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  • Опубликовано: 18 авг 2024
  • Thanks to Kobold Press for sponsoring this video all about The Book of Ebon Tides and Tales From the Shadows! Get yours in print or PDF:
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    ► INDEX
    0:00 Intro
    1:17 The Book of Ebon Tides
    1:50 The Party
    2:00 Kenna Talward
    6:00 Krix Hollowgut
    9:00 Onyxclaw
    12:10 Aravni Eventide
    15:25 The Campaign
    Dark fey adventures in the shadow realm? 👀 Don’t mind if I do! Popular third-party D&D 5e publisher Kobold Press just released their plane of shadow campaign setting, “The Book of Ebon Tides.” Today, we’re gonna talk through what a Dungeons & Dragons campaign set in the shadow realm might look like!
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Комментарии • 431

  • @GinnyDi
    @GinnyDi  Год назад +183

    Thanks to Kobold Press for sponsoring this video all about The Book of Ebon Tides and Tales From the Shadows! Get yours in print or PDF:
    ► koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/book-of-ebon-tides-for-5th-edition/
    ► koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/tales-from-the-shadows-for-5th-edition/

    • @alexsnow3319
      @alexsnow3319 Год назад

      Why not review the book using the campaign as examples of the ups/pitfalls of the book?

    • @claytonwilde5750
      @claytonwilde5750 Год назад +2

      @@alexsnow3319 kobold press probably requested this sort of content rather than a review

    • @TurboWulfe
      @TurboWulfe Год назад

      Yes please, thanks for this! Take care 😎 🍻 🤘

    • @GryphonDes
      @GryphonDes Год назад +2

      Used your links and picked up them both 0- thanks for the inspiration

    • @isaacgraff8288
      @isaacgraff8288 Год назад

      So far only complaint is there is a typo i have found in the book that bugs me a little.

  • @tooblue127
    @tooblue127 Год назад +672

    As a young girl who loved to read grimm fairytales as a kid I also have not grown out of the dark fey vibes. Probably why I love dnd and specifically anything fey so much.

    • @majorzipf8947
      @majorzipf8947 Год назад +20

      Yes! Totally agree. I love the contrasting themes of beautiful whimsy and twisted misery. Subverting expectations and making your players questions EVERYTHING is such a joy.

  • @happymanharp1378
    @happymanharp1378 Год назад +447

    "they are not paying me to run a campaign"
    *blink*
    Yeah, do that! Sponsor her! Do it now KP!

  • @Boone_Faustus
    @Boone_Faustus Год назад +361

    "It's very fucked up I love it!" is always a sign of great content.

  • @CrispysTavern
    @CrispysTavern Год назад +517

    The Feywild is such an interesting and surprisingly dynamic location for games!
    Folk horror, whimsical fairy tale, dark political intrigue, all of them and more fit perfectly with the Fey.
    I’m building a political game in a home brew take on the Feywild and it’s been a great time! Looking forward to some inspiration from this video.

    • @GinnyDi
      @GinnyDi  Год назад +98

      Love the Feywild, too! In this case I think the Shadow Realm is a cool place to set your fey courts for a different, more gothic vibe than the more traditional Seelie/Unseelie dynamic in the Feywild.

    • @CrispysTavern
      @CrispysTavern Год назад +29

      @@GinnyDi Yeah I made this comment before I realized the full context of the video. The Shadow Realm seems like a cool take though!
      I love the idea of creatures selling memories, definitely stealing that one for myself.

    • @semipessimistic
      @semipessimistic Год назад +4

      Do you think this setting could represent the unseelie court? With all it’s dark fey influence?

    • @GinnyDi
      @GinnyDi  Год назад +19

      Totally! I think you could easily drop much of this setting into the Feywild - make it so that the Unseelie court is perpetually night, give outsiders "shadow corruption" if they spend too long there, use the Shadow Fey concepts for Unseelie fey, etc. That's what I love about modular content like this. It can be a whole plane, or you can just take what you like and put it into your own game however it suits best.

    • @AdorableTheNerd
      @AdorableTheNerd Год назад +5

      the direction this video had my particular thoughts turning in was how much of this would be useful for my ethereal plane, which in my setting is more commonly known as the Dream realm, a sort of collective unconscious fashioned of the mortal emotions and imaginings layered on top of one another for many millennia. the Deep Dreaming contains many realms of shadow and darkness, especially where it bumps metaphysically up against the shadowfell, and now i wanna steal so many of these mechanics and concepts and adapt them into a dream realm adventure :D

  • @thatrandomswedishperson
    @thatrandomswedishperson Год назад +79

    "Life is short and D&D is long" is iconic and I'm gonna go put this on a shirt now.

