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Undead exoskeletal remains of an insect. May be of the Giant Ant, Giant Tick, or Stag Beetle varieties. The entry's illustration is that of the Drow Vampire for some reason (a typo). Was there ever a correction to this? Ah, hah! The Lady Fordam unearthed my copy of the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendiu...

If that's the case, Alhoon, then that changes everything! I could most definitely see Louise enlisting a Ravenloft Doppelganger to impersonate the long-lost Henri as part of a devious plot against her hated twin sister. Not exactly, human Henri existed, and was "replaced" before reaching ...

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...

Solan wrote: ↑Wed May 15, 2024 5:13 pm Well, don't leave me in suspense, Mephisto; what is this better option?

In my opinion Van Richten's Guide to Doppelgangers has a better option.

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...

Pont-a-Museau is Ravenloft's Venice by the way.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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. ...

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 ...

I found this cool mini for Ivan Dilisnya 5e