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Personally, making Hollowfaust a conventional Domain of Dread feels like a waste to me, since it misses the locale's entire selling point and what makes it so interesting - it's a city of necromancers that is Dark But Not Evil, a place where the traditionally sinister and eerie art of necromancy is ...

Sorry to be a bother, but I need to answer some questions about getting around in the domain of Hazlan; Gazetteer #1 really isn't as helpful as I hoped, though I know that the three main roads of Hazlan are, off the top of my head, the Red Highway (north/south, links Toyalis to Ramulai), the Warlock...

Pizza wrote: ↑Sun May 19, 2024 2:47 pm I’d be happy if someone just started triffids

Well, I don't know how useful this is to you, but a book called the Creature Codex produced by Kobold Press has stats for a 5e plant monster called the Warlock's Trumpetbloom that is clearly a triffid.

I appreciate the suggestions, Mephisto. Ended up dropping them in the hills surrounding Ramulai and had them stumble across it after fighting off some tentacle rats. Any advice on their first interactions, beyond what S has to say about the attitudes of the Rashemani serfs living there? In particula...

I'm about to start a new campaign in the classic "outlanders deposited into Ravenloft" vein, using the Sword & Sorcery version of the campaign setting. Problem is, my players really want to start their campaign in Hazlan, and I have no real knowledge of or attraction to the domain, so ...

Firstly, I want to amend that the setting I'm talking about is called Ethersc o pe, not Ethersc a pe. That's a fumble on my part, and I'm sorry about it. Secondly, if anyone's curious, these are the mechanics for Transgenic and Alpha Humanity. All of these have the Human racial trait, which means th...

Among the many 3rd party settings released for Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition was a "Screampunk" (Gothic Horror/Steampunk genre mashup) called Etherscape, which revolved around the Victorian Era British Empire discovering a lost, magic-based form of supertechnology left behind by a pre...

In the Ravenloft Gazetteer #3, the entry on Mordent's local population mentions that there is a very distinct strain or subrace of calibans endemic to the domain. Locally known as "Howling Ones" or "Wailing Ones", signature characteristics include pitch black eyes, chalk-white sk...

Gotta admit, I didn't think they would be considered that strong. Thanks for the input.

For Hala, I found a pretty intersting possible inspiration for her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_(demon) Apparently a female mythological creature of Bulgarian and Serbian culture, and was basically a mixture of the Greek Lamia and the Slavic Baba Yaga, known for its appatite and said to contr...

Apologies for the title; I really couldn't think of a better one. One of the things I really like about the Ravenloft Gazetteers are the "Heroes of (X Domain)" sidebars, which break down in simple, easy instructions how best to make a thematically appropriate player character native to tha...

I see what you mean but I disagree. Ravenloft was all about making fantasy counterparts from real cultures or pop culture. If the Vistani were portrayed in a racist way such as in Curse of Strahd I agree but in most Ravenloft products they are not used with a black and white thinking. In most if no...

I'd legitimately forgotten about that. Thank you for correcting me, Mephisto. Seems like they both took inspiration from Expedition's take on the Vistani and saw an opportunity to bring back the 3e canon of the Lightfoots, who had tried to shake off the "clearly a hobbit" stigma by being a...

About Vistani meta-history, they went through various phases. In 4e many of the Vistani were turned to halflings. I believe you may be confusing 4e with 3e, where Expedition to Castle Ravenloft ignored the Realms of Terror-created lore of the Vistani and went mostly back to their I6 roots as "...

As you wrote Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani is the best source of material for them likewise Van Richten's Guide to Witches (Hags) contained within Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium III , contains a lot of information for the Church of Hala, though it is 2e and you will need some conver...