Everything You Need to Know About Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Seventeen Challenging Darklords Stat Blocks

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within includes 17 fully realized Darklords equipped with legendary actions and domain-spanning powers that make them epic confrontations for your party. Strahd, Azalin Rex, Hazlik, Viktra Mordenheim, Chakuna, Cthulhu, Lord Soth, Ebonbane, and the rest are all designed as challenging encounter centerpieces with mechanics directly tied back to their cursed existence.

Ready-to-Run Adventures and Campaign Support

Each of the 16 Domains of Dread comes ready-to-run with a one-shot adventure—including a quickplay map in D&D Beyond's Maps VTT—and provides DMs with outlines for campaign arcs for characters of various levels. Whether you're visiting Ravenloft for the night or are trapped for eternity, DMs will find everything they need for deliciously dastardly adventure.

Maps for Horror Campaigns. Ravenloft: The Horrors Within also contains 20 new maps, revealing settlements and adventure sites across the Domains of Dread, from the city of Martira Bay and the village of Mordentshire, to the settings of tales of terror like the Old Kartakan Inn and Taverna, Shadowborn Manor, Van Richten's Herbalist Shop, and the lightning rail carts of Cyre 1313.

Glimpses of Horror. This book reveals the Domains of Dread more completely and lavishly than ever before, with full-page portraits of each Darklord and multiple two-page vistas of the most varied and terrifying realms in the Domains of Dread.

New and Revised Horror-Themed Subclasses

The book adds seven subclasses built specifically around Ravenloft’s horror themes to 5.5e, including the new corpse-stitching Reanimator Artificer and the eldritch Hollow Warden Ranger.

The College of Spirits Bard, Grave Domain Cleric, Phantom Rogue, Shadow Sorcery Sorcerer, and Undead Patron Warlock have been reimagined and rebalanced from 5e, giving you more macabre choices to create tortured protagonists struggling against Ravenloft's dark grasp.

Expanded Bestiary of Horror Monsters and NPCs

On top of the 17 challenging Darklords, the bestiary inside Ravenloft: The Horrors Within helps you stock your abysmal adventures with 41 monstrosities and 10 domain denizens.

Alongside updated creatures from 5e—like the Dullahan and Loup Garou—are entirely new creatures like the monstrous perfection of Mordenheim's Monster, the identity-stealing Waxwork, and a sanity-warping collection of cosmic horrors, including Elder Things, Mi-Go, Nightgaunts, Shoggoths, and more!

Your party may also discover more creatures to aid or hinder their Ravenloft adventures with new stat blocks for the monster-hunting Weathermay-Foxgrove Twins and revised stat blocks for infamous NPCs Rudolph Van Richten, Ez d’Avenir, and Madam Eva.

Origins, Dark Gifts, and Bastions That Draw Players into the Horror

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within expands your players' horror toolkit with new origin options like the enigmatic Mist Wanderer and uncanny Spirit Medium backgrounds, the feral Lupin species, two new Origin feats, and the body-horror-themed Aberrant Anatomy Dark Gift.

Returning Ravenloft Dark Gifts have also been revised for the 5.5e rules framework, reframing Dark Gifts like Living Shadow, Mist Walker, and Symbiotic Being into a feat-based system that gives players the choice to create corrupted characters. Similarly, the returning Haunted One and Investigator backgrounds have been revamped to include Origin feats or Dark Gifts as part of their loadouts.

In addition to the horror-filled character options, this book presents a whole new system for Bastions, exploring where and how they might appear in the Domains of Dread and how-to content surrounding gaining and reclaiming haunted Bastions.

Fate is in Hand with New Tarokka Mechanics

The tarokka deck has been a part of Ravenloft since the beginning. Ravenloft: The Horrors Within presents new guidance on running tarokka readings in any adventure in the Domains of Dread, providing DMs advice on how to run ominous fortunetelling encounters in any adventure and how to manipulate fate for storytelling purposes.

In this book, the tarokka can also lead you into new Domains of Dread of your own creation! Revised details on creating your own Domains of Dread allow you to use the tarokka deck to randomly generate entirely new domains.

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Tarokka Deck

Weave twists, mystery, and dread into your nightmarish campaign with the mystical Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Tarokka Deck, designed with striking gothic imagery that evokes the haunting beauty of Ravenloft.

• Physical 54-card deck featuring fully illustrated cards
• Instructions for using it for Tarokka readings
• Guidance for planning adventures and incorporating the deck into your game
• Draws mechanics and lore directly from Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
• Can be used to influennce your party’s fate in any Dungeons & Dragons adventure

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Map Pack

Plot out terrifying encounters and horrifying pitfalls for your party with the physical and digital Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Map Pack, which charts Ravenloft’s elusive Domains of Dread across 10 battle maps.

• 5 physical double-sided poster maps measuring 22” x 30”
• Physical monster tokens, traps, and terrain pieces
• 10 digital maps for D&D Beyond
• 10 digital stickers

Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Dungeon Master's Screen

Conceal your sinister plots behind the Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Dungeon Master’s Screen while keeping critical rules close at hand.

• Physical double-sided DM screen
• Special reference table for generating horror-centric encounters
• Striking gothic artwork that immerses your players in the ever-changing Mists of Ravenloft