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How often do your Vistani visit IoT domains? Har Akir? For Har'Akir, I actually presume fairly often... mostly because of the existence of the dikesha. Usually, for the "non-Patterna" languages, I have my Vistani speak Balok and then Akiri as their secondary tongues (at least, when the la...

The section of VRGttSF that refers to Shadow Fey becoming Sylvan Fey, if only they were born outside the Shadow Rift, seems to imply that would be desirable. Do Shadow Fey envy Sylvan Fey? Well, VRGttSF pg 13 also mentions that the Shadow Fey (and everyone else) are unaware that they could have bee...

kottakinge wrote:I see a grappling horde much like a swarm.

...or a mob, from the 3.5 Dungeon Masters Guide II. I believe there were full statistics for a mob of zombies in Exemplars of Evil.

To be consistent across the board, you'll need to think about what you'll do with the Dilisnyas. Lord Leo Dilisnya is a Dilisnya in name only because he was actually the child of an illicit affair between Dorfinya (wife of Pidlwik Dilisnya) and Gunther Cosco. Yet the true Dilisnya bloodline, the on...

One idea could be to use the "Amnesia" result from the Madness checks: they've all failed the checks in the past (but don't realize it), and now that their ability scores have recovered, they can start regaining those false memories (and the rest of their abilities along with it). Perhaps ...

So, I just reached episode 7 of the anime series, Black Butler , and immediately thought of the Karina dog fights from The Evil Eye (with a fair bit of Howls in the Night ). This entire episode feels like a little one-shot Ravenloft adventure, and could definitely be tied into either of those advent...

You have to remember that I10 (and I6, for that matter) were written long before Ravenloft had established its sensibilities as a campaign setting. Plus, it does make sense a little bit in the case of Mordentshire a few hundred years before the current time-frame. The last of the great heroes have ...

There's one single focus of the good guys (Avacyn), but the monsters are more fragmented. As far as I know (and I haven't read everything, so I may be wrong), they don't have a single leader (as yet, maybe SOI will change that.) I would say that the easiest transition would be to make it a 4-domain...

There's one other (direct) correlation between Ravenloft and Gothic Earth: the Nightmare Court reaches into both realms. The Transylvania gazetteer introduced a new member of the Court, the Red-Headed Child. Whether any of the Vistani can travel back and forth between the two worlds has never been a...

One other suggestion I might make that's specific to your campaign: since the PCs are all Gundarakites (and so is Heinfroth), find some tie-in back to their home struggles, like perhaps one or more of them having encountered "Dr. Dominiani" in the pre-Grand Conjunction era. Regardless, at ...

The Beast: I'm thinking I'll just introduce a werewolf NPC lackey of Strahd's and have the card indicate his lair, I can't think of any canon lycanthrope allies of Strahd, anyone know of any? There was a werewolf who worked with him in Vampire of the Mists (I'm blanking on her name), and even guard...

There's no actual need to fight Meredoth. All you have to do is inter the bodies and ride away into the sun set. The haunting is good. The marine encounters are mostly OK. The captain character is good. It's got a nice character-driven/break the curse/don't have to kill everything you meet idea at ...

One other little tidbit that could be interesting... Farelle. In the excellent "The Jackal Who Would Not Be a Coward" article (by Ryan Naylor, in the Book of Sacrifices ), Jack Karn's curse is that he wants Farelle to remain wild and unspoiled, but it's advancing technologically at an acce...

I get the idea of the "green tax" and how Malus uses it to discourage people from growing things since plant life causes him all manner of problems. However, I don't quite grasp who the money goes to/who is responsible for collecting it. Nosos seems like such a wretched hive that it's run...

Ravenloft is a bit of mish-mash of medieval, Renaissance, and Victorian tech. I expect most lands have printing presses, at least ones with larger cities. There were likely a few print runs of the VanRichten books. I actually play it as the opposite - the printing press is fairly new in Ravenloft (...