Sorrowsworn are the Shadowfell's most Despair-Twisted Creatures

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[@GeeRayMG67]

I used the Lost in a big fight one time. I kept describing them anytime they would cling to someone they would say things that they did before they mutated as they attacked. Like a child calling out for their parents or a woman who became lost in the Mists. Really upped the creepy factor.

[@sovereignundead]

The Sorrowsworn are D&D 5e's love letter to the creatures of Silent Hill. I look forward to employing these monsters when my players start plane-hopping.

[@spiegelnder]

Yes, I had the same thought. ~ And the whole case of Shadowfell is such a fantastic and intriguing material for some good stories (or encounters) to throw into a campaign!

[@devinbarr3428]

They are very dead space looking monsters. I love them and will flood my world with them.

[@throneofterra109]

I love getting these deeper explanations of these things in MToF! Keep it up!

[@almightyeragon5265]

I threw a hunger at the party, they summoned a cr5 demon to tank it and it died in one hit. Really scared them with it, plus resistance in dim light or darkness to weapon damages prevented the barbarian from out damaging everyone. good times.

[@Licjr]

I could see using the Shadowfell and the Sorrowsworn in a Twilight Princess style campaign. Like, the Shadowfell (either naturally or facilitated by a wizard or sorcerer) is bleeding into the Prime Material and the PCs need to find a way to stop it

[@probablythedm1669]

Todd, seriously, how do you manage to resist the urge to not end these videos with "and you've just been Kenrecked"? :)

[@Lubuscus]

I've always imagined planes like The Feywild and The Shadowfell to be weird funhouse mirror reflections of the Material Plane. Like an atom, where it's completely balanced in the Material, it may be more negative than positive in The Shadowfell and visa versa. In lamens terms, The Feywild is The Land of Oz, and the Shadowfell is that scene from Scooby-Doo and The Ghoul School where Shaggy gets put in a mirror by an evil version of himself. Lol

[@genghiskhan6809]

A better way to describe it is that the Feywild is Oz, and the Shadowfell is Silent Hill.

[@ShinobiBoyfu]

They look almost like d&d's version of the necromorphs

[@MarineS0n2]

Who else listens to lore vids while they write campaigns?

[@EB-xc3zd]

Me!

[@nukerwolf7788]

I just add them to playlist and think "that's nice and all but I'm going to go in this direction in my world"

[@draxthemsklonst]

"Just a reflection, just a glimpse, just a little reminder of all the what-abouts and all the might-have-could-have-beens. Another day, some other way, but not another reason to continue (and now you're one of us, the wretched)." 'The Wretched' by Trent Reznor / NIN

[@RakabooEntertainment]

I wonder what would happen if a Hunger went to the plane of Positive energy. Would it explode from over consumption or would it just absorb energy endlessly?

[@Nugatory23]

I would say the latter, keeps growing.

[@ohwowitsthatguy9154]

It'd probably explode. Nothing short of a godlike being could go in there and not get nuked to oblivion.

[@lysandriah8290]

I remember my party and I were heading into this dangerous, cursed forest which had a deep connection to the shadowfell. We were level...6 at the time, I believe. 6 or 7. We had come to this place for a supposedly sacred artifact that had long been buried here. That's another story for another time, but the important thing is that while searching, we came across this burrow under a tree, where a former adventurer had been slain. We found a journal on his body, which detailed how he, like many others before him, had come through the area seeking riches and had bitten off more than they could chew. He noted that he had been wounded by something with "hooks for hands" and how it "had this furious roar that shook your bones." Then, the journal said "wait, I can hear footsteps, how did it follow m" on the last page. Just as we finished reading, we heard footsteps outside. The Angry had found us.

[@dentistdamsel1345]

Sorrowsworn are so fuckin cool, they're my alltime favorite monsters

[@DuskyPredator]

I am hoping for more info on the Shadowfell, because I don't think it fair that Feywild can host more benevolent as well as malevolent people's, while Shadowfell has been described only as a hellscape. Ways to avoid becoming things like the Shadowfell.

[@cmoor8616]

Surely a Pacman would be a hungry?

[@michaelwhite6849]

whatish thishshiz the Hungriest

[@czairkolmoslink5952]

I love these videos thank you!

[@icywinterof88]

I'm obsessed with these sorrowsworn

[@colinbrown74]

Im The Hungry.

[@arbonthepirate]

SO basically this is D&D's version of Disney/Pixar's Inside Out

[@imaginepigeons792]

Savage Manatee no..?

