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Hello there,
my players are on the way to activate a mistway.
I want to make this an unique experience.
I'm looking for a music for that, do you have something in mind?
Thanks.

What's a mistway and where can I find information on it?

Epically wrote:What's a mistway and where can I find information on it?

A mistway my friend, is travelling from point A to point B but using the Mists for transportation.
A and B can be very far away from each other.
You can find information on the mistways on the Van Richten Guide to the Mists, available as a free downloadable pdf.

Mistways are more dangerous and less reliable that said, a portal.
There are mists creatures in there, and they can drift, which mean you appear in a diiferent place than predicted.

Mistways are always fun for a DM, oh yeah

Ahhhhh.

Well, it's not creepy but Burning Skies by Linkin Park. Part of it's song is "Swimming in the smoke".

Mistways were first described in the 3e Ravenloft Campaign Setting.

You can see a list of them here:
www.fraternityofshadows.com/wiki/Mistway

When I used one in my campaign, this was my playlist:
Nox Arcana - Haunter Of The Dark
The Village Soundtrack - Noah Visits
Vas - Beyond Despair
Thief: Deadly Shadows Soundtrack - The Blue Heron Inn
Thief: Deadly Shadows Soundtrack - Auldale

I suggest some of the music from The Dig (http://soundtracks.mixnmojo.com/), they are quite atmospheric and yet remain quite alien from what you would normally hear, ideal in a mistway, plus with it being from a game soundtrack it blends with the background without overwhelming the players with too much noise.

Will have a look on those musics, thanks (have a ear instead of a look)!

I don't know if it can be called a mistway, in fact: they will spill the blood of the Gundars in the hall of castle Hunadora.
It is said to open a portal, but IMC there's no portal in Ravenloft that is capable of transportation between Domains, only the mists, so this will be a mistway

kottakinge wrote:I don't know if it can be called a mistway, in fact: they will spill the blood of the Gundars in the hall of castle Hunadora.
It is said to open a portal, but IMC there's no portal in Ravenloft that is capable of transportation between Domains, only the mists, so this will be a mistway

Yeah, that one's probably more of a portal than a Mistway. I think there's a tendency to recast all portals in Ravenloft as mistways, but I prefer mistways mainly as they originally were described: natural currents in the Mists. It does break the general rules about inter-domain travel, but it's a rarity. BTW, if you haven't already, check out the description of that portal in Knight of the Black Rose. I just finished listening to the audiobook version, and it's more interesting than I remember from reading it long ago. There's this weird guardian creature called the Keeper that demands your soul as a toll for passage. Not sure how non-evil PCs get around this, but it's worth using in some way.

Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:

kottakinge wrote:I don't know if it can be called a mistway, in fact: they will spill the blood of the Gundars in the hall of castle Hunadora.
It is said to open a portal, but IMC there's no portal in Ravenloft that is capable of transportation between Domains, only the mists, so this will be a mistway

Yeah, that one's probably more of a portal than a Mistway. I think there's a tendency to recast all portals in Ravenloft as mistways, but I prefer mistways mainly as they originally were described: natural currents in the Mists. It does break the general rules about inter-domain travel, but it's a rarity. BTW, if you haven't already, check out the description of that portal in Knight of the Black Rose. I just finished listening to the audiobook version, and it's more interesting than I remember from reading it long ago. There's this weird guardian creature called the Keeper that demands your soul as a toll for passage. Not sure how non-evil PCs get around this, but it's worth using in some way.

Put the review up on the site....?

i don't remenber the portal in KOTBR nor this gardian thing you mentionned.
But IIRC the portal send you from Gundar's Castle to ... Barovia, saving you 2 hours of ride, WOW!
No, IMC this is a mistway, and guess what? it will drift!
Sending my PC to the next adventure, which is "Servants of Darkness" in Tepest.
Of course the mists won't let the pc on the road to the nearest town but instead will transport them to the home of the welcome undead treant: Blackroot!

I like it when a plan comes together

Zilfer wrote:Put the review up on the site....?

No time for a formal review. Though we do have one of the book in the Drawing Room:
http://fraternityofshadows.com/DrawingR ... _Rose.html

I'll probably post about the audio version specifically when I get around to it. I have thoughts.

kottakinge wrote:i don't remenber the portal in KOTBR nor this gardian thing you mentionned.
But IIRC the portal send you from Gundar's Castle to ... Barovia, saving you 2 hours of ride, WOW!
No, IMC this is a mistway, and guess what? it will drift!

As far as I know, KOTBR is the only place it's mentioned. The guardian is a being made of shadow in the shape of an elf-woman with antlers, IIRC. It's creepy.

Yeah, in the book, the portal goes to a barrel in an alley in Vallaki. Not really impressive. But it's been speculated before that the other end drifts, or that the Dark Powers highjacked temporarily it so as not to let Soth escape. You could let it go anywhere you like, and few would complain.

A few tracks to get you started: these should be locatable on Youtube.

The Secret Garden - Moongate

IQ - The Other Side

Free Radical Design - Timesplitters2 - Astrolander or Spy-Fi.

Super Mario Galaxy - several otherworldly tracks, try Waltz of the Boos and Gateway Galaxy

Blood - The Hall of the Epiphany, and Double Double Toil and Trouble.

http://www.questkick.com should be a good source of RPG soundtracks when it launches.

Already pre-ordered my membership!