Let’s build a D&D campaign with ~dark fey vibes~

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Ginny Di

Ginny Di

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@GinnyDi
@GinnyDi 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks to Kobold Press for sponsoring this video all about The Book of Ebon Tides and Tales From the Shadows! Get yours in print or PDF: ► koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/book-of-ebon-tides-for-5th-edition/ ► koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tales-from-the-shadows-for-5th-edition/
@alexsnow3319
@alexsnow3319 2 жыл бұрын
Why not review the book using the campaign as examples of the ups/pitfalls of the book?
@claytonwilde5750
@claytonwilde5750 2 жыл бұрын
@@alexsnow3319 kobold press probably requested this sort of content rather than a review
@TurboWulfe
@TurboWulfe 2 жыл бұрын
Yes please, thanks for this! Take care 😎 🍻 🤘
@GryphonDes
@GryphonDes 2 жыл бұрын
Used your links and picked up them both 0- thanks for the inspiration
@isaacgraff8288
@isaacgraff8288 2 жыл бұрын
So far only complaint is there is a typo i have found in the book that bugs me a little.
@tooblue127
@tooblue127 2 жыл бұрын
As a young girl who loved to read grimm fairytales as a kid I also have not grown out of the dark fey vibes. Probably why I love dnd and specifically anything fey so much.
@majorzipf8947
@majorzipf8947 2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Totally agree. I love the contrasting themes of beautiful whimsy and twisted misery. Subverting expectations and making your players questions EVERYTHING is such a joy.
@happymanharp1378
@happymanharp1378 2 жыл бұрын
"they are not paying me to run a campaign" *blink* Yeah, do that! Sponsor her! Do it now KP!
@RayOfGraceFieldHouse
@RayOfGraceFieldHouse Жыл бұрын
I'll sign that petition.
@CrispysTavern
@CrispysTavern 2 жыл бұрын
The Feywild is such an interesting and surprisingly dynamic location for games! Folk horror, whimsical fairy tale, dark political intrigue, all of them and more fit perfectly with the Fey. I’m building a political game in a home brew take on the Feywild and it’s been a great time! Looking forward to some inspiration from this video.
@GinnyDi
@GinnyDi 2 жыл бұрын
Love the Feywild, too! In this case I think the Shadow Realm is a cool place to set your fey courts for a different, more gothic vibe than the more traditional Seelie/Unseelie dynamic in the Feywild.
@CrispysTavern
@CrispysTavern 2 жыл бұрын
@@GinnyDi Yeah I made this comment before I realized the full context of the video. The Shadow Realm seems like a cool take though! I love the idea of creatures selling memories, definitely stealing that one for myself.
@semipessimistic
@semipessimistic 2 жыл бұрын
Do you think this setting could represent the unseelie court? With all it’s dark fey influence?
@GinnyDi
@GinnyDi 2 жыл бұрын
Totally! I think you could easily drop much of this setting into the Feywild - make it so that the Unseelie court is perpetually night, give outsiders "shadow corruption" if they spend too long there, use the Shadow Fey concepts for Unseelie fey, etc. That's what I love about modular content like this. It can be a whole plane, or you can just take what you like and put it into your own game however it suits best.
@AdorableTheNerd
@AdorableTheNerd 2 жыл бұрын
the direction this video had my particular thoughts turning in was how much of this would be useful for my ethereal plane, which in my setting is more commonly known as the Dream realm, a sort of collective unconscious fashioned of the mortal emotions and imaginings layered on top of one another for many millennia. the Deep Dreaming contains many realms of shadow and darkness, especially where it bumps metaphysically up against the shadowfell, and now i wanna steal so many of these mechanics and concepts and adapt them into a dream realm adventure :D
@Boone_Faustus
@Boone_Faustus 2 жыл бұрын
"It's very fucked up I love it!" is always a sign of great content.
@thatrandomswedishperson
@thatrandomswedishperson 2 жыл бұрын
"Life is short and D&D is long" is iconic and I'm gonna go put this on a shirt now.
