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.

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t believe there is any rule specifically forbidding acquiring a dragonmark via Lessons, and I have seen builds discussed that specifically do that. The only RAW restrictions on dragonmarks are “Eberron campaign, cannot already have a dragonmark”.

No, they ware intentionally soloed off for m Lessons and the Human Feat as written.

Honestly I would prefer bsvly allow it personally, doubt it would break anything, but if it causes something weird WotC has plausible deniability for broken combos.

 

[GarrettKP]

Aren’t they not though? It says they can be swapped for origin feats for the Ravenloft backgrounds, and presumably anyone else who accepts a dark gift swaps it for an origin feat. So a warlock could use Lessons to get a bunch of origin feats that they can swap for Dark Gifts if they are not allowed to pick them directly.

Based on the wording we have seen, they are not. For example, the investigator background says “Feat: Sharp Eye or a Dark Gift of your choice”

So Dark Gifts are not origin feats. They just are an alternative option for Ravenloft backgrounds. Now, maybe there’s a feature in the book that explicitly states otherwise, but based on what we know currently, they are their own category like Dragonmark Feats, and nothing outside of specific backgrounds let you take them in place of an origin feat.

Now, it could be a good house rule that probably won’t break anything. But RAW it doesn’t look like it works.

 

[Remathilis]

So Dark Gifts are not origin feats. They just are an alternative option for Ravenloft backgrounds. Now, maybe there’s a feature in the book that explicitly states otherwise, but based on what we know currently, they are their own category like Dragonmark Feats, and nothing outside of specific backgrounds let you take them in place of an origin feat.

I'm pretty sure this is intentional. It seems they are taking setting-specific rules like Dragonmarks, Dark Gifts, and Wild Talents will use the feat system and replace generic origin feats for those backgrounds. I could see other supernatural gifts like Theros or things like Planescape factions or Ravnica Guilds work in the same way (a mix of backgrounds and specific types of feats).

 

[GarrettKP]

I'm pretty sure this is intentional. It seems they are taking setting-specific rules like Dragonmarks, Dark Gifts, and Wild Talents will use the feat system and replace generic origin feats for those backgrounds. I could see other supernatural gifts like Theros or things like Planescape factions or Ravnica Guilds work in the same way (a mix of backgrounds and specific types of feats).

Agreed. And they telegraphed this with their late 5e products. Bigby’s, Planescape, Spelljammer, Dragonlance, and the Book of Many Things all had backgrounds with unique feats and then said “if you’re using another background, give one of the following feats.” So they soft launched origin feats that way, with unique setting feats being the alternative.

I’d expect every setting book going forward to have a unique and flavorful alternative to standard origin feats.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm pretty sure this is intentional. It seems they are taking setting-specific rules like Dragonmarks, Dark Gifts, and Wild Talents will use the feat system and replace generic origin feats for those backgrounds. I could see other supernatural gifts like Theros or things like Planescape factions or Ravnica Guilds work in the same way (a mix of backgrounds and specific types of feats).

Spellfire (and others from the FR book) ard regular origin feats I think.

I believe it was stated previously that Dark Gifts were being redone as feats.

You are probably right, but I wouldn’t just assume it works like that.

 

[Remathilis]

Spellfire (and others from the FR book) ard regular origin feats I think.

I believe it was stated previously that Dark Gifts were being redone as feats.

You are probably right, but I wouldn’t just assume it works like that.

Yeah, not all settings are getting new special types of feats. Realms didn't get any (just new origin feats) and I will guess Dragonlance or Spelljammer won't get a specific category either. So far, it's Eberron (Dragonmarks), Ravenloft (dark gifts) and probably Dark Sun (wild talent). It's possible though they can take other campaign specific character options like Planescape factions either as a new type of feat or some type of origin feat.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Dark Sun (wild talent)

I doubt wild talent will be limited to dark sun. Psion is no more confined to Dark Sun than Artificer is confined to Eberron, and wild talents existed in AD&D before Dark Sun was invented.

 

[Remathilis]

I doubt wild talent will be limited to dark sun. Psion is no more confined to Dark Sun than Artificer is confined to Eberron, and wild talents existed in AD&D before Dark Sun was invented.

But I'm wagering they are going to at least debut there, regardless if they get put in other books later.

 

[Parmandur]

Spellfire (and others from the FR book) ard regular origin feats I think.

I believe it was stated previously that Dark Gifts were being redone as feats.

You are probably right, but I wouldn’t just assume it works like that.

Oh, the Dark Gifts are Feats. But just as the Dragonmark Feats were specifically not eligible for the Warlock Invocation or the Human Species feature because they are specifically not titled as Origin Feats, so too with the Dark Gifts most likely.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But I'm wagering they are going to at least debut there, regardless if they get put in other books later.

Quite possibly, but the associated feats won’t be restricted to the setting.