Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

[Fifinjir]

Strahd: “This is what happens when you don’t get off my lawn.”

 

[Virgo]

I remember during the 3.5/OGL days, there was a sourcebook from Mystic Eye Games called "Tarot Magic," which introduced a new class, the Tarot Mage

Just a feat in Book of Many Things, as far as I know. But I believe several one-respected third party publishers have done their takes.

 

[Alzrius]

Legendary Games did just release Legendary Classes: Cartomancer (affiliate link) not too long ago.

 

[Virgo]

Legendary Games did just release Legendary Classes: Cartomancer (affiliate link) not too long ago.

Thank you! I'll have to check it out.

 

[Parmandur]

I think if they took Cthulu while he's already napping it could make getting him alot easier.

My hope it mentions the fact that Cthulu is a priest of Azathoth, and we get options for building Clerics of Azathoth. & maybe appearances from other horrors from the extended Lovecraftian mytholose.

Here is what we saw of Cthulu in this new vook, though the image of the Great Race suggest this is not an isolated Mythos tidbit:

To be honest, a big part of this might be to fill out the CR spread of available Monsters.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Here is what we saw of Cthulu in this new vook, though the image of the Great Race suggest this is not an isolated Mythos tidbit:

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To be honest, a big part of this might be to fill out the CR spread of available Monsters.

Is that creature depicted supposed to be Cthulu himself?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Right, but I don’t want the Cthulhu Mythos to cross over with Ravenloft. I think both are better as their own things. We’ve established this already.

Yeah, Ravenloft's horror is about human evils and understandable villains. You can kill Strahd and free the people of Barovia (for a time). Strahd is a good villain because he's tragic, understandable, and stuck in a cycle that he is incapable of breaking.

The main draw of Lovecraftian horror is exploring an extreme version of "the fear of the other" by having immensely powerful and incomprehensible forces/entities that are terrifying because they're unstoppable.

Cthulhu should not be a Dark Lord. He's too big. And Ravenloft already has godlike cosmic horror entities in it; the Dark Powers. And the point of the Dark Powers is that they're immensely powerful and unknowable and should not be the villains of a Ravenloft campaign. They're a tool for worldbuilding and story creation.

People can (of course) disagree and do what they want. But to me, using Cthulhu as a Dark Power is as big of a mistake as using him as the love interest of a romance novel.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

But to me, using Cthulhu as a Dark Power is as big of a mistake as using him as the love interest of a romance novel.

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[dead]

Vecna was a Dark Lord at one stage. I guess he's pretty big being a god.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

The surprise for me is the return of lupines as PC specie. We know the therian "furry" playable species are wellcome in 5e.

Why a surprise? Seems to be a good companion for the dhampire species. And of course agree with you 5e has embraced the anthro with many many "furry" species.

* Wouldn't you like abysal genasi and infernal dragonborn as Ravenloft PC species?

Yes please, thank you.

The monsters from Resident Evil franchise were designed to face PC with firearms. To be "guest stars" in Ravenloft should be "nerferd", do you agree?

Maybe, although horror typically the protagonists are WAY outclassed in pretty much every dimension

* The weak point of Ravenloft is to be a "too small space" to be place of confrontation of supernatural factions (vampire lodges, theriantrope tribes, spellcasters' guilds..).

I definitely agree with this. Although can't domains be pretty big?