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I agree. As I understand it, he does travel around in the comics. So if he's a Nova Vaasan, maybe he's native to Arbora, but he moves about on his endless hunt. In AD&D 2E, I'd consider writing him up a s a dual class fighter/thief. He's good with weapons, but he's also very sneaky and knows th...

(introduction) The night of evil shall descend on the land. When this hexad of signs is near at hand "Night of Evil" reads to me like a reference to the Legions of Night (of Ezran mythology). (First Sign) In the house of Daegon the sorcerer born, Though life, unlife, unliving shall scorn....

So, I was thinking about self fulfilling prophecies, and how fiddling with fate never seems to prevent anything and I asked myself. "What if the Hexad is simply destined to happen eventually? What if the time of Unparalleled Darkness is simply the Hexad coming to fruition?" So with that in...

If Strahd knows of any agents that work for Azalin, he'd almost certainly love to have them removed to spite Azalin. That said, I have no idea what agents of Azalin Strahd would have knowledge of..any in Barovia are likely taken care of personally, Depending on how non-canon/inside-jokey you want t...

In 3.x I think the formula was always Physical stats of the animal - 11 = Bonus to physical abilities in hybrid and animal form. Bonus to natural armor equal to the base animal. Bonus feats like any the animal had. Any senses or movement speeds the animal has normally. Add DR and chemical bane as ap...

So this had to happen sooner or later... Dark Lords being ret-conned into new occult classes. Dominic d'Honaire, Dark Lord of Dementlieu Male; Human [Middle Aged]; Mesmerist 10 Alignment: Neutral Evil; Medium Humanoid (Human) Init +0; Senses Normal; Perception +18 DEFENSE AC 19, 12 touch, 17 flat-fo...

The classes are complex, but I do like to point out that the Spiritualist is the exception. She's essentially a summoner who deals with ghosts and not outsiders. The Spiritualist, however, is MUCH easier to play than a summoner (classic or unchained version). The downside is the ghost buddy (aka pha...

I cobbled together a Kyton sorcerer bloodline and gave that to Francois when my players fought him. Toss in a few spells from the book of vile darkness and he was a nasty foe.... until one of my heroes got infected with lycanthropy and ate him... and a nun. Nice... I ended up rather pleased with my...

Tangentially. The discussion of the possibility of Prime Material Barovia not existing gave me another recruit for Vampires without borders. Jander Sunstar. He's got all the reason in the world to hate Strahd, and is chaotic neutral enough to get into bed with Lyssa and Leo if it meant killing him. ...

b) Reincarnation outside of Ravenloft to explain the existence of a Tatyana there. Note, this isn't the first time that's happened. "Anna" from Vampire of the Mists was a Tatyana incarnation born on Faerun. You could argue that was just a long game by the dark powers to give a powerful ou...

Yeah I always saw Leo and Lyssa as a natural partnership. Love Gundar to death, but I don't think he misses being a dark lord, and he doesn't have a big enough beef with Von Zarovich to enter into an evil genius pact with two people smarter than he is. Now Dominiani, that guy's obviously on his hit ...

I got my hands on this today, and after a quick once over. I have to say it's an interesting read. The good: The new classes scream ravenloft. Each one captures an interesting horror trope or concept and spins it into a viable class. A third type of magic is introduced psychic magic. In most cases t...

I cobbled together a Kyton sorcerer bloodline and gave that to Francois when my players fought him. Toss in a few spells from the book of vile darkness and he was a nasty foe.... until one of my heroes got infected with lycanthropy and ate him... and a nun.

So, in addition to the de Penible adventure, I'm planning on running the du Cire adventure at the same time . Fun, fun, eh? I want to make the final battle in the waxworks fun and exciting, as the module suggests, but I'm faced with the issue that Wax Golems simply don't make for very interesting o...

A potential wild card in this could by Lyssa Von Zarovich. The woman had already sided with mind flayers to get one over on Strahd. If a core-wide war was brewing who would she jump into bed with to bring the fight to his doorstep? As a random aside I see her as so conniving she's even turned her sl...