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Firstly, I want to amend that the setting I'm talking about is called Ethersc o pe, not Ethersc a pe. That's a fumble on my part, and I'm sorry about it. Secondly, if anyone's curious, these are the mechanics for Transgenic and Alpha Humanity. All of these have the Human racial trait, which means th...

Among the many 3rd party settings released for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition was a "Screampunk" (Gothic Horror/Steampunk genre mashup) called Etherscape, which revolved around the Victorian Era British Empire discovering a lost, magic-based form of supertechnology left behind by a pre...

In the Ravenloft Gazetteer #3, the entry on Mordent's local population mentions that there is a very distinct strain or subrace of calibans endemic to the domain. Locally known as "Howling Ones" or "Wailing Ones", signature characteristics include pitch black eyes, chalk-white sk...

Gotta admit, I didn't think they would be considered that strong. Thanks for the input.

For Hala, I found a pretty intersting possible inspiration for her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_(demon) Apparently a female mythological creature of Bulgarian and Serbian culture, and was basically a mixture of the Greek Lamia and the Slavic Baba Yaga, known for its appatite and said to contr...

Apologies for the title; I really couldn't think of a better one. One of the things I really like about the Ravenloft Gazetteers are the "Heroes of (X Domain)" sidebars, which break down in simple, easy instructions how best to make a thematically appropriate player character native to tha...

I see what you mean but I disagree. Ravenloft was all about making fantasy counterparts from real cultures or pop culture. If the Vistani were portrayed in a racist way such as in Curse of Strahd I agree but in most Ravenloft products they are not used with a black and white thinking. In most if no...

I'd legitimately forgotten about that. Thank you for correcting me, Mephisto. Seems like they both took inspiration from Expedition's take on the Vistani and saw an opportunity to bring back the 3e canon of the Lightfoots, who had tried to shake off the "clearly a hobbit" stigma by being a...

About Vistani meta-history, they went through various phases. In 4e many of the Vistani were turned to halflings. I believe you may be confusing 4e with 3e, where Expedition to Castle Ravenloft ignored the Realms of Terror-created lore of the Vistani and went mostly back to their I6 roots as "...

As you wrote Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani is the best source of material for them likewise Van Richten's Guide to Witches (Hags) contained within Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium III , contains a lot of information for the Church of Hala, though it is 2e and you will need some conver...

Firstly, the obligatory: I know that the idea of crossing over between Gothic Earth and the wider D&D multiverse isn't popular (that's more Ravenloft's thing), but there is no malice here. Anyway, the idea has been percolating in my head for a while of a British qabal that is basically the Victo...

Long story short, I want to do some research on the enigmatic and now controversial Vistani, as well as the two oldest religions native to the Demiplane of Dread; the Churches of Ezra and Hala. What sources should I check out to do this? For Vistani, I believe the concept first emerged in the origin...

I've been considering if I should do a follow-up to my previous articles, examining incorporating Ghostfire Gaming's Artificer subclasses (the Machine Cultist, guided by an alien artificial intelligence that may exist outside of space/time/reality, and the Reanimator) into Ravenloft. Dungeons of Dra...

Ravenloft has many obstacles to struggle with in its status as the Dark Fantasy/Gothic Horror setting for Dungeons & Dragons, as D&D's basic precepts and those of Gothic Horror often clash. A particularly notable area of conflict comes in the form of playable nonhuman races; to sum things up...

People of Misty Hollows The Weschselkind have a lot of potential. Changelings are such a rich source of folkloric horror. Even though we have a version of that already with the Feyshot, another take is welcome. I get a very Pinocchio vibe from this entry. The Laneshi are a unique take on merfolk bu...