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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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Lost Memories
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Memory
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You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
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A memory brings
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Reborn in the Domains of Dread
When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Creating Domains of Dread Ravenloft is a place where your nightmares can run wild, where anything you can imagine in moments of dread or despair can come to frightful life among the Mists. The
process that starts by defining a Darklord—the villain at the heart of each sinister realm. Descriptions of various genres of horror also provide details to guide and inspire your creations. The rivalry between Darklords Strahd von Zarovich and
Azalin Rex spills through endless ages and countless domains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Creating a Domain The guidelines in this section help you create your own unique Domain of Dread. This setting’s details should reflect the Darklord of the domain, being a reflection of that
villain’s evil and torment. Use the “Genres of Horror” section later in this chapter or your own grim imaginings to inspire the details of your nightmare domain.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Genres of Horror This section describes several horror subgenres, elements common to certain types of horror stories you can use to inspire your own Darklords and Domains of Dread. These sections
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creepy manors suit ghostly inhabitants, so does each domain inspire and encourage a distinct type of terror. Details on how to create your own domains appear in chapter 2, while chapter 3 describes some of
the most notorious Domains of Dread. CULTIVATING HOPE
In Ravenloft, the Dark Powers control reality, the Mists foil escape attempts, and terrifying Darklords can appear at any moment. What hope do
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Featured Domains The following sections explore some of the most notorious Domains of Dread. Each of these realms is a setting unto itself and might host adventures of your design. These featured
domains share the following format: Overview. Each domain has a brief overview with its Darklord’s name, the horror genres that inspire it (explored in chapter 2), distinctive hallmarks, and related Mist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Notorious Monsters Every monster tells a story. The more you treat monsters as unique individuals and foreshadow their threat, the larger they’ll loom in characters’ minds. Build dread by giving
acts of terrible carnage. Use the tables in chapter 4 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to help inspire similar characteristics to color a monster’s notorious reputation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
harrowing journey into the jungles of the Isle of Dread can be an exciting adventure in its own right. In the great outdoors, dragons wheel across the sky in search of prey, tribes of hobgoblins pour forth
, takes many forms, and urban settings aren’t always the safe havens they seem to be. This chapter provides an overview of these three environments plus a few unusual environments, taking you through the process of creating an adventure location, with plenty of random tables to inspire you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
assistance. The card can inspire both the characteristics of the person they meet and the nature of the aid that person provides. Ready Foraging. The characters have abundant food and water for this day
this setback: perhaps the characters became lost in the woods or encountered an obstacle blocking their path. Add two more cards to the spread. Lost Gear. The characters lose their rations or are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
went on to inspire the creation of a campaign setting of the same name in 1990: Ravenloft, home of the Domains of Dread.
Module I6: Ravenloft, written by Tracy and Laura Hickman, broke new ground by
adventure gives glimpses into that world. In time, cursed Barovia was torn from its home world by the Dark Powers and bound in mist as one of the Domains of Dread in the Shadowfell.
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
serve as a battering ram if a settlement dares to close its gates, blocking the way to the treasures and tasty food that lie within.
A heavily laden wagon that requires the strongest orcs to return it to
tribe to the death.
2
Every serious choice I make must be decided by signs or omens from the gods.
3
I carry the teeth of a great warrior. They inspire me to commit great deeds in battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Nightmare Dread Steed of the Lower Planes Habitat: Planar (Lower Planes); Treasure: None Alejandro Pacheco Nightmares resemble horses with flaming manes, burning hooves, and smoldering eyes. They
coveted by evildoers. Roll on or choose a result from the Nightmare Riders table to inspire what might employ a nightmare steed. Nightmare Riders 1d6 The Nightmare Carries... 1 The champion or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Bone Devil Devil of Dread and Obedience Habitat: Planar (Nine Hells); Treasure: Implements Bone devils are gaunt, nightmarish Fiends with pallid skin stretched tight over frames that combine human
goals. Roll on or choose a result from the Bone Devil Objectives table to inspire a bone devil’s goals.
Bone Devil Objectives 1d4 The Bone Devil Seeks To...
1 Capture a soul that escaped
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Inquisitor of the Tome The Ulmist Inquisition is an order of inquisitors in the Domain of Dread known as Barovia that seeks to discover the origins of evil within people’s hearts. The order’s founder
inquisitors’ zealous and sometimes brutal methods inspire terror in many communities throughout the multiverse. Each Ulmist inquisitor belongs to one of three orders that harness the power of psionics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
placed to be phosphorescent mushrooms.
The lights are proper lamps flanking two massive stone gates blocking the tunnel. Before you get a chance to examine the intricate carvings on the gates
making it inside the city, the characters must tread carefully, as the duergar use the slightest pretext to arrest them. Even trying to haggle with a duergar merchant might inspire a call for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
of bones, and other macabre paraphernalia lie scattered around the room. An eerie, persistent scratching sound comes from behind the fallen masonry blocking the far end of the room.
This was the
collapsed tunnel, blocked by rubble, eventually leads to a derro stronghold in the Underdark. The stronghold and its contents are beyond the scope of this story but could inspire an additional adventure if, by some means, the party reaches this tunnel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Example Complex Traps The following complex traps can be used to challenge characters or to inspire your own creations. Path of Blades Complex trap (level 1–4, dangerous threat) Hidden within a
, a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check is needed to push the door open. Each check requires an action. Disable the Statues. A statue can be disabled by blocking the flow of gas from its mouth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
momentary flash of dread, as though being awoken by a warning of an ambush occurring nearby. This is a psychic remnant from the mind flayer attack. G14: Toppled Tower The east side of this room bears a
fanatics commanded Qunbraxel to hurry with collecting the rest of the obelisk fragments. Qunbraxel guessed that the nearby fragment was somehow connected to the toppled tower that’s blocking the way to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
prevailing emotion, the land seeks to hold onto that creature and inspire it to produce more of the feeling tied to the emotional echo. The creature is targeted by a suggestion spell (DC 16), with the
: Appears around cliffs or deserts and makes creatures hesitate, mistrusting their ability to climb or escape their current difficulties Fear: Appears in caves and ruins, overwhelming creatures with dread
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
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Bhaal and His Followers Bhaal is a god of murder who lends power to those whose killings invoke fear and dread. The act of murder is only half the equation. The second half is the suspicion, paranoia
, and fear that a seemingly unstoppable killer can evoke. Bhaal seeks to inspire fear by slaying those seemingly beyond the reach of death. Bhaal always carries a red handkerchief somewhere on his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
fog. One-eyed shivers inspire dread and fear in all who meet them, including their fellow cultists. Only the leaders of the Crushing Wave cult dare to give commands to these masters of icy magic. One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
telepathically bellow commands to lesser demons, even as they inspire a sense of dread that forces their foes to scatter and run. Nalfeshnees feed on hatred and despair, but they crave humanoid flesh
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
cold, cold north. Roaming this expanse are hundreds of sheep, goats, and cattle plucked from other regions of the North by the vale’s dread overlord, the red wyrm Klauth. Scattered here and there are the
: bloodthirsty insects and dangerous monsters. In the event the characters find themselves here, use the Swamp Monsters table in appendix B of the Dungeon Master’s Guide to inspire encounter ideas. Near the