[@nathanonsgard2152]

I almost made a one shot based off of these

[@michaelwhite6849]

Nathan Onsgard why just almost?

[@nathanonsgard2152]

Michael White just decided to go with something else

[@johnsourvelis2415]

basically Dnds Silent hill

[@getefix3]

the lonely looks like the forever alone face xD

[@mrslasher1064]

Ive used the shadowfell before in the past,its like a dnd version of silent hill XD

[@thetoadman3172]

Id like to think that they are spawned like redcaps and meenlocks, but caused by their respective emotions.

[@fraserdunton7345]

Where's my husband Mike Mearls at?

[@baldmcdonald2264]

nice

[@andrewb5164]

I wounder if Vorkhesis is talked about in the 5th Edition?

[@Kayledon777]

Are there stat blocks/monster lore entries for these guys? I wanna use them in my campaign!

[@Yzarro]

Ever notice that The Wretched kinda look like someone tried to genetically engineer the mousers from TMNT using human DNA?

[@damianstruiken2728]

Way are there almost no good creaters in the shadow fell there are evil things in the faywilde

[@InquisitorThomas]

The best way to compare the two planes are like this: the Feywild is a plane where everyone and everything is very manic in their emotions, and basically every creature’s emotions are in overdrive, like the Redcaps which are creatures of pure rage. In comparison the Shadowfell is where emotions are depressed and all the creatures are associated with things like lost and darkness.

[@damianstruiken2728]

Inquisitor Thomas depresion loss and darkness could be a interesting tame for a non hostile creater (sorry for my bad englis)

[@Will_Forge]

Inquisitor Thomas that's a good analogy. The way I think of them is that the Feywild is wild, including the personalities of the creatures and their emotions. It is chaos to it's extreme The Shadowfell is the opposite. It's law (control) to the extreme, even so far as to control your emotions. The longer you live in the Shadowfell, the worse your sorrow (for example) becomes, because you are locked in that emotion. It is part of the law of the land that you feel that way. And the only option is to feel it more and more, because you can never feel any other way.

[@LeviathanLP]

Because those planes aren't about good and evil directly. Powerful good beings have used the Shadowfell to seal away creatures of great evil because it's a difficult place to escape from. A being living in the Shadowfell is eventually overtaken by despair, and in that despair is transformed not into something evil, but something apathetic, afraid, and out of touch with reality. The aspirations of creatures both good and evil are quenched with sorrow. If you've ever been depressed or anxious, I expect you would know quite well that your capacity for good was severely diminished during such an episode; but negative, self-effacing, and even destructive thoughts come easily. On the other hand, if you've ever had a manic episode, like the creatures of the Feywild, you might look back and realize that your extreme aspirations far exceeded your reach, and could even lead to violence, excessive spending or drug use, and rarely anything actually good for yourself or others; above all else, again, the manic are out of touch with reality. But you can decide for yourself in your own game. Maybe the Shadowfell is a place where people go to calm down, to balance their passions to more manageable and realistic levels. Maybe you could imagine a Jedi-like order of monks who seek a peaceful state of mind, and they use the Shadowfell to transcend things like emotion and desire. You don't have to wait for official content to have stuff like that in your games.

[@DuskyPredator]

I don't know if a bit of a homebrew, but I am imagining that undead of the shadowfell can sense places of high amount of life in the material versions of the planes that are built up. So shadowfell cities are filled with undead, which can be fine for smarter undead like vampires, liches, to necromancers hoping to gain such undeath creating build up of evil. To be safe you have avoid well echoed areas, which are mostly people avoiding civilization, who have the shasowfell bring out their worst. Still hoping to come across something that perhaps could see the poetry of depressive nature of the shadowfell. Without being consumed by their negative thoughts and mean well for others. Maybe like the wereravens of CoS.

[@elgatochurro]

You guys got professionals to edit? There's so many things you could clean out to make a better video experience

[@damianstruiken2728]

Are these new ?

[@Nugatory23]

Yes , they are in MToF. I'm about to start a Shadowfel campaign, can\'t wait to use these creatures

[@iX1NS0MN14CXi]

They are in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, roughly page 232

[@damianstruiken2728]

PinkCanoeDaVagoo i mean where the in other edisions

[@worldeater2414]

Yeah forth comment!!! Love you guys (DnD beyond) and I love the critical role cast!!!

[@starbuckwhy]

WOOOOOWWWW, this guy is waayyy up his own but.

[@starbuckwhy]

just surprised to hear such intense pomposity. dnd people tend to be humble and sincere. this guy talks like he is seriuosley full of himself. like to the point wear it is very very offputting.