Basically the Shadowfell

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[@zecat3727]

Legend has it that if all the corners in a room are taken, an edgelord will instead open a portal to the shadowfell and go sulk there.

[@MrMikado282]

Now I want to add this to a campaign. Have a really edgy bad guy that can only be killed in the Shadowfell and trapping him in a sphere is the only way to make him port there.

[@zecat3727]

@@MrMikado282 Hm... he might end up being so edgy that he creates a corner. You've gotta be careful

[@connordarvall8482]

@@zecat3727 You need two edges to make a corner.

[@zecat3727]

@@connordarvall8482 Ah yes, my mistake.

[@williamwontiam3166]

Z. Catt you got that right

[@wedran9225]

The first time i found out about Acerarak, the DM gave him a Skeletor voice. I've had a hard time taking him seriously since then.

[@zachariahkindle8926]

Acerarak or your DM?

[@wedran9225]

@@zachariahkindle8926 Acerarak.

[@MasterMygrane]

Lol High Rollers?

[@wedran9225]

@@MasterMygrane i think so, yeah.

[@thetribunaloftheimaginatio5247]

That's BRILLIANT... and something I should do, since I'm basically a dead-ringer for the great Alan Oppenheimer. "Acererak to adventurers... Acererak to adventurers... come in, you tomb-robbing boobs!"

[@CL30]

"Elves are like planar cockroaches" Well that escalated quickly. Not that I disagree with your assessment

[@justanaverageferret]

Totally need to quote him on that somewhere in a game or something.

[@violentjohn1645]

Fantasy writers: Elves are a beautiful, artistic race of nature loving do-gooders. Fantasy readers: Filthy knife-ears.

[@stevecooper6578]

Well if knife ears weren't so god damn hot I bet there'd be less of them

[@cerberus400]

Not sure if it's in 5E yet but you could even find them in the Far Realm...though they were totes crazy and had spiders running through their skull pans.

[@arlokloiber2715]

@@stevecooper6578 points

[@LemonMoon]

Aight, now imma run the shadowfell as 1930’s gangster town, where their ain’t no magic but guns and bootleg whiskey.

[@sharkwolfdarkwolf2625]

With strippers and blow

[@boaboy8052]

Play ya a tune on my violin see

[@genericprofile2381]

Assuming whiskey isnt magical smh

[@rileyhogue8999]

The most notorious gang is Bones Malone and the Spooky Boys

[@Bluecho4]

Now I'm picturing that meme of the skeletons dressed like gangsters, with the caption, "Rattle em, boys!" or whatever.

[@jowhy7243]

the Shadowfell is so cool. I’ve had this idea for a horror game where a strange creature from the Shadowfell manipulates the children of a large region of the Material Plane, stealing them to later be eaten and to feed on their happiness. he just wants to feel happy, like how he was when he was a regular man. I don’t know, what do y’all think?

[@chazzle3459]

Kinda reminds me of Stephen King's IT. I dig it.

[@jowhy7243]

Chazzle it’s what I though as well. I’m thinking of making him more manipulative, his relationships with these children going on for months to try and lure them into the Shadowfell. thanks 🙏

[@wert1234576]

Could be fun, bonus if you make the monster try to sway the characters into joining/giving it pity

[@jowhy7243]

wert1234576 sounds cool lol, thanks 👍

[@rachaelgibbs1152]

I'd love to DM this

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

Ah yes, the five emotions: Angery Hongry Forever Alone Lost Wretched, but also kinda cute

[@thehermit8618]

Hot take: Shadowfell = Goth world Vanilla "plain" = Poser world Feywild = Prep world

[@OsamaBeenFartin69]

JoJo

[@takenomicon]

indeed now to the outer planes XD

[@wizardgradstudent]

Alternatively: Feywild is the Scene world

[@ObliviousNaga]

That makes too much sense it scares me

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Don't you mean goffic world, YA GIT?

[@christopherjustice6411]

Is basically Acererak next?

