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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Gift Descriptions This section presents a selection of Dark Gifts in alphabetical order.
Feats
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Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Deathly power resides within you, bursting out at the slightest provocation. You gain the following features.
Death Touch. You learn the Chill
Feats
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Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
You experience echoes from a past or alternate life. You gain the following features.
Channeled Prowess. You have proficiency in two skills of your
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possibly prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he shared his secrets with disciples who wished to defy
disciples aided the inquisition by destroying Osybus’s physical form. As Osybus perished, he cursed his former allies: Their immortality would fail them eventually, and he would become one of the Dark
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possibly prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he shared his secrets with disciples who wished to defy
disciples aided the inquisition by destroying Osybus’s physical form. As Osybus perished, he cursed his former allies: Their immortality would fail them eventually, and he would become one of the Dark
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Exposure to alien horrors like those of the Far Realm has warped your physical form in supernatural ways. You gain the following features
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
You are haunted by a cacophony of whispering spirits only you can hear. You gain the following features.
Spirit Whispers. You learn the Message
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
You know how to slip through the Mists’ grasp, but this freedom comes at a price: If you remain in one area for too long, the Mists find you
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
Something unnatural is always watching you, taking the form of scurrying vermin and other eerie creatures. You gain the following features
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
There is another side of you that most people never see: a beast, a terrifying avenger, or a walking nightmare. You gain the following features
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
A second being resides within your body, offering knowledge and assistance while furthering its own agenda. You gain the following features
Feats
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign)
The shadow you cast is animate and ever-present—sometimes it even acts according to its own will. You gain the following features.
Grasping
backgrounds
Ability Scores: Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
Feat: Sharp Eye or a Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”)
Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Investigation
Tool Proficiencies
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attribute their unusual gift to one or more of their benevolent gods, including Yondalla, Brandobaris, and Charmalaine. The same gift might contribute to their robust life spans (about 150 years
territorial mob of halflings like those in the Dark Sun setting.
Halflings who prefer to live underground are sometimes called strongheart halflings or stouts. Nomadic halflings, as well as those who
backgrounds
Ability Scores: Constitution, Wisdom, Charisma
Feat: Survivor or a Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”)
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana and Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Choose one
backgrounds
Ability Scores: Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom
Feat: A Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats” later in this chapter; Mist Walker is recommended)
Skill Proficiencies: Survival and
backgrounds
Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
Feat: Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”; Gathered Whispers is recommended)
Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Religion
Tool
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he attracted disciples who also wished to defy life and death. He
physical form. As he perished, he uttered a curse upon them—that their immortality would fail them when they least expected it and that he himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he attracted
become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t be certain that they will be reborn when they perish.
In an effort to rid themselves of this curse, they
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Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he attracted disciples who also wished to defy life and death. He shared his dread secrets with them and
curse upon them—that their immortality would fail them when they least expected it and that he himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
his own immortality. He forged pacts with any entity that would give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped
;that their immortality would fail them when they least expected it and that he himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t be certain that they
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give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power
and that he himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t be certain that they will be reborn when they perish.
In an effort to rid themselves
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immortality. He forged pacts with any entity that would give him more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into
immortality would fail them when they least expected it and that he himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t be certain that they will be
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more power and delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis.
As his power grew, he
himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t be certain that they will be reborn when they perish.
In an effort to rid themselves of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
teeth until it reincarnates for the third and final time. South Sarcophagus. The vestige within this sarcophagus offers the dark gift of Zantras, the Kingmaker. Zantras’s gift is power that comes from
vestige within this sarcophagus offers the dark gift of Fekre, Queen of Poxes. Fekre’s gift is the power of spreading disease. This dark gift allows its beneficiary to cast the contagion spell as an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Dark Bargains Characters who don’t have a Dark Gift might gain one in the course of their adventures. At the DM’s discretion, sinister forces might contact a character and offer them a Dark Gift in
return for some service or future favor. If a character already has a Dark Gift, accepting such a bargain causes them to lose their current Dark Gift and gain a new one. A Dark Gift gained as a result
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
dreams or mysterious visions, but their terms are always clear and their prices terrible. A character can select a Dark Gift from the “Dark Gifts Descriptions” section. This supernatural gift expresses
both a mysterious power and insidious influence. Work with your DM to determine how your character gained this Dark Gift. Is it the manifestation of a family curse? Is it a reward for a sacrifice you
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
the dark gift he seeks. West Sarcophagus. The vestige within this sarcophagus offers “the dark gift of the Vampyr” to any humanoid creature of evil alignment that touches it. The Vampyr’s gift is the
immortality of undeath. If the dark gift is accepted, its effect doesn’t occur until the following conditions are met, in the order given below. The creature becomes aware of the conditions only
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
choose whether it is banished or destroyed.
A creature that touches the amber sarcophagus forms a telepathic link with the vestige inside. The vestige offers the creature a dark gift. The creature
must willingly accept the gift to gain its benefits. A dark gift is described to the creature in general terms; its precise game effect isn’t revealed until the creature accepts the gift. For example
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
in a ritual that inducts them into the cult and bestows on them a supernatural boon. A character who participates in such a ritual gains the Dark Gift (see chapter 1) noted on the Innsmouth Cults Dark
Gifts table. Innsmouth Cults Dark Gifts Cult Dark Gift Cult of Chthonic Night Gathered Whispers Cult of the Drowning Wave Symbiotic Being Cult of the Heavenly Doom Touch of Death Cult of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Wanderer and Spirit Medium, offer Dark Gift feats rather than Origin feats; these feats appear at the end of the chapter. The Haunted One and Investigator backgrounds provide a choice between an Origin
feat and a Dark Gift feat, so you can tailor your character’s relationship to sinister forces in their past.
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characters’ dreams and suggests ways to escape the island. After proving their worth, a character receives the cult’s Dark Gift (see “Cult Rites”). Levels 6–16. Led by their dreams and duplicitous cult
undermine the Great Old One (see “Old One’s Bargain”). Levels 17–20. After collecting a Dark Gift from each cult, the characters follow a treacherous path through the Vaults to Cthulhu’s Vault. There, they can risk releasing Cthulhu to escape the island.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Feats This section presents new feats tailored for characters adventuring through Ravenloft. Included are a handful of new feats in the Origin category, as well as a new type of feat: Dark Gift feats, which represent sinister bargains a character might make with mysterious forces.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
possessive of their allies. At your discretion, a Darklord’s magic might grant all the characters a Dark Gift from those presented in chapter 1. Alternatively, the Darklord might grant characters a sinister
Darklord Patrons Most Darklords have lost track of how long they’ve been prisoners of their domains. Countless times they’ve failed to achieve their goals, and countless times the Dark Powers have
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Dark Six The Dark Six are the shadows of the Sovereign Host. These dark gods shape the world and are present at all times, speaking to those willing to hear them. Where the Sovereigns govern
positive forces, the Dark Six are the source of fears. Arawai and Balinor reflect the positive aspects of nature. The devastating storm, the earthquake, the wildfire? These are the work of the Devourer