@jeremyfrost2636
@jeremyfrost2636 2 жыл бұрын
Could use a bumper sticker too.
@tcepsa
@tcepsa 2 жыл бұрын
"Ludus longa, vita brevis" XD
@davidfarnham5623
@davidfarnham5623 2 жыл бұрын
for anyone curious, there is a domain of dread in Ravenloft called "The Shadow Rift" that had dark fae with it's own seelie and unseelie court. It is accessed by the neighboring realm of Tepest that has to deal with fae all the time. There were even 2 modules in an old edition. I am currently running a campaign in Tepest and using those dark fae and it's incredible, my party is terrified. One of the characters even got their shadow stolen.
@Tralldan
@Tralldan 2 жыл бұрын
Ah, stealing shadows, the most fae thing a fae could ever do.
@theSheighani42
@theSheighani42 2 жыл бұрын
Oh shit o.0 so, really hoping they have a double running around. Idea of soul or Self attached to shadow, or like in The World of Darkness something akin to a Fetch...
@jamesfavell1731
@jamesfavell1731 2 жыл бұрын
In my setting, there’s an Elven nation called Davael. Davael is a theocracy dedicated to beings they call the ‘Bright Creators’, whom they believe originally made the world but whose glory was usurped by the other Gods. The Davaeli are fiercely devoted to the Bright Creators, and the most loyal are allowed to drink from the Bright Font, becoming Eladrin - the chosen children of the Creators. The problem is the story is not true and the Bright Creators are just a bunch of capricious, dangerous and bored Fey who basically pranked a nation of several million elves into religious extremism for kicks and profit.
@theSheighani42
@theSheighani42 2 жыл бұрын
That... Sounds legit xD
@jasonreed7522
@jasonreed7522 2 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of world building is coming up with "what really happened" vs "each culture's record". In your case the elves believe their religion, everyone else has the normal DnD religion, and the absolute truth is that some Fey are doing Fey things and messing with an entire kingdom or empire sized realm.
@wendyblair3079
@wendyblair3079 2 жыл бұрын
I love this idea! I’m curious as to your thoughts on how to write/run dark fey aristocracy. I’m a little in the dark (no pun intended lol) on the subject of fantasy aristocracy in general, but I really want to add some in to my campaign rn. Thanks in advance!
@figboi
@figboi 2 жыл бұрын
We engage in a mild amount of tomfoolery moment there
@markkoehr5003
@markkoehr5003 2 жыл бұрын
Kenna's backstory got my brain spinning the most. Just thinking about if Kenna hired the mage to take her and her child somewhere (like they were on the run from something or moving or whatever) and the Kenna's child wonders off or is lured off the shadow roads. So Kenna ran off after her child to protect them. But she is abused by the memory thief and loses her memory of her child. So her child is now lost plane of shadows. Maybe they gang comes across her child during their adventure. Maybe this is before Kenna regains her memories so she doesn't know its her child yet. Maybe child got corrupted by the shadows. Maybe the child gets entangle in a rival fairy court of Aravni's, or even one of those lost courts you mentioned. Idk, so many possibilities.
@LittleAshfairy
@LittleAshfairy 2 жыл бұрын
Me: Gotta prep D&D! No time to lose Ginny: New video 😇 Me: Yeah, okay, I'll watch it later, really gotta prep Ginny: It's about Fey... Dark Fey Me: ... Well, I can just improvise the next session I guess
@CyberChamp
@CyberChamp 2 жыл бұрын
This seems perfect book to have a Jim Henson Labyrinth style campaign
@ProPirateRyan
@ProPirateRyan 2 жыл бұрын
Omg please do more videos in this format! Campaign setting prep is SO INTERESTING I am all about this. Production quality is top notch too, I love it. Thank you so much for taking risks on niche content like this!!! Very cool
@laurengray7010
@laurengray7010 Жыл бұрын
As someone who was obsessed with The Spiderwick Chronicles as a kid, I am definitely an enjoyer of dark fey stories.
