New DRAGON+ Delves Into Ravenloft; Includes CURSE OF STRAHD Preview Adventure

The brand new issue of DRAGON+, WotC's D&D news app, is out - and it's full of Ravenloft goodness. This issue contains an interview with Jum Zub (writer of the upcoming Minsc in Barovia story in the D&D comic), a talk with Tracy and Laura Hickman, who created the original Ravenloft module, a 'travel piece' on Barovia, some video game content (top six warlock features in Sword Coast Legends), a copy of the recent Unearthed Arcana Mystic class, a look at D&D board games, and interview with Acquisition Inc's Patrick Rothfuss, an article on disabled characters in D&D, and some recent Sage Advice from Jeremy Crawford.

The brand new issue of DRAGON+, WotC's D&D news app, is out - and it's full of Ravenloft goodness. This issue contains an interview with Jum Zub (writer of the upcoming Minsc in Barovia story in the D&D comic), a talk with Tracy and Laura Hickman, who created the original Ravenloft module, a 'travel piece' on Barovia, some video game content (top six warlock features in Sword Coast Legends), a copy of the recent Unearthed Arcana Mystic class, a look at D&D board games, and interview with Acquisition Inc's Patrick Rothfuss, an article on disabled characters in D&D, and some recent Sage Advice from Jeremy Crawford.

You can get Dragon+ from the iOS and Android app stores, or
view it on your desktop. The issue also includes a preview adventure for Curse of Strahd called Death House. It's a 12-page PDF is a min-adventure designed to get characters to 3rd level as they explore a haunted townhouse, while introducing characters to the land of Barovia. "This preview introduces characters to the land of Barovia. The Curse of Strahd book includes the original adventure, as well as expanded material developed in consultation with Tracy and Laura Hickman. It expands what we know about the lands around Castle Ravenloft and sheds new light on the dark past of the castle’s lord. The lands of Barovia are from a forgotten world in the D&D multiverse, and this adventure gives glimpses into that world. In time, cursed Barovia was torn from its home world by the Dark Powers and bound in mist as one of the Domains of Dread in the Shadowfell."


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*facepalm*

Not more cults. I wish they would keep these adventures away from Perkins.

You clearly ignored my comment. There was no cult in Rage of Demons and there is no cult here ether. The cult in this adventure died a long time ago. Now it's an evil house and Undead.

Why use Volo and not Van Richten?

I really hate how they are really trying to cram Forgotten Realms into everything.

Because Volo does not know what Barovia is while Van Richten does.
 


Corpsetaker

First Post
1.) Ed Greenwood wrote it. 2.) Van Richten is dead. 3.) Volo writes travel guides, Van Richten writes hunter's guides. This work is the latter type.
1: That's no excuse. 2: 5th edition is all about bringing back those that died so why not him as well. 3: Van Richten had to travel in order to meet all the monsters he did so I'm sure he has that covered. 4: Van Richten is way more bad ass.
 

pemerton

Legend
It seems to be missing some information it directly refers to.

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it refers to various ways to get the PCs into Barovia (but only mentions 1)
You may have missed the following passage (on page 1 of the PDF):

The Curse of Strahd adventure contains other adventure hooks. For the purpose of this introductory adventure, you can use “Creeping Fog,” in which the characters are traveling a lonely road through the woods when the fog engulfs them, spiriting them away to the land of Barovia.

Creeping Fog
This scenario assumes that the characters are camping in a forest when the fog engulfs them. They are quietly borne to the edge of Barovia.​

To get the other ways of getting into Barovia, you need to buy the book!
 



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