Ravenloft (Product Line)
The Ravenloft Product Line comprises the total of all published information on The Ravenloft Setting.
Everything started with the AD&D module I6: Ravenloft published by TSR in 1983. It was followed by the sequel adventure I10: Ravenloft II - The House on Gryphon Hill in 1986. Both of these adventures were set on unnamed Prime Material worlds, where the original versions of Barovia and Mordent lay, respectively.
In 1991, inspired by these two classic adventures, TSR created The Ravenloft Setting, incorporating elements from the adventures and transporting Barovia and Mordent to a new Demiplane of Dread, split into domains and ruled by darklords cursed by mysterious Dark Powers. Over the next decade, TSR (and later, their parent company, Wizards of the Coast) would publish 82 products set wholly or partially in the setting (including 3 products set in the Masque of the Red Death spin-off setting) and 20 Ravenloft novels. During this time, Ravenloft was also featured in several articles in Dragon and Dungeon. The final Ravenloft product published by TSR/WotC was the super-module Die Vecna Die!, in 2000, marking the end of 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons.
Ravenloft was revived for 3rd Edition via a licensing agreement between WotC and White Wolf's ArtHaus imprint. From 2001 through 2005, 20 Ravenloft products were produced by ArtHaus. (Including one Masque product). At the time the line was cancelled, two products were still in production. Van Richten's Guide to the Mists was published online, in draft form, as a free download. Masque of the Jade Horror remained unseen by the public.
In 2006, Wizards published Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, a 3.5 edition update of the original Ravenloft module, which like that module, was not set in the Ravenloft setting. From 2006-2008, they re-released several of the Ravenloft novels under the Ravenloft Covenant name, culminating with two new novels in the Ravenloft Dominion line in 2008. (Though all mentions of the word Ravenloft were removed from these two books shortly before publishing, the text retains explicit references to the setting). A third novel, Black Crusade, was cancelled, but serialized on the Wizards website in 2009.
At the moment, the future of Ravenloft is unclear. Elements of the setting have been incorporated into the main 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons world, but the Demiplane as a we know it is currently untouched. A Ravenloft boxed set was announced for 2011, but later shelved.
