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.

 

[plecostomus]

Ivana and Ivan are both CR 5 (and feature the first appearance of fewer than three Legendary Actions per round in 5E!), which are the lowest I think. Wilfred Godefroy, who handily for you is a ghost, is only CR 6. Saidra d'Honaire is a sort-of-wraith and her CR is 9, but her abilities might be too specific for reskinning.

Awesome, thank you!

 

[Selas]

Ivana and Ivan are both CR 5 (and feature the first appearance of fewer than three Legendary Actions per round in 5E!), which are the lowest I think. Wilfred Godefroy, who handily for you is a ghost, is only CR 6. Saidra d'Honaire is a sort-of-wraith and her CR is 9, but her abilities might be too specific for reskinning.

beat me to the punch

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I was shockingly disappointed by Innsmouth Domain, its like it was done by folks who don't actually understand Lovecraftian horror at all. Like they have all these Lovecraftian monsters get added to the book and there is ZERO effort put into weaving them properly into the Domain infavour of miss using cultists. There is no understanding that the Domain should have had a fascade of normalcy to constast with the Cosmic horror. The whole thing is just a mess of weird looking stuff. Its just look we have cultists and tentacles and stuff.

I can think of so many better ways to do Innsmouth, it uses almost no Lovecraftian lore at all, but just random weird stuff, but not interesting weird stuff. Including elemental cultists that don't fit at all.

The cosmic horror shouldn't be in your face all the time.

For Lovecraftian Horror, your better off using Darkon, Dementlieu, Har'Akir, or Hazlan, but have Cthulu still warp peoples dreams, and the lovecraftian species manipulating things from the shadows.

Like it'd be easy to use Dementlieu as an Arkham stand in, then have Cthulu using his dream spell to mess with the Darklords of Dementlieu and Scaena minds among others. I'd have Yithin and other Lovecraftian horrors starting to inflitrate Dementlieu. I'd have Cthulu messing with the dreams of the population of Har'Akir, as if they were getting actual visions from their Gods, to the point where even the Darklord of the domain starts wondering if he somehow had made them real. I'd have Cthulu manipulating the dreams of the Wizard's of Hazlan pushing their experiments in a more Cosmic horror direction. I like the idea of instead of focusing on Cthulu's domain directly, which is just not a well designed Domain, using him to manipulate various Darklords and others to various ends and not just to free him either, but more alien agendas as well.

Well it’s important to remember the Innsmouth domain is not Innsmouth the town from Lovecraft. I personally quite liked the domain.

 

[TravDoc42]

My FLGS is having "issues with shipping" this book, so I'm on the outside looking in so far, sliiiightly jealous of you folks who have the book already

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My FLGS is having "issues with shipping" this book, so I'm on the outside looking in so far, sliiiightly jealous of you folks who have the book already

My FLGS isn't even taking orders for it yet.

 

[TravDoc42]

My FLGS isn't even taking orders for it yet.

Unfortunate to hear that! We can be outsiders together, I suppose

 

[Remathilis]

My FLGS is having "issues with shipping" this book, so I'm on the outside looking in so far, sliiiightly jealous of you folks who have the book already
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My usual FLGS didn't have it, or the person behind the counter said they didn't. Luckily a different store I knew about did.

 

[Selas]

I pre-ordered, so I'm at the mercy of WotC for the book. In the meantime, digital does it

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well it’s important to remember the Innsmouth domain is not Innsmouth the town from Lovecraft. I personally quite liked the domain.

Agreed, but its not even close to being conceptually related at all, its just poaching a recognizable name for something completely unrelated. To properly do Lovecraftian you start with mystery, then move into pyschological horror, until eventually you get full on cosmic horror.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

My FLGS is having "issues with shipping" this book, so I'm on the outside looking in so far, sliiiightly jealous of you folks who have the book already
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That sucks.