@solarcupid2583
@solarcupid2583 2 жыл бұрын
The fact that you uploaded this the DAY I finalized my changeling's backstory. They're one of the "switched with a human baby" ones, and was found out when they went to help the local blacksmith and touched pure iron for the first time. They were then banished in a very traumatic incident given that they didn't even know that they were one. There's a whole lot more details, but that's the basics of it. I'm also going with classic fae rules so this changeling can't lie. They don't have the whole gift stuff though because I imagine that's a societal thing, not instinctual. I'm so excited for session one next week
@ProfBoggs
@ProfBoggs 2 жыл бұрын
Do you have a 5e source for classic fae rules, perchance?
@solarcupid2583
@solarcupid2583 2 жыл бұрын
@@ProfBoggs not officially, but there's some cool homebrew rules you can find by googling "Fey dnd 5e" or "playing fey dnd" a lot of it it just flavor stuff based on actual Celtic mythology, like the favors system. Some of the ones that come to mind are true names and iron weakness. The true name rules are basically, if you give a fey your true name, they can use command, suggestion, geas, and other spells like that on you at will. (Which spell they use depends on the strength of the fey) you automatically fail the saving throw as well. As for the iron, fey creatures take double damage from iron weapons, have disadvantage attacking enemies with iron equipped, and take minor burning damage when touching it
@ProfBoggs
@ProfBoggs 2 жыл бұрын
@@solarcupid2583 tyvm :)
@seansteele6532
@seansteele6532 2 жыл бұрын
I played a Satyr Hexblade Warlock named Sweetpea who's backstory was that she was a regular goat that got was kept in the feast hall of the Countess of County Faire (A feywild infused district in the city setting my group homebrewed) and when the Countess needed some champions to do stuff for her she turned her into a sentient Satyr Hexblade Warlock, she only wishes to return to the peaceful life of just being a goat.
@harrison3207
@harrison3207 2 жыл бұрын
That sounds amazing 👏 Also very cool that your group worldbuilt together. Was everyone at the table just interested in homebrewing things or did you do something special?
@seansteele6532
@seansteele6532 2 жыл бұрын
@@harrison3207 Well there's absolutely no homebrew in her, she's mechanically a Satyr Hexblade Warlock with the Entertainer Background, remember, flavor is always free.
@KestralSabre
@KestralSabre 2 жыл бұрын
“For as long as the players can keep their Saturday mornings open-“ I’m dying, too real😂
@ryadinstormblessed8308
@ryadinstormblessed8308 2 жыл бұрын
"... it's always October in my heart!" That made me smile so much! I worked at the local Renaissance Faire for the first time on the weekends last July, and found out that the same place also does Halloween stuff in October. I've been eagerly awaiting the chance to go back and dress up again for another month!
@nordicson2835
@nordicson2835 2 жыл бұрын
My daughter was watching this in the living room , too hot to go outside , as soon as she saw your shirt. She yelled. " it's officially Halloween Season." Another great post , thank you. End of Summer mermaid lament ? Please ?
@graphicfire
@graphicfire 2 жыл бұрын
I'm playing a fey warlock of the seelie court, there's not much content I've seen based on that unseelie seems to be the one with all the content and lore. Peeps love their dark faeries. Also I tend to picture the characters from the Dresden files wile playing.
@zeppelopod
@zeppelopod 2 жыл бұрын
Dresden Files is EXCELLENT for weird dark fae shenanigans.
@seantepe5071
@seantepe5071 2 жыл бұрын
Making a pact with a dark Fey where all I get in return is a full campaign DM’d by Ginny.
