D&D 5E Shadowfell - reading material?

[Charles Rampant]

Hey all,

I've got an upcoming game in a once-a-semester game for the other PhDs in my department, and I decided to set it in the Shadowfell version of the same city that the players adventured in last time. I was going to go for having them visit the same locations, but now everything is dark and gloomy and waarggh and whatnot. However, I wonder if there is actually more stuff on the Shadowfell that I can read, beyond the fairly terse description in the DMG? I'm hoping for something in the region of say 10-20 pages, quick enough to read and use to inform my descriptions and plot.

Many thanks.

 

[Ath'kethin]

The Shadowfell originated in 4th Edition, and as I recall 4e had a sourcebook or two on it. Prior to 4e it was called the Plane of Shadow, and you can find blurbs on it in the 1e and 3e Manuals of the Planes.

 

[Ezequielramone]

You have the 4e "Shadowfell" box, which came with maps, encounters, flavor book and an interesting deck that represents the psychological effects the plane inflicts to non native creatures.If you want to know more you can check the 3rd era manual of the planes (4e motp must have less info than the box and 3rd should have less but different information about this plane).Edit: the 4th era box spend a lot of pages describing a city I don't remember the name. So there are not so much pages about the plane. What you said about it is enough to improvise your shadow plane.

 

[the Jester]

Both the 4e Manual of the Planes and the 4e boxed set The Shadowfell: Gloorwrought and Beyond have a wealth of detail about the Shadowfell. The late-4e book Heroes of Shadow also has a bunch of info on it.

 

[ZzarkLinux]

I posted a small snippet of what I remember over in this thread. I'll add a disclaimer that this was the 4e version of Shadowfell, and so it may not be compatible with the Great Wheel cosmology people might expect from 3.5e.

I have no idea about earlier versions of Ravenloft or OSR versions of "Dark Realms". Someone else needs to fill in those gaps foe me.

Hope this helps.

 

[Jeff Carlsen]

The Neverwinter Campaign setting from 4E has some interesting Shadowfell stuff as well, though most of it's focused on the places and plots from that book.