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I prefer the dread realms to be located in an area outside the normal timestream. When you summon a creature from the outer planes to the Ravenloft setting, it could be coming from any time period. Maybe its the same day, but it could be a creature from a thousands years in the future, or a million...

Somewhat in support of the idea that it is possible but difficult, the 2ed Red Book Ravenloft Campaign setting has under psionic powers Know Location the standard restriction that one does not learn that one is in the Domain of Dread, but on a Power score one does in fact learn just that (p. 108). A...

The 3.5 Ravenloft Dungeon Master's Guide includes altered psionic powers. Among these appears Sending (p. 123) and Remote Viewing (p. 122). Both powers fail to work across closed domain borders. Are the borders of the Land of Mists themselves the equivalent of a closed border? Both power also refer ...

I, Strahd: the War against Azalin shows Azalin struggling mightily to grasp at anything beyond the Land of Mists. In 543 a glimpse of such a world appears in a portal (opened with colossal magical effort) which he is prevented from traversing. And in 579, according to the speculation of Mangrum, Az...

Critical new data point from 2ed Realm of Terror Red Book p. 22.: First, a greater power [as opposed to a lesser one presumably] can remove individuals from the Land of Mists and guide them to safety [as per a Horn of Valhalla (discussed above); see in this edition p. 122]. Second, such a circumstan...

Bravo.

So far I have only had time to leave few comments concerning alchemy.

A couple of data-points: From 1ed Realms of Terror p. 54, the continual use of a Horn of Valhalla to call berserkers who are then trapped in the Land of Mists eventually results in a greater power from Valhalla temporary translating into the Land of Mists to seize the horn and reclaim any surviving ...

I would like to discuss communication between a powerful clergy, the Church of the Lawgiver, inside the Land of Mists and its god, The Lawgiver (Bane), on the outside looking in. In doing so I am drawing on this previous thread http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3958 tr...

Thanx,

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My next (probably tabetltop and probably not for a long time yet) Raveloft game may involve a variant of Nova Vaasa I am kicking around now. It likely won't be, but I may borrow your horses breezes and credit you to the players (as well as anything that gets posted, of course), if that is coo.\l. B...

Below are proposed 3.5 stats for the horse breeds of Nova Vaasa. I haven't made much progress deciding on their price however, either within Nova Vaasa or abroad where their export (save for geldings) is forbidden by Nova Vaasan law. Any thoughts would be appreciated. heatwalkers - light horse - 16-...

The Orb of Augmentation appears in Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I on page 119. I had originally read it as increasing a spellcaster's caster level by +1. But on a second read, I believe that it instead increases the highest level of spells that the spellcaster can cast. That is to say that Hazlan, a 1...

Zettaijin wrote:Dungeons & Dragons & Philosophers (comic number 23 if it changes to another one by the time you get there)

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OK, this seems relevant from the 3.5 d20 master FAQ: "The text on page 289 in the Dungeon Master’s Guide says a supernatural ability cannot be dispelled. Table 8-1 on the next page, however, says it can. Which one is right? If supernatural abilities cannot be dispelled, can they be removed or c...