Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons Teases Ravenloft Content for Upcoming Expansion

The board game Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons is gearing up for a trip to Ravenloft with a newly-teased expansion coming out later this year. Last week, Ravensburger released a teaser image of a Carrionette, a monster found in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, tied to an upcoming expansion for the board game Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons. The expansion was not named, but a rough release date of fall 2026 (aka Halloween time) was noted in the teaser.

Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons is a co-op board game that's part of Ravensburger's Horrified franchise. Players work together to defeat various monsters that stalk the board, with each monster having its own defeat condition. Typically, players have to collect various kinds of items and then travel to specific locations to defeat monsters, with the Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons game also incorporating a 20-sided die. Monsters in the base version of Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons includes a Displacer Beast, a Beholder, a Mimic, and a Red Dragon, with players taking on various classes from the actual D&D game.

The expansion is likely to contain more than a Carrionette. A likely candidate for the expansion is Strahd, which would in some ways bring the Horrified franchise full circle as the original game featured Dracula from the classic Universal Pictures movies as a foe.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Big Boss: Strahd
Sub Bosses: Carrionette (Pidwick?), Baba Lysaga and her creeping hut, Gulthias Tree and blights.

They could do Kiril Stoyanovich, but since Horrified has werewolves as standard I think that less likely. I'm assuming they will stick to Barovia and not use any other dark lords, since none of them have much recognition factor these days, and Azlin has gone on his holidays. Also, what would look cool in that art style is an important consideration.

 

[Thraic Ogmund]

I have only played the D&D version and the Greek Mythology version, but my impression so far is that these are fun games. They are nice to have around for if not enough players can make an RPG session to move forward, but people still want to hang out. Any other cooperative games that people use for this?

 

[GreyLord]

I have only played the D&D version and the Greek Mythology version, but my impression so far is that these are fun games. They are nice to have around for if not enough players can make an RPG session to move forward, but people still want to hang out. Any other cooperative games that people use for this?

I didn't care for it all that much. It was more collecting items with the emphasis on the more items the better your chances of success. It didn't really capture the RPG feeling.

For a cooperative game that feels more like an RPG campaign (and has a campaign that can last for dozens if not hundreds of hours depending on how fast one can play) there is Gloomhaven (or it's successor...Frosthaven).

If more abstract is good (though Horrified is more of abstract as well...I like others better) Pandemic or one of it's variants are also good for cooperative play.

A nice in between of those (more of an RPG type experience, but not a campaign like Gloomhaven) is Arkham Horror.