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:roll: Vecna is actually a gummy bear. I am going to find a way to use that in the game lol. Though at the moment Strahd is currently a subcritical fluid so is the one who actually does resemble a gummy bear - I've now given him the stats of the new UA Plasmoid due to him remaining in gas form full...

I just realized something that makes Stryx a whole lot scarier: Night Hags are said to have deep connections to the Etheral Plane and the Plane of Shadows, the two planes that are connected to the Demiplane of Dread. So not only can she go into the Nightmare Lands as she pleases, she could basicall...

Vocar the Obedient, Vecna's lead cleric in his hidden cult in Tor Gorak/Tovag, seems like would be the type that would lead an apocalyptic cult and appeared as the main villain in Vecna Reborn. However, he was pretty fanatically loyal to Vecna so it would be hard to imagine him turning against Vecn...

Another way to flip it is to use The Inheritors by William Golding as a basis. it's fantastic and tells the story of a tribe 'cavemen' but they have really complex lore and stories and are afraid of the 'new humans'. One twist is to look at what 'primitive' and 'savage' means. You could look at thin...

Muggs: That's a version of Markovia though. I was thinking of it as more the opposite? - instead of the Darklord creating the twisted humans it's more a case of it being a unexpected side effect - the demi-humans are 'natural' here - the Darklord is the one that doesn't belong! - maybe they were me...

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Maybe instead of a 'Caveman' the Darklord of your stone age Domain could be from a super-advanced race, a warlord or wizard who used 'The Ultimate Spell' to win a war, only to find...

That does sound amazing, Muggs. One question, though. "Beards"? How'd that play out? In a word.. Hilariously! Mechanically it was quite a simple domain. Each PC grew a beard (regardless of gender/logic) and the only escape was to shave it off. This should be simple right? But the themes o...

I find Pinterest is amazing for browsing for material, I keep boards for DND settings I'm working on - they're generally a mess as I like to mix everything to make me think of how things can be blended together. Lots of DND fans use it so you can find everything from maps, hombrew monsters and items...

I actually agree, a lot of the focus on Ravenloft is on the classic horror but doesn't tend to go much further then that. The first thing I did was add Domains based on fears of people from Earth. I googled the most common phobias' and had the PC's roll to find out where they ended up - I called the...

5.5e is that while our group is still using 5e ruleset the timeline of our world's canon is that most of the 5e adventures are now in the past. Everything up to VRgTR is now historical lore including the WOTC 5th edition published adventures including Curse of Strahd. - in fact Castle Ravenloft was ...

So Vecna in my BBEG game has decided to return home to Cavitius - which in VRGtR no longer exists as part of the Burning Peaks cluster but shows up as a nod in the 'disaster horror' tropes. My game is set in 5.5e due to a event that occurred at the end of our 20th level Epic Campaign that remade the...

I'm running a comedic-horror campaign at the moment where a high level party basically have the run of Ravenloft. They started off level 25 but are now level 18 due to a comedy of errors where the PCs are in fact their own worst enemies.. In my game all the PC's are either classic Baddies (Strahd an...

I just ran Cyre 1313 however one thing I found really lacking in the book version was that they missed the most interesting thing about a Eberron. - Eberron is home to the Warforged! A entire race of self-aware robots who were 'born' to fight a war they never chose to take part in. So my version the...

I ran a earlier paranoia themed game where instead of using the Sanity system from the DMG I flipped it for a Insanity Score of 10 + the number of phobia's they had. Each PC's in my campaign started with one phobia (ideally something silly). When they were exposed to the phobia it caused them to nee...

I see Ravenloft as fitting into a 3D intersection between the Ethereal Plane - The Shadowfell and Plane of Negative Energy - as it combines all three elements: It has the mists/darkness of the Shadowfell It doesn't make sense and follows nightmare logic giving it the dreamy quality of the Etheral Pl...