I feel that Dusk is a harder topic to discuss than Dawn, which we did last week. Dawn is set apart because it is about beginnings or new beginnings and that is what heroes represent. So Dusk would have to be on the other side of that right? Dusk is the darker stage of twilight. The last rays of sun are just gone. Dusk is a shadowy, dim or dark area or place.
Obviously the shadowfell fits right into this theme. You can find some great ideas about the shadowfell here. One of those ideas combines the shadar Kai riding a dire shadow mastiff. If you are looking for more mounted combatants that just might be for you.
We know that dusk is when the last rays of sunlight are gone means the creatures of the night are able to come out. But it is not so late that people are in bed. That means that people are potentially still going about their final business of the day and are more at risk of such an attack. Vampires, Werewolves, various fey and undead and who knows what else could be setting upon a town, village or city. During our live chat we started to develop a cool adventure, check it out on YouTube and go from there. That is if Dave did not already flesh it out. But there were lots of cool ideas discussed. But I am going to go in another direction.
I am going to give the start of some ideas, prompts if you will, that can lead an adventure in a number of directions. Each prompt can be used however you want.
- Every night for the past week, at dusk an unsettling mist and fog appears coming from the forest. It covers the whole of the town. People are getting more and more nervous as this continues to happen with no explanation, and now things are going missing in the fog. Can anyone help?
- Strange things keep happening in this town. Recently it seems that darkness is falling earlier and earlier and staying later and later. The hour of dusk is being pushed forward in the heat of summer, like it was winter. As people begin to fear the dark they wonder if it will get to the point of perpetual darkness.
- Characters who spend time in this one place, at dusk have to make a charisma save(based on tier) or find that they are becoming emotionless. Each dusk emotion drains from those who fail. Can anyone find the source of this emotional drain before too late.
- The shadowfell is expanding into the prime. Every night, presumably at dusk the area of the shadowfell creeps and expands claiming more land and territory. At dawn the sunlight was unable to penetrate the barrier of the shadowfell. The darkness looms closely toward the town. Can you solve the issue? Can it be pushed back or has the shadowfell forever taken over this land?
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