[@erty358]

I hope so

[@thesovereignofdawn9300]

Acererak is basically what happens when a horny balor gets with a human thot, has a kid, then kills the mom, and lefts his child unchecked. Then that angsty edgy teenager goes swearing vengeance for his dead mom (insert attack on titan joke), goes to learn magic from f*cking Vecna himself, learns the true name of daddy and enslaves him, gets bored of life, and pays a visit to uncle Orcus to become a crappy skeleton guy. After getting bored of existence, he decided to create a bunch of death caves designed by grampa gygax, to kill annoying murderhoboes lured by the need of power. I don't understand why people see him as a baddie, all he does is kill stupid adventurers who create chaos wherever they go. In fact, everything would certainly work better if he becomes everyone's master. He would grant us immortality in exchange of only complete and utter loyalty. He would certainly not trick you to fail a wis save against a dominate person spell, and make you write stupid ass comments to expand his ideology (which certainly isn't a bunch of totalitarian propaganda garbage). So that's basically Acererak.

[@reubenfromow4854]

In direct opposition to the dude above me, Acererak is one of my favourite villains in D&D. I see him as a character who is the crystallisation of evil- and he knows it. Maybe once upon a time he lived for knowledge or power or whatever. Not any more. His signature item is the sphere of Annihilation- and for good reason. He exists to end worlds however he can, creates gods of death, and collects the relics of his conquests in Dungeons to serve as museums. One day, all things will end. Acererak finds purpose is assisting that process, and for that I love him. In our Tomb of Annihilation canpaign, he only appeared for less than an hour, but he characterised he whole thing. It essentially became a story of a group of characters with nothing to live for, facing against the ideology of someone who wanted everything to end. It was an amazing story! (Especially when the paladin became a flesh golem)

[@mattmoseley6429]

@@reubenfromow4854 You can't just end that with "Especially when the paladin became a flesh golem" XD Goddamn please elaborate!

[@sworbet7708]

Yes please!

[@FlapNasty3]

Now I'm sitting here wondering when he'll hit us with "Basically, The Astral Plane."

[@maynardz03]

SO BASICALLY U IS ON ACID

[@DrMDHyde]

Maynard Zervantian I mean, accurate.

[@justuspickle]

"it's really big, and really blue, and sometimes you can find crap in it, but usually you can't"

[@piedpiper1185]

Well, you were about six months ahead of him 😄

[@doommuffin2663]

Acererak, I know that you’re mad, I wasn’t the best necro-dad, but I still love you, you purple pineapple... -Vecna, the Necro-dad

[@hellsing7310]

Two words: Emo Feywild.

[@LupineShadowOmega]

I mean....accurate.

[@Saiavinn]

Not even. The frickin _HAGS_ would rather check out hell itself than go here. Literally.

[@PuddleOfCats]

Elmo Feywild

[@digitaldevil696]

More like goth feywild

[@Texmex386]

"Haha, look at the funny man! He can't decide what he wants for dinner." STOP LOOKING AT ME

[@GURGLEGUY12345]

...Visiting the Fortress of Memories to uncover the secrets needed to beat Acererak sounds like a pretty cool campaign idea.

[@ethanotoroculus1060]

6:21 That was unironically amazing.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

How to improve the Shadowfell in one move: replace the Raven Queen with David Bowie and the elves with Skeksis'

[@theiceknight4457]

HmmmmmMMMMMmmmm

[@andrewthegeek6522]

6:26 every one knows aserak was a Canadian who made geese duh

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

*S I L E N C E, M O R T A L*

[@LuminousLead]

Callback ;D

[@Tsuruchi_420]

This is the history they will not tell you

[@Leivve]

Honest talk, what was he talking about? That sounds like a cool story hook.

[@Tsuruchi_420]

@@Leivve it's another video runesmith made, I don't remember what it was about

[@sylph8005]

You talk about the Raven Queen like her initial quest for power was pointless, but I'm pretty sure that Mordenkainen gave a motive. She began the ritual around the time when the Dark Seldarine (drow gods) split off from the Light Seldarine (elven gods). Being an elven queen, the soon-to-be-Raven-Queen wanted to become a goddess to be at a level where she could reunite the two elven pantheons. However, her ritual was accidentally sabotaged by a group of evil wizards who screwed up the ritual, turning her into the Raven Queen, sending them all to the Shadowfell, and turning the wizards themselves into the Nagpa (Skeksis knockoffs).