    • @jeremyfrost2636
      @jeremyfrost2636 Год назад

      Could use a bumper sticker too.

    • @tcepsa
      @tcepsa Год назад +6

      "Ludus longa, vita brevis" XD

  • @davidfarnham5623
    @davidfarnham5623 Год назад +214

    for anyone curious, there is a domain of dread in Ravenloft called "The Shadow Rift" that had dark fae with it's own seelie and unseelie court. It is accessed by the neighboring realm of Tepest that has to deal with fae all the time. There were even 2 modules in an old edition. I am currently running a campaign in Tepest and using those dark fae and it's incredible, my party is terrified. One of the characters even got their shadow stolen.

    • @Tralldan
      @Tralldan Год назад +17

      Ah, stealing shadows, the most fae thing a fae could ever do.

    • @theSheighani42
      @theSheighani42 Год назад +6

      Oh shit o.0 so, really hoping they have a double running around. Idea of soul or Self attached to shadow, or like in The World of Darkness something akin to a Fetch...

  • @jamesfavell1731
    @jamesfavell1731 Год назад +159

    In my setting, there’s an Elven nation called Davael. Davael is a theocracy dedicated to beings they call the ‘Bright Creators’, whom they believe originally made the world but whose glory was usurped by the other Gods. The Davaeli are fiercely devoted to the Bright Creators, and the most loyal are allowed to drink from the Bright Font, becoming Eladrin - the chosen children of the Creators.
    The problem is the story is not true and the Bright Creators are just a bunch of capricious, dangerous and bored Fey who basically pranked a nation of several million elves into religious extremism for kicks and profit.

    • @theSheighani42
      @theSheighani42 Год назад +11

      That... Sounds legit xD

    • @jasonreed7522
      @jasonreed7522 Год назад +19

      My favorite part of world building is coming up with "what really happened" vs "each culture's record".
      In your case the elves believe their religion, everyone else has the normal DnD religion, and the absolute truth is that some Fey are doing Fey things and messing with an entire kingdom or empire sized realm.

    • @wendyblair3079
      @wendyblair3079 Год назад

      I love this idea! I’m curious as to your thoughts on how to write/run dark fey aristocracy. I’m a little in the dark (no pun intended lol) on the subject of fantasy aristocracy in general, but I really want to add some in to my campaign rn. Thanks in advance!

    • @figboi
      @figboi Год назад +1

      We engage in a mild amount of tomfoolery moment there

  • @markkoehr5003
    @markkoehr5003 Год назад +70

    Kenna's backstory got my brain spinning the most. Just thinking about if Kenna hired the mage to take her and her child somewhere (like they were on the run from something or moving or whatever) and the Kenna's child wonders off or is lured off the shadow roads. So Kenna ran off after her child to protect them. But she is abused by the memory thief and loses her memory of her child. So her child is now lost plane of shadows. Maybe they gang comes across her child during their adventure. Maybe this is before Kenna regains her memories so she doesn't know its her child yet. Maybe child got corrupted by the shadows. Maybe the child gets entangle in a rival fairy court of Aravni's, or even one of those lost courts you mentioned. Idk, so many possibilities.

  • @LittleAshfairy
    @LittleAshfairy Год назад +52

    Me: Gotta prep D&D! No time to lose
    Ginny: New video 😇
    Me: Yeah, okay, I'll watch it later, really gotta prep
    Ginny: It's about Fey... Dark Fey
    Me: ... Well, I can just improvise the next session I guess

  • @CyberChamp
    @CyberChamp Год назад +74

    This seems perfect book to have a Jim Henson Labyrinth style campaign

  • @solarcupid2583
    @solarcupid2583 Год назад +39

    The fact that you uploaded this the DAY I finalized my changeling's backstory. They're one of the "switched with a human baby" ones, and was found out when they went to help the local blacksmith and touched pure iron for the first time. They were then banished in a very traumatic incident given that they didn't even know that they were one. There's a whole lot more details, but that's the basics of it. I'm also going with classic fae rules so this changeling can't lie. They don't have the whole gift stuff though because I imagine that's a societal thing, not instinctual. I'm so excited for session one next week

    • @ProfBoggs
      @ProfBoggs Год назад

      Do you have a 5e source for classic fae rules, perchance?

