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...

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[overgeeked]

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Now we're talking.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Apocalypses? Is that even a word?

 

[Bedrockgames]

Apocalypses? Is that even a word?

yes

 

[overgeeked]

Apocalypses? Is that even a word?

Yes.

Definition of APOCALYPSE

one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 b.c. to a.d. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom; revelation… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[Paul Farquhar]

yes

For when the world just keeps on ending, over and over again.

So in between all the apocalypses we have to have genesises so that there is something to apocalate.

 

[Charlaquin]

Apocalypses? Is that even a word?

Yes. The word apocalypse originally meant a great revelation or disclosure of knowledge, particularly in a religious context. It came to be used to mean the end of the world after the Book of Revelations, which was an apocalypse about the end of days. But in its original meaning as a disclosure of knowledge, it is absolutely appropriate to pluralize it, and apocalypses is the correct plural form. Also in a more modern sense, it is often used to describe an event of large-scale destruction that doesn’t necessarily result in the end of the world (see “post-apocalypse” as a genre). In this usage, pluralizing it is also totally fine, and apocalypses is still the plural form.

 

[Bedrockgames]

For when the world just keeps on ending, over and over again.

So in between all the apocalypses we have to have genesises so that there is something to apocalate.

All I know is apocalypses is listed as the plural of apocalypse in the dictionary and it doesn't set off the autocorrect as I type this. I will leave the question of multiple apocalypses to the priesthood and scholars (seem to recall it actually just originally meant a sacred revelation). But I suppose it could be plural not just because we are talking about multiple ends of the world, but multiple conceptions of the end of the world across different branches of Christianity and other faiths

 

[Paul Farquhar]

All I know is apocalypses is listed as the plural of apocalypse in the dictionary and it doesn't set off the autocorrect as I type this. I will leave the question of multiple apocalypses to the priesthood and scholars (seem to recall it actually just originally meant a sacred revelation). But I suppose it could be plural not just because we are talking about multiple ends of the world, but multiple conceptions of the end of the world across different branches of Christianity and other faiths

Yeah, I actually know it's okay, it just sounds a bit clumsy. Like it's not how I would of wroted it.

Good to hear that Kolon the Grammarian now has his own domain.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Yeah, I actually know it's okay, it just sounds a bit clumsy. Like it's not how I would of wroted it.

I don't know, critical though I am of the new stuff, I do like the ring that "protean apocalypses scar the impossible vistas of Bluetspur". That sounds like good writing to me (it definitely has a bit of a lovecraftian prose feel to it, but its Bluetspur after all)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

According to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "apocalypse" takes a plural. There's an explicit conversation about it in season four. Case closed.