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- Thu May 16, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The mysterious fate of Henri DuBois
- Replies: 9
- Views: 67
Re: The mysterious fate of Henri DuBois
Thanks for sharing, Mephisto! I actually regard that as a far inferior explanation. We know Henri's family is human, there's no evidence to believe otherwise about him, and it seems ridiculous to suggest he should be a villain. As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". By the sa...
- Thu May 16, 2024 12:38 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The mysterious fate of Henri DuBois
- Replies: 9
- Views: 67
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:11 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: The mysterious fate of Henri DuBois
- Replies: 9
- Views: 67
Re: The mysterious fate of Henri DuBois
In my opinion Van Richten's Guide to Doppelgangers has a better option.
- Wed May 15, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Intrigue and secrecy in a venice
- Replies: 8
- Views: 482
Re: Intrigue and secrecy in a venice
Just to be clear: I don't think Pont-a-Museau is Ravenloft's Venice. Yes, it has the canals but the names are French-sounding and it is not a maritime Empire, which was a very important part of Venice. It is also much smaller than Venice was. We don't know Richemulot's false history, as no one does...
- Sat May 11, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Intrigue and secrecy in a venice
- Replies: 8
- Views: 482
Re: Intrigue and secrecy in a venice
Pont-a-Museau is Ravenloft's Venice by the way.
- Wed May 08, 2024 2:01 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Is Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft worth getting if you own all the 2E/3E books?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1453
Re: Is Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft worth getting if you own all the 2E/3E books?
Well VRGtRavenloft has some good ideas but does it really worth buying a whole book costing 50$ or around 35 € for just a few good ideas scattered here and there? People who had the hoped that 5e would continue from where 3e ended (and probably waited that the new book would delve into the Time of U...
- Mon May 06, 2024 10:37 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 175
Re: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
In general I believe Ramulai and especially the Red Accademy should be a nature defying place, possibly the only human settled high fantasy place in the Demiplane of Dread. The adventurers will possibly will not visit a magic infested place like this again unless they somehow visit Castle Avernus in...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:23 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 175
Re: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
In particular, do we know anything about how the Red Academy is laid out or what it looks like? The Red Academy is probably made of the same "living stone" as the rest of Ramulai, said to be constructed in a single day by Hazlik's magic transforming the stone ( homes in Ramulai are constr...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 175
Re: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
I appreciate the suggestions, Mephisto. Ended up dropping them in the hills surrounding Ramulai and had them stumble across it after fighting off some tentacle rats. Any advice on their first interactions, beyond what S has to say about the attitudes of the Rashemani serfs living there? In particul...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 175
Re: Hazlani Adventuring for Rookies
I'm about to start a new campaign in the classic "outlanders deposited into Ravenloft" vein, using the Sword & Sorcery version of the campaign setting. Problem is, my players really want to start their campaign in Hazlan, and I have no real knowledge of or attraction to the domain, so...
- Fri May 03, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Community Mapping: Invidia
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1615
Re: Community Mapping: Invidia
(Or this Dementlieu map: https://i.imgur.com/pN9jdM4.png) I discovered another find for Dementieu the village of Villebois from The Beast Within A RAVENLOFT® adventure for the ADVENTURER’S GUILD™ Retail Play Program. " Inside every human heart is a ravenous beast, the people of Villebois say. ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Additional monsters for Hazlan
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3769
Re: Additional monsters for Hazlan
Reaper miniatures Chronoscope have these miniatures called Bathalian which is a name they made out for Illithids. I believe these monsters could be how the El-Koth look like. They resemble a hybrid of mind flayers and Zerg hydralisk's from the Starcraft game. Zerg have two cell types at birth — one ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:36 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Is Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft worth getting if you own all the 2E/3E books?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1453
Re: Is Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft worth getting if you own all the 2E/3E books?
I found this cool mini for Ivan Dilisnya 5e
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:52 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Community Mapping: Invidia
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1615
Re: Community Mapping: Invidia
Grûlan
"One such young woman was the peasant girl Marta , to whom Bakholis took fancy when his hunting party passed through the village of Grûlan."
-p.44 Gazetteer IV
I believe it should be somewhere in Vulpwood as these were probably Bakholis private hunting grounds.
"One such young woman was the peasant girl Marta , to whom Bakholis took fancy when his hunting party passed through the village of Grûlan."
-p.44 Gazetteer IV
I believe it should be somewhere in Vulpwood as these were probably Bakholis private hunting grounds.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:59 am
- Forum: Ravenloft Forum
- Topic: Community Idea: Settlements!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 9428
Re: Community Idea: Settlements!
I don't disagree with any of what you said, Speedy, but none of that changes the likelihood that Meph is right. It's just a matter of when the countdown begins in earnest. Well it is a nice scenario to find his body in the woods (or maybe he recently died from White Fever) and while investigating h...