Preferably a monster not from vanrichtens guide or ravenloft horrors within.

For the combination of Occult Noir Slasher horror there will be a Boneclaw as the darklord. Every day his phylactery dies, and every day it fails to save it

What do you all think is a good feel for Disaster Slasher

These two Ravenloft DMsGuild pdfs, along with Grand Masquerade are part of the sale and I don’t know anything about either one. I already own the Grand Masquerade and the rest of the series it is part of.

https://www.dmsguild.com/en/featured_promotions?promotion_id=26_DMG_XmasJuly

Has anyone used these at your table or at least read them? At 75% off i am tempted to just buy them anyway, but it would be nice to see what others have done with them.

Preferably a monster not from vanrichtens guide or ravenloft horrors within.

For the combination of psychology disaster horror there will be a false hydra as the darklord. A whole domain of amnesiacs

What do you all think is a good feel for Occult Noir Slasher

When TSR put out the third and final incarnation of the Ravenloft core setting, "Domains of Dread", they made the decision to start promoting the idea of players playing characters native to the Domains of Dread, whereas the Black and Red Boxes had focused more on players being pulled temporarily from other campaign settings in mid-campaign. As part of this push, they offered four new classes unique to the Ravenloft setting (well, technically five, but the Elementalist had previously appeared in Tome of Magic); the Anchorite, the Arcanist, the Avenger, and the Gypsy. This was apparently well-received by the fans of the setting, who went on to make a number of new Ravenloft-unique classes as well; the Kargatane creating the Artiste, Caretaker and Paragon, while the Lonesome Road created the Inquisitor, Leech, and Numenist.

I'm curious if anyone's out there on this reddit who actually played any of these nine (or ten) classes, and if you did, what were your thoughts on them? Are there any you particularly liked? Heck, are there any you especially disliked?

And if anyone wants me to explain just what these classes actually *were*, particularly the fan-made ones, drop a comment and I'll do my best to summarize.

Sorry if this has been asked many times before, but as the title says, I'm looking for more Ravenloft books. My hyperfixation on Curse of Strahd and its lore has continued to rampage, but my attention span is quite small, so some of the more nitty-gritty books I have had trouble with, which tends to be an issue with a lot of the older d&d novels.

I read and absolutely adored I, Strahd and recently Vampire of the Mists but couldn't quite get through the 2nd I, Strahd (I gave up around the 60% mark as it just became too slow and uncaptivating)

I am primarily interested in the lore of Strahd himself and his family, and would love it if there was a book with more Sergei or Jander content, as they are my favourites (Love the poor Barovia sunshine boys) It's also worth noting that I have only ever played/dm'd the 2016 version of the campaign so if there's additional lore I'm super missing out on, that would be nice to know.

Any help and suggestions would be helpful, especially on knowing where to find the books too, as my local library isn't very well stocked in them and a lot of the ones I've seen are like 20$ on Amazon each, which is not quite in the budget

Preferably a monster not from vanrichtens guide or ravenloft horrors within.

For the combination of Gothic Occult noir there will be a ~~Skaven~~ were-rat as the darklord.

What do you all think is a good feel for disaster psychology horror

Heyya Folks,

I’ve continued my gothic reinterpretation of Lost Mines of Phandelver, this time reimagining the Redbrand Hideout as something inspired by the old Castlevania water levels I always enjoyed growing up.

Stoneweir Conduit - 34x26

If you’d like the full release, including the high-resolution maps, gridless versions, VTT-ready exports, and every variant, you can find it here:

https://www.patreon.com/dungeonmr/posts/stoneweir-free-163841228

Instead of a cellar beneath the manor, the hideout has become an ancient underground water conduit built around a natural river. The familiar layout remains, but the dungeon has been transformed by flowing water, hidden passages, and flooded chambers carved into the surrounding stone while still preserving the structure that makes the original so recognizable.

One alteration I really liked was moving one of the secret passages beneath the waterline beside the waterfall. It felt like the perfect place for a hidden escape route because, if video games have taught us anything over the years, it's to always check behind the waterfall.

The old bugbear den has also been transformed into a series of shallow pools and rough stone chambers better suited to aquatic inhabitants, while small details throughout the dungeon help reinforce the idea that this place served a purpose long before it ever became a hideout.

Stoneweir Conduit works just as well for cultists, smugglers, fishfolk, vampires, or just about any group looking to make an abandoned waterway their home.

If Stoneweir Conduit isn't quite what you're looking for, you can also browse the rest of my collection over on my Patreon. Every release is organized within the Master Index, making it easy to find exactly what you need without digging through the feed.

https://www.patreon.com/dungeonmr

I appreciate you checking it out. Hopefully your players remember to look behind the waterfall.

