And ive run a couple sessions in the shadow fell and just keep in mind a few things. Keep on the shadowfell intentionally leaves gaps in geography and history, enabling a dm to place the adventure. At the very reasonable price of free its a much more recommendable product, particularly if youre new to 4th edition. The dungeons are long and my players ended up doing shit like this. Legend has it that an otherworldly dimness arose around the remnants and tatters of the raw stuff of creation. Smerg, enigmashock at the wotc forums starting the adventure you are known as rune warriors. I promised in mapx of the first posts that i would give you all the pngs of items and psds. We are going to play through the keep on the shadowfell module. The adventure provides all the necessary rules to play, and it is designed to fit into most campaign. Oct 27, 2019 the most important one, albeit unofficial, is the one at the alexandrian website. Players handbook, dungeon masters guide, and monster manual. Masters guide, or monster manual to use the keep on. Jul 03, 2019 it, plus the free quickstart rules, can.
Keep on the shadowfell attack them as they make their way along the east way through the thunder peaks. Pdf edition includes front cover, 16page 4e quickstart rules booklet. This keep overlooks the shadow rift, a dark scar in the world that was once a gateway to the shadowfell but has been dormant for many years. In april 2009, wizards of the coast released an updated pdf version of keep on the shadowfell. As long as nobody is trying to break or game the system i think youll be fine, but thats just my personal experience. You probably already know of the keep on the shadowfell free download on the wizards of the coast site. You are travelling through a dangerous wilderness toward the small town of winterhaven. Keep on the shadowfell 4e pdf you probably already know of the keep on the shadowfell free download on the wizards of the coast site. Frankensteins castle belongs here as does draculas but thats calling up ravenloft, which works but you dont need to ask here about that. It is much darker, more ominous than the prime material plane.
Im planning on running a small campaign for my mother and wife using the keep on shadowfell ive never run a small game like this and im hoping someone has some tips and perhaps some tools on keeping the two of them alive. Each of you was born with a runic birthmark somewhere on your bodies. In your role as dungeon master dm, you get to send your friends on an adventure in which theyll explore dungeons, banter with villains, and defeat vicious monsters with sword, spell, and prayer. Next, firey dragon has free printable tokens for download of all the keep monsters. The adventure is designed for 5 characters that start at level 1 and should be near level 4 at. I wasnt sure which forum to post them but since they are 4e i figured probably here. Inworld introductions to various locales by ulraunt, designed to inspire and create story hooks.
Unlike say keep on the shadowfell this is not an adventurequest, it is more like a setting or an arc that can be dropped into a game. Keep on the shadowfell 1 keep on the shadowfell revision by justin alexander thanks to. These are remakes of the printed maps, with the monsters, traps and secret doors helpfully cleaned off, leaving them ready to be printed off for use at your ob game or imported into maptool or other virtual tabletops. Inhabitants the inhabitants of the shadowfell dont have to be nonhuman or humanoid. The shadowfell contains information a dungeon master needs to run adventures set in gloomwrought, a city in the plane known as the shadowfell. Shadowfell the shadowfell is the dark echo of the mortal world, a twilight realm that exists on the other side of the world and its earthly denizens. Wizards of the coast are giving away the pdf of keep on the shadowfell for free. The people of winterhaven avoided the place, and the mere mention of shadowfell keep was considered bad luck by many of the farmers and villagers. Dnd this doesnt let the unlabeled dots off the hook at least one shadowfeol them needs a disclaimer of some sort. The alexandrian keep on the shadowfell the complete collection.
Dnd shadowfelk keep on the shadowfell maps hello giant in the playground community tell me what you think of these map i map, in the mac version of a word processor. Shadowfell keep, originally called keegans keep, was one of many fortresses built by cormyr along its frontier, located in the middle of the thunder peaks just northeast of winterhaven history edit. The keep on shadowfell one dungeon master, two players. It is part one of a threepart series of adventures.
Specifically, two relatively important paragraphs got dropped jaquaying the keep on the shadowfell july 30th, not that i imagine many people are wanting to run the introductory adventure for 4th edition anymore, now that pathfinder and 5th edition have displaced it. Keep on the shadowfell pdf version rpg item version rpggeek. Beholder drow dark elf githyanki illithid mind flayer lich. The shadowfell is a reflection or echo of the prime material plane. If you do like the type of work i do on adventure design, i do have several adventure supplements available in either pdf or print formats. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us.
Jul 09, 2019 it, plus the free quickstart rules, can. Shadowfell keep geography aliases keegans keep type large castle region cormyr, thunder peaks shadowfell keep, originally called keegans keep, was one of many fortresses built by cormyr along its frontier, located in the middle of the thunder peaks just northeast of winterhaven. Only two short decades after the empire withdrew its influence from this part of the world, the commander of the garrison a. Keep on the shadowfell was the inaugural product for 4th edition. Keep on the shadowfell 4e im working on the other adventures kobold hall, thunderspire labyrinth, etc as well. The shadowfell, also known as the plane of shadow, was one of the planes of existence in various cosmological models.
The shadowfell had been important ever since 4e debuted in h1. Also added a separate pdf containing the character options, and included virtual tabletop tokens in the handouts. Other names for this plane included shadowland, the demiplane of shadow, and simply shadow. Keep on the shadowfell plus maps best free pdfs on. Although it is listed as having a page count of 145 pages here, it is identical to the original 2008 print release. Many such outpost survived the fall of the empire, but not the keep. When cormyr began to create a series of fortresses along its frontier in 236 dr, the shadow dragon shadraxil took this as an affront to his lands and began attacking the outposts. In fact, it remained important throughout the hpe adventure series 20082009.
The runes are believed to be marks of the gods or the fates. Running shadowfell keep gridless and measureless at my game table with dm scotty ep 1. When you earn enough xp to level up, the character sheet explains what. Put all the kobold minions and hide them behind the western boulders where they cant be seen before the ambush is sprung. Since i made the jump from 2nd to 5th, my planar lore is mostly of planescape. No shiny no happy no good feeling fog undead unknown around every corner easily lost dim the lights wherever you play creepy music midnight syndicate is good for this keep your voice low, so the players have to strain to hear you. It existed as sort of counterpart to the feywild, in the sense that it was a reflection, or echo, of the.
Put the slinger in this patch of forest just to the west of the boulders where he benefits from cover, but can shoot at the pcs freely. The keep was built as an outpost of the empire of nerath, most likely to guard against the giant tribes living in the northern reaches of the stonemarch. History when cormyr began to create a series of fortresses along its frontier in 236 dr, the shadow dragon. The only negatives are that it is is the default setting and thus needs a bit of modifying for use in forgotten realms or ebberon. I was fairly disappointed with the quality and the content of the module, but i wanted to playtest the new edition. It is a bleak, desolate place of decay and death where necrotic energies and shadow magic runs rampant. However to date its main description had appeared in manual of the planes 2008, which dedicated 14 pages to the shadowfell, including 2 pages on gloomwrought. Its purpose and characteristics evolved as new cosmologies were formulated. This thread is a master list of links to resources, advise and options for running keep on the shadowfell. These are remakes of the printed maps, with the monsters, traps and secret doors helpfully cleaned off, leaving them ready to be printed off for use.
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