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A problem I have with religions in Ravenloft is that ... as is, Ravenloft is too small for so drastically different religions.
What I mean is that we have something the size of Switzerland with several different, drastically different religions. Not Catholics/Protestants but like Hinduists living ...

Did it ever occur to you that The Darkest Night is a reverse holiday?

(Maybe next Hannuka I'll run a one-shot about a group of Jewish off-worlders stuck in Darkon during The Darkest Night and getting in trouble for lighting a Menorah :lol: )


Atheist and non-Jewish but I think it sounds like a ...

I might spend some time putting together a table or something that shows what languages are common for different domains. I'm trying to get something easy for my players to have access to, so they can see what languages are useful where at a glance.

Funny, doing the same myself for my ...

This thread reminds me of "regional feats", something they implemented for 3.X Forgotten Realms, where depending on a character's native "region" they could choose a feat at level 1 from a list that represented their region's culture/features; regional feats tended to be slightly more powerful than ...

but she has always appeared as a wizened crone in all centuries she has existed in the Land of Mists.

The look how she feels is Vistani lore. As I see it she always "feels" too wise to be younger than she looks.


IIRC I've read someone who raised the possibility that the Gentleman Caller ...

I might spend some time putting together a table or something that shows what languages are common for different domains. I'm trying to get something easy for my players to have access to, so they can see what languages are useful where at a glance.

Funny, doing the same myself for my setting ...

but she has always appeared as a wizened crone in all centuries she has existed in the Land of Mists.

The look how she feels is Vistani lore. As I see it she always "feels" too wise to be younger than she looks.


IIRC I've read someone who raised the possibility that the Gentleman Caller ...

Yeah, saw that map when it was posted; great work, but unfortunately shows many reasons why I really dislike 5e even though it's correcting one of its worst mistakes (eliminating the Core).

Huh, so I'm guessing the vampiric phantom is actually Leederik of the eponymous Tower, then. And IIRC Liffe's association with the Book of Crypts dates back to the Domain of Dread hardcover, what with Moondale, Armeikos and Claveria being mentioned there as settlements.

Also, never played or read ...

Surprised that nobody mentioned this map of the Core, from the Ravenloft Cartographical Society thread; I daresay it's my personal favorite overall.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18WX1Ik ... ocTZ4vwWRU

...Yeah, hard pass for me. Besides that this appears to be a continuation of the butchering of my favorite D&D setting, that orc twink is representative of one of the recent changes to D&D that I most despise: "orcs are popular now, so they can't be evil brutes anymore 'because it's racist' " - cue ...

This should go without saying, but Wes Craven's Prince of Darkness .


...That's actually John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness . The second part of his (otherwise unrelated) "Apocalypse trilogy" along with The Thing (my favorite movie ever) and In the Mouth of Madness (which I saw three times in a ...

Finally saw Eggers' take on Nosferatu and definitely agree - was a terrific film. Bill Skarsgard is unrecognizable under the heavy makeup and costume (as well as that raspy voice) but gives an awesomely creepy performance. The movie both brings back the vampire to its roots as a monstrous undead and ...

Just read the first chapter and color me intrigued. The Fifth Choir sport an interestingly bizarre design, and the characters and bits of potential worldbuilding held my attention.

Okay, so I guess my question is, what makes a doppelganger immune to lycanthropy? I browsed the Dopp netbook and the Zherisia gaz and haven't seen an explanation.


Sorry for the late response, but from a purely rules perspective (in 3.X anyway), it's because doppelgangers have the "monstrous ...