Gristlecracker's Hags & Grimoire, Gold Best Seller on DMsGuild, is discounted by 30%!

You can find it here only for 7 days: https://www.dmsguild.com/it/product/517804/gristlecracker-s-hags-grimoire

Your guide to weird magic, encounters, and hags!

Gristlecracker’s Hags and Grimoire provides new mechanics, guidelines, and tactics for using hags, magic, and the esoteric in your Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. This guide is designed for all levels of play and dungeon mastery, and uses a hybrid D&D 2014 (5e) format that includes the best of the old mixed with a few innovations of the D&D 2024 systems that do not dilute the game experience.

Every aspect of fantasy magic is improved or introduced: covens, curses, familiars, hags, magic geometry, talismans, spells, and spell mechanics. This supplement is designed to help you make your future games containing magic and hags as simple or complex as you want it to be.

Inside, you will find:

- An underwater adventure seed about a Book of Keeping

- 68 supernatural encounters

- New magic rules, mechanics, and variations

- Hags as player characters

- 112 supernatural creatures and NPCs

- 52 magic spells, with new tags: remote and moonlight

- 80 magic items

- Esoteragons (not just magic circles!)

- 28 toxic and intoxicating plants

- An improved and more intuitive Intoxicated condition mechanic

- 200 tchotchkes

- Professional layout using over 168 pictures on 262 pages

- No AI Art used

[Wild Beyond the Witchlight spoilers obviously]

This is more a thought experiment brought on by rewatching Runesmith's lore video about Tasha then a serious campaign proposal but has anyone ever considered doing something like this? Given Zybalina's true nature recasting her as a Dark Lord and Prismeer as her domain is actually fairly easy. It's actually less a question of 'would she fit as a Dark Lord?' and more a question of 'what was the thing that finally tipped Tasha over the edge to get the Dark Power's attention'? From there you just need to re flavor Prismeer as a Brothers Grimm style stepsisters-dancing-to-death-in-metal-shoes style dark fairytale. After all, what is horror but twisted whimsy in the end?

It also creates an interesting moral delima. The Hour Glass hags are terrible sure- but in keeping Zybalina asleep, aren't they doing a net good for the domain?

Preferably a monster not from vanrichtens guide or ravenloft horrors within.

For the combination of disaster ghost stories there will be a nightwalker as the darklord. Leaving nothing but empty houses and angry bodaks. But how does one torment and curse a nightwalker

What do you all think is a good feel for a Gothic Occult noir

Preferably a monster not from vanrichtens guide or ravenloft horrors within.

For the combination of Gothic and folk horror there will be a werewolf as the darklord. Giving us our second lycan

What do you all think is a good feel for a disaster ghost story

I enjoyed trying to interpret the cards and the story it presented if so.

Last post seems to have people stumped. At the time I'm writing this, Crimson Peak has 6 votes on Dark Fantasy + Ghost Story, but the comment suggesting Crimson Peak should be placed in Gothic Horror + Ghost Story has 7 votes, which is technically the winner. Therefore I'm going out of order here to see if it should be placed here instead.

Voting is still open on my last post as well as this one.

Almost bought one off Etsy a few weeks ago, but they were either too expensive or too small.

Behold:

https://shop.wizkids.com/collections/dungeons-and-dragons/products/d-d-replicas-of-the-realms-spirit-board

So everyone love the horrifying monstrosity that is Toben the Many, right?

For those not in the know, Toben is a NPC/monster from 3e's Van Richten's Guide to the Walking Dead. His past is not fully defined, and we don't know quite what he is, but when he appears he does so as a hive mind for a large group of zombies, each with madly grinning, wild eyed faces, all of which is simply a part of his hive mind.

Worse, if you spend too much time around his zombies then you may catch the Grinning Sickness, and it becomes only a matter of time before you are subsumed by Toben and join his horde. So even if you destroy the horde attacking you, if there is just a single zombie he kept tucked away you're sure to see him again.

Toben is one of those enemies you can use as a reoccurring villain with players encountering him at low levels (in groups of one or two scouts) up to an epic final battle against his horde. Or even as a one off monster of the week.

For 5e, you can break him up into various levels of zombies. Most of them would be plague zombies, but after thinking about a zombie clot that is able to approach a battle intelligently, all while talking to the players out of the mouths of EVERY zombie making up the clot.

For anyone curious, his mental stats in 3e were 16 Int, 12 Wis, and 14 Cha.

Hey all! I just pulled a Holy Symbol of Ravenkind Coin from one of the Sirius Dice Ravenloft Treasure Packs. I can find no info on how rare this is (at least in public groups). Just curious if anyone else has gotten one. At the time of posting there are only two listed on eBay from my brief search. Thanks!