Grab a torch... it won't help, but grab one anyway. This week Sean and Jess drag Roll for Lore into the Shadowfell, Dungeons & Dragons' gloomy echo of the Material Plane, where the sky is a black vault, the food bleeds, and despair has actual game mechanics.

We trace the plane's whole history: how Jeff Grubb's 1987 Demiplane of Shadow footnote became 4th edition's Shadowfell, and how, in Forgotten Realms canon, the goddess Shar helped Cyric murder Mystra, kicked off the Spellplague, lost everything anyway, and built the plane as a consolation prize. Then it's a full 5e travel guide (Gloomwrought, Evernight, shadow crossings, and the despair rules), the truth about where Strahd and Barovia actually live inside the Domains of Dread, fifty years of shadow spells from the 1975 illusionist to shadow blade, and a bestiary of the plane's greatest nightmares: the shadar-kai, the Raven Queen, sorrowsworn, nightwalkers, banderhobbs, and Shimmergloom the shadow dragon.

Whether you're prepping a Curse of Strahd campaign or just here for deep D&D lore, this one's for you. Follow Roll for Lore wherever you get your podcasts.

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