Recent content by Ash Mantle

In an attempt to steer the thread back, what're you most looking forward to seeing/reading in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft?

Of course, but I'm not talking about inclusions without rhyme or reason or additional material that doesn't help focus the book overall.

This could possibly be helped by including an Index in the books.

Yeah, the evocative and condensed writing in the supplements has also helped in this, and as you say there's quite a fair bit of lore seeds and adventure ideas to draw out inspiration, and these are expressed in tables. But the feeling that the books are missing out on some aspects could be...

Which is where planning in advance with the mindset of the book being a 320 page supplement is key. In some books, there's a feeling that the book is missing lore or missing statblocks or missing other setting information, which ideally pushing what defines a normal page count to a higher page...

We should get bigger books, especially for the price point, and Wizards can and should put out higher page count supplements, especially going forward as their team is now larger. We have precedent in Eberron: Rising from the Last War, and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, both of which are...

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, it's basically also a guidebook on how to handle horror adventures and the degrees of horror a DM might want to subject their party to.

The Faiths and Avatars line of supplements from 2e are some of my favourite books ever. So, in 5e I've kept the gods as active presences in Faerun, along with stratification of deific levels.

Also agreed. I'm an advocate of Wizards releasing supplements of at least 320 pages in length, we need more Eberron: Rising from the Last Wars, with that amount of page length all of the salient information that falls onto the DMs to evoke could be included in the actual setting book. The Dark...

Yeah, I know what you mean. Seems like Wizard's approach to their setting books is to offer a generalist, broad-tent overview. Their material is definitely delicious but I agree it's not enough to sate our craving for more lore, for more monsters, for more details, though this also allows for...

Here's another more in-depth flip through into Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, combined with a first impressions commentary The text in this video has a lot more clarity than the other one I linked to, it's actually quite easy to read along with the flip through. Please keep in mind this...

Here's another more in-depth flip through into Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, combined with a first impressions commentary The text in this video has a lot more clarity than the other one I linked to, it's actually quite easy to read along with the flip through. Please keep in mind this...

Here's another more in-depth first look into Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Be warned though, it's basically a flip through of the book through to the end, so if you don't want spoilers it's probably best to skip this video. It's really looking like it's a must-buy for me, the book is just...

Here's another more in-depth first look into Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Be warned though, it's basically a flip through of the book through to the end, so if you don't want spoilers it's probably best to skip this video. It's really looking like it's a must-buy for me, the book is just...

Sounds like a great way to have tower defense style apocalyptic events in our games, and I'm all here for that :)