    • @solarcupid2583
      @solarcupid2583 Год назад +4

      @@ProfBoggs not officially, but there's some cool homebrew rules you can find by googling "Fey dnd 5e" or "playing fey dnd" a lot of it it just flavor stuff based on actual Celtic mythology, like the favors system. Some of the ones that come to mind are true names and iron weakness. The true name rules are basically, if you give a fey your true name, they can use command, suggestion, geas, and other spells like that on you at will. (Which spell they use depends on the strength of the fey) you automatically fail the saving throw as well. As for the iron, fey creatures take double damage from iron weapons, have disadvantage attacking enemies with iron equipped, and take minor burning damage when touching it

    • @ProfBoggs
      @ProfBoggs Год назад

      @@solarcupid2583 tyvm :)

  • @ProPirateRyan
    @ProPirateRyan Год назад +30

    Omg please do more videos in this format! Campaign setting prep is SO INTERESTING I am all about this. Production quality is top notch too, I love it. Thank you so much for taking risks on niche content like this!!! Very cool

  • @seansteele6532
    @seansteele6532 Год назад +10

    I played a Satyr Hexblade Warlock named Sweetpea who's backstory was that she was a regular goat that got was kept in the feast hall of the Countess of County Faire (A feywild infused district in the city setting my group homebrewed) and when the Countess needed some champions to do stuff for her she turned her into a sentient Satyr Hexblade Warlock, she only wishes to return to the peaceful life of just being a goat.

    • @harrison3207
      @harrison3207 Год назад +1

      That sounds amazing 👏 Also very cool that your group worldbuilt together. Was everyone at the table just interested in homebrewing things or did you do something special?

    • @seansteele6532
      @seansteele6532 Год назад +1

      @@harrison3207 Well there's absolutely no homebrew in her, she's mechanically a Satyr Hexblade Warlock with the Entertainer Background, remember, flavor is always free.

  • @nordicson2835
    @nordicson2835 Год назад +49

    My daughter was watching this in the living room , too hot to go outside , as soon as she saw your shirt. She yelled. " it's officially Halloween Season." Another great post , thank you. End of Summer mermaid lament ? Please ?

  • @KestralSabre
    @KestralSabre Год назад +16

    “For as long as the players can keep their Saturday mornings open-“ I’m dying, too real😂

  • @ryadinstormblessed8308
    @ryadinstormblessed8308 Год назад +19

    "... it's always October in my heart!"
    That made me smile so much!
    I worked at the local Renaissance Faire for the first time on the weekends last July, and found out that the same place also does Halloween stuff in October. I've been eagerly awaiting the chance to go back and dress up again for another month!

  • @graphicfire
    @graphicfire Год назад +32

    I'm playing a fey warlock of the seelie court, there's not much content I've seen based on that unseelie seems to be the one with all the content and lore. Peeps love their dark faeries.
    Also I tend to picture the characters from the Dresden files wile playing.

    • @James-oi9vu
      @James-oi9vu Год назад +2

      Dresden Files is EXCELLENT for weird dark fae shenanigans.

  • @laurengray7010
    @laurengray7010 Год назад +4

    As someone who was obsessed with The Spiderwick Chronicles as a kid, I am definitely an enjoyer of dark fey stories.

  • @seantepe5071
    @seantepe5071 Год назад +13

    Making a pact with a dark Fey where all I get in return is a full campaign DM’d by Ginny.

  • @gbprime2353
    @gbprime2353 Год назад +2

    This is a world-building element I need. A previous campaign that went epic-level saved an entire world from sliding into the Abyss after it was pretty far gone. Then they left. So with nations gone and populations decimated... now what? A world ripe for the feywild, with leftover lurking terrors and civilizations few and far between.

  • @giraffedragon6110
    @giraffedragon6110 Год назад +5

    I would recommend Coraline for inspiration as well.
    It is a PERFECT example of dark fantasy.

  • @giggityguy
    @giggityguy Год назад +2

    I really love how deceptive fey can be. Even to experienced players who should know better, it's hard to make yourself think of them as every bit as dangerous as something like a fiend. They're unpredictable, which makes them even more interesting as villains. I'm ruminating on a campaign where the BBEG is an archfey, whose whole gimmick is that she gives luck and lavish gifts to those that adore her, but always bends the results to her own ends. It should make the party very suspicious of everything that seems like good luck or good loot, though not before a few nasty surprises teach them that lesson! It's got to be very unsettling to have a enemy that makes everything beautiful instead of setting things on fire.