@mollywantshugs5944
@mollywantshugs5944 2 жыл бұрын
My favorite part of the fey is the sheer alienness of the fey in folklore. In particular the idea that they have a bunch of social rules and even laws of nature that they take very seriously which the human characters don’t understand
@loveearth30
@loveearth30 2 жыл бұрын
Playing in a game completely shadow realm based does sound highly appealing to me. I enjoy the combination of mystical fey and dark less "pleasant" aspects that come across as sorta horror based. I very much enjoy giving my dms room to completely terrorize my characters, and I also enjoy being surprised with backstory things and this setting seems to naturally lean pretty heavily into aspects that could do that.
@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos 2 жыл бұрын
I've been running a dark fae campaign for quite some time now. It's a vibe. I love the creative liberties you can take in the Faewild, the Dreamlands, and the Plane of Shadow--and fae let you play in all of them!
@giraffedragon6110
@giraffedragon6110 2 жыл бұрын
I would recommend Coraline for inspiration as well. It is a PERFECT example of dark fantasy.
@Arkhavist_S
@Arkhavist_S 2 жыл бұрын
Man, that bear cosplay was spot-on.
@GinnyDi
@GinnyDi 2 жыл бұрын
thanks, worked really hard on it
@ProfBoggs
@ProfBoggs 2 жыл бұрын
Wait, where was that? I didn't see any bear ears or snout on Ginny Di...
@Arkhavist_S
@Arkhavist_S 2 жыл бұрын
@@ProfBoggs 9:19 you can't miss it. Flawless. If I didn't know better, I'd almost mistake her for a real bear.
@ProfBoggs
@ProfBoggs 2 жыл бұрын
@@Arkhavist_S doh!
@gracegodinez5302
@gracegodinez5302 2 жыл бұрын
wait no wayyyy, I was literally just talking about our new heavily fey centered campaign!!
@gbprime2353
@gbprime2353 2 жыл бұрын
This is a world-building element I need. A previous campaign that went epic-level saved an entire world from sliding into the Abyss after it was pretty far gone. Then they left. So with nations gone and populations decimated... now what? A world ripe for the feywild, with leftover lurking terrors and civilizations few and far between.
@PotterFreak22
@PotterFreak22 2 жыл бұрын
I have been waiting for spooky season all year. This is close enough to start putting Halloween decorations up. And leaving them there until next year. Or whenever.
@jeremyfrost2636
@jeremyfrost2636 2 жыл бұрын
I have a meme that says "July 4th has passed, I'm putting my Halloween decorations up now". I post it on Twitter every July 5th.
@rockfacts3987
@rockfacts3987 2 жыл бұрын
THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT MY NEXT CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT AAAGH
@christosgiannopoulos828
@christosgiannopoulos828 2 жыл бұрын
"Looks like you're going to the shadow realm, players"
@riareanne
@riareanne 2 жыл бұрын
Your characters are so interesting! Your videos have definitely helped me flesh out the backstories I wrote for my characters, but I’ve still got a lot of room for improvement. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration!
@giggityguy
@giggityguy Жыл бұрын
I really love how deceptive fey can be. Even to experienced players who should know better, it's hard to make yourself think of them as every bit as dangerous as something like a fiend. They're unpredictable, which makes them even more interesting as villains. I'm ruminating on a campaign where the BBEG is an archfey, whose whole gimmick is that she gives luck and lavish gifts to those that adore her, but always bends the results to her own ends. It should make the party very suspicious of everything that seems like good luck or good loot, though not before a few nasty surprises teach them that lesson! It's got to be very unsettling to have a enemy that makes everything beautiful instead of setting things on fire.
@antonioscendrategattico2302
@antonioscendrategattico2302 9 ай бұрын
Ngl, this is a really great atmospheric premise. The characters are all creative and fit the setting, and their backstory is deeply tied to it.
@irian42
@irian42 2 жыл бұрын
Speaking of Kobold Press, Courts of the Shadow Fey is absolutely amazing!
@captaincube132
@captaincube132 2 жыл бұрын
13:03 I'm surprised you built an entire party and only put *a* fey in it, one, singular. Very impressed at your self restraint =)
@isaacgraff8288
@isaacgraff8288 2 жыл бұрын
Considering how early I see Christmas crap, you are perfectly okay delving into Halloween late August.