[@geoleo965]

*Shadowfell:* where the goths, emos, Punk stars & Heavy Metal bands like to chill and hang out.

[@Sytheduke]

I kinda want to actually make that canon in my campaign. Maybe there’s a quest to fish some edgy teens back out of the Shadowfell after they tracked down a portal thinking it would be a cool place to go. Some might have adapted well to it and not want to leave, but others would be scared shitless and not know how to protect themselves. There also may be a couple of kids that do want to leave and have been there long enough to help you track down everyone else safely.

[@geoleo965]

@@Sytheduke Dude, go for it! And treasure the time and those moments! That is what I LOVE of D&D: the immense creativity and hilarity ensued between sessions and great buds. Wish I had an experience like that in an actual and official session, but (ironically) the group that I joined to play together each week or two in middle & highschool ditched me because I wasn't "geeky enough" (that and perhaps for trying to insta-kill a random monster by slicing its neck and causing a hemorrhage.) Also? Honey badgers as OCs. Last one I had was a bard who learned the fine arts of seduction, belly dance & mauling.

[@river7874]

@@Sytheduke That was basically how I made Metalocalypse canon in my world. The party had to rescue this band of travelling Bards who were super talented musicians, yet bumbling idiots who got lost during a snowstorm and somehow stumbled upon a gate to the Shadowfell. They were saved, and wound up becoming the BBEG's much later in the game as their music took over my world.

[@danielknapp159]

I feel like it would be better and more accurate to say: "the raven queen's fans tried to make her more powerful, but some of those fans were toxic and ruined it for everybody."

[@caelan97]

"Elves are like planar cockroaches." Thank you for this quote, which I'll be using every day for the rest of my mortal life.

[@Medicae131]

As a life long dwarf player your hatred of the knife ears pleases me.

[@medramonmasquedecendres2966]

Personally i see the Shadowfell as something like Dark Soul: lot of dead people, gloom and doom and demons at each corners

[@JeweledRoseStudios]

medramon masque de cendres It also brought up a lot of Silent Hill vibes for me, with the emotion monsters and the personalized nightmares at Raven Queen’s house

[@monhunterz5430]

@@JeweledRoseStudios So, the land of Silent Souls?

[@joshuapushefski2498]

Let's count to 3 with Runesmith. Ok, ready? 1. 1. 3.

[@Fattts]

Ten!

[@foxtailzerda9108]

1:31 De Blob? Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in years...

[@nateb7974]

This is one series that helps me make my campaigns.

[@patrickdees5256]

Feywild Elves: OMG!! Its such a beautiful day, isn't it great~? WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY TO BE ALIVE~~!! Normal Elves: Mmm. Yes, I must concur. This a very exceptional day to go on a stroll. Shadowfell Elves: There is no point in this day, just as any other day. Just another reminder of our own short miserable existence.

[@kal-el702]

HOLD ON YOU ARE DOING BASICALLY THE PLANES!!! AWESOME!!! can't wait till the outer planes

[@prodigiousthetarnished198]

You mean the Lovecraftian planes?

[@burningbronze7555]

@@prodigiousthetarnished198 outer planes are the alignment lands, the far realms are Lovecraft town.

[@mhDarkWolf]

"Nightwalkers will 100% kill you" Party necromancer: Hold my skull goblet

[@vanessamorales2896]

Well most people who try to go to the negative are necromancers and nightwalkers kill everyone who goes in there so go figure

[@torrinfell]

So, what I got from this is... make a campaign that has the players eventually go to the fortress of memories to find Acererak's real name... or did I miss something here?

[@WilliamSyler]

In my setting, the Raven Queen's death tore her identity from her. She gathers memories and ideas to wear them and fill the void. When she inevitably finds out they don't fit her correctly, she discards them (hexblade patrons!). Sadly, she can't retain what she's learned because she's basically a dead/undead god. She's got the worst mix of amnesia and Alzheimer's, and is one of the most tragic stories. She will never succeed unless she ceases to exist as the Raven Queen.