  • @loveearth30
    @loveearth30 Год назад +13

    Playing in a game completely shadow realm based does sound highly appealing to me. I enjoy the combination of mystical fey and dark less "pleasant" aspects that come across as sorta horror based. I very much enjoy giving my dms room to completely terrorize my characters, and I also enjoy being surprised with backstory things and this setting seems to naturally lean pretty heavily into aspects that could do that.

  • @mollywantshugs5944
    @mollywantshugs5944 Год назад +5

    My favorite part of the fey is the sheer alienness of the fey in folklore. In particular the idea that they have a bunch of social rules and even laws of nature that they take very seriously which the human characters don’t understand

  • @Arkhavist_S
    @Arkhavist_S Год назад +4

    Man, that bear cosplay was spot-on.

    • @GinnyDi
      @GinnyDi  Год назад +2

      thanks, worked really hard on it

    • @ProfBoggs
      @ProfBoggs Год назад

      Wait, where was that? I didn't see any bear ears or snout on Ginny Di...

    • @Arkhavist_S
      @Arkhavist_S Год назад

      @@ProfBoggs 9:19 you can't miss it. Flawless. If I didn't know better, I'd almost mistake her for a real bear.

    • @ProfBoggs
      @ProfBoggs Год назад

      @@Arkhavist_S doh!

  • @Midnight3Wonder
    @Midnight3Wonder Год назад +17

    I've actually been DYING to play in a game heavily inspired and influenced by fairytales. If you read the original stories, you know how messed up they truly are. Perfect setting for a D&D campaign!

    • @jeremyfrost2636
      @jeremyfrost2636 Год назад +1

      To paraphrase Ginny, they're very fucked up. I love them.

    • @Midnight3Wonder
      @Midnight3Wonder Год назад +2

      @@jeremyfrost2636 Me, too! Some of my personal favorites are Alice In Wonderland, Red Riding Hood, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and so many more! I can't help it! There are just so many wonderful tales out there to explore!

    • @RyanFribble
      @RyanFribble Год назад +2

      @@Midnight3Wonder Wild Beyond the Witchlight is a official module that has a lot of those themes to it

    • @Midnight3Wonder
      @Midnight3Wonder Год назад +1

      @@RyanFribble I know, and I really hope I can play that module someday. I have tried to play it, but I was only able to last a few sessions before life got in the way.

  • @gracegodinez5302
    @gracegodinez5302 Год назад +2

    wait no wayyyy, I was literally just talking about our new heavily fey centered campaign!!

  • @isaacgraff8288
    @isaacgraff8288 Год назад +3

    Considering how early I see Christmas crap, you are perfectly okay delving into Halloween late August.

  • @PotterFreak22
    @PotterFreak22 Год назад +3

    I have been waiting for spooky season all year. This is close enough to start putting Halloween decorations up. And leaving them there until next year. Or whenever.

    • @jeremyfrost2636
      @jeremyfrost2636 Год назад +2

      I have a meme that says "July 4th has passed, I'm putting my Halloween decorations up now". I post it on Twitter every July 5th.

  • @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos
    @ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Год назад +2

    I've been running a dark fae campaign for quite some time now. It's a vibe. I love the creative liberties you can take in the Faewild, the Dreamlands, and the Plane of Shadow--and fae let you play in all of them!

  • @rockfacts3987
    @rockfacts3987 Год назад +20

    THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT MY NEXT CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT AAAGH

  • @irian42
    @irian42 Год назад +9

    Speaking of Kobold Press, Courts of the Shadow Fey is absolutely amazing!

  • @3DJMV3
    @3DJMV3 Год назад +8

    My party is halfway through Wild beyond the Witchlight, they're buying a lot into the fey theme so I think this adventure is right for them !

  • @LostForestFires
    @LostForestFires Год назад +2

    Ohh I just started a very short campaign with the Tome of beast as my main source of inspiration. Shadow fey are so fun. My party is trying to remove the moon king for his crumbling seat of power. During a grand masquerade ball in the overlapp between the shadowfell and the feywild.

