New 2008 Ravenloft Novels (and comics)

[Joël of the FoS]

But WotC website is listing Black Crusade as one of the releases for march:

http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/default.aspx?

Amazon has them for a Fall release (I updated the first post in this thread with new info). Just in case, if you see this book out now, please tell the Frat!

And anybody saw the Worlds of D&D #1 comic book?

Joël

[Nalini]

Curious, are these new books , going to be add-ons to the Ravenloft series of paperbacks that came out in the 90's?

[Joël of the FoS]

Curious, are these new books , going to be add-ons to the Ravenloft series of paperbacks that came out in the 90's?

Not add-ons to the novels as add-ons to the setting. IIRC, they will use the setting as the place where a large part of the action will take place, but for the moment, it's all new things, i.e. there won't be a Dance of the Dead II or similar sequel.

Joël

[Nalini]

as an add-on to the setting, do you mean as new novels, not sequels, correct? Will they be paperback or e-novels.Im very excited, i have all the orignal series, even the hard to find King of the Dead, all in mint condition, and i look foward to expanding the collection. Oh, and i saw a pic of Kitiara, yes, she very hot

[Catman Jim]

I received a reply from Ari Marmell on the ENWorld Forums regarding the Ravenloft Dominion line & Ari's next book.

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t ... ge=2&pp=30

Ari, it appears that the entire Ravenloft Dominion line has vanished into the Mists for now. Can you comment on when we might see "Black Crusade", by any other title, and if it is in anyway related to your upcoming book, "Shades of Gray"?

http://ww2.wizards.com/books/Wizards/Pr ... =218037400

I can't say very much about Black Crusade or the new Ravenloft line. There's some funkiness going on behind the scenes, but I don't know all the details, and I'm not allowed to talk about what I do know. : But as soon as I can say more, I will.

I can way that this has no bearing on, or relation to, Shades of Grey. Shades is an entirely separate novel, and in fact (like the other novels under the "Discoveries" imprint) is a 100% original work, not set in or connected to any pre-existing setting (D&D or otherwise) in any way.

[Jester of the FoS]

Similar things are occurring with Weis & Hickman's next book in the Lost Chronicles trilogy. The book is set to be released shortly but WotC is refusing to take the manuscript.
http://www.dragonlanceforums.com/forums ... hp?t=16451

Strange.

[Catman Jim]

Please don't tell me that something else is up now; after the discontinuation of printed Dungeon & Dragon Magazines, I could see that WotC would contemplate something along the lines of only releasing "ebooks", or else may be considering contracting their book division out, or whatever....

[Mouseferatu]

Please don't tell me that something else is up now; after the discontinuation of printed Dungeon & Dragon Magazines, I could see that WotC would contemplate something along the lines of only releasing "ebooks", or else may be considering contracting their book division out, or whatever....

Nothing that dramatic. WotC is still publishing a vast array of books.

The situation with Ravenloft (at least as far as I know) has nothing whatsoever to do with the Dragonlance hubbub.

[Matthew L. Martin]

Update: I had a chance to look at a Fall 2008 WotC catalog this weekend. There's a two-page spread near the back dedicated to the three novels (Heaven's Bones, A Crown of Ashes, and Mithras Court) . . . and there's not a single mention of Ravenloft. Even the description for Ari's book refers to the protagonist visting a "mirror world".

I actually find this encouraging from a certain point of view. The D&D section of the catalog lists Ravenloft as one of the four worlds being supported in novels (it lists them in the order: "Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Ravenloft and Dragonlance"). Given what we heard about the Ravenloft: Dominion novels, I would not be at all surprised if they were filing the Ravenloft details off of those novels in order to preserve the brand for D&D use in the near future.

[JamesLowder]

To answer the question on WoD&D #1--still in production, along with issues 2 and 3. Scripts, with one exception, have been submitted through issue #8. We're getting caught up on the book, but it was running late when I signed on as creative editor. When I have a firm release date, I'll let you know.

