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ewancummins wrote: The Vlach type barbarians (Vallachmen) sound fun. I'd consider giving them Dacian falxes and those sweet draco standards.

I'll have to look into those.

When I got to the bit about the religion of the Taz Hadamin...

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ash-shubab-al-muthlimun!

EXACTLY!

I read a large chunk of the OP's previous homebrew campaign setting, back when it was still up on his blog. I greatly enjoyed that one, but I think of the two I prefer Arksylvania. It feels more focused and more coherent. It's also easier to port into an existing setting. I tend to agree, actually....

I like the Church of the Wounded God. It superficially resembles Christianity closely enough to make a good fantasy-stand-in for the Church, but differs enough in content to avoid being either blasphemous or ridiculous. What would happen to a vampire in this setting if it drank the consecrated wine...

ewancummins wrote:Cool!

I've enjoyed reading your blog, off an on, for some months now.

Thanks for reading, man.

It seems well thought. If I may ask, in the map, how much is a hex? Or we go by Ravenloft rule "as big as needed"? Thank you for your efforts, the setting seems solid and compact with enough information to make it interesting leaving enough room for creative minds. Yeah, I've never been o...

I've been working on a new campaign setting inspired by Ravenloft, Bloodborne, and Darkest Dungeon. The setting can be used as-is on its own or dropped into an existing Ravenloft campaign as a new domain. Failing that, there might be some details you could steal for your own games in there somewhere...

In the Ravenloft setting, priests of Ezra have a mystical connection to the Mists that permeate the landscape. In previous editions, clerics of Ezra have had access to a specific "Mists" domain; this is my attempt to work-up something thematically appropriate for 5e Dungeons & Dragons....

The only reason I can see why Barovia doesn't have a substrata of rulers beneath the boyars is the land's low population; with that few people to govern, a layer below the boyars just isn't necessary. That said, if you want to add in that sub-layer, do it! I've never understood how the people of Bar...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!

I was hoping we'd get to continue with the game soon, but unfortunately it looks like schedules aren't matching up. That's okay...the Mists will wait.

When we last left our heroes they were confronting the insane Doctor Hesselius Reichmann in his laboratory. Kahl attempted to destroy the Doctor's machinery, which did little more than send electricity speeding up his mace and into his fragile body. Kahl then turned his attentions to the Doctor hims...

When we last left our heroes they were about to meet their host for the evening... The Doll went upstairs to fetch her creator, Dr. Hesselius Reichmann, which gave the characters enough time to replace all the stuff they had pocketed from his cabinet of curiosities. When the doctor descended the sta...

Over the weekend I had the chance to run a 5e game set in Ravenloft (1). The characters included Kahl, a cleric of Ezra who has had previous experience with the darkness that overruns the land; Herman, a former whaler and current bard who seems to have bad luck at sea; "Philip," a rather m...

I don't tend to use the usual D&D races in my Gothic Fantasy campaigns (after all, the source fiction doesn't have elves and dwarves) but I do like the idea of their being tainted bloodlines that replace the usual races. These are the bloodlines I've worked up for my Labyrinth Lord game set in U...

Hello all, I've developed a new class for my Gothic Fantasy D&D games that might be applicable to any Ravenloft game as well. My blog post about it is here: http://talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-class-spiritualist.html but I'll include the main text below (the powers...

Great post! Those are all brilliant. I'm a fan of using Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5 for good times(celebrations, festivals, weddings... ) in Borca, Barovia and any other domain with a Slavic influence really. It's a fantastic piece for many reasons i won't go into here however: the sini...