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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 337340" data-attributes="member: 3987">I had great fun with players traveling to the Shadowlands in Birthright. I set it up so that living things viewed from a distances looked like almost skeletal undead and as you got closer the layers of flesh would seem to grow back onto their bones, until from a few feet they looked normal. The reverse was ture for undead they looked normal from a distance and rotted away as you got closer to them. That freaked the players out as they approached danger and fled from possible allies seen at a distance.There really needs only to be one or two things that make it distinctly different from the Prime Material Plane and makes it just weird to be in.Problem I see is everyone knows what a shadow looks like. Shadow is between Dark and Light, the prime material plane already has light in, so you need to play up the absense of darkness for any opposite to the plane of shadow.So no shadows are cast, colours would not be bright as you might expect as with everything being 'so bright' you lose contrast things look washed out maybe?Something has to be off-putting, I feel things should appear almost insubstantial even light the plane of shadow. Although it is the opposite of the shadow plane it will have some things in common. There things seem unreal because they are missing light, in the opposite realm they would be missing dark and so it would also be a sort of 'half-realm' not complete.The things I would do to make it different from the Prime and shadow planes.1) No sun, light seems to come from every direction, the sky is white no clouds nothing that would cast a shadow.2) No shadows anywhere, things almost seem to have a faint glow.4) All colours are washes out, there is little contrast, every colour is pale, not grey but like those paints you can buy "White with a hint of apple" for green thing , "rose white" where it would normally be strong red.5) So much light gives people headaches after a while. Even when you close your eyes you still see a faint light through you eyelids.6) I see it almost as a sterile environment, with no clouds hence no rain nothing can grow.Just my take, I think even thought its the opposite of shadow it shouldn't be a nice place to live, make players long to be in the Prime Plane, and show them the dangers of planer travel.</blockquote>

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