[@Vaehlo]

Psychonauts? *I am the milkman...*

[@Drekromancer]

M Y M I L K I S D E L I C I O U S

[@Lindwyrm6429]

6:30 this is all really funny to me because in the last campaign I played, Acererak is just this really fun guy who loves making lattes, destroys stuff for fun (literally broke apart the surface of the world in this universe because he was bored), and is dating the party minotaur. It's all super fun to watch happen.

[@JXEditor]

Your Acererak is very different to Puffin Forest’s

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

If Acererak made his Phylactery before using it, then the knowledge of it is in there somewhere. My guess is he either made his dungeon network AS the phylactery, or he just tossed it into the negative plane.

[@erroldrommond9149]

4:21 that undertale references *_bonetrousle blasting in the background_*

[@dorkseid5874]

You caught on to exactly why I introduce the Raven Queen when running Curse of Strahd.

[@coolboi8825]

I looked up the stats for the nightwalker and a necromancy wizard at lvl 14 with command umdead can easly make one of these ther personal life sucking nightmare

[@thekinginyellow7777]

I like how he avoided saying 'sent into the shadow realm'

[@MiagolioMaxwell]

Does the ending perhaps foreshadow "Basically: Acererak"?

[@RichterPhallos]

6:29 Uh, actually you know what? I'm good. You keep your secrets there, buddy hahaha I can relate. Just gonna walk away now and never look back. Bye

[@alexanderjohnson3014]

+

[@benthomason3307]

The Feywild, the Material Plane, and the shadowfell are all the triplet children of the elemental planes. The Material Plane is the healthy one, but the Feywild and the Shadowfell lhave mania and depression, respectively.

[@idigamstudios7463]

I made the Raven Queen a powerful sorceress that Nerull, being the absolute jerkbutt he is, used as sort of a cosmic phylactory that while he went and fused with the Negative Energy plane. Elevating her to a god and him to something else. But she's also real clever and now he can't directly effect things and has no living cult anymore. So her motives are out maneuvering her evil undead ex.

[@timothymaddux9018]

*"SPEAKING TO A SEA OF ENDLESS, MINDLESS..."* Me: °chews headphones faster°

[@YourCrazyDolphin]

In my first game, the party went here briefly after the party's sorcerer pulled the most badass exit, and pissing off the Cleric, by murdering the Raven Queen and taking her place, and in the chaos ended up leaving us there for a little bit as we tried to find a way out. We fought duplicates of the party, controlled by us as well, and I learned to fear the cleric.

[@deltarno7502]

Oh, so that's where ravenloft went. Good to know. Next up, need to find dark sun and spell Jammer

[@TheBayzent]

And Planescape, after Ravnica is now a thing...

[@pixelcat5725]

*Acerorak speaking creepily* Me: *laughs nervously*

[@XX-sp3tt]

Those mad wizards on the coast, twisting reality to their one demented vision that only makes sense to them.

[@seymourfields3613]

Perfect! Two weeks ago, I TPKd my party. Tonight we join our heroes in the shadowfell.

[@djsalad5752]

If elves are humans but everything is increased, it makes sense that they seem arrogant.

[@lukesams3349]

Logan has three personalities represented by his three voices: 1. Wise lore master 2. Snarky and sarcastic 3. Meek and nasally

[@catnivalmew9609]

Im betting Acerack that boi be that one guy who escaped the doom of his 12th level casting empire by becoming a lich. He's just goin through a phase.

[@Gabriel-uy4eh]

This episode was so good. The comedy was on point, it was informative and you made some great bits. I totally agree on the elfs and the outro was amazing.

