D&D 5E Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft Table of Contents

As shared by DMs Guild brand manager Lysa Penrose.

D&D 5E - D&D Van Richten's Guide To Ravenloft showing up in the wild!

Here's the first one I saw by the fantastic Lysa Penrose! Any others folks have seen?

www.enworld.org

 

[overgeeked]

Bravery is being scared but doing it anyway. which, mechanically, means making a successful fear save.

The character can't be brave if they are not frightened.

And they’re still not role-playing being frightened. To earn the point they have to rp being frightened.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

And they’re still not role-playing being frightened. To earn the point they have to rp being frightened.

Yeah they are. That's the whole point. They're roleplaying fighting through the fear, which involves RPing the fear.

But the main issue is that the Inspiration cap of 1 is an absolutely confoundingly stupid rule with no rational basis. All it does is give you Advantage, it's not even a re-roll or a bonus to a roll. Advantage is extremely easy to get, too. Just another one of those half-arsed ideas from the early days of 5E.

 

[Remathilis]

Not as much info as I'd have liked, but Ezra is discussed.

 

[Ash Mantle]

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 flip through will definitely spoil the book, so please avoid if you don't want spoilers.

 

[Tonguez]

Not as much info as I'd have liked, but Ezra is discussed.

Oh Ezra may be the Raven Queen, thats a nice touch

 

[Weiley31]

The important question is ... can monks Suplex the engine?

I mean, it's a known fact that they can. Now the question is, did the Ninja leave yet or is he still working for dat dime?

 

[Weiley31]

But the main issue is that the Inspiration cap of 1 is an absolutely confoundingly stupid rule with no rational basis. All it does is give you Advantage, it's not even a re-roll or a bonus to a roll. Advantage is extremely easy to get, too. Just another one of those half-arsed ideas from the early days of 5E.

I usually allow a cap of 3 for Inspiration. At least, that's how my current DM does it so far. But I'll admit that your Inspiration cap limit being your Prof Score, as a previous poster mentioned before, sounds like a good idea as well.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not as much info as I'd have liked, but Ezra is discussed.

Does that say it takes 7 days training to learn how to ask for directions?

 

[overgeeked]

So fear and stress apparently work like this...

Seeds of Fear. Characters have up to three Seeds of Fear, specific things that they're afraid of. There's a d12 list, but you can make up your own. When a player RPs their character responding appropriately to their Seeds of Fear, they gain Inspiration. But no more than 1 per 24 hours. That's it. So if they already have Inspiration, there's no bonus for playing along.

Fear. DC15 Wisdom save or be frightened until the end of your next turn. Various reasons for having to make that check, including encountering a Seed of Fear.

Stress. Characters have a Stress Score that goes up and down based on stressful/relaxing situations. From 0 to whatever. This Stress Score is applied as a penalty to any ability checks, attacks, and saving throws.

Looking back at this. I think, even with how problematic it is, I’d rather just port over Call of Cthulhu’s Sanity mechanic and use that instead.

 

[Weiley31]

Also wait: if there is no Alignment in the book, then what about the Dark Lords? Do they at least get one? Since a number of them aren't quite saints.