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.

 

[mamba]

There are 68 total monsters in the new book: 41 regular (9 more than VGR) + 17 Darklords. If there are more than 9 new ones, then not all the ones from VGR are being reprinted.

41 + 17 is not 68, so there are 19 more stat blocks in the new book. As its description says

A bestiary of 41 monstrosities and 10 domain denizens for your party to encounter.

Not sure where they draw the line between monster and denizen, are denizens NPCs? Do any from VRG qualify as denizens?

 

[Remathilis]

41 + 17 is not 68, so there are 19 more stat blocks in the new book. As its description says


Not sure where they draw the line between monster and denizen, are denizens NPCs? Do any from VRG qualify as denizens?

My guess is that the denizen's are the NPCs like Van Richten or Madam Eva.

It's worth noting that the Deaths Head Tree is new; the one in VGR is just a reference to the awakened tree in the MM rather than a dedicated stat block.

 

[Selas]

Not sure where they draw the line between monster and denizen, are denizens NPCs? Do any from VRG qualify as denizens?

Definitely important NPCs, like Rudolph Van Richten. The 10 NPCs complete the 68 statblocks in the book. They've probably decided that some of the VGR statblocks are decent enough not to be reprinted since VGR is "relatively" recent

 

[Paul Farquhar]

We also can confirm the level 3 features of reanimator, Shadow sorcerer, hollowed one, grave cleric, phantom and the survivor feat. I don't know what changed besides the shadow sorcerer getting it's level 3 ignore death feature back.

Can you post these, or tell me which of the downloads I need to look at please?

 

[Remathilis]

Can you post these, or tell me which of the downloads I need to look at please?

It's the Season of Horror D&D Encounters Adventure Content link. Pic shows Shadow of Sithicus on it. I'll link the pregens

 

[GarrettKP]

Monsters confirmed:

Spoiler: Monsters

Boneless, wereraven, Swarm of zombie limbs, zombie clot, deaths had trees, vampire mind flayer, Priest of Osybus, Strigoi

We also can confirm the level 3 features of reanimator, Shadow sorcerer, hollowed one, grave cleric, phantom and the survivor feat. I don't know what changed besides the shadow sorcerer getting it's level 3 ignore death feature back.

They changed the Ranger substantially. Now it’s monster transformation no longer works with Hunters Mark. Instead, you expended a use of Favored Enemy to use it as a Bonus Action.

On the one hand, this means you don’t have to use Hunters Mark with the subclass and can combine it with other spells for Ranger. On the other, it basically means you’ll never use Hunters Mark for this subclass, even when you want to, because they conflict in terms of action economy. I wish it worked either when you cast HM or by itself instead of just one.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They changed the Ranger substantially. Now it’s monster transformation no longer works with Hunters Mark. Instead, you expended a use of Favored Enemy to use it as a Bonus Action.

On the one hand, this means you don’t have to use Hunters Mark with the subclass and can combine it with other spells for Ranger. On the other, it basically means you’ll never use Hunters Mark for this subclass, even when you want to, because they conflict in terms of action economy. I wish it worked either when you cast HM or by itself instead of just one.

I'm saddened by this, because I had been planning on playing this class, since I'd noticed it could get an almost always on +5 AC (wisdom build using shillelagh).

For the same reason, I'm not surprised it was nerfed!

The aura part has been buffed to fear though, which is better than the "action or bonus action but not both" original effect.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Reanimator Jolt of life has had a substantial buff.

What is "Ruined" background?

 

[Remathilis]

I'm saddened by this, because I had been planning on playing this class, since I'd noticed it could get an almost always on +5 AC (wisdom build using shillelagh).

For the same reason, I'm not surprised it was nerfed!

The aura part has been buffed to fear though, which is better than the "action or bonus action but not both" original effect.

It should be noted that, as with most WotC pregens, errors can occur. For example, the PHB species characters (elf, gnome, tiefling) have darkvision in their species traits, but the Ravenloft species (dhampir and hexblood) do not. Made even more egregious by the fact we've seen the 2024 dhampir and know it still has darkvision. So it's still possible that there are omissions made in the interest of space.

 

[Remathilis]

Reanimator Jolt of life has had a substantial buff.

What is "Ruined" background?

Ruined was from Book of Many Things.