  • @loganshockey4041
    @loganshockey4041 Год назад +40

    I just had an idea for a Fey Villian for my spelljammer campaign, basically a corrupted Dryad character who wants to spread nature, that being overwhelming plant life across the systems. She basically has her Dryad Tree being a living ship. She is linked to it and when the humans of her planet transformed her tree Into a ship it also twisted the will of the Dryad causing her to engulf her planet in vines and overgrowth until all humans were extinct. But now she goes around to other planets and plants seeds so that other Dryad's can wage war against humanity for their over expansion and destruction of nature. One of my PCs was even magically charmed and forced to serve in her army for 3 years and now, the spell has been broken and he is lost in the Astral Sea, having nightmares from the things he did while under her control. The villian herself has turned from a dryad Into more of an evil goddesses of wrath as she gained power and influence over multiple planetoids should be a fun villain to run ^-^

    • @theSheighani42
      @theSheighani42 Год назад +1

      That sounds FUN~
      Made me think of an interesting movie, can't find it anywhere anymore for streaming, sadly. Advanced humans were doing experiments with plant growth on the moon, but uh... It kind of went somewhat sentient?? Broke the moon, and took over Earth...

    • @scrapper3494
      @scrapper3494 Год назад

      Sounds like a D&D version of Batman's foe Poison Ivy.
      Sounds cool....

    • @MrClarissacain
      @MrClarissacain Год назад +2

      All southerners will quake in fear if you name her Kudzu.

    • @loganshockey4041
      @loganshockey4041 Год назад +1

      @@MrClarissacain definitely naming one of her underlings that😆 I'm from Mississippi and get the joke.

    • @loganshockey4041
      @loganshockey4041 Год назад

      @@scrapper3494 very much so. Just on a really big scale and with fey allies.

  • @riareanne
    @riareanne Год назад +11

    Your characters are so interesting! Your videos have definitely helped me flesh out the backstories I wrote for my characters, but I’ve still got a lot of room for improvement. Thanks for all the wonderful inspiration!

  • @williamchamburgh8316
    @williamchamburgh8316 Год назад +4

    The Fey play a large role in my campaign world, but unfortunately for those that travel in my world the Dark Fey are the ones they tend to encounter and learn to be fear the most, from Unseelie Nymphs to Fey mistaken for demon and devils …

  • @antonioscendrategattico2302
    @antonioscendrategattico2302 8 месяцев назад

    Ngl, this is a really great atmospheric premise. The characters are all creative and fit the setting, and their backstory is deeply tied to it.

  • @Coffee_Nutz
    @Coffee_Nutz Год назад +1

    And... sold. The book is now on its way to be on my shelf... Kobold Press does great stuff. :: Happy Days::

  • @justangela1684
    @justangela1684 Год назад +4

    My friend is playing a changeling and it's SO COOL

  • @powergamingcentral5792
    @powergamingcentral5792 Год назад +1

    "Yeah don´t trust a fae trust me instead . I am sure we can come to a advantageous agreement for us both. The only think you have to do is so sign these contract papers." My Tiefling Warlock in the City close to wood with a portal to the faewild.

  • @OptimusOmega6
    @OptimusOmega6 Год назад +26

    Always on the lookout for good D&D horror content.

  • @KnicKnac
    @KnicKnac Год назад +1

    If the DM wanted to use just the campaign setting from them and not the lineages. You could use already printed ones. Dhampir, Shifter, Custom Lineage comes to mind.

  • @JediKnightDTV
    @JediKnightDTV Год назад +1

    OMG Ginny!!! A Warlock, a Barbarian, a Druid and a Cleric, and I LOVE the new Classes/Subclasses!!! 🤩 I absolutely ADORE the Shadowrealm/Feywild like you do!!! What a great idea for a Campaign!!! 😍

  • @sixoffcenter80
    @sixoffcenter80 Год назад +1

    I'm planning a game in the Grim Hollow setting. The first tier of the game will be in a woodland village overrun with fey stuff. Plan for tier two way to bring the players in conflict with a court of vampires, but if they players decided to abandon the material plan to hang out in a grim version of the feywild I'd be cool with that too.

  • @yurizanelli6538
    @yurizanelli6538 Год назад +1

    Fey creatures are my favorite. Changeling the Dreaming and Household are two(very good in my humble opinion) fey themed rpgs that are worth to give a try.

  • @seanfsmith
    @seanfsmith Год назад +2

    I absolutely **adore** the casual bodyhorror in this --- this might be the first time I pick up a campaign setting for 5E rather than build my own!

