
On Twitter, Ajit George - a writer and director of operations for Shanti Bhavan, a school for disadvantaged children living in India - confirmed that they contributed to Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, becoming the “first Indian to write India-inspired setting and character material in the 47 years of D&D’s epic history”. To be the first Indian to write Indian-inspired setting & character material in the 47 years of D&D's epic history! #DesiDnD #DnD #TTRPG - Ajit George FebruTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. I am deeply proud to announce that I wrote for in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft! New or customised characters can then experience an entirely new adventure set within Ravenloft and face off against the creatures found in the Montorious Bestiary. Bards can acquire powers of the afterlife with The College of Spirits, whilst Warlocks can risk the path of Undead pacts.Īlternatively, players can augment their characters with a variety of Dark Gifts to establish their standing within the Domains of Dread. Players can use the two subclasses featured in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft to further develop their characters in the ways of dark arts. The lineages include opportunities to create a dhamphir - the child of a vampire and a human - alongside dreaded hexblood and reborn characters. Players will be able to grant their own characters with horrific abilities and powers in Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, with options for new backgrounds, starting items and character lineages. DMs can even create their own domains using the rules and advice found within Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft - as well as the deadly vampiric foes to populate it, as Ravenloft is notorious for hosting powerful vampires called Darklords. The newest sourcebook for D&D features content that will be both new and familiar to players and DMs, with pages on domains included in past sourcebooks and entirely fresh areas for parties to explore. Within Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft players and dungeon masters can find everything they need to create their own stories set in the haunted lands of Ravenloft. Van Richten has created a collection of case files and correspondence to pass onto the next generation of hunters, with the hopes of imparting enough knowledge to enable them to defeat vampires and other unholy creatures. Infested with the undead, Ravenloft is the setting for the Curse of Strahd campaign originally released for first-edition Dungeons & Dragons in 1983. The next sourcebook for Dungeons & Dragons 5E has been revealed as Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, a title that returns to the classic D&D setting.īased on the knowledge and experiences of famed vampire hunter Rudolph Van Richten - a character that appears in the iconic Curse of Strahd D&D campaign - the upcoming roleplaying game sourcebook is set to invite players back to the shadowy lands of Ravenloft.