@Midnight3Wonder
@Midnight3Wonder 2 жыл бұрын
I've actually been DYING to play in a game heavily inspired and influenced by fairytales. If you read the original stories, you know how messed up they truly are. Perfect setting for a D&D campaign!
@jeremyfrost2636
@jeremyfrost2636 2 жыл бұрын
To paraphrase Ginny, they're very fucked up. I love them.
@Midnight3Wonder
@Midnight3Wonder 2 жыл бұрын
@@jeremyfrost2636 Me, too! Some of my personal favorites are Alice In Wonderland, Red Riding Hood, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and so many more! I can't help it! There are just so many wonderful tales out there to explore!
@RyanFribble
@RyanFribble 2 жыл бұрын
@@Midnight3Wonder Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a official module that has a lot of those themes to it
@Midnight3Wonder
@Midnight3Wonder 2 жыл бұрын
@@RyanFribble I know, and I really hope I can play that module someday. I have tried to play it, but I was only able to last a few sessions before life got in the way.
@3DJMV3
@3DJMV3 2 жыл бұрын
My party is halfway through Wild beyond the Witchlight, they're buying a lot into the fey theme so I think this adventure is right for them !
@shanearnett3235
@shanearnett3235 2 жыл бұрын
Oh I would kill to play a campaign with you. I love your videos I've watched many of your videos and I'm obsessed. I'm a newbie so I know with all of your experience you would be able to mold me into a good player and with both our imaginations we would have a blast. Keep up the great work Ginny
@xkacie
@xkacie 2 жыл бұрын
Your characters always have such compelling and well-thought out backstories. I am SO invested in Kenna’s arc! I want to see this campaign played out!
@JediKnightDTV
@JediKnightDTV 2 жыл бұрын
OMG Ginny!!! A Warlock, a Barbarian, a Druid and a Cleric, and I LOVE the new Classes/Subclasses!!! 🤩 I absolutely ADORE the Shadowrealm/Feywild like you do!!! What a great idea for a Campaign!!! 😍
@vampricyoda
@vampricyoda 7 ай бұрын
Whenever I see Fae in a game I'm always tempted to just like swat them and go "Trust me. This is easier then anything they had to say."
@Jarulf4477
@Jarulf4477 9 ай бұрын
I don't know how i missed this gem from you, Ginny. Always loved the fey since i was gifted a whole book about all sorts of fey, both Seelie and Unseelie. Very nuanced and exciting characters you deliver on top of this great vid.
@justangela1684
@justangela1684 2 жыл бұрын
My friend is playing a changeling and it's SO COOL
@nigeldepledge3790
@nigeldepledge3790 2 жыл бұрын
Ooh! I can see why Kobold Press are keen to work with you. I love the way your mind works. I think it would be brilliant to play the campaign you've described, but I'm currently without a group. (Yes : several bags of new dice and no place to roll. 😥)
@dndinacastle
@dndinacastle 2 жыл бұрын
This is a phenomenally helpful video. A great example of how to make the most of a new setting.
@seanfsmith
@seanfsmith 2 жыл бұрын
I absolutely **adore** the casual bodyhorror in this --- this might be the first time I pick up a campaign setting for 5E rather than build my own!
@KnicKnac
@KnicKnac 2 жыл бұрын
If the DM wanted to use just the campaign setting from them and not the lineages. You could use already printed ones. Dhampir, Shifter, Custom Lineage comes to mind.
@Zamun
@Zamun 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the shadowed content.
@mikaelabowler
@mikaelabowler 2 жыл бұрын
Kobold Press better have paid you well for this video girlie, great job
@OptimusOmega6
@OptimusOmega6 2 жыл бұрын
Always on the lookout for good D&D horror content.
@Maradras
@Maradras 2 жыл бұрын
I would most definitely play in the shadow realm. I am always a fan of shadows and intrigue, sounds like a fun time
@lando1980
@lando1980 2 жыл бұрын
Good plan and timing.
