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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[R_J_K75]

Was there any mention of a poster map coming with this book?

 

[Morrus]

Could be new ones for 5e

That would be disingenuous.

 

[Remathilis]

Was there any mention of a poster map coming with this book?

No. But to be fair it wasn't advertised with the Eberron book and still came with one.

 

[R_J_K75]

No. But to be fair it wasn't advertised with the Eberron book and still came with one.

I'd imagine then it will at least I hope it does. Those tiny one-two page maps inside the books are pretty much useless.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

By the way, if you're scrounging Twitter for as much info as possible, Ajit George gives links to many of the folks who wrote the book!


And a tease!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Time follows no bound concept within the Domains of Dread. I bet some Dark Lords have lost the meaning or concept of time after a certain point.

"Is it Tuesday? Meh everyday is probably Tuesday.'

Oh, crap. I think I might be a Darklord.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm going to guess "reboot" rather than "sequel". I have no secret knowledge though; it's just a guess.

Yeah, I suspect WotC's market analysis suggests the folks who feel strongly about Ravenloft continuity are outnumbered by likely customers who don't.

 

[Stormonu]

I'm personally very happy that the new slate of Darklords is more diverse (both in gender and race) than the old "All White Men" Darklords.

That said, I wouldn't mind getting a little taste of what events may have happened that lead Falkovnia to become zombie-world, and to the rule of the current Darklords.

The original had a mix as well, with Tetyet, the Richelieu family, Ilynisia and many others (whose names I’m mangling because I’m not near my books). It was about equal genderwise, though fairly sparse racewise.

Anyways, there’ll be blowback most likely for depicting other cultures/individuals as Eeevil dark lords.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That would be disingenuous.

Or sloppy copy editing. I would be shocked if we were getting 30 new domains.

 

[Gradine]

Or sloppy copy editing. I would be shocked if we were getting 30 new domains.

Or "new" means "new to 5e"