D&D 5E (2014) Chris Perkins talks more in depth about Wild Beyond the Witchlight
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dave2008
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Yes, pretty much matches my thoughts as well. However, it makes me think that the Feywild must just be exploding with different Domains of Delight, where as the Domains of Dread I have always thought of as a small part of the Shadowfell (buy maybe I am wrong about that).
Bolares
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I don't know much about the feywild, but my impression was that the domains of delight are also "just" a part of it. I think the concepts of small or large are very abstract outside the material plane.
Paul Farquhar
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The size of the Shadowfell varies, depending on how gloomy the DM is feeling.
Yaarel
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I view a Feywild that includes a Shallow and a Deep.
The Shallow Feywild sees the Material Plane mostly normally, equivalent to the Shallow Ethereal Plane but a bit more beautiful, luminous, charming, and trippy. The Shallow corresponds to the normal geography of the human world and can see humans plainly going about their business. Within this Fey Shallow the nature beings in the human world, such as rocks, trees, rivers, clouds, sun, etcetera, look moreorless normal but are much more beautiful, haunting, charming, resonant and vivid. The nature beings have a kind of telepathic presence, boadcasting their existence.
Then there is the Deep Feywild that has no corresponding connection to the geography of the Material Plane of humans. Instead, the geography of the Fey Deep is invented by thoughts and emotions. The Deep is a place of quasi-real illusions that manifest mindful imagination as force. Most of the domains of delight are in the Deep Feywild.
There are gradations between the physicality of the Shallow and the imagination of the Deep. As one shifts deeper, the Material Plane appears to increasingly distort. Material places that are closer to the Feywild become more prominent and dramatic. The material places that are farther from the Feywild diminish in appearance and may even vanish. The world becomes more about thoughts and emotions. The distortions increase until disconnecting from the Material Plane entirely.
The Shallow is mainly where the nature beings are. The deep is mainly where the fantasies are.
The Shallow Feywild sees the Material Plane mostly normally, equivalent to the Shallow Ethereal Plane but a bit more beautiful, luminous, charming, and trippy. The Shallow corresponds to the normal geography of the human world and can see humans plainly going about their business. Within this Fey Shallow the nature beings in the human world, such as rocks, trees, rivers, clouds, sun, etcetera, look moreorless normal but are much more beautiful, haunting, charming, resonant and vivid. The nature beings have a kind of telepathic presence, boadcasting their existence.
Then there is the Deep Feywild that has no corresponding connection to the geography of the Material Plane of humans. Instead, the geography of the Fey Deep is invented by thoughts and emotions. The Deep is a place of quasi-real illusions that manifest mindful imagination as force. Most of the domains of delight are in the Deep Feywild.
There are gradations between the physicality of the Shallow and the imagination of the Deep. As one shifts deeper, the Material Plane appears to increasingly distort. Material places that are closer to the Feywild become more prominent and dramatic. The material places that are farther from the Feywild diminish in appearance and may even vanish. The world becomes more about thoughts and emotions. The distortions increase until disconnecting from the Material Plane entirely.
The Shallow is mainly where the nature beings are. The deep is mainly where the fantasies are.
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MarkB
Legend
Well, it's only archfey who can manifest a full-on Domain of Delight, so there can't be that many. Lesser fey still have an effect on the Feywild around them, but not to the same extent.
The way I imagine it is someone new to the Feywild asking around trying to find out where the Summer Court is. The locals just look at them in puzzlement, because they know there's no specific answer to the question - the location of the Summer Court is simply "wherever the Summer Queen currently happens to be."
Henadic Theologian
Legend
In some ways the way he described the Domains of Delight, it reminds me or Divine Domains, but the Domains of God's I think are more shaped by belief and divine will then emotion.
LuisCarlos17f
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- DM: Rule of ownership!
- (No-cleptomaniac but compulsive gatherer) Kender: Rule of what?
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Do we bet about a future domain about cute ponies with colorful skins and cutie marks? Hasbro has got some forgotten franchises about cute litle creatures. A mash-up version of these could be reused as delight domains, at least as easter egg, and maybe later to sell some miniature or toy. There is space even for a no-canon crossover with characters from comedies, and not only Rick&Morty.
Will be Witchlight a kid-friendly setting? and this its name?
- (No-cleptomaniac but compulsive gatherer) Kender: Rule of what?
---
Do we bet about a future domain about cute ponies with colorful skins and cutie marks? Hasbro has got some forgotten franchises about cute litle creatures. A mash-up version of these could be reused as delight domains, at least as easter egg, and maybe later to sell some miniature or toy. There is space even for a no-canon crossover with characters from comedies, and not only Rick&Morty.
Will be Witchlight a kid-friendly setting? and this its name?
MarkB
Legend
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