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This is my favorite worst, yet inspiring adventure in all of ravenloft and D&D in general. Yes it is an overkill in general. If I ever run it I will still keep it as a 12th-15th level but I would exclude all the drow elves as it makes it more underdark than alien domain. I would minimise the ha...

The High Master Illithid could be an ulitharid, an "enlightened one", although the monster appeared in Dungeon#24 in 1990 (while Thoughts of Darkness was published in 1992), I believe an ulitharid is appropriate for the High Master Illithid.

Also the Great Peasants' War, a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525 is a good source of inspiration for Gundar's background. The heavily taxed peasantry continued to occupy the lowest stratum of society. In the early 16th century, no peasant co...

Hi, what a coincidence. I was planning to write something on the Hymn of Life from the same article, also involving Gundar of course. I was trying to fit it in the story written. Would you like to align our stories a bit, so the articles complement each other? I wouldn't mind, I could focus mine be...

I am also thinking of doing a rewrite on Duke Nharov Gundar based on the Book of Secrets article Gundar, Sometimes They Come Back by Pierre “Gomez” van Rooden. I like what Gomez has done but I believe it should have more horror elements to make him appropriate for a freedom fighter turned darklord. ...

Well, I do like the gothic feel of the Gaz picture, didn't find it too fantasy for me. I liked it more than just the square curtain with a keep from KotBR. So I made a picture of a mix of those 2: square curtsin but the keep in such s way that it resembles the Gax picture. I do like the real life H...

I was planning to do the same, creating a map of Hunadora and yes, I also noticed the splendid real life Hunadora (your pictures), it doesn't, however, fit the description in Knight of the Black Rose.. and the picture in Gaz IV is also hard to match with KotBR, so I created a castle which fits both...

I was very disappointed that a fine adventure like CoS, which by some of my non-Ravenloft playing friends is considered one of the best of 5e era, defines the Dark Powers and sticks them in a temple. Yes that is a downer, but you can always skip that part, you can use the Amber Temple (or something...

Who are they? The Hickmans? I am not sure they were aware of this in MoP. The people turning Ravenloft to what it is... probably had someone aware of this. Manual of the Planes (1e) was written by Jeff Grubb in 1987, the vestiges of by gone evils (Dark Powers) mentioned in Curse of Strahd (5e) were...

I can’t even express how sad I was when I realized this was posted on April first, you got me good. I desperately wish these were real. For anyone who missed it, here is how the main site was transformed for a couple of days. https://i.ibb.co/cK8xxh8z/Frternityof-Barbies-site.jpg https://i.ibb.co/c...

From Ravenloft Gazetteer II Lamordian commoners believe in simple "peasant-sense", a practicality that is suspicious of over analyzation and muddled acdemic jargon. Civic leaders, physicians, scientists, and other educated men snort at such simpleton's wisdom. They believe that the search ...

Honestly, Lamordia as it is, is extremely small to support a university, by orders of magnitude. Even with stretching to accomodate modern tech-driven societies where food production is performed by 2% of the population instead of 40-60% as it would be in the 19th century or 90% as it would be in r...

I believe it mentions a place called Leidenheim, which is shown on the MCS maps. Then again, Mistipedia says it is only a former residence of Mordenheim's, so I might be wrong here. Thanks The town of Leidenheim ( Mordenheim p.63) is where he went to live with Elise after getting married, I read th...

I am building the background of a character and I was wonderin g if there is any info where Mordenheim studied? I thought it was in Neufurchtenburg but Gazetteer II doeesn't mention any University in Lamordia in fact there is no state edjucation (which is a bit wierd in my opinion for a domain fille...

Carrion Crow wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:36 am I think the original folkloric entity upon which the Phantom Lover is based is the Liderc from Hungarain folklore.

I didn't know that thats why the Phantom Lover is known also as Leederick.