Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: $35 hardback (not paperback)

[Kesh]

Will this be connected to any of the Ravenloft setting stuff, or will be like a re-imaging of the original (and so ignoring all that)?

Seems like it's updating the original module, so I doubt any real Ravenloft setting info.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

After almost two decades of Ravenloft as a setting, I've got zero problem with them stepping back to a reimagining of I6. I look forward to sticking Castle Ravenloft in a remote mountainous region of Praemal and giving my players a very rough time ...

And thanks for the update, Gwendolyn. I was hoping I was wrong. (Of course, I'd buy it either way.)

 

[Moon-Lancer]

how would this new ravenloft work in a ravenloft campain setting? good idea? bad idea?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hard to say. It might fit with an earlier era of the setting, before Strahd was the ruler of a country and one of the major powers in the entire plane.

 

[Dog Moon]

Aw man, have to wait until October. That's like super far away!

 

[Nightfall]

We all have our crosses to bear Dog.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Here's a question, especially if Gwendolyn happens to return to this thread:

Was it a deliberate decision to change the name of the woman Strahd pines for, or a mistake? It was originally Tatyana; perhaps Ireena is just the name of her latest reincarnation?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As I recall, before the crash, both names are from I6: One is the original woman, the other is the presumed reincarnation.

 

[trancejeremy]

Yeah, "Ireena" doesn't seem like a, well, serious name. Seems like a modern name - deliberately mispelled just to be "kewl".

 

[Nightfall]

Regardless of the name changes, it will be nice to see Strahd involved in D&D again. It's been a while since the last Ravenloft book after all. (WotC or not withstanding...)