Café de Nuit

IMHO, laying out the different tasques/tribes of Vistani in VRGttV went a long way toward reconciling the different portrayals of vistani, and let us have our cake and eat it too. You met some mysterious, all-knowing, existing-out-of-time Vistani? Those must have been the Manusa. Your son was stolen...

Well, the completion coins are still available from the B&G site, I believe. They aren't really anything special except for crazy completists like us.

Well, I did manage to get a few artist signatures on Curse of Strahd and VRGtR (Mark Behm, Christopher Burdett, and Scott Murphy). And I picked up the VRGtR "completion coin" from the Beadle & Grimm booth. (sadly, they were out of the CoS ones, and the CoS t-shirt). Other than that, no...

Anyone going? Bringing the fam again this year. Sadly, not much Ravenloft related going on that I see. (A decent number of RPG events if I wanted to hop into the demiplane for a few hours, but I'm more interested in any authors or illustrators that would be signing/sketching. Ah, well, plenty of oth...

We should probably add to our standard disclaimers about theme and ruleset:
Canon setting doesn't matter either: 2e/3e canon shared world, 4e Shadowfell Domains, 5e reimagined setting, homebrew worlds, send them all in!

Always wanted to, never have. Bits of my campaign touched on the Rift. (Vir the clockwork man fell in and was repaired by a Fir, Gavin the cohort spent some time there looking for his PC Suriana when she was lost in the Mists, and Suriana met a few refugee Alven near the Rift, learning that she had ...

Tnarrud wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 8:03 am I was wondering if anyone who has read Volume Three of the Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium has noticed that the picture of the Insectoid Skeleton is actually that of the Drow Vampie?

Yup, it's been noticed and chuckled at. Quality control!

Hey guys, I'm back from vacation, did I miss anything exciting?

I understand there are people who enjoy 4e, but for the most part they are not the people who enjoyed 3.5. That's what I was getting at. Those of us who liked the "christmas tree" feeling, the logical simulationist focus of 3.x, and didn't like the extremely balanced, but videogamey feel o...

#1: Yes. If WotC wasn't greedy enough to make a new edition solely to get us to rebuy the books, and instead made the move in a way that respected the decades and countless hours of games and fan material of the past, it wouldn't have backfired. #3 if 4e had been, I dunno, good? Or at least not suc...

In the #4 issue's sub-story, the character seeking the treasure says they obtained a rat from Demise. Which is interesting cause this would be the first mention of that domain for 5e. It's not in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Right, I forgot that part, mainly because it was such an inconsequent...

Nothing too major, but I'll spoiler box it just in case: Viktra mentions that Miranda's accent could be Falkovnian, and she has a book about Falkvonia in her library. Also, the implication is that the parts Viktra used to build her golem came from the victims in the B-stories of each issue. One of t...

Finally finished these. Not bad at all. Definitely got that Hammer Horror vibe of guest stuck in mysterious manor with suspicious host. I would have liked a little more explanation beyond surprise, you're a golem! and surprise, looks like Elise isn't so bad! , but I guess it was more mood based than...

OK, granted... three gorgons, only one of which was named Medusa. But still, no medusa society, no maedars, glyptars, etc. That's all a D&D invention, and vital to (my version of) her story.

Althea could be tied with Theros from Mythic Odyssey of Theros . This 5th edition sourcebook details the Theros campaign setting (Magic: The Gathering) inspired by Greek myths and culture but with different gods and goddesses. If I may punch my geek-venn-diagram card for a moment, there are a few r...