  • @riuphane
    @riuphane Год назад +1

    "that hits a little too close to be funny"
    Yes ... Yes it does...
    We've had to move to online only, after everyone's kids are in bed, and only for a few hours every few weeks. Been like that for a few years, sadly, but we're just happy to still be going

  • @xkacie
    @xkacie Год назад +2

    Your characters always have such compelling and well-thought out backstories. I am SO invested in Kenna’s arc! I want to see this campaign played out!

  • @trollsmyth
    @trollsmyth Год назад +1

    Probably not entirely in the Shadowfel, but I could see a lot of a campaign happening there. I just living jaunts to the Abyss, the City of Brass, or the Deep Ethereal too much to leave those out.

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 Год назад +1

    Ooh! I can see why Kobold Press are keen to work with you. I love the way your mind works.
    I think it would be brilliant to play the campaign you've described, but I'm currently without a group. (Yes : several bags of new dice and no place to roll. 😥)

  • @davecorriveau4057
    @davecorriveau4057 Год назад +1

    Would I DM a campaign in that setting? Yes I would! I think I would like to give it a strange political twist between 2 fey court.

  • @paulieboy6644
    @paulieboy6644 Год назад +2

    This is helpful - I’m newish to DnD and playing a Fey warlock

  • @Jarulf4477
    @Jarulf4477 8 месяцев назад

    I don't know how i missed this gem from you, Ginny. Always loved the fey since i was gifted a whole book about all sorts of fey, both Seelie and Unseelie. Very nuanced and exciting characters you deliver on top of this great vid.

  • @gnomes1377
    @gnomes1377 Год назад +2

    I think it would be cool if you did a campaign or two, although my opinion probably doesn’t matter much but i think that it might be worth a mention

  • @LightningPiano
    @LightningPiano Год назад

    This is a ridiculoulsy good advertisement for the book. I don't know that I have ever been so tempted to buy a sponsored product before!

  • @venturerweegee64
    @venturerweegee64 Год назад +1

    Boy am I late to the party, but this’ll be an excellent resource for my own campaign that I’m planning!
    I’m going to run a homebrew Strixhaven campaign with a Hag as the BBEG, where traces of her influence are felt here and there, but she’s no pushover.

  • @heididobson2437
    @heididobson2437 Год назад +1

    Onyxclaw got my head spinning with ideas. I now need to make a shadow ranger or druid.

  • @Invindication
    @Invindication Год назад +1

    Fey are my favorite part of DnD. I’m gonna enjoy this video so much!!!!

  • @bubblegumbishonen
    @bubblegumbishonen Год назад +2

    This conveniently dropped right when I was going to start planning my first campaign, about a faerie realm actively being corrupted by darkness (and the players have to find the source).

  • @shanearnett3235
    @shanearnett3235 Год назад +1

    Oh I would kill to play a campaign with you. I love your videos I've watched many of your videos and I'm obsessed. I'm a newbie so I know with all of your experience you would be able to mold me into a good player and with both our imaginations we would have a blast. Keep up the great work Ginny

  • @dziubasinsky
    @dziubasinsky Год назад +3

    I must say that your timing is amazing! I've just finished GMing first part of my scenario (first adventure written by myself) with fey vibes, but more cute, colorfull and friendly fey 🦄

  • @davidbarnett342
    @davidbarnett342 Год назад

    I am half here for the videos half here for the your style. Your hair color and how well it looks on you are just awesome. Super jelly.

  • @deusexaethera
    @deusexaethera Год назад +2

    If I had someone like you around, D&D would be worth setting aside time to play. Your enthusiasm is infectious. I'd ask why you have to live so far away, but I wouldn't inflict DC-area weather (and traffic) on my worst enemy.

  • @quinnlee-newbury9003
    @quinnlee-newbury9003 Год назад +1

    Very excited for this. There's a BIG fey component to the current campaign I'm running (one of the PCs is a changeling and I really wanna give her the opportunity to do lots of fae stuff) but as much as I love everything Fae it always seems yo be the thing I struggle most with for creating adventures around, so I'm certain this video will give me some ideas and get me in the spirit!

  • @grimgrimly
    @grimgrimly Год назад +1

    I'd love to see more content about the Shadow realm. I'm running a solo campaign in the Shadow court right now as a side quest between the two halves of Out of the Abyss. The player, a drow nature cleric of Eilistraee who started as a drider, has travelled to the courts to ask the moonlit king to make Durendil the Quaggoth's delusion of being an Elven prince real.

