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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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Parmandur

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Remathilis said:
I kinda wish they would give some rules on PC Vistani, insofar as handling any magical powers like the Evil Eye. A feat or something like a dragonmark would be great. They don't need a race, but I'd like something.
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I'll wager they do something like that in the book. The bullet point of "Explore Dark Gifts for characters that flesh out your place in the Domains of Dread" sounds an awful lot like the Feat-esque Supernatural Gifts of Theros...but spooky. I could see "being Vistani" as one of those.
 

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Remathilis said:
I kinda wish they would give some rules on PC Vistani, insofar as handling any magical powers like the Evil Eye. A feat or something like a dragonmark would be great. They don't need a race, but I'd like something.
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Take the Magic Initiate feat with guidance and resistance as the cantrips (reskinning as if it's the cards making the target luckier or the creature affecting the target unluckier) and bane as your 1st-level spell.
 





overgeeked

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Whizbang Dustyboots said:
I gotta say, I love the bagman monster previewed in the new Dragon+. It's such a good idea, I'm kind of shocked we didn't have it previously.

The good (?) news is that this dramatically increases the chances of my players' characters getting a bag of holding soon.
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I was surprised it hadn’t come up before, too. Now that it’s been said it seems obvious. I think it’s creepier if the Bagman isn’t limited to bags of holding. They move through any bag. That ramps things up nicely.
 


overgeeked

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Parmandur said:
Or maybe the party doesn't know a bag is a bag of holding until it strikes.
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Or it’s not a bag of holding until a Bagman drags a kill back through it. That act is what makes it a bag of holding. Or it fills your bag of holding with bodies. You can’t retrieve something accidentally, so there’s a pile of bodies taking up all the room and you don’t discover this until you turn it inside out.
 
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