Wes Schneider is the product lead for Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Wes Schneider was confirmed to be the product lead for Ravenloft: The Horrors Within in a recent panel at Gary Con. Over the weekend, Wizards of the Coast hosted a panel discussion about the past and future of Dungeons & Dragons featuring much of the current game leadership and Luke Gygax. While discussing the upcoming Ravenloft: The Horrors Within rulebook, D&D game design director Justice Ramin Arman stated that Wes Schneider was the product lead for the book. Schneider notably was the product lead for the last Ravenloft book Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft notably updated the lore of Ravenloft, with different Domains of Dread shifting to focus on different genres of horror. While it's unclear whether that change is being reversed or fleshed out further, the new Ravenloft book will notably include statblocks for the various Darklords, something that Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft curiously lacked.

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within will be released on June 16th.

 

[M.L. Martin]

PCs in CoD are also powerful, but there is always stuff that is way more powerful and most of the danger is psychological, enemies play on your trauma, your dark impulses, etc..., although he can still very much die.

I mean you have all kinds of Godlike entities in CoD as enemies, True Fae, Exarches, Horrors of the Abyss, Rank 10 Spirits/Ghosts/Infernal Demons/God machine Angels, etc...

I think what we have here is a failure to communicate.

You're talking about CoD--Chronicles of Darkness--while everyone else is talking about CoC--Call of Cthulhu.

 

[tetrasodium]

I think what we have here is a failure to communicate.

You're talking about CoD--Chronicles of Darkness--while everyone else is talking about CoC--Call of Cthulhu.

Thank you. I have been thinking autocorrect was converting CoC Call of Cthulhu to CoD Call of Duty and was very confused why it kept happening without being caught or commented on

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Thank you. I have been thinking autocorrect was converting CoC Call of Cthulhu to CoD Call of Duty and was very confused why it kept happening without being caught or commented on

CoD = Chronicles of Darkness, https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Chronicles_of_Darkness

I think what kind of killed CoD was that it lacked the Metaplot of WoD (World of Darkness), folks say that was an asset, but it wasn't metaphor is what draws folks in and keeps them invested in setting and the investment helps the setting keep getting support over time.