A curiousity struck me as our DM made it so we accidently took a Dread Lord out of his Domain of Dread (So for our universe, it's already decided we can), but I was wondering rather the official rules and/or lore allows such a thing. I couldn't find anything in the books or any forums.
I don't believe that Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft spells it out as explicitly as previous editions had (i.e., 2E and 3E/3.5E), but the official rules were that Dark Lords were prisoners within their respective domains. Since the domains were supposed to be reflections of their Dark Lords and/or their past, oftentimes these reflections were also part of the torment of being trapped within the domain. The concept of a Dark Lord being trapped and tormented loses some of the gothic horror feel if they could just leave their domain.
Having said that, there have been cases where Dark Lords have managed to escape their imprisonment either temporarily (such as Strahd and Azalin) or permanently (such as Lord Soth) in previous D&D adventures and books. So a DM can certainly handle the Dark Lords coming and going however they see fit, but the traditional concept was that this circumstance should be more of an exception to the case than a standard occurance.
Thank you, for the response. In our campaign, the dread lord couldn't escape on his own, were had a building that could move between dimensions. The dread lord lord was using his control over his domain to prevent us from leaving, so we had to kill him. However there was also a cultists that could "reset" everything if we tried to kill him. So we killed him inside our teleporting house, and forgot to throw him out the window or something before leaving, lol.
A curiousity struck me as our DM made it so we accidently took a Dread Lord out of his Domain of Dread (So for our universe, it's already decided we can), but I was wondering rather the official rules and/or lore allows such a thing. I couldn't find anything in the books or any forums.
I don't believe that Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft spells it out as explicitly as previous editions had (i.e., 2E and 3E/3.5E), but the official rules were that Dark Lords were prisoners within their respective domains. Since the domains were supposed to be reflections of their Dark Lords and/or their past, oftentimes these reflections were also part of the torment of being trapped within the domain. The concept of a Dark Lord being trapped and tormented loses some of the gothic horror feel if they could just leave their domain.
Having said that, there have been cases where Dark Lords have managed to escape their imprisonment either temporarily (such as Strahd and Azalin) or permanently (such as Lord Soth) in previous D&D adventures and books. So a DM can certainly handle the Dark Lords coming and going however they see fit, but the traditional concept was that this circumstance should be more of an exception to the case than a standard occurance.
Thank you, for the response. In our campaign, the dread lord couldn't escape on his own, were had a building that could move between dimensions. The dread lord lord was using his control over his domain to prevent us from leaving, so we had to kill him. However there was also a cultists that could "reset" everything if we tried to kill him. So we killed him inside our teleporting house, and forgot to throw him out the window or something before leaving, lol.