[@raiolar8182]

Time to run a short campaign now for adventurers trying to reclaim their memories Thanks

[@noahnicholes8626]

* immediately creates a party of 10 friends at lev 20 for the sole purpose of finding his reliquary and killing him

[@fantasyshadows3207]

possible motive for the Raven Queen (not ever after high) she made a dumb bet with another elf and got stranded in another world because of it, winning the bet, basically a "I won but at what cost?" extra better addition is that due to winning the bet, she now has power over that elf's descendants forever, as long as they are within her vicinity, so as long as those descendant never enter the Shadowfell, they are safe unfortunately the elf she made a bet with is a cheating little bard and has a bunch of children... who are really good at surviving and have even more children and grand children...... so she can accidentally can control an entire elven army

[@Jackb290]

Shadow fell or as I call it the *Edgy Dimension!!!!!!!!!!!!* (Echoes)

[@pocketheart1450]

Funny you should mention that my players have been in the shadowfell for two weeks now and they're actually going to the Fortress of memories next week.

[@dylanchase2401]

You forgot the Grey Renders. They are basically giant powerful loyal dogs. They have the quirks of a puppy.

[@Dyneamaeus]

Wouldn't that last bit make a perfect backstory for the Raven Queen? All i really know about her is she super hates undead, so why not a "was betrayed/cut off in traffic/one-night-standed by Acererak and then rolled poorly on the 'get tasty vengence' spell" sort of thing? Now she's trapped in a place he has no reason to go, sending out agents to hunt down his potential minions, and combing through the memories of the dead to find his trail? Even now she's not sure what she'll do we she finds him. Cry? Smite? Kiss? Perhaps some combination thereof.

[@_Tzer]

there is only one reason to go to the negative energy plane if you are a lich other than that the no answer applies Even the quasi elemental negative energy planes arent meant to be messed with

[@abilisha8460]

DND: Yeah Shadowfell very spooky, evil creatures, bad bois! WoW: Ok we take your idea and put fancy ,shiny angels in it.

[@jonahclements9549]

Some clarification on the Raven Queen, the spell wasn't too much for her, but 9 power-hungry wizards who were helping with the ritual twisted it for their own gain, and she found out, tried to change it back, and the resulting chaos turned her into the Raven Queen, and she then turned the wizards into disgusting bird mages.

[@LDIndustries]

My campaign ran a whole 2 parter where we traveled into the shadowfell to revive a dead party member, a gnome artificer. He died to a vampire who apparently is native to the shadowfell (for plot reasons we don't know and she has subsequently become our beloved ally, she almost died last week and half of us started crying). Then after the character the guy who played the gnome artificer betrayed us and ran off (also for plot reasons we're not quite sure why, it's gonna be revealed in our session literally tomorrow), we decided it's time to go to the shadowfell to pick up good old gnome artificer. We traveled in, spent about 2 weeks in the shadowfell, went to the raven queen's fortress, she gave us a sword and wanted us to kill someone else to replace the artificer we were gonna leave with, but my gnome monk (who happened to have obtained gauntlets of ogre strength) beat a DC 24 strength check to break said sword. Now he's got permanent disadvantage to dex ability checks, but it was fucking cool. People will probably ask "well why didn't she just pop you like a zit?" the short answer is my DM was so flabbergasted I met their insane requirement that they were like "You know what? FINE! Here's a permanent hex on all your Dex abilities but you saved your friend." End of the story, after we got out we found out it had been a year since we left and my character is alive to tell the story of how he single handedly defied the Raven Queen. Joe the Drunk Monk is my D&D incarnation of "Nothing Bad Ever Happens to the Kennedy's" but with no backlash. The other day our DM revealed that due to my backstory of being kidnapped by Drow (he's a deep gnome) and subsequently escaping, Joe has a secret cult dedicated to worshipping him as a messiah. They offered Joe a night filled with kinky spider sex with some Driders and he "politely" declined. (every other session we have is somehow based on a movie or TV show, we killed three fake Dads at a wedding on our world's version of a Greek Island and we also tortured some high schoolers who played basketball and could also sing)

[@larzanthony2275]

De BLOB is one of the most unique and fun games I have played. A shame that it didn’t get the attention it deserved as it never got another release after de BLOB 2. You can surprisingly also play both on the pc. They are only 4,99 on steam till the end of the black friday deal.

