Ravenloft Novel Coming in 2025

Penguin Random House will publish a new novel set in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting of Ravenloft in 2025. A listing for an untitled Ravenloft novel has recently appeared on various book retailer websites, along with Penguin Random House's official website. No author was named in the listing, but a description for the book states that it will feature the infamous Count Strahd and potentially other Domains of Dread as well. The book will have a recommended retail price of $30 and will be released in April 2025.

Penguin Random House has upped their Dungeons & Dragons novel releases in recent years, with books set in the Dragonlance, Spelljammer, and Forgotten Realms settings. While some books (such as the recently completed Dragonlance Destinies trilogy) have featured classic writers, other books have used contemporary fantasy authors and are geared more toward a mix of existing, new, and casual D&D fans. Some characters from the Fallback novels have also appeared in art slated for the 2024 Core Rulebook release. Given that we're getting more D&D novels, it seems this new line of licensed novels is a success for Penguin Random House.

You can check out the description of the new Ravenloft book below:

Journey to the Domains of Dread and face the fearsome Count Strahd von Zarovich in this upcoming official Dungeons & Dragons novel!

A group of adventurers must fight their way through a dark and twisted realm known as the Domains of Dread, where powerful darklords rule over worlds filled with supernatural horrors.

 

[sevenbastard]

If they do that, it would make it the sixth, maybe seventh time they've re-released that adventure. The epitome of a lack of imagination and recycling for cash.

I'd rather buy a slightly improved Curse of Stahd than whatever garbage railroad they put out next. Looking at you Vecna Eve of Ruin.

Now the real question is would they improve it, or somehow make it worse like they did when they upgraded Lost Mines.

 

[Morrus]

If only they hadn't ruined Lord Soth by putting him in Ravenloft! You don't put Darth Vader in the corner!

 

[darjr]

If only they hadn't ruined Lord Soth by putting him in Ravenloft! You don't put Darth Vader in the corner!

They killed him. Turned him into a good guy. A good guy!!!

 

[dave2008]

..., about time as for me those more then adventures are what breathes life into settings.

Just the opposite for me. Having only read a few DL novels, I get nothing but a bad taste from these novels. However, I am happy they are making them for other people who do like them!

 

[Micah Sweet]

I'd rather buy a slightly improved Curse of Stahd than whatever garbage railroad they put out next. Looking at you Vecna Eve of Ruin.

Now the real question is would they improve it, or somehow make it worse like they did when they upgraded Lost Mines.

My answer to that is simply not to buy any of it. Nothing's forcing you to buy WotC stuff.

 

[Prof_Dogg]

AI author?

 

[TiQuinn]

If only they hadn't ruined Lord Soth by putting him in Ravenloft! You don't put Darth Vader in the corner!

But he was sooooo good in Ravenloft! Knight of the Black Rose was a solid book and the When Black Roses Bloom was one of the best Ravenloft adventures!

 

[Dire Bare]

AI author?

What? No.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Strand is the fiction is better as chessmaster than unstoppable foe. White Wolf games had got lots of overpowered bloodsuckers but Strand is different as enemy because he is more like a Tywn Lannister with bloodthisht, fangs, magic powers and lots of dirty tricks. The most dangerous actions by Strand are those you can't notice until to be too late. Strand is the Sun Tzu among the vampires. The mastermind with the wickest conspirancies. Enough smart to face Vecna.

 

[teitan]

What new FR novels do we have other than the Drizzt novels?

There are movie tie in novels and there are two recent novels about an adventuring party, the Fallbacks. One is out the other announced as far as I recall.