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Joël of the FoS wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2026 1:37 pm 5e (but quite rule light), VRGtR and the new RHW material I guess (they are in Sithicus)

They are in Sithicus. They show the map on the episodes.

I just watched the third episode and I am definitely enjoying it for what it is.

It's a different kind of game session, but one that I've certainly been a part of many times. Yep - no initiative. Yep - highly narrative. Yep - very loosely goosey. But you know what? This is exactly like it would be ...

Here's some additional information on The Horrors Within...

It started with a fantastic solo campaign where the PC was playing vampire, because...they were a solo PC. They needed to be a little bit more powerful to even survive a single session. Eventually, they took on the Darklord of Dementlieu, and after looking at the rules collaboratively, the ...

Hey guys!

I'm back for October.

I have been wanting to bring this up for months, but I thought I would wait until October rolled around. In my past two Ravenloft campaigns, I have come to some new conclusions. I threw out many of the old tropes from Ravenloft, where the DM and the players had a ...

Hello all!

I wrote my own table top RPG. No, it's not a horror game, but there may be one of those coming.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sixgunrobot/3page-rpg?ref=user_menu

I wrote up a table top RPG whose rules fit on three pages. It's called, aptly... 3PAGE RPG! It's already %200 ...

Yeap, I agree it is amazing. And I agree the Dark Powers don't go in your face to make you investigate.
Very interesting approach that of your players. Many players (at least those I know), would have made supernatural investigators or something similar if they suspected supernatural mysteries ...

Wait, session 40 and they don't know anything? Heh. That seems to me you are keeping them newbies. Not that it is wrong, but it is not the way I would go.

And just to say... pre-lichdom phantom Azalin is still an archmage. That's a tough cookie.


This is what is amazing. I have not really kept ...

Canon-wise, encountering Azalin in his human form would mean that they would have run into Firan Zal'honan. And you know players. ... He also mis-remembers that the Apparatus is what gave him his lichdom.
Sorry, my bad. This is canon, it is just 5e canon, in 2e & 3e things are a bit (lot ...

there were scenes of Azalin first assembling the Apparatus appeared as he ordered his apprentices about (this is pre-lichdom Azalin, and again, it's only a phantom of him).
????? (Canon-wise) :azalin:

Don't mind me though I am a canon freak :mrgreen:


Canon-wise, encountering Azalin in his ...

Other than knowing the Strahd & Azalin household names (which I didn't include in the campaign), they didn't know much, other than Barovia, where they come from.


They didn't even know the name Azalin when we started the game!

So, the players ran into a reliquary which teleported you inside ...

Hey guys!

I had a thread were I was going to post updates of my regular game in the Mists. However, I think it's going to be more useful to post about my various Ravenloft games as a series of separate topics.

The first one is this - playing Ravenloft with complete noobs.

Can I tell you how ...

So, here's an update from a while back. The campaign is on Session 20, so plenty of game play has happened.

The party has been manipulated by Ivana Boritsi into taking a message to Harkon Lukas. In the campaign, Harkon is trying to expand his holdings by opening businesses outside of Kartakass. He ...

So, for my Ravenloft campaign, the party has visited Kartakass. They have just checked into the Old Kartakan Inn. All of these players are Ravenloft noobs, so this is going to be fun. I made a pretty extensive map of the inn, based on some other maps of the place and the 3D diagram from Feast of ...

The Requiem rules are meant for 2nd edition and do not port over very well, IMO. The other, free, 5e Vampire classes out on the internet seem to fit 5e far better.