D&D 2E Let’s Look At The Old Ravenloft Boxed Set!

I pulled this old gem off my shelves and delved inside for the first time in years. Let's take a quick look at the Ravenloft boxed set for AD&D 2E, from way back in 1990!

It has four big full-colour poster maps!

And tons of colorful card handouts.

The back of the cards have tons of useful information. NPCs, maps, charts.

Poster map of Ravenloft. You can see Barovia just below the centre.

Some things just work different in Ravenloft.

Rawr! I'm a monster!

It's the good old doctor himself!

Dark gifts....

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[M.L. Martin]

There was a Let's Read thread of this box on RPGNet a few years ago.

 

[TerraDave]

This was a good one. I think Ravenloft and Al-Qadim were the strongest of all those settings. (Though I have also learned to appreciate Sigil more over the years, if not all of PS).

Of course, I used this stuff in my alt earth home brew. Barovia was in Transylvania...

 

[RobJN]

I like the old box set.

But!

I think I would like a $400 version more, let's get ol' Matty Lillard on the case!

Each boxed set comes with either a severed head, or a skull! (Just don't ask where they came from, mmkay?*)

* is Beadle and Grimm's intern program is right for you? Get a head start into the industry!

 

[Zander]

Everything is always new to somebody. Not everybody is middle-aged, you know!

Hmmm. I probably shouldn’t admit that my first exposure to Ravenloft was the module I6 when it was newly released in the UK. Still have it somewhere. The adventure that started it all!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Each boxed set comes with either a severed head, or a skull! (Just don't ask where they came from, mmkay?*)

* is Beadle and Grimm's intern program is right for you? Get a head start into the industry!

 

[RobJN]

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"Totally not from the vacant lot next to the office."