[@azericthetraveller6355]

The spooky bit was cool and all, but it’s a super good question if you could find out who acererack is through the raven queen’s place.

[@nathanwiens4521]

And that's basically the shadowfell. Didn't feel right without it.

[@XxThunderflamexX]

"The plane of negative energy: Don't fucking go here" But how else am I supposed to build my traversable wormhole?

[@gabemckelvey6779]

All the other youtubers are slowing their production speed but you keep churning out quality content relatively quickly, you’re awesome.

[@klekman6474]

“Power is not a goal, it’s a tool” *Vergil wants to know your location**

[@yungo1rst]

Vecna might have memories that there castle he desires. something as simple as what it felt like to have both eyes or both hands before his second in command removed them. the raven queen might have wards against undead intrusion as they would be wanting to experience being alive again so they camp outside her castle waiting for a ward to be removed for a few rounds to run in an trip out in sections they walk through.

[@brosephnoonan223]

Depression: The Place there, saved you some time.

[@U.Inferno]

My Warlock got sucked into the Shadowfell and ran into the mafia. The leader of the Mafia told her "I'll send you back to the material plane if you take this sword and do shit for me." The sword was a hexblade, he was a blacksmith, and she just got a patron. Also, he won't stop fucking with the Raven Queen.

[@edxcal84]

I recently did a one shot with my Gf and her sister, one of the characters was a wild magic sorcerer and pushed my own event that the first time she used her magic, they got pulled into the Shadowfell, because they we're at a Shadow Elf village in the real world. They fought the undead and found a mage who's died and had an idea that would allow you to pass between planes. Trying to find information and enemies was tough for 5e, so ultimately I got to do as I wish. Was fun and may add it into a later game as well! Great video!

[@CrusadiaIX]

I must have been hallucinating when I first read Mordenkainen’s Yellow Pages because I could swear the reason given for the Raven Queen’s ascension was “she was trying to stop the elven gods from fighting so much” which makes her kind of a tragic big sister figure who failed to stop mom and dad from separating. Then I just inserted the idea that her mind fragmented so hard from the ascension that she has to constantly collect supplemental memories or she’ll basically just cease existing

[@gabrielrussell5531]

We know who Acererak was. A poorly prepared conjurer summoned a Balor that killed him. That Balor and one of the Conjurer's servant-girls were Acererak's parents. His mom got killed by a local mob for consorting with demons, which is accurate but very wrong. Vecna took a liking to the boy and took him on as an apprentice. Then Acererak decided to start up a death curse and was surprised when a Dwarf Paladin outsmarted all his traps. Now Acererak is a chump who got entombed in stone because he thought having his final battle arena have lava would be cool. He was dumped into the lava, and having the top layer of the lava frozen with *Cone of Cold* and being extracted from his solidified prison with a Dao's *Stone shape* and immense strength. Entombed in stone he can't move or speak, so no spells with Verbal or Somatic components. (Oh look; that's literally all of them!) As a Lich all he can't suffocate, starve, or die of thirst. He can't even sleep so he can't dream. All he can do is think about how much he hates me until he fails to feed his ~Tomagatchi~ phylactery for long enough and withers away. "How does it feel Acererak; to know you brought this on yourself? How does it feel; to be stupid!?"

[@TheBeastr]

Ravenqueen actually used her near godlike or "superpowers" to try and bridge the Drow and Eldarin bringing their entire elven race back to what was their golden age

[@rowantatun5473]

As a side project I actually made a fifth edition shadowfell campaign setting using old 3e and 4e stuff that I converted to fifth. Runesmith! The goblins wield morningstars and have shadow powers!

[@AijeAstralos]

deepest of respects for my girl the raven queen, gone from an unnamed ghost who got so fed up with the previous neutral god of death's shit that she proceeded to beat his ass, eat him, and take over, to 'idk some ancient elven queen got power-hongry and got yeeted unto shadowfell or something'.

[@El_Chico_des_Galos]

I heard that in the Shadowfell, Barbarians are constantly enraged with all of the downsides and only a few upsides.

