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You may be right. My observations are based on the online articles, reddit, this board, and some twitter. Mostly it's the topic of Ezmeralda and changes to her character that keeps popping up again and again. I guess many Curse of Strahd veterans really like her. I get the feeling that VRGtRL is go...

This Reddit post describes the metaplot of 5e Ravenloft. Worst thing they’ve done? Defined the Dark Powers. I brought this up on EN World, and it sounds like it's a case of the monster description doing one thing while the main text does another and leaves the Dark Powers ambiguous. I'm still not b...

I've more or less given up on 'continuity' or 'canon', but this approach to the setting looks to be stripping out much of what I liked--the Gothic atmosphere, the classic monster archetypes, the moral underpinnings, the overall aesthetic--and doubling-down on elements of the setting that I never muc...

Statements from WotC in a column at Forbes' website are that we can expect Ravenloft material "very soon."

Rogold Gildenman wrote:Master Mangrum, I like your idea; something about a palette largely in shades rather than colours seems to fit Ravenloft like a glove.

I agree. Ravenloft should be a four-color setting--white, gray, black and red.

It looks interesting, but I'd like to see some mechanics. It's based on Dungeon Crawl Classics, and requires that to play, apparently. I'm not familiar with DCC beyond the fact that it requires a lot of unusual dice--it's one of the cases where the first ad actively unsold me on the game. :) So, I'...

As Ken Hite put it a decade ago, "if you can't make [ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ] into a Ravenloft campaign, you're not even trying." :) He was talking about the original fairy tale, but the Disney version isn't that different. And the Evil Queen's laboratory sequences are one of my ...

Off the top of my head, it was because only she had the last piece of information he needed, and she killed herself to stop him getting it. I see. Not sure exactly how they would stop him from eventually getting the same information.... couldn't he just send out another one of her/him to the same p...

Sea zombies are also found under the "Zombie" entry in the 2nd Edition Monstrous Manual.

The original theory was it was like Neverland in Peter Pan: small but packed with adventure (there's a quote about that somewhere). I think you're confusing my personal interpretation in my "Let's Read" thread with authorial intent. That's the way I've read Ravenloft since I realized how ...

Glad to see you over here, Chaot!

Matthew "Armchair Gamer" Martin

Next has been spectacularly unimpressive to me so far. As for fitting Ravenloft, I don't know if its strong 1E, 'back to basics' vibe will help it much there. Ravenloft and D&D have always been uneasy bedfellows; sometimes that tension works, sometimes it doesn't. My current approach to Ravenlof...

I've checked the blog a few times and downloaded the PDFs. If you ever revive your "Psychosexual Ravenloft" series, Tower of Doom is just screaming for assessment. I think it's to blame for the 3E BoVD's "Lichloved" feat, for example.

I personally prefer Scholar's take on the wererats of Richemulot to the version provided in Gaz III. I thought I'd note that it's now slated for eBook release on April 23. I, Strahd and To Sleep with Evil come out on the 16th, and Heaven's Bones on the 9th, of the same month.

Either 2E nosferatu, or 3E vampire without energy drain. In both cases, add the 'plant-killing touch' of the elven vampire. The 3E nosferatu was redesigned to be closer to the Byronic vampire, since the 'standard' D&D vampire finally acquired blood drinking in 3E. (It would take them another edi...