CONFIRMED: Ravenloft for 5th Edition

[Ender]

I'm sure you might be able ot answer this question, but for the side adventures how much do those cost? Do you know? Thanks for letting me know!

They are free downloads.

Are you certain of that? I was under the impression they'd be $2.99(ish) like the previous AL adventures.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

I'm sure you might be able ot answer this question, but for the side adventures how much do those cost? Do you know? Thanks for letting me know!

They are free downloads.

Are you certain of that? I was under the impression they'd be $2.99(ish) like the previous AL adventures.

my mistake. I misinterpreted what someone said upthread.

[Zilfer]

Alright that's not bad at all. Around the price of the Missions in Shadowrun which are pretty good.

[alhoon]

I'm sure you might be able ot answer this question, but for the side adventures how much do those cost? Do you know? Thanks for letting me know!

They are free downloads.

Eh? Are you sure? Before DMGuild that was true, but now they cost like 2$ each.

Possible map eh?

http://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/01/27/cur ... neak-peek/

Wow, that's retro... didn't know anyone was STILL using paper.

[Resonant Curse]

Where can you buy them??

[Ken of Ghastria]

The price for the adventures in the 3rd season of the Adventurers League (Rage of Demons) is $3.99 each on the DM's Guild (WotC's new shared site with DriveThruRPG), so I'm guessing the modules in the Curse of Strahd season will be the same. (And because it's through the DM's Guild, a nice percentage of those purchases goes to the actual writer.)

Where can you buy them??

Here's the link for the DM's Guild:
http://www.dmsguild.com/
If you have a DriveThruRPG account, you can log in with that. However, the first Curse of Strahd adventures won't be out for a few more weeks! (Heck, I just sent my draft in this week.)

The D&D Adventurers League site has the up-to-date release schedule:
http://dndadventurersleague.org/curse-o ... dventures/
For instance, the first adventure, "Suits of the Mists," is premiering right now (!!) at Winter Fantasy, but you won't be able to buy it until March 1.
Similarly, my adventure, the fifth ("The Ghost"), is premiering at Tri-Con on April 1 (I wish I lived close enough to go there), but it won't be available for download until May 1.

[alhoon]

The D&D Adventurers League site has the up-to-date release schedule:
http://dndadventurersleague.org/curse-o ... dventures/
For instance, the first adventure, "Suits of the Mists," is premiering right now (!!) at Winter Fantasy, but you won't be able to buy it until March 1.
Similarly, my adventure, the fifth ("The Ghost"), is premiering at Tri-Con on April 1 (I wish I lived close enough to go there), but it won't be available for download until May 1.

Wait, why we have to way till March if it premiers now?
What cruel, 12% Power-checks worthy decision is that? Aside to prolong our misery, why it's not available for us to buy yet?

Also, I understand you can't tell anything about the adventure, but I guess you could give some teasers:
Have you used the VRGuides for inspiration when you designed the adventure?
I'm not asking "Are there allergens for the ghost I assume will be in the adventure". I'm not asking whether there would be a ghost in the adventure.
I'm just asking if some previous material and way-of-thinking has ... leaked in 5e era.


Another question:
DDLE4 Death House
Supposedly out after season starts. When does the season starts? I thought it started a few days ago...

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

Wait, why we have to way till March if it premiers now?
What cruel, 12% Power-checks worthy decision is that? Aside to prolong our misery, why it's not available for us to buy yet?

Presumably so they can run it at conventions without some jerk cheating by buying it and knowing the answers to all the mysteries and where all the monsters and treasures are.

[Resonant Curse]

Thanks for the information, I didn't even know about those!!!

[Cam]

I'm very excited for this new material! Is anyone else struggling in deciding whether to try to play all these Adventurers League adventures at local game stores or conventions as they come out, or just to buy them and read them on your own, planning to DM them for your own game groups at your leisure? (Of course even if I play them in store I'll buy them to add to my own library afterwards.) The surprise involved in playing through Ravenloft adventures when you don't know what they contain is always appealing to me, and for a lot of us this will probably be a rare opportunity to find other DMs willing to run adventures in our favorite setting, so that we can experience Ravenloft as PCs. But playing with a DM and fellow players you don't know might detract from the horror feel of the setting. Anyway, it's a nice problem to have!

I've played a few other Adventurers League adventures in past years, but I'm having trouble figuring something out. How does DDLE4 Death House fit into the Adventurers League campaign? From http://dndadventurersleague.org/ it looks to me as if Death House is a mini-campaign (12-16 hours of play) that is self-contained. So, am I right to assume that you'd use a PC for Death House that's not the same as the PC you use for the 14 DDAL04 modules to be released between March and June? Or, could you use the same Adventurers League PC for both, and you could just go back and forth between DDLE4 adventures and DDAL04 adventures in whatever order your local game store wants to run those two sets of adventures? I don't think Wizards is very clear about that. Ken, do you happen to know?

Because I don't see any indication that Death House is going to be sold or released to the public outside of game store operators, figuring out how and when to play or see Death House seems like the key piece of all the Adventurers League stuff happening this year. We'll eventually be able to download all the other Adventurers League modules, and of course we'll be able to buy the hardback campaign sourcebook... but if I want to see what's in Death House, I've got to find a local game store that's running it and adapt to their schedule.

Yay, new Ravenloft content! For my own campaigns, I'll just take what I like from these new publications and add it to my homebrew version of the setting, so I am not overly worried about changes to canon. Excited about new stuff!

[Ken of Ghastria]

I don't know much more about Death House. It's going to be distributed to gaming stores as part of the Curse of Strahd launch, it's intended to be run over multiple nights, and it's not directly connected to the Adventurers League season and the "Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts" storyline. That's about it.

Wait, why we have to way till March if it premiers now?
What cruel, 12% Power-checks worthy decision is that? Aside to prolong our misery, why it's not available for us to buy yet?

Presumably so they can run it at conventions without some jerk cheating by buying it and knowing the answers to all the mysteries and where all the monsters and treasures are.

That's correct. Also, part of the allure of conventions is the opportunity to see/play products from Wizards, Paizo, etc., before anyone else does. It helps promote the product, too, especially on social media. From a marketing standpoint, it's an arrangement that works well for both the companies and the conventions.

Also, I understand you can't tell anything about the adventure, but I guess you could give some teasers:
Have you used the VRGuides for inspiration when you designed the adventure?
I'm not asking "Are there allergens for the ghost I assume will be in the adventure". I'm not asking whether there would be a ghost in the adventure.

Sneaky. Yes, I happily looked at several of the VR Guides for inspiration, although I'm limited in my ability to customize creatures from the Monster Manual. (For the Adventurers League adventures, we're understandably asked to stick to creatures that have been properly playtested. That's not to say I didn't attempt to tweak.) Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts is the best RPG supplement I've ever read, and I'm glad I was able to say that in person to William Connors at Gen Con about 16 years ago. However, it's not the VR Guide that I picked up most often last month... and I'll leave it at that.

[Cam]

Thanks Ken, this is all very helpful/interesting info! I look forward to seeing your adventure.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

Well, I contacted my local store to see if I can get Death House. They are looking into whether they are allowed to share it with me. If so, I doubt I'd be able to share it further, (though if they say I can, of course I will). So I encourage anyone who really wants it to contact their local game store and see what they say.

[Gonzoron of the FoS]

Regarding "Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts," is that the name of the whole series of adventures? So far only the first 6 blurbs say that they are part of it.

[Ken of Ghastria]

Yep, that's the whole series. They haven't released the descriptions for the back half of modules, but they're all part of the storyline.