Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

Remathilis · 2026-03-14T00:57:30+0000

FitzTheRuke said:
I would bet that as potentially disappointing as it might be, he's simply "back in Ravenloft".

... I find that we can often come up with cool and believable theories, only to find that the simplest answer is the correct one: He's in Ravenloft.

This is absolutely my thought.

nyvinter · 2026-03-14T01:03:34+0000

Could also be a "what happens with a domain of dread when its prisoner escapes" and that have potential for some interesting things.

Parmandur · 2026-03-14T01:14:37+0000

FitzTheRuke said:
I would bet that as potentially disappointing as it might be, he's simply "back in Ravenloft".

... I find that we can often come up with cool and believable theories, only to find that the simplest answer is the correct one: He's in Ravenloft.

Yup, that is my operational assumption, honestly...but still, it would not be totally out of left field for a Dragonlance return.

Parmandur · 2026-03-14T01:16:11+0000

nyvinter said:
Could also be a "what happens with a domain of dread when its prisoner escapes" and that have potential for some interesting things.

Could be they will take the First World echoes idea from Fizban's and the DMG and apply it to Ravenloft...Soth is both in Ravenloft and on Krynn, before, during, and after the War of the Lance...all in different ways in different Echoes.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-14T01:19:08+0000

nyvinter said:
Could also be a "what happens with a domain of dread when its prisoner escapes" and that have potential for some interesting things.

It feels really unlikely to me that they'd sell an adventure in 2026 -- to an audience almost entirely born after 2001 -- entirely based around the loose ends of 2E module continuity.

mamba · 2026-03-14T02:11:17+0000

Remathilis said:
Presumably, you need at least what was offered in the 5.0 DL book to be updated in the 5.5 one.

possibly, but I don’t think you need even that. Add a new Kender and call it a day. If you only publish an adventure, focus on that. If it will be a two book pair like the Fall ones then obviously include as much as possible

mamba · 2026-03-14T02:16:00+0000

Remathilis said:
Honestly there is a lot of D&D products that aren't for me. I'm failing to see who this product is for at all. Classic fans have already played this.

the 90+% of people who started playing with 5e?

Remathilis said:
New players aren't going to see the appeal of it beyond it being another adventure path, but one they don't get make their own PC in. DMs

so no different from other APs, and it seems to be working for those

Remathilis said:
You are getting a hyper specific adventure path meant to be played with hyper specific characters in a hyper specific setting.

I doubt any of this will be true

mamba · 2026-03-14T02:21:49+0000

Remathilis said:
I just don't know if redoing the classic adventures with different art and better maps is enough to resell it. It seems like even less than SotDQ offered

isn’t that basically what most anthologies did, heck even many of the full length adventures (Strahd, Princes of the Apocalypse, Tomb of Annihilation, …)

mamba · 2026-03-14T02:24:55+0000

Stormonu said:
The SAGA version and associated books I think did much to cool people's interest in DragonLance, I know it did so for me and that the game line associated with it did fairly awful.

that and the whole 5th Age idea that was cooked up because TSR was not meant to have star authors, so in their attempt to bury Weis & Hickman they managed to kill the setting as a collateral

mamba · 2026-03-14T02:32:35+0000

Parmandur said:
Is Soth going to be in Dark Sun. Absolutely no way.

So what is he doing there with fresh art

is that fresh art? I feel like he would not have a hand sitting on his shoulder if it were

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