  • @Blindy_Sama
    @Blindy_Sama Год назад +1

    The T-shirt made me smile.. my blind butt had to pause the video and zoom in to see what it was but then a smiled even bigger. Also this was a cool video keep up the nice work

  • @chaosheaven23
    @chaosheaven23 Год назад +3

    This book seems really cool to me as my homebrew setting has seen a lot of bleeding between the Shadowfell and Feywilds into the Material Plane. I run a grimdark game and folklore-style horror is something I hope my party can get invested in. I bet this book would be an awesome resource!

  • @Tsuusetsu
    @Tsuusetsu Год назад +1

    would absolutely play in a campaign in this setting. Non standard settings are the best.

  • @jpierson
    @jpierson Год назад +1

    Definitely going to pick up these books and run some shadow adventures. Actually spent all day yesterday--when I should have been working on my campaign timeline--brainstorming and jotting down notes for adventures.
    Oh, yeah. I'm going to steal Aravni. I've been itching to run a drama/intrigue campaign in a court setting, and she gave me a great jumping-off inspiration--a character struggling between her desire to do good by helping the heroes and her desire to increase her and her family's standing in the court by screwing the heroes over.
    Actually, Krix gave me another bit of inspiration: when you mentioned him feeding on shadows, I got this image in my head of a character pouncing on someone's shadow and ripping chunks out of it with his teeth, literally eating it. That's led to some interesting places. (What does a shadow screaming in terror and agony sound like? I figure it's a faint, whispery sort of sound, but intense. Like water dripping when you're trying to sleep: you don't hear it at first, but once you do, you can't stop hearing it.)
    So thanks, Ginny. You're an inspiration! 🙂

  • @vampricyoda
    @vampricyoda 6 месяцев назад

    Whenever I see Fae in a game I'm always tempted to just like swat them and go "Trust me. This is easier then anything they had to say."

  • @YelloDuzzit
    @YelloDuzzit Год назад +7

    Literally JUST created a faction tasked with collecting memories for the Raven Queen 😬😬😬... And made one of my PCs a member of this organization

  • @howardnenno1806
    @howardnenno1806 Год назад

    So I immediately bought this after watching your video. Tomorrow my D&D group will be on the receiving end of some shenanigans based off of your vivid descriptions.

  • @Hawkeye446
    @Hawkeye446 Год назад +2

    My players made a deal with a Fey Lord to trade an artifact that the Fey had for one of their own, but didn't have one. So they slew a red dragon and claimed it's hoard so they could afford to pay a Naga Sage for the location of a suitably powerful artifact to trade to the Fey. The Naga said, "That which you seek resides within the Plane of Shadows," and even gave them a scroll of planeshift to help them get there. They NOPED out of the entire questline so fast it gave me whiplash! XD Just decided to go somewhere else, ANYWHERE ELSE instead XD They might not ever go to the Shadows. They are closing in on another artifact that is powerful enough to satisfy the Fey Lord, though they may not want to part with it...
    All that to say, yes, I would run a game that at least passed through the Shadows, and would absolutely be down to play in a game set in Shadow.

  • @Maradras
    @Maradras Год назад

    I would most definitely play in the shadow realm. I am always a fan of shadows and intrigue, sounds like a fun time

  • @captaincube132
    @captaincube132 Год назад +1

    13:03 I'm surprised you built an entire party and only put *a* fey in it, one, singular. Very impressed at your self restraint =)

  • @moonwitch5466
    @moonwitch5466 Год назад +1

    I just ordered those two books, plus courts of the shadow fry and shadows of the dusk queen, I’m going to build a dark fantasy adventure with those for my friends lol

  • @localman6537
    @localman6537 Год назад

    I have never DMed before, but I am in the process of writing and planning my first campaign. The premise was going to be centered around dream/memory stealing by a big bad from either the Feywild or Shadowfell, and they would use those dreams or memories to power a spell or artifact that would enable them to merge their plane with the prime material plane as kind of a territorial expansion. Your video and this product has come at the absolutely perfect time and is something I will rely on heavily to create this campaign world. Thank you so much for posting this up and Happy Gaming!

