D&D (2024) Lamordia Book Speculation

[Remathilis]

Perhaps it's going to do what the FR DM's guide book is going to do - have deep dives into select regions (domains in this case) to help the DM flesh out those areas and give suggestions on running the types of horror those domains represent. Lamordia could well be one of those. Basically, the Ravenloft campaign guide would still be there for an overview of the setting, while this book gets into detail of certain interesting areas (which is how the two FR books later this year look to be). One question would be whether they think Barovia would need extra coverage, or if Curse of Strahd is already detailed enough.

Lamordia, Mordent, Kartakass and Har'Akir would be perfect deep dive material. Classic monster settings (Frankenstein, ghosts, werewolves, mummy). Darkon could get a whole book to itself it's so big!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Lamordia may be the right option for gothic horror but avoiding a possible saturation of vampires, zombies and other undead fauna. The fact is somebody could bet for biomechanical constructs like weapons against undead predators.

* Do you know? Lamordia could be the perfect space for the "sheens", the biomechanical horrors from Dragon Magazine. Do you remember the sci-fi horror movie "Virus"?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I didn't know about the Frankenstein movie. I watched the trailer and at least part of the story being set in a frigid cold area similar to what parts of Lamordia would look like. The movie release date is in November and this book is supposed to be in October. If this is the plan it's a good one.

Snowy locations feature prominently in the novel. It begins and ends in the Arctic (metaphorically "the ends of the Earth"), and a fair bit of the action is set in the Alps. So Lamordia is a mixture of Alpine and Arctic.

As an aside, I'm quite surprised that Del Toro stuck with the lightning trope. That isn't in the novel and first appears in the Universal movie version.