plane of shadow
grodog
Hero
hiya tleilaxu---
From a literary POV, you can check out Zelanzy's Jack of Shadows, as well as Gygax's Gord novels (in particular City of Hawks, which is summarized briefly at Chris Siren's page at http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze33gpz/inner.html).
From a gaming POV, a number of resources touch on the plane of shadow, including:
Enjoy
From a literary POV, you can check out Zelanzy's Jack of Shadows, as well as Gygax's Gord novels (in particular City of Hawks, which is summarized briefly at Chris Siren's page at http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze33gpz/inner.html).
From a gaming POV, a number of resources touch on the plane of shadow, including:
- Manual of the Planes (1e and 3e [and SRD of course])
- WotC web article at http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/re/20030714x
- Cimmerean's from planewalker.com at http://www.planewalker.com/codex/cimmerian.shtml
- the Manual of Shadows from Realms of Evil.com @ http://www.realmsofevil.net/thevault/manualofshadows.cfm
- I know there are many shadow-oriented spells in R&R1 (I wrote them), and IIRC there are some shadowy monsters in CC1-2 too
- Ed Bonny's "Demiplane of Shadow" article in Dragon 213 (there are some ecology of the shade articles too IIRC)
Enjoy
Nine Hands
Explorer
My wife and I wrote a tournament adventure that took place on the plane of shadow.
Part of the idea is that it is a comparison to the real world but much bleaker. Use lots of shadow creatures (the shadow template is good for this).
If you have the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, the Shades (they are creatures detailed in the back of the book) are composed of material from the plane of shadow. They would be pretty powerful there since it is always dark.
IMHO the best way to make things interesting is to take something familiar and warp it enough so that it is dangerous. Shadow Treants, shadow versions of thier allies (or even different people doing similar things), etc.
Part of the idea is that it is a comparison to the real world but much bleaker. Use lots of shadow creatures (the shadow template is good for this).
If you have the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, the Shades (they are creatures detailed in the back of the book) are composed of material from the plane of shadow. They would be pretty powerful there since it is always dark.
IMHO the best way to make things interesting is to take something familiar and warp it enough so that it is dangerous. Shadow Treants, shadow versions of thier allies (or even different people doing similar things), etc.
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
Nine Hands has the right idea. Take our world, make it creepy and twisted, and use that as your basis. Then take any monster's stats, change its appearance so that it isn't easily recognizeable, and slap a shadow template on it.
Way back when, there was a good Dungeon module with a rakshasha on the plane of shadows. Good stuff.
Do you have the Zelazny book of short stories Dilvish the Damned? A good story in there is about the shadow plane.
Way back when, there was a good Dungeon module with a rakshasha on the plane of shadows. Good stuff.
Do you have the Zelazny book of short stories Dilvish the Damned? A good story in there is about the shadow plane.
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