One year ago... 🌫️ Running Curse of Strahd & Ravenloft for younger ages (8-12) with help from Strahd Gave Me Goosebumps & Ravenloft Gave Me Goosebumps on DMsGuild: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYM4... #CurseofStrahd #Ravenloft
The Ravenloft video I put out a week ago (my 2nd video about The Horrors Within) has become my most popular Ravenloft video ever, overtaking Ravenloft videos* I put out over two years ago… 🤯 Wild.
* How I Ran the Carnival and How I Ran Falkovnia, both of which I put out in early 2024. 🎪🧟
New DM of the Mists video! 🌫 In Curse of Strahd (minor spoiler!), there's a winery with three missing magical gems. Two of them are in various places, but one is… it's up for the DM to decide! In this video I talk about different ideas of what to do… 🟢🍷 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU1n... #CurseofStrahd
Two years ago... 🌫️ Some CoS DMs choose to increase the map size of Barovia. While a good idea in theory, it could backfire, for game design & rules/mechanics reasons (unless other additional changes are made to compensate). 🗺️ I explain all here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-8... #CurseofStrahd
Just wrapped up part of the Shadowlands (Avonleigh) in tonight's session - onto Nidala next. So my next Ravenloft video will likely be "How I Ran The Shadowlands (Part 1)"! ⚔️🌫️⚜️ It was fun - I'm excited to record it and cover how it went.
Next videos...
Curse of Strahd: Ideas for what to do about the 3rd Winery gem 🍷🟢
Ravenloft: Either... How I Ran The Shadowlands Part 1 (Avonleigh), or Ravenloft: Mist Hunters Part 2 ⚔️🌫️
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Two years ago... 🌫️ All about Luba's Tarokka of Souls, a D&D 5E artifact magic item that appears in the book Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, but is Ravenloft-flavored (and - speaking from experience - is a great item to include in a Ravenloft campaign)... 🃏 #Ravenloft www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2vW...
Fun fact: A few months before starting DM of the Mists, I asked on the Ravenloft subreddit if "Mists" was trademarked in the context of D&D (because "Ravenloft" & "D&D" are), because I had the channel name in mind but I wasn't sure if I'd be allowed to use it: www.reddit.com/r/ravenloft/...
Dare to enter Ravenloft in Campaign 1 of the new official D&D actual play series: Dungeon Masters!
Catch the premiere on April 22 at 6:30PM PT on the Dungeons & Dragons YouTube channel.
I did wonder if the 3rd one on the DM screen was Dementlieu - Mother of Tears Cathedral maybe.
Shadow Sorcery Sorcerer as seen in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. Art by Ignatius Budi.
Seven ways to face the darkness... or embrace it! Meet the subclasses that blur the line between hero and horror in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.
Shadow Sorcery Sorcerer
Art by Ignatius Budi
Last week, Curse of Strahd got a reVAMP 🧛♂️ New features like Map Pins, Reactions & more were added. Plus, the update is FREE if you already owned it!
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2,000 subscribers! 🥳 Thanks to everyone who's supported me on this journey - it's been a blast. I've no plans to stop - especially now that we have The Horrors Within coming out... 😅
Ravensburger has just announced "Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons Ravenloft," a new expansion for the Horrified D&D board game set in the Domains of Dread. dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/horrified-dn... #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #boardgames #ravenloft #horrified
New DM of the Mists video! 🌫 Yesterday the preorder pages went live for Ravenloft: The Horrors Within - which has told us a ton more stuff about what it'll include. In this video I run through them and talk about what they say, show the new art, and more. #Ravenloft www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcO5...
Oh cool! Considered me corrected as well! 😅 It’s an awesome name.
Is your name actually “Rohan” then (with the ‘h’)? I assumed it was spelt that way but pronounced “Rowan”.
What a day.
Update: All good! I forgot about the "Roll Back Game" setting and it rolled back successfully. It rolled back to before last night's session, but that's fine - it's easy to rectify from there and will only take about 5-10 mins to sort. PHEW!
And that's it! I'm so happy to see Castle Avernus and Shadowborn Manor mentioned - two places I'll be running in the future (the latter literally in a couple of months' time)!
"No AI was used in the creation of Strahd's Silver Edition. The Darklords are scary enough." - HAH! I like that. 😆
It also teases domain maps for Borca, Mordent and Darkon. Darkon doesn't look like it has the Shroud on it (unlike the version we had in 2021's Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft). Plus domain maps for Barovia and Innsmouth (the latter being the new domain belonging to Cthulhu).
"3 Area Maps for players to plot out their next steps in the key areas of D'honaire Estate, Nedragaard Keep, and Shadowborn Manor" - So that includes Dementlieu, Sithicus and the Shadowlands, respectively (I'm actually running the Shadowlands for my players at the moment - so this is awesome)!
New battlemaps include the Blood of the Vine tavern in Barovia, Castle Avernus in Darkon(!), Pharaoh's Rest in Har'Akir, Tower of Traitors in Kalakeri, Van Richten's Store in Mordent, Odaire's Toyshop and Sithicus Ruins - so some nice reveals of what other domains will be appearing.
B&G's version will contain an exclusive "Level 5 Bonus Adventure set in Barovia. Answer Van Richten's call to put a powerful undead force to rest by bringing a murderer to justice." Nice! 🧛🏻 Looks like it's called Dread Tales From the Warehouse, and uses the Haunted Bastion battlemap.
I did a thread earlier about the Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page on D&D Beyond and what new info we've gotten about it. Here's another thread, this time looking at Beadle & Grimm's page - which gives even MORE info... beadleandgrimms.com/products/rav...
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Indeed! What I’m hoping is it’s domains that didn’t get much love before, like Sithicus, Forlorn, the Shadowlands, etc. And if it IS more Falkovnia, Hazlan, etc. then hopefully expanded on with more info, etc.
Ahh it says elsewhere that it's "featuring *a* new Domain" (emphasis added) - so only one new domain. The other 15 of 16 will be rehashes then, I'm guessing - like Barovia.
