D&D 5E Curse of Strahd 'Revamped' Boxed Collector's Edition

If you're in the market for a revamped (geddit?) edition of Curse of Strahd (which is my favourite of all the D&D adventures so far) in a coffin-shaped box with additional material, you're in luck!

This boxed set is coming out in October and costs $99.99.

There's a whole bunch of stuff included:

• Updated softcover of the adventure itself, including errata and presumably some of the other adjustments to Vistani talked about recently.
• A short 20-book of monsters called Creatures of Horror.
• Double sided poster map of Barovia and Castle Ravenloft.
• A Tarokka deck and 8-page booklet.
• Handouts for players.
• A dozen 'postcards' from Barovia.
• A DMs Screen.

Updates to the original adventure include errata, minor tweaks, and sections of text which have been identified as problematic regarding the Vistani.

IGN has a video looking inside the box.

 

[EthanSental]

I missed the ToEE OAR from Goodman announcement....those are going to be 2 hefty books. Hopefully the first book is the rescanned original and Hommlet, then the 2nd Book is the 5e conversion. I’ve got 1-3, maybe pick up 4 and 5, but ToEE will be a purchase late this year.

 

[Parmandur]

As much as I'd love to see an OAR of Queen of the Spiders, the G part being in a recent Wizards' book is probably a sticking point. Even if Wizards was okay with Goodman Games taking the ball and running with it, I imagine that there are legal and contractual issues present that would make some other re-release choice more appealing.

I think DQ would be a good candidate for the Ghosts of Saltmarsh treatment, throwing them together with other historical Underdark modules. Apparently, Ghosts of Saltmarsh was well received, so here's hoping.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I missed the ToEE OAR from Goodman announcement....those are going to be 2 hefty books. Hopefully the first book is the rescanned original and Hommlet, then the 2nd Book is the 5e conversion. I’ve got 1-3, maybe pick up 4 and 5, but ToEE will be a purchase late this year.

It would certainly boost utility at the table. Having T1 in one book by itself wouldn't make much sense, since it's significantly smaller than the rest of it.

 

[Dire Bare]

Yes! That was my reaction too. Why softcover? Will that be, in any way, an improvement? Curious as to what they're trying/testing with that...

Part of the reason for softcover vs hardcover is the book being split between the adventure and monster section. I'm also guessing WotC is assuming most folks purchasing this boxed set will already have the hardcover. That's just my guess, they haven't said anything to that effect.

Of course whether you think that is a good or bad idea is subjective . . . .

 

[Parmandur]

Part of the reason for softcover vs hardcover is the book being split between the adventure and monster section. I'm also guessing WotC is assuming most folks purchasing this boxed set will already have the hardcover. That's just my guess, they haven't said anything to that effect.

Of course whether you think that is a good or bad idea is subjective . . . .

Perkins said on Twitter the perfect bound paperbook Adventure book is specifically designed to lay open and flat on the game table behind the screen during play.

 

[Parmandur]

It would certainly boost utility at the table. Having T1 in one book by itself wouldn't make much sense, since it's significantly smaller than the rest of it.

Based on the first three hardcovers, Goodman Games has been printing multiple iterations of the original Modules, so I would expect multiple iterations of T1 and T1-4 seperately, to show every major version their entirety. Actually pretty cool to have the 5E material seperate from the historical preservation portion...

 

[DEFCON 1]

There's no point in putting a hardcover book in a boxed set. The whole point of a book's hard cover it to make it essentially its own "box" so that it can stand upright on shelves and not get creased or bent badly. But if you're putting the all information into a cardboard box... why spend the extra weight and extra cost by binding the books in a hard cover? That's a complete waste of money and resources, plus raising the price unneccesarily.

 

[Retreater]

There's no point in putting a hardcover book in a boxed set. The whole point of a book's hard cover it to make it essentially its own "box" so that it can stand upright on shelves and not get creased or bent badly. But if you're putting the all information into a cardboard box... why spend the extra weight and extra cost by binding the books in a hard cover? That's a complete waste of money and resources, plus raising the price unneccesarily.

Because you're handling the books at the game table and reading them for fun away from the table?
Considering Games Workshop does this for their rulebooks in boxed sets, Free League did it for their Forbidden Lands games, I don't think it's a crazy concept.

 

[Nebulous]

I'm running this in Roll20 now and have no need for any of it. I do kind of like the coffin though.

 

[MGibster]

• I don't want a coffin shaped box. Why did they do that? I would have probably thought that it was cool when I was 16, but that was a long time ago. It's not even useful. It will look strange on a shelf and you can't put as much stuff in it as in a normal box.

I'm in my mid-40s and I think the box is pretty cool. I might have bought this when CoS first game out but I've run it twice already and have no real interest in running it again.