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.

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• 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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[hopeless]

Have you watched the D&D Beyond video yet?
That might help.

 

[Retreater]

Have you watched the D&D Beyond video yet?
That might help.

The teaser trailer linked above? Is there something else, because that didn't really help sway me either way?

 

[Sunsword]

• Cultural consultants used.

I really hope they brought in REAL LIFE VAMPIRES to consult on this matter!

I can't believe that werewolves, spirits, and flesh golems are getting left out again! There is more to Ravenloft than vampires!


LOL

 

[John R Davis]

Least excited I've been and first HB i wont pre-order.

 

[hopeless]

Yes at the end of the teaser there's a link to the D&D Beyond video

 

[Lefi2017]

Curse of Strahd was my introduction into DnD 5e and Dnd, in general, I fell in love with Ravenloft back then this is one of the coolest things I can imagine. The Adventure might not be needed but I welcome it for more setting material and Dark gifts I want to offer players to gain power by falling to darkness but in doing so fail to achieve a truly good ending the tools of evil can never be truly used for good power is corruption and corruption is power.

 

[hopeless]

There's a new article on D&D Beyond regarding this.

 

[Professor Murder]

Pokemon Bards. Sweet.

 

[Scribe]

• 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.

I like a lot of this. Quite a bit.

I will be interested in seeing if the feedback from the UA will be applied in any way. Seems like a pretty short lead time?

 

[Kobold Avenger]

It's interesting they change a bunch about Falkovia, they might have gotten rid of Vlad Drakov, that guy was like another Dracula (but based on the living Vlad Tepes) when there already was a Dracula in Ravenloft. I'm guessing all those victims impaled on the pike just rose up as Zombies and started infecting everyone.