D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

You can now pre-order preorder Ravenloft: The Horrors Within over on D&D Beyond--the ultimate bundle costs $149.99, while the book alone comes in at $59.00. There are pages for the new DM screen, map pack, and Tarokka cards as well. The pre-order page lists the book's contents.

• 16 Domains of Dread, including the new cosmic horror domain Innsmouth.
• 17 Darklords for your party to face or flee from, equipped with challenging stat blocks.
• 7 subclasses (including the new Reanimator and Hollow Warden), 4 species, 4 backgrounds, 2 Origin feats, and 9 Dark Gifts for building tortured protagonists.
• 10 genres of horror from gothic to dark fantasy.
• A bestiary of 41 monstrosities and 10 domain denizens for your party to encounter.
• 47 maps and 28 digital quickplay maps for Maps VTT.
• Digital Pre-order Bonus: the Mists of Ravenloft Digital Dice Set, Ravenloft Play-Along Pack, and D&D Encounters: Shadows of Sithicus mini-adventure.

Tonight, your party’s greatest nightmare... is the one you create.

Bring fear to the table with the Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Ultimate Bundle, the complete horror toolkit with everything you need to create a personalized horror campaign – and strike fear into the hearts of your players.

The Ultimate Bundle includes:

• Physical and digital versions of Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, containing 16 Domains of Dread, 17 Darklords, 7 subclasses, 4 species, 4 backgrounds, 11 feats, 68 monsters and 47 maps including 28 digital quickplay maps for Maps VTT.
• Physical Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Tarokka Deck for weaving terrifying twists into your campaign with 54 fully illustrated cards.
• Physical Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Dungeon Master’s Screen for keeping your plans enshrouded in mystery.
• Physical and digital versions of the Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Map Pack for plotting out eerie encounters for your party.
• Digital Pre-order Bonus: the Mists of Ravenloft Digital Dice Set, Ravenloft Play-Along Pack, and D&D Encounters: Shadows of Sithicus mini-adventure.

 

[bedir than]

It appears the Gremishkas are being reprinted, at least?
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Love those lil guys!

Did these get water after midnight?

 

[WhatTheEyeSees]

I like that they are including the artificer in the D&D Beyond version. That is a nice touch and makes playing the new subclass easier.

 

[Corinnguard]

The preview image released back at announcement was semi- readable. They are people who had a type of lycanthropy that didn't "take" or their descendants. They are stuck in permanent hybrid form and cannot shift to humans or wolves. That is actually consistent with one of the theories of how Mystara lupins came to be, so I appreciate the nod to origin.

It would be neat if the other kinds of lycanthropes in D&D gave rise to new species such as the Lupin.

I haven't heard about the lore regarding their origin.

 

[Corinnguard]

Did these get water after midnight?

I think you are referring to that unspoken rule of not feeding them after midnight. Water, otoh, would simply have multiplied your problem with them.

 

[Parmandur]

I like that they are including the artificer in the D&D Beyond version. That is a nice touch and makes playing the new subclass easier.

Should have been in the new PHB, no lie.

 

[Corinnguard]

Should have been in the new PHB, no lie.

Especially when the Artificer has gone beyond being a class associated with the Eberron setting. It's more setting neutral now.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Also, can we officially toss out the "WotC won't redo existing 5E books for 5.5, especially recent ones" argument now? Because I think the answer is pretty clearly that they will, when they think there's a big financial upside in it for them.

It's the Adventures that they are unlikely to redo!

And those comments were, from what I saw and personally engaged in, mostly made to stave off suggestions that ALL of the books would get updates, and more specifically, that they'd redo Curse of Strahd again (and soon).

Alos, it always came with the caveat that they may get to some/much of it eventually, but that most of the books are currently still in print and there's no current need to "upgrade" them.

All that said, I'll grant you: I'm surprised that it looks like quite a bit of this book is so similar to as recent a book as VRGtR. I think that less of it will probably actually be reprint material than it currently appears, but we'll have to see. It sure does look like a chunk of it is a repeat.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

All that said, I'll grant you: I'm surprised that it looks like quite a bit of this book is so similar to as recent a book as VRGtR. I think that less of it will probably actually be reprint material than it currently appears, but we'll have to see. It sure does look like a chunk of it is a repeat.

I certainly would have bet on older books getting this treatment first, whether it's Monsters of the Multiverse or the Everything books.

I suspect there's a set of marketing survey results on a desk at Renton that basically screamed for more Ravenloft ASAP, though, and this is the result while they work on the slower-to-produce adventure content.

 

[plecostomus]

Subclass art:
Reanimator Artificer as previously shown, and also Hollow Warden Ranger, Grave Domain Cleric, Undead Patron Warlock

 

[plecostomus]

Some extra details on what's in the book from the Foundry preorder page:

• 17 Darklords with full stat blocks, including Strahd von Zarovich, Azalin Rex, Saidra d’Honaire, Cthulhu, and more.
• Essential campaign tools for Ravenloft adventures: guidance for running campaigns in the Mists, utilizing domains and Darklords, escaping Ravenloft, perfecting horror atmosphere, roleplaying terror, managing allies and enemies, and introducing Haunted Bastions.
• Resources to craft your own Darklord and Domain of Dread for your own horror campaigns.
• A bestiary of 60+ Ravenloft creatures, including boneless, carrionettes, dullahans, mist horrors, necrichors, nightgaunts, and more.
• Legendary Ravenloft figures and allies, including Ez d’Avenir, Madam Eva, Rudolph van Richten, and the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins.
• 17 adventures through the Mists spanning character levels 2–16.