D&D 5E Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Art Preview

SageAdvice.eu has compiled a bunch of art shots from the upcoming Ravenloft setting book. I've featured a handful below, but click through to the link for the full set of nearly 30 pieces.

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[Paul Farquhar]

Awesome to see a ghostly lightning rail. Could Cyre have been sucked into Ravenloft? Now that is an exciting idea?

That's actually an old theory, but (at least up until now) it has always been WotC policy to leave what befell Cyre up to the DM. It could just be an Artificer from Eberron who got sucked into Ravenloft and decided to recreate the lightning rail, but this time powered by the spirits of the dead rather than an air elemental. Because nothing could possibly go wrong with that!

 

[The Glen]

Problem isn't the art the problem is the theme. Ravenloft is an amalgam setting, taking numerous locations and turning them into private prisons for all the dark Lords. This art doesn't seem to reflect the variety that made the setting so good. You get to feed the vampire lord of Transylvania walk through the mist and find yourself in the bayous of Louisiana or the Blasted desert of Egypt. The art keeps the Victorian look of forgotten Realms, complete with most characters clothed head to toe in every scene. Just feels formulaic.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The art keeps the Victorian look of forgotten Realms, complete with most characters clothed head to toe in every scene. Just feels formulaic.

If people are traveling between domains through the mists they are going to take fashion with them.

 

[imagineGod]

Art is ace though I do not like it when Ravenloft mixes urban horror with older fantasy gothic.

 

[The Glen]

If people are traveling between domains through the mists they are going to take fashion with them.

Apparently they're taking a shortcut through the sword Coast because they're dressed identically.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Now I kinda hope that there's a domain based on cheap B-movies, grindhouse movies, where once you enter the borders of the domain, every single cut means you spray blood like a hose for 30 minutes! And the monsters just.wont.die.

Written in collaboration by Rob Shwalb and Rob Zombie!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Apparently they're taking a shortcut through the sword Coast because they're dressed identically.

Sword Coast fashions are usually late 16th century.

 

[TheSword]

Problem isn't the art the problem is the theme. Ravenloft is an amalgam setting, taking numerous locations and turning them into private prisons for all the dark Lords. This art doesn't seem to reflect the variety that made the setting so good. You get to feed the vampire lord of Transylvania walk through the mist and find yourself in the bayous of Louisiana or the Blasted desert of Egypt. The art keeps the Victorian look of forgotten Realms, complete with most characters clothed head to toe in every scene. Just feels formulaic.

Really? I couldn’t disagree more.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Bandages never go out of fashion.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Really? I couldn’t disagree more.

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Yeah the fashion is definitely not reminiscent of the Sword Coast, nor do the characters in different images have similar fashion. There is a lot of very different fashion in these previews.