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D&D 5E Some More Ravenloft Art: Reborn, Hexbloods, Dhampir, Lamordia

With the book's release fast approaching here are a few more previews of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Also check out Harkon Lukas and Rudolph Van Richten. https://www.enworld.org/threads/meet-ravenlofts-harkon-lucas-and-rudolph-van-richten.679991/ Life is cheap in Lamordia. As far as the land's esteemed scholars are concerned, the spark that animates flesh is merely the result of...

With the book's release fast approaching here are a few more previews of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Also check out Harkon Lukas and Rudolph Van Richten.


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Life is cheap in Lamordia. As far as the land's esteemed scholars are concerned, the spark that animates flesh is merely the result of chemical accidents and the proper formulas. Golems, homunculi, and other constructed beings groan to life to support a populace desperate to survive this frigid realm.

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Death isn't always the end. The reborn exemplify this, being individuals who have died yet, somehow, still live. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.

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Aboard her ship, River Dancer, Larissa Snowmane travels the endless domains, guided by fate and song.

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Poised between the worlds of the living and the dead, dhampirs retain their grip on life yet are endlessly tested by vicious hungers. Their ties to the undead grant dhampirs a taste of a vampire's deathless prowess in the form of increased speed, darkvision, and a life-draining bite.

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Hexbloods are individuals infused with eldritch magic, fey energy, or mysterious witchcraft. While many hexbloods gain their lineage after making a deal with a hag, others reveal their nature as they age - particularly if a hag influenced them early in life or even before their birth.
 

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Aaron L

Hero
Body Horror? That's pretty cool if they're going to go over the different sub-genres of Horror... maybe have the Body Horror chapter titled Cronenberg, a Cosmic Horror chapter titled Lovecraft, and a Comedy Horror chapter titled Raimi.

We had a Ravenloft game in the early '90s with a lich's hand that got lopped of but still remained animate, and the damn thing pulled an entire Evil Dead II comedy routine on us, throwing dishes and flipping us off and everything.
 
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Levistus's_Leviathan

5e Freelancer
I think this is the best looking 5E art in a book yet.
I have to agree. I especially enjoy how all of the art looks the same, while also being diverse. And by "the same", I mean that the overall design choices for the art appear to be the same throughout the book (from what I've seen so far, that is). I was quite put off by Eberron: Rising from the Last War having a bunch of new art for 5e while also having a ton of older-style art. It just made it feel like two books combined into one for me (Explorer's Guide to Wildemount had a similar effect for me, but it wasn't as jarring as E:RftLW).

All of the art in this book looks great, and all of it has the same visual theme. Those are the only two things that matter to me for the art in 5e books.
 

Stormonu

Legend
They should have also done a "stitched" race who have had parts of their bodies replaced with limbs or organs from other creatures - a Falkovian survivor who replaced their arm with a zombie's arm only to find it sometimes has a mind of its own, a rogue who stole a hag's eye to replace their own in the hopes he could see (and control) magic, a faithful butler who had Mordenheim place his elderly charge's brain into his own body, a young girl who was saved by a heart transplant of a dying man who was secretly a serial killer...
 

Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow
For hags those Hexbloods are awfully pretty, I’d love for someone some day to create character portraits that are actually unattractive and monstrous. :)

Oh well it is nice art
 

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