D&D 5E Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft Table of Contents

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[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah I was just thinking about that and how actually that was probably the most awkward thing here, but it's kind of too late to easily retcon it.

Research suggests Roma typically take a gadzo personal name - i.e. a name from the region they are living in.

 

[Burnside]

That is a bit culturally demeaning because it plays to that discomforting encounter when you introduce yourself with a multi-syllable culturally rich but uncommon name, and mostly white people seek to shorten it to a monosyllable. :-(

The worst part is that uncommon long names are not that hard if you put just a little effort into saying them.

I really hope that Ezmerelda is not just called Ez throughout the book. Or I might just send it back. Almost like WoTC is tone-deaf to cultures that traditionally use multi-syllable names.

Sorry, this is a personal rant, but name shortenings really annoy me, because all too often that is an overlooked racist micro-aggression.

I suspect the change might be because the character is now non-binary.

 

[Mecheon]

It's one of the big mysteries of the setting. Imagine the battle of normandy is going on and suddenly an Atom bomb goes off but the blast extends to the borders of normandy & nobody claims responsibiliy or understands the resulting fallout. It's also very notable that keith has written about cyre & cyre/ravenloft

Notably, "Cyre got taken to Ravenloft" is a pretty common fan theory on what happened to Cyre because not only does a nation being enveloped by mists that stop at the exact border of where that nation is just reak of 'Dark Powers up to their mischief', but the noted remains of Cyre match up semi-well to the one other place we know of that got swiped by the Dark Powers, Kalidnay from Dark Sun

A cheeky little nod to the theory though, very nice

 

[Eubani]

Every day I get a greater understanding on Stephen Fry's stance on people being offended.

 

[dalisprime]

What's Jander doing back in Ravenloft? The last we'd seen him, he was trapped in Avernus...

 

[humble minion]

What's Jander doing back in Ravenloft? The last we'd seen him, he was trapped in Avernus...

I suspect the upcoming book will treat adventure material, either this Jander tidbit or even much of Curse of Strahd, as tenuously canon at best.

 

[Weiley31]

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Where did you get the Spirit Board from?

 

[Weiley31]

Smokes die (for social stuff) start at d12.

You get a die for smoking your dapper pipe?
Interesting.

 

[Tonguez]

• The two exceptions are Kalakeri, which is apparently an update of Sri Raji, and the Carnival, which wasn't a domain before. (And I don't think I like that - it was more interesting that it was something different, a reality wrinkle. But this makes things easier, I suppose.)
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• Klorr is presumably a nod to the Timepiece of Klorr. Assuming some kind of pocket(watch) domain.

good catch on Klorr being a clockwork domain, for some reason I find clockwork golems to be really creepy so I'd love to see what they can do with the concept.

I dont mind the Carnival as a Domain but do hope it stays mobile and weird. Could be interesting how they handle the mechanics of it

 

[Weiley31]

Nothing is stopping you from still having Ez's name still be Esmerelda.