D&D 5E Everything We Know About The Ravenloft Book

Here is a list of everything we know so far about the upcoming Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Art by Paul Scott Canavan May 18th, 256 pages 30 domains (with 30 villainous darklords) Barovia (Strahd), Dementlieu (twisted fairly tales), Lamordia (flesh golem), Falkovnia (zombies), Kalakeri (Indian folklore, dark rainforests), Valachan (hunting PCs for sport), Lamordia (mad science) NPCs...

Here is a list of everything we know so far about the upcoming Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

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Art by Paul Scott Canavan​
  • May 18th, 256 pages
  • 30 domains (with 30 villainous darklords)
  • Barovia (Strahd), Dementlieu (twisted fairly tales), Lamordia (flesh golem), Falkovnia (zombies), Kalakeri (Indian folklore, dark rainforests), Valachan (hunting PCs for sport), Lamordia (mad science)
  • NPCs include Esmerelda de’Avenir, Weathermay-Foxgrove twins, traveling detective Alanik Ray.
  • Large section on setting safe boundaries.
  • Dark Gifts are character traits with a cost.
  • College of Spirits (bard storytellers who manipulate spirits of folklore) and Undead Patron (warlock) subclasses.
  • Dhampir, Reborn, and Hexblood lineages.
  • Cultural consultants used.
  • Fresh take on Vistani.
  • 40 pages of monsters. Also nautical monsters in Sea of Sorrows.
  • 20 page adventure called The House of Lament - haunted house, spirits, seances.

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D&D 5E - Full Wraparound Cover Art For Ravenloft

We've seen the cover already, but here's a look at the full wraparound art by Anna Podedworna. https://www.enworld.org/threads/updated-with-cover-the-d-d-book-is-van-richtens-guide-to-ravenloft.678411/ https://www.enworld.org/threads/heres-the-ravenloft-alternate-cover.678414/...
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D&D 5E - Here's the Ravenloft Alternate Cover!

As usual, there is an alternate hobby-store exclusive cover for the upcoming Ravenloft book. Here's a look at it! And here's the full wraparound art. https://www.enworld.org/threads/updated-with-cover-the-d-d-book-is-van-richtens-guide-to-ravenloft.678411/...
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D&D 5E - [Updated with cover!] The D&D Book Is.... Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft!

Yesterday's hints that a new D&D book would be announced today have born fruit -- we now have a product description and a title! It's a Ravenloft setting book, with tools and new rules for horror-themed games, and new horror-themed character options. I'll update this post with a product image as...
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Voadam

Voadam

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Faolyn said:
There's lots to do in any one Domain,
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There was a literally one apartment domain in Book of Crypts.
Faolyn said:
and presumably you can still even just walk to one domain from another.
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I would presume it would be like islands in the past, you cannot just sail or walk from one to another, you can blindly go into the mist and end up potentially anywhere, go with Vistani guides, or go with a different guide who has a special thing (I remember one boat captain who could serve a Vistani-like travel function here).
 

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Bedrockgames

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Voadam said:
How many moons are in the core realm of Sithicus and what color are they? How many are in the core's Nova Vaasa? How about for their neighbors in the core?

For a setting where moon phases could matter significantly I would have preferred to have the same answer for all three instead of three different answers.
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Earlier I said moons were one area they really needed to figure out a better explanation or better way of handling them. That was always a little odd
 

Faolyn

Faolyn

(she/her)
Voadam said:
There was a literally one apartment domain in Book of Crypts.

I would presume it would be like islands in the past, you cannot just sail or walk from one to another, you can blindly go into the mist and end up potentially anywhere, go with Vistani guides, or go with a different guide who has a special thing (I remember one boat captain who could serve a Vistani-like travel function here).
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The one-apartment domain is an outlier and you know it. Most of the time, players will be wandering around one of the actual country-sized domains.

In 3e, at least--can't remember 2e--they had Mistways, which were mostly reliable ways to get from one domain to another by walking (or sailing) into the Mists, even without the Vistani. This included traveling to Islands and Clusters. It was, IIRC, something between a 50%-90% chance of getting where you wanted to go, depending on the quality of the Mistway. Traveling with a Vistani increased that to (close to) 100%.
 

tetrasodium

tetrasodium

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On the subject of how beings affected by moons are affected by the moon(s) across different domains, eberron probably has the most written about moons since it has 13 different moons that present interesting challenges & boons for those beings that work well with the needs of plot
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I'm not going to hunt down which book it got printed in since this is good enough, but Keith wrote about how lycanthropes & such are affected by all those moons here
How do the multiple moons of Eberron affect lycanthropes?

The origin of lycanthropy remains a mystery. All lycanthropes are influenced by the moons, but not all in the same way; this suggests that there may be multiple strains of lycanthropy with different origins. The first strain is only affected by the phases of the moon Olarune; this is typically associated with good-aligned lycanthropes. The second strain of lycanthropy is affected by all of the moons, and multiple full moons can cause extreme behavior; this is the effect reported by the templars during the Lycanthropic Purge, and it encourages aggressive behavior and drives victims to quickly succumb to the curse. The third strain of lycanthrope is affected by the moon(s) that were ascendant at the moment of its birth or at the moment it was afflicted; this is common among natural lycanthropes. When adventurers encounter lycanthropes, the DM will have to decide which strain they’re dealing with.
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With 30 different domains it's almost certain that there is always a full moon somewhere to make an easy excuse for lunar cycle related things to happen at any time. The differing moons even give a d&d version of treknobabble beyond "because the dark powers" for why the results of a shift aren't always the same that might need special tools to discern if it's possible at all
 

Alzrius

Alzrius

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Faolyn said:
Actual canonical answer: one moon. One in Nova Vaasa, and one in Sithicus (but in Sithicus, it's Nuitari only).
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The reason the moon is an issue at all in Ravenloft is because The Awakening (affiliate link) said Nova Vaasa had five moons, but that was retconned fairly quickly as I recall.

With regard to Sithicus, during the events of Spectre of the Black Rose, Lunitari and Solinari briefly appeared, and at the end of the book the moon in Sithicus was said to be triple-colored (red, white, and black).
 

QuentinGeorge

QuentinGeorge

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JEB said:
Occurs to me this may be why some of the domains were overhauled; a realm like Falkovnia, where endless war against an unbeatable enemy is a core element, doesn't work so well without a neighbor to invade.
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Without there being a Core there is no point to Falkovnia at all, so you need to change the domain completely. Which is why I ask: Why bother calling it Falkovnia at all?
 




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