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You'd probably see shifting in focus for Ravenloft, to individual set piece encounters rather than overall adventures- the individual set piece encounters seems to be the meat and potatoes that 4e is built on. So probably building upon anticipation/excitement in individual encounters in the moment a...

There was a writeup of an Ahab expy darklord/domain Captain Jacobi Robertson/Whal in the Kargatane's Book of Sorrows. It focuses on orca whales, however. Jacobi is cursed with orca whale lycanthropy. Meredoth's horror from QtR 9 might potentially qualify in a whale role, but it's actually a dire sha...

-I will not play as “Strahd’s Annie Oakley” when visiting the Wizard of Wines. --However, the value of wine in easing quality of life in Barovia will not excuse my character’s rampant drunken bar brawls. -S&M gear does not necessarily constitute polite formal wear in Borca. -Procuring a spelljam...

-I will not demand that my party “split up and search for clues” at the start of every investigation. -I will not try to pull the face off of every villain just because “he’s obviously wearing a mask”. -I will stop insisting that everyone we meet refer to our horse-drawn wagon as “the Mystery Machin...

I don't tug on Strahd's cape.
I don't spit into the Mists.
I don't pull the choker off that old Montarri
And I don't mess around with Azalin.

Hey all! Since more than a few of us are dismayed by the idea of independent domains in the forthcoming new and fractured 5E Core, I thought I'd just ask and see if anyone had thought of any creative ways to move from one domain to another if they're all separated now. I don't mean just "walk ...

-I cannot escape Ravenloft by clicking my heels together three times and saying, "there's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home". -Ruby/Silver Slippers are not Mist Talismans. -Strategically landed houses are not a way to kill the darklord/villain. -Hag...

I looked at the 25 mb version, and I have to admit I admire the detail. In addition to the inclusion of the noncanon domains, many of which you fleshed out from whole cloth based upon brief darklord blurbs, you included a lot of obscure spots in the canon domains, like Malanuv, Virinthe, and others ...

Canon's always been a slippery thing, especially with a setting as finicky as Ravenloft (with many domains referenced to dates before they actually exist w/in canon, for example.) The authors have always change or ignored things to suit their purposes (for example, the retcon that the drow of Arak w...

There's not a whole lot of them. The Abber Nomads of the Nightmare Lands are described as CL 1. Saragoss is effectively a CL 1 level due to lack of stable resources. The wild children of Sebua live at a CL 1, though ruins of the Sebuan past show CL 2/Bronze Age ruins. Of known CL 1 monstrous culture...

See also here: http://fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Category:Celebration http://fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Category:Festival http://fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Category:Holiday http://fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Category:Event (mostly the "Event in" subcategories) You can also sometimes...

Although we know relatively less of Kaina as she is somewhat presented as the unknown, mysterious Other, the evidence seems to point to the king- the Failed Man- as the darklord, for the tale suggests more of a history of proactive evil on his part, with Kaina's evil being in part exacerbated in rea...

Ok, I wanna try to take the 5E Ravenloft and make it more like the 2nd and 3rd E versions I liked so much. This is not exactly 'Reconciliation' though, at least not the same way I think it's being used in the other posts? Mainly, I want to undo making every single domain it's own isolated island in...

Building upon Tepest: If one wanted to keep the pre-5e factional power balance somewhat intact, one could say that Mother Lorinda is just starting in Kellee, and her intrusion has mystified most of the town, leaving Gerald Ferrier and his remaining supporters hold up in Hawk's Inn, likely a lot more...

Would be interesting to hear how other people did it. I figured Ezmerelda could be related to Cyrilla Deschamps, a Vistani wise woman that Dr. VR worked with and befriended prior to his reconciliation with Arturi and the other Vistani. Ezmerelda might have been a friend and apprentice doctor to Dr. ...