D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

You can now pre-order preorder Ravenloft: The Horrors Within over on D&D Beyond--the ultimate bundle costs $149.99, while the book alone comes in at $59.00. There are pages for the new DM screen, map pack, and Tarokka cards as well. The pre-order page lists the book's contents.

• 16 Domains of Dread, including the new cosmic horror domain Innsmouth.
• 17 Darklords for your party to face or flee from, equipped with challenging stat blocks.
• 7 subclasses (including the new Reanimator and Hollow Warden), 4 species, 4 backgrounds, 2 Origin feats, and 9 Dark Gifts for building tortured protagonists.
• 10 genres of horror from gothic to dark fantasy.
• A bestiary of 41 monstrosities and 10 domain denizens for your party to encounter.
• 47 maps and 28 digital quickplay maps for Maps VTT.
• Digital Pre-order Bonus: the Mists of Ravenloft Digital Dice Set, Ravenloft Play-Along Pack, and D&D Encounters: Shadows of Sithicus mini-adventure.

Tonight, your party’s greatest nightmare... is the one you create.

Bring fear to the table with the Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Ultimate Bundle, the complete horror toolkit with everything you need to create a personalized horror campaign – and strike fear into the hearts of your players.

The Ultimate Bundle includes:

• Physical and digital versions of Ravenloft: The Horrors Within, containing 16 Domains of Dread, 17 Darklords, 7 subclasses, 4 species, 4 backgrounds, 11 feats, 68 monsters and 47 maps including 28 digital quickplay maps for Maps VTT.
• Physical Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Tarokka Deck for weaving terrifying twists into your campaign with 54 fully illustrated cards.
• Physical Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Dungeon Master’s Screen for keeping your plans enshrouded in mystery.
• Physical and digital versions of the Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Map Pack for plotting out eerie encounters for your party.
• Digital Pre-order Bonus: the Mists of Ravenloft Digital Dice Set, Ravenloft Play-Along Pack, and D&D Encounters: Shadows of Sithicus mini-adventure.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I wonder we will see the update of the goblyn, maybe with other name (it needs something more original than only i replaced with an y). Are they living constructs? This could be an important detail because they could be infected by undead or eaten by supernatural predators, or they could be used to terminate undead plagues

What if a dark domain was a cursed forest with a tribal war between goblyns and redcaps?

With a good script-writter they can be interesting for a story that mixes horror and dark-comedy, like a group of gnomes and halflings suffering a wicked version of "Home Alone".

* Are calibans from 3e a goliath subrace now or only reskinned half-orcs?

 

[Weiley31]

* Are calibans from 3e a goliath subrace now or only reskinned half-orcs?

Yes.

 

[Remathilis]

* Are calibans from 3e a goliath subrace now or only reskinned half-orcs?

Calibans are one of those ideas that could be jettisoned into the sun just for it's implications. Half-Vistani as a separate race can join them.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm going to pick up the FLGS cover of this book and the new Tarokka deck, which appears to be by the same artist. It doesn't look like the cards have a tuck box (the Gale Force 9 one was pretty fragile), but a sturdier box instead. And since I have at least two players using the Van Richten's content in our Empire of the Ghouls campaign, I'll be picking this up on D&D Beyond as well, when the time comes.

I like the toolkit approach this appears to be taking and which Van Richten's took.

And I suspect this won't be the last Ravenloft content we see for 5.5. An adventure anthology seems like a no-brainer and I'd love to see a non-Barovia full-length adventure in future.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Don't know if someone posted this earlier, but I ran across these monsters being in the "Play Along" for the book, so I suspect they'll all be in the book (though I'm not sure about Lavender...)

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Lavender (pronounced Lav-ender) is a DMPC/reanimator pet in the live stream. I doubt she would appear in the book!

 

[MonsterEnvy]

She's in the Play along pack, but she's just a commoner

 

[Paul Farquhar]

She's in the Play along pack, but she's just a commoner

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Spoilers: “is she alive or undead” is an ongoing plot point.

She has a number of abilities that are not represented on that stat block.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Oh upcoming new Minis for the set which means new monsters

• Elder Thing (50mm base): Alien beings with colonies stretching across countless worlds and unfathomable eons, the tentacled Elder Things seek to guard the remnants of their declining empire against all threats. Seeking to subjugate all they consider lesser, these inscrutable entities remain dangerous foes.

• Mi-Go (25mm base): Strange, mantis-like monstrosities spoken of in hushed whispers, the brain-robbing Mi-Go use mysterious and terrible technology to remove the brains from their victims, sometimes even installing new ones in their place. Capable even of installing brains into creatures that never had one to begin with, few who encounter these pincered aberrations and return unchanged.

• Shoggoth (75mm base): Originally created by the Elder Things, the cruel, massive, and ever-undulating Shoggoth have long since overthrown their makers. Originally created for dangerous labor, shoggoths now lurk in the ruins of the cities they once raised, invigorated by the blistering cold and waiting for their next victims.

• Gug (75mm base): This lurking creature is strong, durable, and deceptively stealthy despite its gigantic size. Preferring to hunt humanoid prey using slashing claws and toothy split maw, the Gug is a dangerous and often fatal foe to encounter underground.
  
• Yithian (50mm base): Cartilaginous, conical beings that aim to occupy as many worlds as possible in a fanatical pursuit of knowledge, Yithians use their vast intellects and mind-swapping abilities to trap their victims on the Yithians’ unfathomable home world while they control their target’s helpless body.

• Nightgaunt (50mm base): The vicious gargoyle-like Nightgaunt uses its large wings to soar over alien skies and subterranean mountain ranges. Infamous for their cruelty during hunts, these creatures enjoy abducting their prey with razor-sharp claws, only to drop them to their doom from an incredible height.

Cthulhu looks scary and large

 

[Paul Farquhar]

What’s a gug?

 

[Mecheon]

What’s a gug?

Its a Gug! We love them in a discord server I'm in. Genuinely, seriously. Any time they came up in an adventure we just went 'GUG! GUG! GUG!"

They're just big things with weird biology that eat people, really. But they have a funny name.