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Using the Netherlands as a rough analogy sort of makes sense with the sea coast and wetlands environment The coast is even aligned towards the north-west, which gives it even more sense. A fun idea to explpre and to add more conflict may be to give the low-landers and coasters more of a Dutch accen...

If I can overcome my phlegma and laziness, I will submit a one-page dungeon (an adventure format that is IMHO yet underutilized for Ravenloft). Or if I'm really feeling ambitious, maybe even a short series of OPDs from Level 1 to 3 as alternative to the haunted house entry scenario in CoS? The old C...

I have never heard of that spell, and can't find any mention of it online either. Where have you got it from?

German living at the Swiss border here. If you need someone to double-check terms and names or suggest some, just ring. The terms in Gaz2 had more of a Dutch vibe. (I haven't the book here right now, but I remember distinctly "goodendach", which is an English phonetic transcription of the ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_Blood I've had had this film on my "to watch" list for a long time, and have to regret now that I haven't watch it any earlier. What makes it relevant to this board is that this film has finally made Rukoshima Taiyoo 'click' for me. The Japan expy ha...

Kharkov’s backstory is terribly convoluted only to result in a type of Darklord of which there are already more than plenty in Ravenloft (vampires), and none of it is ever likely to be actually found out and learned by the players. I’d just turn him into a werepanther and drop the whole vampirism th...

My Ravenloft is essentially a big Truman Show built for entertainment. The dark powers are now forgotten classical, amoral deities (most comparable to the Greek pantheon in character) who used to enjoy the ancient past-time of picking champions, throwing obstacles into their way and testing man’s mo...

While Common isn’t native to Ravenloft, I assume that merchants, inn keepers, scholars and others who often deal with outlanders or study them often pick a bit of it up. In games with regional languages in play, some of those regional languages may map close enough to related RL languages. After a f...

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I made an own thread for it to prevent people from missing it in the middle of the already long thread about UA Gothic Heroes.

Each and every "build your own class" system for D&D and its likes I have seen has either been so broad as to be basically non-existent (d20 Modern, True20 etc.), or not very functional at all. The closest thing I can think of is the Factotum class of D&D 3.5. Its defining feature ...

The Revenant subrace option looks interesting, but will need a campaign/adventure tailored to him and his goal to shine. The Monster Hunter leaves me head-scratching. He is only a 2nd rate Battle Master unless he fights monsters, and his features don't even aid him particularly well in fighting mons...

The Krezkovs are described as being tied to Krezk for generations.

The werewolves so this one could be very easy to rationalize as someone originally originating from a more diverse place outside Barovia.

Uh, I have to ask; what racial diversity? As far as I can tell, apart from a mere handful of dusk elves and vistani, there's no other races in Barovia apart from the human natives. The captive werewolf in the castle, his wife in the werewolf cave and the Krezkovs ruling Krezk are depicted as black ...