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.

 

[TravDoc42]

That sucks.

It does, but the way I see it, it gives me more time to look forward to it! (Maybe that's me coping ).

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Is there any new one in the section of other domains apart of Kalidnay?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Agreed, but it’s not even close to being conceptually related at all, it’s 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.

If you want authentic Lovecraft adventures you would play Call of Cthulhu. As stated in the interview, the writers are trying for distinctively D&D flavoured high fantasy horror, not imitate other RPGs. So the domain is based on “what would happen if the dark powers kidnapped Cthulhu”, not an attempt to create a place to tell Lovecraft stories. D&D players punch Cthulhu, not have a breakdown over an encounter with a nonhuman.

 

[Clint_L]

Scanning through mine on DDB. Pretty bummed with what they've done to "Innsmouth" - any resemblance to Lovecraft's cursed town is incidental at best. But the monsters are super cool and there's a lot of good stuff in the book. This was the Dread Domain I was most looking forward to, though. A huge miss.

 

[Echohawk]

Is there any new one in the section of other domains apart of Kalidnay?

No, Kalidnay seems to be the only domain not previously mentioned in VRGtR.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

If you want authentic Lovecraft adventures you would play Call of Cthulhu. As stated in the interview, the writers are trying for distinctively D&D flavoured high fantasy horror, not imitate other RPGs. So the domain is based on “what would happen if the dark powers kidnapped Cthulhu”, not an attempt to create a place to tell Lovecraft stories. D&D players punch Cthulhu, not have a breakdown over an encounter with a nonhuman.

I'm fine with then doing a distinctly D&D flavoured take on Lovecraft's horror, this was not the way to do that, its just extremely poorly done and ironically is a the worst of the domains and extremely boring.

There are alot of ways they could have done a very original, D&D dark fantasy take on Innsmouth domain that stayed true to Lovecraftian horror.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

No, Kalidnay seems to be the only domain not previously mentioned in VRGtR.

More evidence that the book in November is Dark Sun.