@davidbarnett342
@davidbarnett342 2 жыл бұрын
I am half here for the videos half here for the your style. Your hair color and how well it looks on you are just awesome. Super jelly.
@Tsuusetsu
@Tsuusetsu 2 жыл бұрын
would absolutely play in a campaign in this setting. Non standard settings are the best.
@powergamingcentral5792
@powergamingcentral5792 2 жыл бұрын
"Yeah don´t trust a fae trust me instead . I am sure we can come to a advantageous agreement for us both. The only think you have to do is so sign these contract papers." My Tiefling Warlock in the City close to wood with a portal to the faewild.
@LostForestFires
@LostForestFires 2 жыл бұрын
Ohh I just started a very short campaign with the Tome of beast as my main source of inspiration. Shadow fey are so fun. My party is trying to remove the moon king for his crumbling seat of power. During a grand masquerade ball in the overlapp between the shadowfell and the feywild.
@RockThisCrib
@RockThisCrib Жыл бұрын
So many ideas to packed into this book and video. Well done
@paulieboy6644
@paulieboy6644 2 жыл бұрын
This is helpful - I’m newish to DnD and playing a Fey warlock
@Invindication
@Invindication 2 жыл бұрын
Fey are my favorite part of DnD. I’m gonna enjoy this video so much!!!!
@jessofall_trades
@jessofall_trades 2 жыл бұрын
Ah this is so cool! Dm'd for the first time last Saturday and have been planning my campaign around the shadow fell and fey wilds so this is so helpful!
@garvinanders2355
@garvinanders2355 Жыл бұрын
This sounds awesome. Thank you for making this.
@Kaizensan1775
@Kaizensan1775 2 жыл бұрын
How about... Dark-Eyed 👀 Children? 🤣 the subtle F-💣 drop caught me off guard 🤣 Appreciate you leaving it in.
@deusexaethera
@deusexaethera Жыл бұрын
If I had someone like you around, D&D would be worth setting aside time to play. Your enthusiasm is infectious. I'd ask why you have to live so far away, but I wouldn't inflict DC-area weather (and traffic) on my worst enemy.
@yurizanelli6538
@yurizanelli6538 2 жыл бұрын
Fey creatures are my favorite. Changeling the Dreaming and Household are two(very good in my humble opinion) fey themed rpgs that are worth to give a try.
@digitalhunter42
@digitalhunter42 2 жыл бұрын
So glad I recently found this channel, rpg gold, thanks
@quinnlee-newbury9003
@quinnlee-newbury9003 2 жыл бұрын
Very excited for this. There's a BIG fey component to the current campaign I'm running (one of the PCs is a changeling and I really wanna give her the opportunity to do lots of fae stuff) but as much as I love everything Fae it always seems yo be the thing I struggle most with for creating adventures around, so I'm certain this video will give me some ideas and get me in the spirit!
@keithlewis9621
@keithlewis9621 2 жыл бұрын
I really really loved this style of video and hope you do more of them. So much inspiration to pull from and it helps seeing how you put together a campaign from scratch, as I have trouble working in my players backstories at times
@williamchamburgh8316
@williamchamburgh8316 2 жыл бұрын
The Fey play a large role in my campaign world, but unfortunately for those that travel in my world the Dark Fey are the ones they tend to encounter and learn to be fear the most, from Unseelie Nymphs to Fey mistaken for demon and devils …
@theafterglowavenger
@theafterglowavenger Жыл бұрын
I love these kinds of videos! Thank you!
@sixoffcenter80
@sixoffcenter80 2 жыл бұрын
I'm planning a game in the Grim Hollow setting. The first tier of the game will be in a woodland village overrun with fey stuff. Plan for tier two way to bring the players in conflict with a court of vampires, but if they players decided to abandon the material plan to hang out in a grim version of the feywild I'd be cool with that too.
