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Time to bust this old Chestnut out again ...

I always said Maine was, based on King

Because D&D is in service of the main character. Let me ask you something. Can D&D do horror without the Ravenloft setting? At all? Tomb of Horrors, Pharaoh, Ghost Tower of Inverness, those can't be horror adventures? Nor could anything being discussed in this thread because they lack...

I'll always start with my personal favorite: DCC 34: Cage of Delirium. The group explores the burnt out remains of the Haverhold Asylum, which was destroyed in a riot years ago. Yet the dead do not rest easy. The heroes must unravel the mystery of what happened at the asylum while doing what...

It's worth noting that fear and horror appeared in the 2014 DMG, was revised to fear and stress in VRGR and simplified in the DMG 2024. D&D has had these rules all along, but I wager they are not punitive enough for some people as they don't functionally remove your character from play for...

Apparently they were in BECMI, but nothing I found in 3e...

So you are arguing about rules you haven't even read? TSR was not subtle: Feat and Horror was a Punishment Mechanism. They say so themselves in Domains of Dread: They said the quiet part out loud: This is a overly punitive mechanic designed to force players to play to a standard set the DM...

Honestly, that's is the BEST defense for Viktra Mordenheim you could offer. Victor is such a one to one copy of Victor that they couldn't even bother giving him a different first name. (Even the movie renamed him Henry). Viktra introduces so many new twists on the Frankenstein plot rather than...

Not justifying WotC's pricing, just pointing out The physical book is 288 pages. The complete bundle comes with the book, the digital book, the cards ($25), the DM screen ($25) and the map pack with tokens ($25).

I would argue Ravenloft really isn't all the medieval. Several Domains have technology that is far more advanced and many domains have a aesthetic far closer to Victorian than medieval. Victorian suits and dresses, seances and spiritualism, sanitariums and doctors, etc. That goes back to at...

That leaves other three backgrounds (spirit medium, haunted one, and mist wanderer) to either reuse the two origin feats or use PHB origin feats. Both are possible. I'm just seeing a lot of crossover between the mist wanderer background and mist walker dark gift, enough to possibly link them...

Nothing but my fat fingers. Also, we need a Ravenloft tag

The Ravenloft version of Horrified is now official https://zatu.com/en-us/blogs/news/horrified-ravenloft-brings-gothic-horror-to-the-series-darkest-chapter-yet It appears to be set solely in Barovia and based more on Curse of Strahd. The monsters are the Gulthias Tree, Baba Lysaga, a...

Its the same map, all the blueish lines between in landmasses are the Hungry Mists. Nothing changed except art style.

This is what I mean when I say every poster here is a "temporarily embarrassed" game designer who thinks they knows the game better than everyone else, especially WotC.

This is my thought. Mist walker could lose the kiss/curse feature and just be the second origin feat. That would make two new dark gifts. Assuming the other originals all return.

I preferred green.