  • @bobyhappy2992
    @bobyhappy2992 Год назад +1

    Oh I can see Aravni being sent on adventure because someone of her own family is missing and all evidence of recents sabotage of shadow roads points at that missing member of the Eventide... 😍 Some juicy noble drama with dark magic involved
    And I imagine Kenna have made a bargain with a Hag in disguise...after losing her child she asks to forget it so she would weep no more...so the Hag took away the memory, but not the pain
    ...I feel like I'm a bad person now 😔

  • @DaltCity
    @DaltCity Год назад +1

    I am a male that usually does not comment on make up at all, but that hair color and lipstick combination is fire 🔥super cool aesthetic look

  • @dmore
    @dmore Год назад +1

    I was in a session yesterday and found myself needing to tell a folklore tale of my people. I started telling this dark, sad story… something of a warning used to keep children on the path, something turned into plays and theatre. I couldn’t remember where the story had come from and I didn’t get it 100% the same, but I just realized I told the story of Kenna Talward!!

  • @mikaelabowler
    @mikaelabowler Год назад +1

    Kobold Press better have paid you well for this video girlie, great job

  • @plus2happiness
    @plus2happiness Год назад +1

    I love this style of video! I'm a big fan of your character creation videos, but this type definitely scratches that same itch but on a grander scale. Big fan!

  • @Sellesion
    @Sellesion Год назад +1

    This is perfect! Thank you for this video cus I've been wanting to write up my own campaign for my group and I have a plot and BBEG in mind, and asked the players if they like the idea of it being a Dark Fairytale setting. They were intrigued! As a kid I always loved the idea of twisted beasts that go bump in the night, fairy mounds and dark fey magic. So I've been dying to play around with it. These books sound like very helpful material for that. I'm so excited that this kind of additional content is out there now. It'll really help not to have to make so much from scratch.

  • @kingzecromatic
    @kingzecromatic Год назад +2

    Yes Ginny! Looks to be an awesome vid!

  • @wylde_hunter
    @wylde_hunter Год назад

    Great, creative way to review a RPG book! I love your take on the Shadow World - very inspiring. You've made me want to dip into a mini-Shadow campaign of my own. Thanks Ginny!

  • @digitalhunter42
    @digitalhunter42 Год назад +1

    So glad I recently found this channel, rpg gold, thanks

  • @Reoh0z
    @Reoh0z Год назад +4

    This new Shadow Ginny is terrifying and intriguing!

  • @lindafreeman7030
    @lindafreeman7030 Год назад +1

    "Always October in my heart!" YES!!! Let's get SPOOKY!!

  • @BrindleBoxerMax
    @BrindleBoxerMax Год назад

    Just got The Book of Ebon Tides and really like it. A quality hardback book. Love what you have come up with for a campaign.

  • @jessofall_trades
    @jessofall_trades Год назад

    Ah this is so cool! Dm'd for the first time last Saturday and have been planning my campaign around the shadow fell and fey wilds so this is so helpful!

  • @Anastasiaaugh
    @Anastasiaaugh Год назад +2

    Im about to start a campaign with 4 of my friends and this just gave me some great ideas, thanks!

  • @majinantipanda
    @majinantipanda Год назад +2

    This was such a wonderful insight into your process. You must be a amazing GM.
    I love Dark Fairy Tales, and Mythology. I would love to DM something dark and twisted. Just have to be careful and know my players lines and veils. Though I be but a petty dabbler in the dark arts with only a few One shots (To give the reg DM a break) under my belt.

  • @serialgoober816
    @serialgoober816 Год назад +4

    I just recently started watching you im so glad i jumped on the bandwagon. Ty for the amazing content and tips throughout! Its helped me to start getting into DMing and hopefully creating a world and adventure my friends will love!

  • @elvacoburg1279
    @elvacoburg1279 Год назад +1

    Your overview alone has given me ideas on how to incorporate the Shadow realm into my current campaign, in a way that will cause the character great anguish, sorry, great joy!

  • @Kaizensan1775
    @Kaizensan1775 Год назад

    How about...
    Dark-Eyed 👀 Children?
    🤣 the subtle F-💣 drop caught me off guard 🤣
    Appreciate you leaving it in.

  • @dndinacastle
    @dndinacastle Год назад +1

    This is a phenomenally helpful video. A great example of how to make the most of a new setting.

  • @therakshasan8547
    @therakshasan8547 Год назад +1

    It might be rather entertaining to see a few D&D play sessions with you and your group .

  • @darindeyoe1817
    @darindeyoe1817 Год назад +1

    Great way to discuss such a wonderful product. People loved these new races and classes played at GenCon 2022, especially in the confrontation with the Tick-Tock man😎 a memory thief.
    So much fun Ginny Di