!
This is awesome!!!!
I want to see you clean up the map with lots of cool details, but use your own art and monster designs to create the enemies and bosses.
I just knocked out an entire low level sandbox using the generator in a few hours, and throwing out about 1/3 , but that used to take a week!
Are we going to see a play of your dungeon?
Nice!!! No plans for any actual play at the moment.
Yes please make this a map 😁
It went from "freeing the vampire" to "slaying the vampire" pretty quickly!
“Find the vampire who is murdering the townsfolk” was the actual prompt I rolled :P
@@JPCoovert I thought you were gonna bring him some sunblock or something.
Just wanted to point out that the 10 on the d100 you rolled is actually a 1 if converting to a d10.
I always get that confused!
@@JPCoovert Well the boss room is better anyway!
2:35 JP gives the finger to his viewers😂 (not really)😂
Again at 5:26
😂😂😂
Cool video. If you were playing at the table would you show the players the map or would you Just describe it ala theatre of the mind. This is the hardest part I'm struggling with as a "never played" / first time and probable forever gm. I've run a handful of games and I've had my players select a mapper and they've drawn out my description on graph paper to varying levels of success combined with ultimate dungeon terrain board I made, this especially becomes difficult as I'm trying to run larger dungeons now to take full advantage of the torch timer. I've considered grabbing a tablet and running a vtt but I'm somewhat repulsed by the idea, I've also tried using dungeon tiles I made but again it became kind of tedious.
I’ve done it both ways. I’d say try it out both ways and see what works best for your table. Sometimes it’s fun to let the players find a map in the story then you can just hand them the map.