[@SwordlordRoy]

"4 pages or lore..." In just the two player option books (Heroes of the Feywild and Heroes of Shadow) from late 4th edition, I'm counting at least 12 pages for each, not to mention what was in each of the Core books since those were some of the big new shiny things of 4e...

[@lazarb4419]

In my world Ialways play the feywild as a place where emotions are more powerful and saturated, even bad emotions. On the other hand is the shadow fell is muted and most creatures there act prinally and not emotionally.

[@mimictear6788]

The way I run the Shadowfell is that it's the polar opposite of the Feywild; Where the Feywild is a swirling mass of horror and bright colours with a thin veneer of twisted hospitality, the Shadowfell is a welcoming place of rest and safety at its core with the appearance of a depressing hellscape. The Feywild is an unsettling mess that's ever-changing, while the Shadowfell is comfortingly stable. Sure, there are dangerous creatures that feed on your very soul in the Shadowfell, but most of those are few and far between. The Feywild, however, is overpopulated with things that want you dead, and there's nowhere that's actually safe, since the Fey tend to think 'Hey, can I stay the night' means 'Please enslave me for immortal aeons'.

[@gamemasterscrafters2135]

The bit with the dungeon tiles on the bed was totally worth slightly crushing all those tiles! Hilarious. I did NOT expect that.

[@martinpat94]

Dude ending was nice. I would say the experiment was a success

[@essejay7952]

From what I know about the Raven Queen has dominion over life and death so I made a drow death cleric that serves the Raven Queen

[@jonassturgeon5870]

Don’t forget, when Orcus lost his godhood, his godhood took the name Tenebrous and became one of the Dark Powers. So Orcus is like a drunk, sad, divorced father. Except Tenebraus took the godhood instead of the kids.

[@datastorm75]

So the 3rd edition Ravenloft setting is now known as the Shadowfell. Interesting.

[@copaczin3605]

You forgot the most recent add-on to the lore where MK-ULTRA somehow opened a Shadowfell gateway in Indiana.

[@derpherp1810]

The Shadowfell for me kinda just feels like Limbo or the Greek Underworld but more gaellic and silent hilly. If I ever do my own worldbuilding, this is what the Shadowfell will be remade into.

[@HobbNoblin]

"Elves are humans-plus" ...soooo, basically the Tuatha Dé Danann or, alternatively, Kupua...yeah, that tracks. I can dig it.

[@samuellerma5365]

6:06 "or face your inner demons Like persona 5" *sad persona 4 noises*

[@derpfluidvariant0916]

Ye but psyconauts cool.

[@mynameluvsdragonscancelled6759]

Imagine trying to kill the raven queen and she tries to stop you by saying, “Please... you don’t know what you could be losing! I know the memories of all the dead! I. Know. Who. Asirik. Once. Was!

[@darkmoon2503]

Y'know, if you can just find a way to live in the 2% of the Shadowfell that isn't infested with the undead, the Plane of Shadow probably isn't too bad of a place to live.

[@silvertheelf]

“Power is not a goal, it’s a tool” No, it’s both a goal and a tool.

[@flametongue1895]

I think I just figured out how my players are going to find my lich’s phylactory.

[@randomdude-4353]

Skull lords are what you get when you combine Skeletor and the Wither from Minecraft

[@SonySteals]

I’m traveling back in time watching all the videos from the newest episodes to the oldest and damn I imagined Runesmith looking a bit different xdd

[@jameschristophercirujano6650]

When you cast a beeg spell, you should've gotten to a good place.

[@scaryseal9496]

Man that de blob reference was a trip

[@TheMorbidHobbiest]

I played a ShadarKai in a 4e campaign when I first started playing D&D. But, I misunderstood the lore and took them to be 1-Up dude bros that look goth and have to literally feel to stay alive. So had my guy only have been on the material plane for a real short time, making him still a bit wide-eyed. He did stupid shit like catch a barbed fish as the party crossed a river with his mouth. He then ripped it out of his mouth and stuck it in his pants for later.... Good times