Ravenloft is being folded into the core setting for 4E (Domains of Dread)

[Daniel D. Fox]

Digital Insider #6: Dragon/Dungeon

October will also see the Domains of Dread return to D&D, with the long-time Ravenloft concept being folded into the core now. Meanwhile we’ll also be trying out a new rules concept that allows you to multiclass into classes that don’t really exist, like gladiator. I should probably stop now before R&D gets forbidden from feeding me previews.


I am hedging my bets on Ravenloft as a part of the Shadowfell.

 

[JasonZZ]

Ravenloft in the Shadowfell? I hope not....

Digital Insider #6: Dragon/Dungeon

October will also see the Domains of Dread return to D&D, with the long-time Ravenloft concept being folded into the core now. Meanwhile we’ll also be trying out a new rules concept that allows you to multiclass into classes that don’t really exist, like gladiator. I should probably stop now before R&D gets forbidden from feeding me previews.


I am hedging my bets on Ravenloft as a part of the Shadowfell.

Interesting news. I hope you're wrong about Ravenloft being just a part of the Shadowfell, though. Part of its appeal was its isolation from everything else in the D&D cosmology--the separation from everything familiar, "safe", and helpful (like one's gods, for example). On the other hand, I can see the Raven Queen setting up a prison for things that seriously endanger reality and fate...maybe somewhere in the Far Realm (or maybe it is a portion of the Far Realm--an alien realm of madness needn't be all slime and tentacles, after all).

 

[doctorhook]

Interesting news. I hope you're wrong about Ravenloft being just a part of the Shadowfell, though. Part of its appeal was its isolation from everything else in the D&D cosmology--the separation from everything familiar, "safe", and helpful (like one's gods, for example). On the other hand, I can see the Raven Queen setting up a prison for things that seriously endanger reality and fate...maybe somewhere in the Far Realm (or maybe it is a portion of the Far Realm--an alien realm of madness needn't be all slime and tentacles, after all).

You've gotta admit, Ravenloft's got "points of light" down pat.

 

[Mouseferatu]

You've gotta admit, Ravenloft's got "points of light" down pat.

This. I don't know what the plans are for Ravenloft's domains in 4E--I knew it was coming in Dragon, but with this announcement, you all now officially know as much as I do--but it wouldn't surprise me at all to see the domains introduced simply as just that: domains. Small kingdoms/realms of horror that can go anywhere, and don't need to be tied together into their own demiplane unless the DM wants 'em to be.

I could be way off-base. Just saying I could see it.

 

[RefinedBean]

Can't wait to see Strahd as a solo encounter.

 

[Shroomy]

Hmmmm...Barbarian preview and Ravenloft, I'm already looking forward to the October issue of Dragon.

 

[JasonZZ]

You've gotta admit, Ravenloft's got "points of light" down pat.

Agreed there.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

This is the best announcement yet...I am so pumped about ravenloft, but I hope it is in the distant astral sea...

Now all I need is spell jammer/Astral Jammer to be confirmed, and Darksun to be announced as 2010 and this will make me feel like the glory days are back...

 

[boolean]

Hmmmm...Barbarian preview and Ravenloft, I'm already looking forward to the October issue of Dragon.

Unfortunately, it looks like the Barbarian isn't previewing this month. It isn't in the 367 TOC any more.

 

[Dragonhelm]

I'm wondering if they're just going to go back to the original module concept, which they revisited in the Expedition book.