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Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No, but is primarily designed for that module Ireena is one of the most important NPCs in the module due to the main villain’s obsession with her and her accompaniment of the party once they leave the Village of Barovia. However, Ismark’s...

Allow me to add some semi-hidden gems. I should note that I wrote reviews for all of these save the Eberron books, so these are some of my top choices. Beowulf: Age of Heroes is both an innovative historical fantasy setting and an intricate sub-system for 1 on 1 play. Publisher page...

Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes The original Ravenloft adventure might have been published in 1983, but it was in the 90s that it became a full-fledged setting and we got a great expansion on our favorite Darklord’s backstory in the novel I, Strahd. This decade also...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure/Location CoS-Required? Yes When the original I6 module came out, the land of Barovia was very small, consisting of little more than a village, a castle, and a Vistani encampment. When it became a full-fledged setting courtesy of the 2nd Edition “Black Box,”...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? Yes Rounding out our Curse of Strahd location enhancer adventures, Beneath Old Bonegrinder looks to alter the aforementioned windmill infamous for TPKs while also giving everyone’s favorite creepy Barovian toymaker more of a role and...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? Yes Continuing on a theme established by the previous post’s product, Atop Mount Ghakis sets out to remedy the perceived weak spots of Tsolenka Pass. In the default adventure it’s little more than a waypoint to the Amber Temple, the goat...

Chapter 6, Fearsome Foes is Frontiers’ bestiary, providing us with 23 stat blocks for various monsters, NPCs, and famous folks. It leans heavily on the Humanoid side of things, with 8 being of that type. The next-most common type are Beasts at 3, with the rest just 1 or 2. In regards to...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? Yes Of the various sidequests in Curse of Strahd, the one involving Mordenkainen the Mad Mage feels quite…lacking. It’s triggered in a roundabout way, of walking around in the wilderness until the party runs into him. And then they need to...

Product Link Product Type: Character Options CoS-Required? Technically no, but flavor text and item functions tie heavily into that adventure The lack of significant gear to spend money on has been a common criticism of 5th Edition, and when it comes to Curse of Strahd this is only magnified...

Chapter 5, Treasures Beyond is a rather short chapter focusing on new items both mundane and magical. We first start out with explanations of common aesthetic designs that can be found in the Western Frontier, such as the brutalist yet durable Dhakaani architecture and armaments, military...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No You Have to Go is a 1 on 1 oneshot designed for a single 3rd-level PC. The adventure starts out with the PC minding their own business somewhere as they excuse themselves to the loo, which would be the absolute worst moment for the Mists of...

Chapter 4, Frontier Characters focuses on new options for players: subclasses, backgrounds, species, feats, and spells. I should note that this book uses 2024 5e as the baseline, and I don’t own the Player’s Handbook for that, so I can only make judgments and inferences based on classic 5e...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No Optimized for 4 4th-level PCs, this short adventure borrows strongly from the folkloric horror side of things, although I hesitate to even apply the horror label to it. The involved characters in the module don’t even have proper names...

Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools/Bestiary CoS-Required? No You might remember earlier in this thread that I reviewed an overpowered CR 27 stat block for Strahd Von Zarovich. Suffice to say, this version of Strahd is strong enough to wipe the floor with a CR 12 Archmage. Shortly after...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No While most Ravenloft material on the DM’s Guild tends to be domain-neutral, Barovia-specific, or homebrewed, every so often we get a product seeking to flesh out the setting’s other iconic realms. In this case, the God Engine is a 1st level...

Chapter 3, Quickstone is the primary hub settlement of the Western Frontier. While not the largest settlement in the region (that honor goes to Ardev), its position places it geographically within reasonable distance of other population centers and interesting locations. The city began as a...

Here's my choices. I even reviewed a few of them! These are just the ones I've read; I may include more as I continue combing through my library. Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Cosmic horror sandbox in a ruined capital city. Is well playtested, has interesting and atmospheric locations, various...

Product Link Product Type: Character Options CoS-Required? Yes First introduced as an Unearthed Arcana playtest and later officialized in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, the concept of Sidekick classes have been a popular addition to many campaigns. Oftentimes serving to represent low-powered...

Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No This one-shot adventure takes place in a homebrewed Domain of Dread strongly inspired by Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp, along with some video games such as Dead by Daylight. The author did this due to a lack of “slasher horror” style...

Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes You know what time it is: another October, another batch of fanmade Ravenloft books to review! For our first one, we’ll cover DMing advice on running Curse of Strahd for 8 to 12 year old players. Many people got their start playing...