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 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...

www.enworld.org

 

[Bedrockgames]

You got a source for this? I ask because I can't see much difference between the 1E and 2E adventures I own on this, and it seems like the sort of thing players would believe into existence even if it didn't exist. But if you've got TSR people saying it, that's fascinating.

This post seems to get into it (and has the code: having read it yet): RPG History: TSR's Code of Ethics (D&D "Comics Code Authority" rules) - SHANE PLAYS

It looks like there was a document for an '84 code, a document for a '92 code and a document for a '94 code on the blog

 

[Voadam]

You got a source for this? I ask because I can't see much difference between the 1E and 2E adventures I own on this, and it seems like the sort of thing players would believe into existence even if it didn't exist. But if you've got TSR people saying it, that's fascinating.

This post seems to get into it (and has the code: having read it yet): RPG History: TSR's Code of Ethics (D&D "Comics Code Authority" rules) - SHANE PLAYS

Glad you found it, I had remembered former TSR people discussing it here years ago but having actual documents is a better citation.

 

[darjr]

And that blog leads back to enworld

 

[Bedrockgames]

And that blog leads back to enworld

Some of it but also leads to direct posts on facebook from people like James Lowder (who is a pretty reliable source on TSR during that time). And that links to direct documents (as do many of the other links) like this TSR code of conduct:

 

[Remathilis]

And that blog leads back to enworld

The internet is a flat circle.

 

[darjr]

Someone needs to pull those documents and post em to a thread so I can back them up.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I think 2021 may be the year of a new wave of satanic panic, but this time D&D shouldn't worry too much, because the target will be others, Hollywood productions, videogames with violence, World of Darkness RPG, comics, etc. Even Ravenloft can be enough family-friendly and so relatively innocent as R.L.Stine's Goosebumps books.

Lol this made me snort. When Lil Nas X is making "Satan shoes" and the worst that happens is Nike suing for copyright infringement, I'm pretty sure there isn't a Satanic Panic on the horizon...

Lil Nas X's unofficial 'Satan' Nikes containing human blood sell out in under a minute

Lil Nas X and art collective MSCHF launched a controversial pair of modified Nike sneakers featuring a bronze pentagram, an inverted cross and a drop of real human blood.

www.cnn.com

 

[tetrasodium]

The internet is a flat circle.

Don't forget the occasional row of solid squares

 

[Steampunkette]

Lol this made me snort. When Lil Nas X is making "Satan shoes" and the worst that happens is Nike suing for copyright infringement, I'm pretty sure there isn't a Satanic Panic on the horizon...

Lil Nas X's unofficial 'Satan' Nikes containing human blood sell out in under a minute

Lil Nas X and art collective MSCHF launched a controversial pair of modified Nike sneakers featuring a bronze pentagram, an inverted cross and a drop of real human blood.

www.cnn.com

I mean... you're not -entirely- wrong... but there's actually a satanic panic going on right now.

And it's only obliquely aimed at pop culture.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I mean... you're not -entirely- wrong... but there's actually a satanic panic going on right now.

And it's only obliquely aimed at pop culture.

What? I wouldn't call a handful of conservative politicians upset about shoes a "satanic panic."

I mean, in the historical Panic the government had hearings and were questioning musicians on TV. Not even remotely the same to a callout on Twitter.