Manual of the Planes Excerpt: Shadowfell

[Rechan]

Manual of the Planes Excerpts: The Shadowfell

 

[I'm A Banana]

Keen! I'm a fan. I like the idea of Ravenloft's domains being in the Shadowfell. Significantly unnatural, but close enough to the mortal world to allow accidental mist-slippage.

Though this does mean that 4e's treatment of Ravenloft is likely to be "side-quest" oriented and not "campaign setting" oriented, I'm pretty okay with that.

Yay! This bodes very well for the book, very well indeed.

 

[frankthedm]

I am very disapointed that the shadowfell only darkens non magical light sources.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Everyone sees Ravenloft of course... but the mist and having to beat a curse to escape makes me thing of Chateau d'Amber (Castle Amber), the module for BECMI D&D.

Perhaps I'll do a 4E conversion of that one - always a favorite.

 

[fanboy2000]

I liked what I read. Manual of the Planes and Deities and Demigods are two books that I consider important to my game. I love mythology and planer travel has always interested me sense before Planescape.

 

[TheWyrd]

So far that leaves us with hints regarding Spelljammer, Planescape, and Ravenloft... all in one book. That's a happy thing.

 

[takasi]

So far that leaves us with hints regarding Spelljammer, Planescape, and Ravenloft... all in one book. That's a happy thing.

What were the hints for Spelljammer? The Astral Sea?

 

[Shadeydm]

I like it, especially the idea of people wandering into it accidentally. Domains of Dread are a nice addition as well.

 

[TheWyrd]

What were the hints for Spelljammer? The Astral Sea?

Yep. Likely it won't be quite the same as the old Spelljammer, but a number of people are starting to talk about the Astral Sea being the sky that they see from 'The World'.. add in ships and you definitely have the concept of 'sailing through the sky' even if gone in a different direction. Same could be said for removing the blood war from planescape and making Ravenloft a bunch of little islands within the shadowfell.

 

[Scribble]

I also liked the mention of fey demesnes in the feywild. A cool idea that fits well with real world folk lore.