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Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft was published on May 18, 2021 and features cover art by Anna Podedworna. An alternate cover is available only in local game stores with art by Scott M. Fischer. [10] It is the second 5th edition book that focuses on Ravenloft setting; the first was the adventure module Curse of Strahd (2016). [2]
Provides background information on the lands of Faerûn, a detailed town in which to start a campaign, adventure seeds, new monsters, ready-to-play NPCs, and a full-colour poster map of Faerûn. 288 978-0-7869-4924-3
The story involves a party of player characters (PCs) who travel to the land of Barovia, a small nation surrounded by a deadly magical fog.The master of nearby Castle Ravenloft, Count Strahd von Zarovich, tyrannically rules the country, and a prologue explains that the residents must barricade their doors each night to avoid attacks by Strahd and his minions.
Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.It is an alternate time-space existence known as a pocket dimension or demiplane, called the Demiplane of Dread, which consists of a collection of land pieces called "domains", brought together by a mysterious force known only as the Dark Powers.
AD&D 2nd ed. adventure module. Although set in the World of Greyhawk Campaign Setting, there is considerable crossover material used later in the Ravenloft setting, acting as an in-game story means of trapping Vecna inside the Demi-plane of Ravenloft as a Darklord. Ship of Horror: RA2 9321 Anne Brown 1991 ISBN 1-56076-127-X: 8-10
The boxset had "the best background" on the Vistani people until the dedicated 2nd Edition supplement Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani (1995). [3] Depictions of the Vistani people were later revised in the 5th Edition Curse of Strahd Revamped (2020). [1] Their portrayal was further retconned in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft (2021). [4]
Curse of Strahd is an adventure book for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. It was released on March 15, 2016 and is based on the Ravenloft module published in 1983. Contents
After Soth died in World of Krynn (1988), the character "then made the jump to Ravenloft: Realm of Terror, and was quickly lined up as the star of the second Ravenloft novel. The original writer for the novel fell through. Tracy Hickman was offered a shot at the novel and declined because he and TSR were on the outs at the time.