Café de Nuit

It'd be more likely the caster would receive an ally from the Plane of Ash than pulled from Cavitus. I forget, though, is Cavitus the domain the same citadel pulled from the Plane of Ash or a replica created by the Mists? According to The Inner Planes the original Cavitus is still found on the Plan...

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Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:Apologies to all on the grimishka outbreak... we'll see what we can do about a revised version...

It wouldn't be Halloween without the grimishkas (^_-)

Maybe someone shouldn't have invoked them in the issue. Then maybe they'd have overlooked it this year.

In no way should this stop you from brewing your own theories, but according to William W. Connors, co-creator of MotRD, he viewed the Red Death as an exiled Dark Power: http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/TheParlor/WilliamWConnors_RedDeath.html That would have meant a lot more if the Dark Powers ha...

This really depends in large part on how you interpret/view the Dark Powers themselves. Based on my own personal view of what the DPs are, I don't really see the Red Death being related to them, at least in any kind of direct form. I do, however, see some similarities. Personally, I don't view the R...

Building on the room of mystery idea, you could have more 'supernatural' (or alleged supernatural) items on display like 'the fang of a vampire' or ratty pelt 'from a werewolf' (may or may not be fake, a regular wolf pelt, or an actual werewolf pelt). Have small cases, instead of whole rooms, dedica...

Yeah, that definitely works. Personally, I put the setting's tech before those techs, just hovering on the cusp of the bubble for when those things would occur, but isolation would definitely drag down the spread of technology (there's few governments in Ravenloft that are capable of maintaining hig...

I simply make the world larger. Differences between CR6-9 are not a problem for me and I explain it with isolationism . I.e. villagers in Barovia have not heard of gunpowder and the guys in towns don't know how to produce it. Honestly, this is how I always looked at the original box set for Ravenlo...

Based off the poster map in the Black Box it looks to be about the size of my thumb 1" x 0.5". The scale is 1" = 10 mi, so about 10mi x 5mi, or 50 square miles, give or take for its slant and non-straight borders. If I messed this measuring up, its b/c I used a scan of my map instead ...

I'll go out on a limb and say I push Tristessa (of Keening) just over the line above Strahd as my favorite purely b/c of her curse. Tristessa is/was evil and certainly deserves her punishment, but the details of her curse (the thing with the babies) is so tortuously cruel even for Ravenloft. Its the...

That's going to be a problem with any provably false theocracy you set up in Ravenloft. It's easier to work with faiths that have the ambiguity of uncertainty whether there's a real deity at the root , and genuine faith on the part of the observants. True...though on the other hand, from the player...

I admit it is a challenge but I think making her a wandering false prophet could well change that with the right follow up ideas. Inza isn't stupid . She is bland so it is up to us to flesh her out. My idea is basically turn her into some false messiah figure using a false front for a corrupt churc...

Taken from the 2nd Edition Book of Artifacts: -"It is unclear if The Apparatus is a single device or a set of plans," meaning it could be either at your discretion, but it has appeared in different forms, leading some to speculate that the artifact is the plans themselves and they are 'com...

Tharizdun is one of those really creepy elements of D&D that I could never enjoy. [...] Tharizdun reminds me of the comics' interpretation of Unicron, too. Not just a single planet-sized machine eating worlds, but a greater deity of chaos and destruction, devouring reality in multiple dimension...

Most of these look pretty solid to me, though a few seem like they could use some fleshing out. I feel a good Ravenloft DL curse has 3 main parts you should be able to identify and be familiar with: 1. What the Darklord wants and how it is denied to them 2. How anything else around the DL is twisted...

I don't normally highlight the moral choices to be made for the PCs...but for my campaign in Gothic Earth, I try to make sure there's a some level of moral choice, explicit or implicit, in pretty much every adventure. Only the simplest of side-trek adventures allow the PCs to skate through without h...