Café de Nuit

Currently playing with a non-D&D system, because I needed a break from d20.

But if I was using d20, I'd be going 3.5/Pathfinder.

Because I stole all the PDFs and own the books, so that's what's cheap.

Totally out of curiosity, but has Ravenloft had a native elf population long enough to know their life expectancy? Because looking at the life expectancy of elves (even using the 300-year benchmark), and looking at when domains with elves were revealed, it seems entirely plausible that the first elf...

Awesome!

I was actually wondering what had happened to this a few weeks ago... very shiny.

(At least in part because I've found a deck of blank Tarot cards, and was thinking of actually producing a Tarokka tarot deck.)

Has anybody seen Princess Tutu?

Watching it, I can't help but wonder if it isn't a very, very trippy domain somewhere out in Lamordia...

That... is very cool, HuManBing.

Consider it stolen.

It's going to depend a lot on where the group's from, and what's going on at the time, because I try to slightly skew how things are presented to reinforce the biases that the characters would have. In my current continuity, with an all-Darkonian party set in BC 851, I'm playing up Strahd as a despo...

Borrowing shamelessly from George R. R. Martin here... The Core doesn't use homing pigeons to carry messages; they use trained ravens instead. It's an open secret that Falkovnia has a standing falconry corps, tasked with intercepting ravens whenever Vlad Drakov gets suspicious. It's also taken for g...

The Curse of the Fog Every time you're hit by the Thing in the Fog, you get another twinned thesis guards and wards cast on you. That's the short version. Guards and wards is a complex spell, though, so here's what it does and how it works. The Size of the Curse: The Curse of the Fog covers about 8...

This started off as a reply to Zettaijin's "Mirror image gone wrong" thread, about a benign spell gone horribly wrong; I took it to a thread of its own once I realized how long my post had become. So without further ado, I offer you my favorite living spell: a twinned thesis guards and war...

A pike up the backside would be threat enough to make me stop calling Vlad 'Margrave.' Why do people insist on doing it, if it gets them in so much trouble? :?: Outside Falkovnia, it's mostly power politics. Vlad's power isn't organized on feudal lines, and his land claims beyond Falkovnia aren't r...

There are a few metaphysical changes, but in case my players stumble onto this site, I'm not going to go into detail on those, so here's the physical changes. Rokushima Taiyoo doesn't exist. Its equivalent in the Scattered Lotus Cluster is Yashima (formerly Oyashima), commonly "Yasman" in ...

Doesn't Ravenloft have abfalduz and sleepgrass?

Given that producing sleepgrass is DC 35, I don't think it's terribly common, but it's obviously been made at least once. So the question is about distribution.

A few days ago I mentioned that I was reworking the Curse of Tzeentch rules to get a more Gothic vibe. My current draft of the first table is posted here for your reading pleasure. (Note that there are two other tables of Dark Manifestations, in the event that you somehow roll triples or quadruples....

NWoD Changeling has some very detailed rules for dreaming. It's split between the core book and one of the last three (I think Dancers in the Dusk, but I could be wrong.)

Playing with the idea a bit, what about an island with a false lighthouse, deliberately built to wreck ships?