I love the Feydark.

[JPL]

Check out that preview from Underdark on today's DDI.

Glowing fungi, crazy gnomes, mushrooms who walk like men, one-eyed purple giants. Love it. So much cooler than drow / mind flayers / etc.

I would run an all-Feydark campaign in a heartbeat. Especially with an all-gnome party . . . the eladrin are nice enough guys, but if you're going into a big hole o' crazy, you need gnomes.

 

[Desdichado]

That looks almost exactly like one of the levels of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

 

[Raven Crowking]

one-eyed purple giants.

This begs for punning. It really, really does.

 

[arscott]

Are those... Triffids?

 

[TerraDave]

Link:

Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Excerpts: Underdark: The Feydark)

Its OK. Though you don't really need a whole dimension for it, it can just be part of the underdark. And they over do the standard 4E world stuff...formarians, cyclopses, primordials.

But crazy gnomes are always welcome.

 

[Kinneus]

It's kind of weird how they kept stressing how the Feydark is physically smaller than the Underdark. It's sort of like saying, "We couldn't think of much stuff to populate the Feydark, so what the heck, it's smaller now."

 

[keterys]

I think the theory is that the underdark was made by the struggles of the god Torog, so most of the effect was on the prime, but in places he managed to break through to the shadowfell and feydark, just less so.

I'm not really sure I wouldn't have just kept it a mirror myself, but I guess they wanted a tighter level range?

 

[Nai_Calus]

"Religion is a trick you play on the deities to make them give you things." Awesome.

Not so awesome: Feydark? Seriously? And Shadowdark? I thought we were getting away from 'pointless symmetry'.

Apparently not. And yeah, we've known about them for a while, but they're not any less stupid to me now than they were then. The old alignments and cosmology apparently sucked because of 'pointless symmetry'(They didn't), but now we've got... Pointless symmetry. With really bad names. Whoops.

And isn't the Feywild generally supposed to be 'the real world but turned up to 11!'? Why is the Feydark smaller and less grimdarkbad then? Sounds more like they turned it down to 2 when it was at 6. I'd expect a bigger, more badass hellpit bursting with all kinds of strange stuff that makes the normal depths of the underdark seem like a picnic, not 'well it's smaller and kind of in the middle for difficulty'.

 

[MrMyth]

Not so awesome: Feydark? Seriously? And Shadowdark? I thought we were getting away from 'pointless symmetry'.

Well, yes - but that doesn't mean removing all symmetry. Given that the Feywild and Shadowfell, from the start, were designed as reflections of the mortal world... I don't see how them having... reflections of the mortal world... is an issue.

Shadowdark could use a better name, though.

 

[JPL]

It's kind of weird how they kept stressing how the Feydark is physically smaller than the Underdark. It's sort of like saying, "We couldn't think of much stuff to populate the Feydark, so what the heck, it's smaller now."

Agreed. While I think the Feydark is a stronger concept when it's focused on a few key elements, rather than being as diverse as the regular Underdark (with drow and aboliths and abberations and whatnot), that doesn't mean the Feydark had to be physically smaller.