Arrived today!
Don't have the time for a full unboxing with photos etc. I'm sure someone will step up with that eventually. Just a quick run-down on what's in the box:
The aforementioned ring - it's supposedly a Ring of Osybus, but I'm calling it an FoS ring, and no one can stop me.
An Amulet of the Raven - they admit it has no specific connection to the text, but give a few ideas for how to use it, and it does look cool.
A planchette and the spirit board. The Planchette is really beautiful, with a big magnifying glass in the middle. A shame that the spirit board is printed on flimsy poster paper and creased. I would have preferred if it was rolled or something, and better yet, on the thick vinyl paper of the CoS Legendary Edition maps.
four bonus encounters in four different domains
Battle maps for the full House of Lament adventure and the bonus encounters.
8x11ish domain maps - enlarged versions of the ones in the book.
The book itself, broken into 4 softcovers (chapter 1/2, 3, 4, & 5)
40 encounter cards, mostly monsters from the book and stuff from the bonus encounters. 2 with new art by Claudio Pozas.
Handouts from the House of Lament and the bonus encounters (wine labels, a note, a deeds, a will, a ledger, and a death certificate) All nicely "aged". two of them rolled and tied with twine.
Art cards of art from the book.
6 bonus art cards with new art by Claudio Pozas and Shen Fei. (2 from HoL, 4 from the Bonus encounters)
4 pre-gen characters using the new rules from the book.
All in all, a very nice version. I'm a sucker for the artifacts in particular. And I am more likely to run the HoLament in my campaign than a full-blown Curse of Strahd, so it's more likely to be fully used. I'm sad there's no new portrait-style art for the new NPCs and NPCs whose physical look has been changed. I was definitely hoping for that.
