Important changes to canon Ravenloft
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Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Esteemed members of the Fraternity,
Miladies,
As you all know, we are extremely pleased that Ravenloft's first adventure, 1983's I-6: Ravenloft, got a reboot for 5th edition, in the luscious book, Curse of Strahd. This great new adventure revisits the seminal one, and adds many new layers of intrigue, new places, new adventure hooks, new NPCs, etc.
As a reboot designed to be played independent from the Ravenloft, the setting, it also proposes incorporates elements of the setting, with a few changes.
In fact, we are so pleased by this new adventure that we declare all Curse of Strahd changes to be Ravenloft canon here on our boards and website!
What follows is an incomplete list of these new Ravenloft canon changes. We are working on a complete list, soon to be released.
(if you plan to play this adventure - stop here as the following list contains spoilers!)
- Strahd did built the castle Ravenloft after a war of conquest (and didn't take it as a war prize from the Tergs, as in I, Strahd). This has a minor impact on the Ravenloft calendar.
- the famous enemy of the supernatural Van Richten now lives in Barovia (and not in Mordent).
- Sir Klutz Tripalotsky (Ravenloft's crypt # 33) is retrofitted to be the historical founder of the Knight of Shadows.
- Secret lore from a soon to be released Curse of Strahd companion adventure: the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins are in fact hags in disguise, whose current plot is looking for a third hag to form a coven to defeat Strahd!
- Ireena Kolyana is in fact blonde, but she secretly dyes her hair.
- Everything outside Barovia does not exist. In your books, discussions, and online campaigns here on our message boards, please change any outside location to "Barovia."
We declare that for us this is all canon from now on, and we fully expect that all discussions on our boards will take these changes into account. Please mark these changes in your Ravenloft books, and use them in your current campaign.
Later this April, a complete errata to implement these facts in previous 2nd and 3rd edition Ravenloft books will be made available. You'll be able to correct the Ravenloft books you own manually or with Post-it notes. We hope it won't be a fool's job to implement all these changes in your books, but we are convinced that these changes are for the best for the future interest of the setting.
We need your feedback! Do you think the changes are positives? Please react in this thread!
Again, those in the know, no spoilers for now!
Sincerely,
Joël, for everybody at the Souragne Fraternity of Shadows: David, Joël, Leyshon, Nathan, Ron, Sharon, and Stephen
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Now, that's interesting.
Anxious to see the rest!
Patrick
Anxious to see the rest!
Patrick
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
That all works for me!
I knew it!Joël of the FoS wrote: - Secret lore from a soon to be released Curse of Strahd companion adventure: the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins are in fact hags in disguise, whose current plot is looking for a third hag to form a coven to defeat Strahd!
That explains a lot!Joël of the FoS wrote: - Ireena Kolyana is in fact blonde, but she secretly dyes her hair.
I only wish I had retired sooner!
Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Finally. This is the Ravenloft that I've been wanting to play since 1983.
You guys keep making the setting better!
You guys keep making the setting better!
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Too be fair, it was all that other crap that was beginning to turn me off from the setting. Now we can be serious and hone Barovia into the setting we have been needing for decades.
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
You mean Barovia FoS, yes?Joël of the FoS wrote: Sincerely,
Joël, for everybody at the Souragne Fraternity of Shadows: David, Joël, Leyshon, Nathan, Ron, Sharon, and Stephen
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Indeedthekristhomas wrote:You mean Barovia FoS, yes?Joël of the FoS wrote: Sincerely,
Joël, for everybody at the Souragne Fraternity of Shadows: David, Joël, Leyshon, Nathan, Ron, Sharon, and Stephen
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
But they took away everything that was great! No mention of Risibilos, hahaha! That's not funny at all, hahaha!
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
You will have to excuse Joel, he is missing his beloved Sorragne right now. He'll get over it though. I am more gutted over losing Vorostokov, my homeland is no more! I also know on good authority that there are some lovely changes on the way and when Malocchio returns he has gained something truly wonderful at his disposal, but he will now be based in the South West of Barovia
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Excelent fish of April, lol.
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Thanks for playing along everyone, Happy April!
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Re: Important changes to canon Ravenloft
Pfff... I kind of figured by the first reply.