Ravenloft is one of
Dungeons & Dragons’ most iconic settings its go-to source for all things spooky and horrifying. But, as iconic as figures like Strahd Von Zarovich and the gothic lands of Barovia are, they’re only one flavor of horror the plane has to offer. A new
D&D campaign sourcebook wants to open up new avenues for the genre on our tabletops.
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Dungeons & Dragons’ Fifth Edition, due out in May, is called
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft. It’s meant to be a resource for players to run horror-themed adventures across the dread domains of one of the most beloved planes of existence in the game’s fiction: the titular Ravenloft. The locale was first introduced in the
Dungeons & Dragons Announces Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft
Dungeons & Dragons is returning to Ravenloft with
Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft. Wizards of the Coast announced that a new 256-page campaign setting book focused on the horror-inspired world of Ravenloft will be released on May 18, 2021.
Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft will not only update the various Domains of Dread that make up Ravenloft, but also provide players with three new lineages and two new subclasses to use in any campaign.
Van Richten s Guide to Ravenloft will also include a new Dark Gifts mechanic, which provides players with various benefits but at a potentially deadly cost.
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The next campaign book for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons is titled
and it’s due out on May 18. The 256-page volume details 30 new and reimagined realms from the Ravenloft multiverse, packaged as micro-settings for your next campaign. Each realm comes complete with its own unique villain for players to fight against, plus heroes new and old to fight alongside.
Fans of the popular
Curse of Strahd campaign will know Ravenloft as the lair of the vampire Strahd von Zharovich, but it’s also the name of an expansive campaign setting published throughout the 1990s.
Dungeons & Dragonsis basically synonymous with the fantasy genre, but the iconic tabletop game’s next sourcebook lets adventuring parties experience a whole new genre: horror.
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, a 256-page book that fully introduces the classic D&D setting of Ravenloft to Fifth Edition and features new subclasses, races, and monsters, comes out on May 18.
Ravenloft, which has been part of
D&D lore since the mid-’80s, is an otherworldly realm of various pocket dimensions, and each is rife with terrors and a grim Darklord presiding over their domain. Traditionally, Ravenloft has been all about gothic horror, best exemplified by Barovia, the setting of the popular Fifth Edition adventure
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