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The idea is that catching the disease results in behaviour that, unless you can find a niche, is very likely to get you noticed and slain. Hestdrikkers have found such a niche and so are not all wiped out in short order. In other terms, why do hestdrinkers bother feeding on horses, which are three s...

Interesting, but I find the Kargatene version more of my taste. If that's the version I'm thinking of, I originally liked the idea when I'd read it but over time I soured on it a bit. I just felt it was...too human?...for something that felt more eldritch horror to me. YMMV of course. Yes, I too fo...

Hestdrikkers are briefly mentioned on page 19 of Gaz V and Hestskæreres are briefly mentioned page 20 of Gaz V. Author of the Nova Vaasa section, Andrew Cermack, has this to say about the former in the subsequently released author's notes concerning things that were omitted: "Sidebar revealing ...

I don't have much to contribute on this subject, but I will note that the 3.5 description of sending says: "If the creature in question is not on the same plane of existence as you are, there is a 5% chance that the sending does not arrive. (Local conditions on other planes may worsen this cha...

From Children of the Night: Demons (3.0ed or 3.5ed?): "The pure evil of a demon (or pure good, in the case of the rare angel trapped in Ravenloft) is powerful enough to warp reality around the demon, effectively allowing it to create its own mobile pocket domain." (p. 4.) - Ravenloft Champ...

Going by memory .... Reality wrinkles require an outsider with the evil subtype. The twisting that accompanies Isolde is a product of an outsider with the good subtype interacting negatively with the stuff of the Land of the Mists. While I don't believe that by canon there is anything for the the la...

I might consider letting communication-only contact work, given sufficient effort and high-level magics. That is what I, Strahd: the War Against Azalin suggests in respect to scrying. That is what The Domains of Dread indicates explicitly, albeit somewhat confusedly, about Vecna communicating with ...

In the 6th post on page 1 of this thread http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10441 a data-point from the Red Box 2nd edition concerning the Horn of Valhalla indicates that only a pre-existing deal, one struck before becoming stuck in the Land of Mists, could be made with...

There's no reason for Hazlik not to scry on his Thayan enemies if they don't, after all, but Gaz I seems to imply that it was only during the Grand Conjunction that he saw their prosperity. This is actually an excellent argument against scrying outside of the plane. If I were to put forward a plot ...

And while magic prevents people from leaving Ravenloft there's nothing in the rules that say someone can't be pulled out. Nothing except the lack of a spell that would do so. All the "teleport" spells I know of require the caster to be in contact with any person being teleported. Is there...

To my knowledge, the only being capable of contacting someone outside of the demiplane was Vecna, and I think he should be the only exception to that rule. Vecna the Demiplane according to Domains of Dread (2ed): "As a demigod, Vecna can speak to his followers wherever they might be. This powe...

While locked away in Cavitius, could Vecna respond to the casting by one of his clergy on Oerth of the planar ally spell by sending one of his servants forth from Cavitius and out of the Land of Mists? Note that at the end of the spell, the called creature is returned, so it in no way permanently es...

"As a demigod, Vecna can speak to his followers wherever they might be. This power extends even beyond the Misty confines of Ravenloft, enabling Vecna to converse with his minions even on the Quasielemental Plane of Ash and on the world of Oerth." This seems to unambiguously indicate that...

Ryan Naylor in this An Illustrated History of Ravenloft notes on page 92 that Inajira spend 400 years searching for his Book of Keeping and Strahd after the latter were locked away in the Land of Mists: "Which implies that knowledge of Ravenloft isn’t – or wasn’t - widely distributed among the ...

Vecna and communication from within the Land of Mists with his clergy outside of the Demiplane according to Domains of Dread (2ed): "As a demigod, Vecna can speak to his followers wherever they might be. This power extends even beyond the Misty confines of Ravenloft, enabling Vecna to converse ...