@tcepsa
@tcepsa 2 жыл бұрын
Yay, another Autumnal spirit! I would _absolutely_ play this kind of campaign/setting (a friend of mine ran the Death House adventure a few years back and I loved it ^_^)
@Reoh0z
@Reoh0z 2 жыл бұрын
This new Shadow Ginny is terrifying and intriguing!
@dziubasinsky
@dziubasinsky 2 жыл бұрын
I must say that your timing is amazing! I've just finished GMing first part of my scenario (first adventure written by myself) with fey vibes, but more cute, colorfull and friendly fey 🦄
@plus2happiness
@plus2happiness 2 жыл бұрын
I love this style of video! I'm a big fan of your character creation videos, but this type definitely scratches that same itch but on a grander scale. Big fan!
@davecorriveau4057
@davecorriveau4057 2 жыл бұрын
Would I DM a campaign in that setting? Yes I would! I think I would like to give it a strange political twist between 2 fey court.
@craigstege6376
@craigstege6376 2 жыл бұрын
I really like kobold press art style. If nothing else their books are beautiful.
@kingzecromatic
@kingzecromatic 2 жыл бұрын
Yes Ginny! Looks to be an awesome vid!
@gacha_xxtuber2218
@gacha_xxtuber2218 Жыл бұрын
3:32 Me, wearing my camp half-blood t-shirt: shadow travel :)
@lindafreeman7030
@lindafreeman7030 2 жыл бұрын
"Always October in my heart!" YES!!! Let's get SPOOKY!!
@grimgrimly
@grimgrimly 2 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see more content about the Shadow realm. I'm running a solo campaign in the Shadow court right now as a side quest between the two halves of Out of the Abyss. The player, a drow nature cleric of Eilistraee who started as a drider, has travelled to the courts to ask the moonlit king to make Durendil the Quaggoth's delusion of being an Elven prince real.
@bubblegumbishonen
@bubblegumbishonen 2 жыл бұрын
This conveniently dropped right when I was going to start planning my first campaign, about a faerie realm actively being corrupted by darkness (and the players have to find the source).
@Sellesion
@Sellesion 2 жыл бұрын
This is perfect! Thank you for this video cus I've been wanting to write up my own campaign for my group and I have a plot and BBEG in mind, and asked the players if they like the idea of it being a Dark Fairytale setting. They were intrigued! As a kid I always loved the idea of twisted beasts that go bump in the night, fairy mounds and dark fey magic. So I've been dying to play around with it. These books sound like very helpful material for that. I'm so excited that this kind of additional content is out there now. It'll really help not to have to make so much from scratch.
@iflifeisaleaf3125
@iflifeisaleaf3125 2 жыл бұрын
Play in the shadow plane? Absolutely! Love dark fey, Unseelie court!
@serialgoober816
@serialgoober816 2 жыл бұрын
I just recently started watching you im so glad i jumped on the bandwagon. Ty for the amazing content and tips throughout! Its helped me to start getting into DMing and hopefully creating a world and adventure my friends will love!
@battlebardart
@battlebardart 2 жыл бұрын
This is such a great video, Ginny. Especially watching you create a campaign while doing it! As someone learning to DM for an experienced party (We all take turns DMing...I one of two that's never done it yet) it is so helpful to see how you build!
@jpierson
@jpierson 2 жыл бұрын
Definitely going to pick up these books and run some shadow adventures. Actually spent all day yesterday--when I should have been working on my campaign timeline--brainstorming and jotting down notes for adventures. Oh, yeah. I'm going to steal Aravni. I've been itching to run a drama/intrigue campaign in a court setting, and she gave me a great jumping-off inspiration--a character struggling between her desire to do good by helping the heroes and her desire to increase her and her family's standing in the court by screwing the heroes over. Actually, Krix gave me another bit of inspiration: when you mentioned him feeding on shadows, I got this image in my head of a character pouncing on someone's shadow and ripping chunks out of it with his teeth, literally eating it. That's led to some interesting places. (What does a shadow screaming in terror and agony sound like? I figure it's a faint, whispery sort of sound, but intense. Like water dripping when you're trying to sleep: you don't hear it at first, but once you do, you can't stop hearing it.) So thanks, Ginny. You're an inspiration! 🙂
@dmore
@dmore Жыл бұрын
I was in a session yesterday and found myself needing to tell a folklore tale of my people. I started telling this dark, sad story… something of a warning used to keep children on the path, something turned into plays and theatre. I couldn’t remember where the story had come from and I didn’t get it 100% the same, but I just realized I told the story of Kenna Talward!!
