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So, I saw the last Conjuring movie last night and, following the ancient Ravenloft tradition of adapting real-world tropes to this world (adding a few twists, of course), I have a few ideas. The Passinis are a triad (two men and a woman, all in love with each other) who belong to the Order of the Gu...

I would say that the train doesn't stop so long as the Last Passenger is awake, since he believes they're still outrunning the disaster which killed them all. His punishment is constantly seeing and being in constant fear of the calamity which killed him, which he experiences when he sees mist. Whe...

Well, I finished the book today. First of all, I liked its tips for horror campaigns. I am a mediocre DM, and as a rule I appreciate very much these things. Nothing negative to say in this matter, although I don't understand very well why these tips were not in the same chapter discussing horror gen...

Thanks! Heroes of the Mists was a project of love that started here and a lot of forumites gave feedback on. (I often feel guilty I'm charging for it, since it was meant to be a free fan product.) And I'm really proud of dark shadows and how they turned out. The excellent livestream game Tales from...

I was thinking about updating the True Innocent as a Background myself. I see a few appropriate skills for this background: Animal Handling (animals tend to like you), Insight (you tend to be empathic), Medicine (you tend to care for others), Performance (you tend to find easy to convey the beauty o...

It's cool. If these languages are related to one another you might also consider the language 'tree' approach used in Time of the Dragon (Dragonlance boxed set for Taladas). The format looks like a language family tree chart , if you have seen those, but with dots added. One or more black dots are ...

This optional rule was created for Ravenloft and other campaigns in which there is no Common language. With it, a language has 4 possible ranks, ranging from 0 (the default) to 3. Benefits The benefits of each one are listed below, and each rank includes the benefits of the previous ones unless othe...

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There is an article on D&D Wiki with the same premise: Unknown_(5e_Background).

Interesting. I didn't know about this site. Not enough to think about searching through it at least. Thank you very much, it seems to have more work than the version I wrote.

So, I read Jester's Heroes of Light and, among all the gold I found, I missed a background I would have liked to see, so I started writing one, and I was on a roll, so... here goes nothing AMNESIAC Some trauma or spell erased your memory. You may have forgotten the most recent months or years —durin...

Bienvenidos, nirnel! Hope your game goes well! We're here to help, if you need us... Thank you. I started by reading the module twice and tweaking the lore to adjust to Ravenloft as we knew it, but I might still make a few changes. I also intend to use DMG optional rules for a grittier campaign (sl...

Hi, I'm thinking about running CoS with a few options from the DMG. Of course, Fear and Horror tests are first in my list. In order to make a gritty campaign, I would use the healing varints "Healer's Kit Dependency" and/or "Slow Natural Healing". I like the "Gritty Realism&...

Hi, I'm Nirnel. I have been following Ravenloft for more than 15 years, and buying any material I can acquire (pretty few books, in Spain), but I will only start running a game now.