Cheers,
Jim Lowder

[Nalini]

Novels
A number of tie-in novels were released, set in the Demiplane of Dread:

Vampire of the Mists (September 1991), by Christie Golden, (ISBN 1-56076-155-5)
Knight of the Black Rose (December 1991), by James Lowder, (ISBN 1-56076-156-3)
Dance of the Dead (June 1992), by Christie Golden, (ISBN 1-56076-352-3)
Heart of Midnight (December 1992), by J. Robert King, (ISBN 1-56076-355-8)
Tapestry of Dark Souls (March 1993), by Elaine Bergstrom, (ISBN 1-56076-571-2)
Carnival of Fear (July 1993), by J. Robert King, (ISBN 1-56076-628-X)
I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire (September 1993), by P. N. Elrod, (ISBN 0-7869-0175-6)
The Enemy Within (February 1994), by Christie Golden, (ISBN 1-56076-887-8)
Mordenheim (May 1994), by Chet Williamson, (ISBN 1-56076-852-5)
Tales of Ravenloft (September 1994), Edited by Brian Thomsen, (ISBN 1-56076-931-9)
Tower of Doom (November 1994), by Mark Anthony, (ISBN 0-7869-0062-8)
Baroness of Blood (March 1995), by Elaine Bergstrom, (ISBN 0-7869-0146-2)
Death of a Darklord (June 1995), by Laurell K. Hamilton, (ISBN 0-7869-4122-7)
Scholar of Decay (December 1995), by Tanya Huff, (ISBN 0-7869-0206-X)
King of the Dead (March 1996), by Gene DeWeese, (ISBN 0-7869-0483-6)
To Sleep with Evil (September 1996), by Andria Cardarelle, (ISBN 0-7869-0515-8)
Lord of the Necropolis (November 1997), by Gene DeWeese, (ISBN 0-7869-0660-X)
Shadowborn (March 1998), by Carrie Bebris and William Connors, (ISBN 0-7869-0766-5)
I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin (June 1998), by P. N. Elrod, (ISBN 0-7869-0754-1)
Spectre of the Black Rose (March 1999), by James Lowder and Voronica Whitney-Robinson, (ISBN 0-7869-1333-9)
Heaven's Bones (Dominion) (September 2008), by Samantha Henderson, (ISBN 0-7869-5027-7)
Black Crusade (Dominion) (October 2008), by Ari Marmell, (ISBN 0-7869-4878-7)

Heres the site i got the info from ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft

[Catman Jim]

Heres the site i got the info from ....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft

No need to go elsewhere, you can find the same list (minus the yet-to-be published ones) right here in the Drawing Room:

http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/DrawingRoom.html

[Nalini]

I found that same list before here on this site. I searched for the new novels when i learned there were new ones coming out. I only posted the address so that people would know it was found on a reputable site. I hope that you all know I meant no disrespect to this wonderful site or the people that keep it up to date.

[Lord Soth]

I actually find this encouraging from a certain point of view. The D&D section of the catalog lists Ravenloft as one of the four worlds being supported in novels (it lists them in the order: "Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Ravenloft and Dragonlance"). Given what we heard about the Ravenloft: Dominion novels, I would not be at all surprised if they were filing the Ravenloft details off of those novels in order to preserve the brand for D&D use in the near future.

God, I hope so! Seems pretty odd that out of all the settings which they no longer publish, that Ravenloft would be the one that'd see a published novel line in addition to Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and Dragonlance. Hopefully that bodes well for Ravenloft's future in 4th Edition. They've recreated D&D around this whole "Points of Light" concept, and what setting better suits that concept than Ravenloft?

[Matthew L. Martin]

Latest information from Amazon: C. A. Suleiman's The Sleep of Reason, one of the two books mentioned in the original press release, is now on deck for a February 2009 release.

Curiously, A Crown of Ashes has disappeared from Amazon's list of products available for pre-order. Ari, is something up?