@darindeyoe1817
@darindeyoe1817 2 жыл бұрын
Great way to discuss such a wonderful product. People loved these new races and classes played at GenCon 2022, especially in the confrontation with the Tick-Tock man😎 a memory thief. So much fun Ginny Di
@YelloDuzzit
@YelloDuzzit 2 жыл бұрын
Literally JUST created a faction tasked with collecting memories for the Raven Queen 😬😬😬... And made one of my PCs a member of this organization
@nathancheetham8992
@nathancheetham8992 2 жыл бұрын
I think this might be my favourite video you've ever released, Ginny! As someone about to DM for the first time, I love seeing how you plan out stuff!
@trollsmyth
@trollsmyth 2 жыл бұрын
Probably not entirely in the Shadowfel, but I could see a lot of a campaign happening there. I just living jaunts to the Abyss, the City of Brass, or the Deep Ethereal too much to leave those out.
@_knoxxis
@_knoxxis 2 жыл бұрын
This is such a practical and informative way to expose folks to your sponsors while keeping things really engaging! Well done!
@meta-less
@meta-less 2 жыл бұрын
The S in September stands for spooky month
@gnomes1377
@gnomes1377 2 жыл бұрын
I think it would be cool if you did a campaign or two, although my opinion probably doesn’t matter much but i think that it might be worth a mention
@localman6537
@localman6537 2 жыл бұрын
I have never DMed before, but I am in the process of writing and planning my first campaign. The premise was going to be centered around dream/memory stealing by a big bad from either the Feywild or Shadowfell, and they would use those dreams or memories to power a spell or artifact that would enable them to merge their plane with the prime material plane as kind of a territorial expansion. Your video and this product has come at the absolutely perfect time and is something I will rely on heavily to create this campaign world. Thank you so much for posting this up and Happy Gaming!
@michelleandrews3921
@michelleandrews3921 2 жыл бұрын
the content of this video is very good, and so is the filmography of each character introduction! Excellent work
@Hawkeye446
@Hawkeye446 2 жыл бұрын
My players made a deal with a Fey Lord to trade an artifact that the Fey had for one of their own, but didn't have one. So they slew a red dragon and claimed it's hoard so they could afford to pay a Naga Sage for the location of a suitably powerful artifact to trade to the Fey. The Naga said, "That which you seek resides within the Plane of Shadows," and even gave them a scroll of planeshift to help them get there. They NOPED out of the entire questline so fast it gave me whiplash! XD Just decided to go somewhere else, ANYWHERE ELSE instead XD They might not ever go to the Shadows. They are closing in on another artifact that is powerful enough to satisfy the Fey Lord, though they may not want to part with it... All that to say, yes, I would run a game that at least passed through the Shadows, and would absolutely be down to play in a game set in Shadow.
@reijngoud
@reijngoud 2 жыл бұрын
In the DnD campaign I am in, my character got their name (and life) stolen by the fey, forgetting nearly all of their past. Banished from their village for the last 120 years, they now seek knowledge that only the village has. At the moment the party is travelling to this area of the woods, corrupted by the fey. I'm looking forward to the next few sessions. :)
@elvacoburg1279
@elvacoburg1279 2 жыл бұрын
Your overview alone has given me ideas on how to incorporate the Shadow realm into my current campaign, in a way that will cause the character great anguish, sorry, great joy!
@ACameronUK
@ACameronUK 2 жыл бұрын
That skeletons top is fantastic ☺️
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