Shadowdark campaign notes
An OSR-style fantasy game focused on dangerous dungeon delving, dwindling light, and the constant possibility of a very educational death.
RealmBinder turns your table's rough notes or recordings into a shared record of the campaign: session recaps, characters, places and quests. Set the campaign to Shadowdark and it knows the kind of story you are telling.
A Shadowdark campaign frame
Choose a frame when you set up the campaign, or keep just the system. The frame picks the covers you start from, sets the look of the art, and tells RealmBinder the setting when it tidies your notes.
Dungeon Delvers
Adventurers explore deadly dungeons where light is scarce, time is cruel, and optimism is mostly decorative.
- torches
- danger
- dungeons
- scarcity
What changes in a Shadowdark campaign
Notes that keep the right tone
When RealmBinder rewrites a session or the Chronicler asks you about one, it is told what a Shadowdark story sounds like. It uses that for tone only: what your table wrote down always wins.
- Tone
- Tense, atmospheric, and survival-driven.
- Focus
- Exploration, pressure, resourcefulness, and escaping alive.
Beside your other tools
RealmBinder isn't a character sheet, a rules reference or a virtual tabletop. Keep playing Shadowdark the way you do and link the character sheet you already use.
Characters in the game's own words
Player character profiles ask for a class, ancestry and background, the terms Shadowdark players already use.
Also built in
Shadowdark is a trademark of its owner. RealmBinder is an independent campaign notes tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the publisher of Shadowdark.