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New Ambience: Shadowfell
🕑 Added 2020-02-26 17:01:54 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
I've been meaning to do a Shadowfell ambience ever since The Feywild came out. Apparently I got sidetracked. Thankfully, a few of you reminded me of this oversight recently.
I had to dig into the lore a bit to make sure I was starting off on the right track. This interview with Mike Mearls helped put it in perspective:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/43-d-ds-shadowfell-and-feywild-explained
It is definitely an abstract, emotional type of ambience. I wanted it to be dark and chaotic but also rooted in a kind of physicality. By this I mean, you're not floating about in it. Many of the illustrations feature a barren rocky landscape with brooding clouds and even structures. I added a constant crumbling rock underscore as well as atmospheric discharges to accentuate this. The below image from the 5e Dungeon Master's Guide illustrates this pretty well.
For those that prefer something a little more abstract I've included a version without the rocks/atmospheric discharge.
This track will of course work well with any dark themed game or story. It could be a dream sequence, a trip to the underworld or a Cthulhu-esque interlude.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
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Brian - Correct. The tracks on the site can all be downloaded as well, just make sure you're on a desktop/laptop machine or you won't see the 'save' link on each track. - Tim
Brian J. Parker
Thanks for all your work! I've been too embarrassed, I don't know if this is covered somewhere, but eventually I have to suck it up and just ask... these Patron-only tracks, basically they're just intended to be downloaded and played in an offline player? Related question: can we do the same for the tracks on the site? Running the audio in a local player presumably helps your bandwidth costs, too?
Myron Dietz
Well done. I like how you played with the staging of the sounds to create an unsettling "presence". This will go well with a session of Dread.
James Palmer
Just listened to it. Great work! Need to write an adventure to use this for now.
