Café de Nuit

For some reason it's not available on DriveThru, but the Ravenloft Player's Handbook (3.5) is. Weird.

There is a whole page dedicated to this in the Ravenloft Dungeon Master's Guide. Optional Rules: Language Barriers Three options provided are: 1. No change. Characters need to improvise. Sink or swim. This is considered the "default" option. But keep in mind the whole line of 3E products i...

As for graveyards, I can only find vague references of discriptions for the cemetery belonging to the House on Gryphon Hill, so you should be good to impose your creativity however you see fit and not worry about stepping outside of anything "official". If that's of any concern to you or a...

Generally-speaking, I agree with you both. Yet at the same time it would be cool to throw a villain at players that has, by all appearances, overcome the inhibitions of their kiss/curse/whatever, and really rock it like an evolutionary step(or two)-up on their former kin. The absolutely shattered eg...

The main issue remains: In the high society of a probably xenophobic domain of 40,000 people, the elite / high class may be 1000 at most, with the central town having probably 500 of them, including 4 year old kids and the 80 years old grandma. Everyone knows everyone and in most cases, they are xe...

I strongly disagree and the reason is that a vampire cannot pass off as a human. It would be easier for a ghoul to do it, than a vampire. As a quick aside, and linked to this thread only through the theme of monsters impersonating humans... Or a ghul-kin: https://www.completecompendium.com/appendix...

As someone who doesn’t play, I’ll admit my suggestions are probably out of left field sometimes, but I do wonder if it ruins vampires. Have you never stayed up late, woke up early, or pulled an all nighter? Perhaps the vampire incurs penalties of some sort the next day or days, but this is a necess...

Just to get it out of the way, and speaking generally about vampires and their facade... As doctor Rudolph van Richten wrote in his treatise on vampires (VRGtV), "Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a 'typical' vampire". This simply-stated caveat should be applied to all that follows....

Taking away one weakness (from a list of them) from one monster is not the same as creating infinite offence in another. Yeah, I'm personally biased towards changing bits of the game like that, so thought exercises that go against the grain come easy to me. Ain't nothing sacred in D&D. Whereas ...

Just about busted the scotch tape holding the corners of the box together to snap this pic...heh

Nevermind. Won't let me upload the pic. Oh well.

Taking away one weakness (from a list of them) from one monster is not the same as creating infinite offence in another. Such a tweak may lead to a need to re-balance, but then again, with player ingenuity, it may not. Only the DM knows. As for me, I don't like the fact that all clerics can turn und...

But what if they didn't have to sleep? What if a vampire needing to "sleep" (or hybernate) only really needs it if/when they need to regenerate (negative energy) the most grievous of wounds? I mean, argument can be made that they are unliving creatures, so, why the need for sleep (outside ...

You can have both if you work for it. It's D&D. "Canon" is a misnomer, given the fact that the game is played, and thus only exists, at one group's table. Communities of fans such as this, as elsewhere, have used the term to refer to ideas, concepts, etc as those existing in official p...

Speaking of Van Richten, I think that sometimes we, as players, characters, and readers, need to keep reminding ourselves that he, although an authority on all things supernatural, is not an infallible source of information. He peppers his texts with such admission: "Unfortunately, there is no ...

actors (the day truly begins with the after hours parties) Actors have to rehearse though. Also a mirror is an essential item in an actors wardrobe which they sometimes share with fellow actors. Unless if it is a vampire troupe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gj3aY4pA2Y Budding actors, or actors ...