Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft 🧛 Overview & Impressions (D&D 5E)

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@musingsofmessa 2 года назад

I ordered Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. It's my first D&D book. 🙂 I also got some character journals that have character sheets on some of the pages (one for main, about four or five in the back of the journals), and I got a set of 6 D&D dice all in different colors. 😊 Since I'm new to D&D, I use my imagination without things like a battle mat or miniatures. I honestly can't wait to play Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft if it's an adventure. 🙂 Super stoked! Happy to have found this video. As always, amazing work, Nate. 🌟

@zacsuth 3 года назад

I’m wrapping up Strahd, and I’ve run a ton of Call of Cthulhu. My favorite horror system hands down though is ALIEN. Very clever system, fun to play, easy to learn, and amazing world building. It actually makes the prequel content... good. More importantly, it creates enough threats with other factions, ship to ship combat, double agents, etc., that you aren’t always inevitably waiting for the classic xeno to show up. It may not show up at all, and it’s still a great time.

@briancherry8088 3 года назад

I have been really excited about this book. Yet, the more I hear about it the more disappointed I am about what it isn't. I was so excited to rediscover D&D after 30 years away. But, I don't feel like the target audience anymore. I really want to be positive... I'm really glad you are enjoying this so much. I'm hoping I love it too. I love Mike Schley maps - so that's really great to hear he's in there. Thanks!

@Fruitbat-tb3lg 3 года назад

Brian Cherry: while I dislike the current direction of WOTC, it is possible to use some of the modern 5e material and ignore some of the more dubious ‘pandering to a certain’ material. If you have come from older editions, you are probably used to mix and matching the rules to your own tastes - I know I never played in a group of AD&D that played strictly by the rules! Yep, it is certainly annoying to be paying money for the material that may annoy, but to be honest I’m more annoyed by the poor quality of some of the materials used to make the books, than the little bits of ‘WOKE’ shite I can ignore.

@briancherry8088 3 года назад

@@Fruitbat-tb3lg You are 100% right. The quality of some of it is really sad. Icewind Dale is an example of a book which is trying so hard to be something inoffensive it ends up making little impression at all. Different adventures are written in completely different styles, with vastly different amounts of "read aloud" text. And in the end, they can't write flawed characters anymore... well, except one type.

@Fruitbat-tb3lg 3 года назад

@@briancherry8088 I’ve not bought that book yet. To be honest, the excitement of new D&D books has wained of late. I’ve been buying RPG books for the last 30 years and to be honest, it is more a lingering habit than a passion now. I sold a lot a few years back and I can still use much of the material in a game if I wanted. I think the makers of Dungeons and Dragons are just following the latest fad - it won’t last forever, hopefully! 😎

@cattrucker8257 3 года назад

You continue to have some of my favourite content reviews. Short, pretty insightful, hitting the main points of interest about a book or product, and more impartial than many. Some people try to be hypemen for the new book or their sponsor, but you actually feel more impartial in comparison - so I don't listen to them but do listen to you.

@stephenchilcoat3808 2 года назад

Played the original Ravenloft adventure in the 80’s and it was by far the most challenging yet awesome adventure we played.

@AndrewDawnbringer 3 года назад

This is the material I just needed to use with Grim Hollow. Grim dark times has come.

@ChrisSickinger 3 года назад

If you want a horror RPG alternative to D&D, Dread is an excellent option. I haven't played many RPGs besides D&D, but Dread is aptly suited for the horror genre. The only game mechanic is players pull from a Jenga tower to determine success/failure. The tension players feel when they pull from the Jenga tower will spill over into the story. There's a video somewhere on RU-vid of Wil Wheaton playing Dread with a few other people, if you're interested.

@WASD20 3 года назад

Yes! I love Dread. Can’t believe I forgot to mention it.

@MsGinahidesout 3 года назад

Ravenloft is, hands down, my favorite campaign setting!!

@dangarthemighty0980 3 года назад

Mine too ever since 2nd edition.

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

Yeah, a shame the 5e one is utterly trash

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

My suggestion is to just adapt older version, just to not ruin forever the setting at least if you enjoy it being a horror

@highoncoffee5 2 года назад

That was an incredible review, thanks so much

@southron_d1349 3 года назад

A couple of years ago, I ran a 5e campaign which focussed on a coven of Hags. There was one trip into a demi-plane of dread, which involved a little girl and her birthday party. It was always her birthday... Mummy turned out to be a Zombie Lord, adapted from 2nd-edition AD&D, and the apparently lovely treats were, of course, rotten flesh, maggoty fruit and so forth. The little girl was in thrall to the Zombie Lord. The PCs' powers were thwarted somewhat by the "Odour of Death" which could affect things like saving throws or impose "Contagion". It was horrific enough. Going back further, most of a 2e campaign revolved around undead and Ravenloft. I found a good horror campaign has more to do with the players' attitudes than game mechanics or the struggles of the DM to set the tone. Even when the PCs' spirits ended up in puppets, it was still more amusing to the players than scary.

@gerbster14 3 года назад

Awesome video, makes me want to run a horror game. I think it'd be really hard to pull off that kind of tone online, so I'm looking forward to being able to play in person soon

@bytecode5834 2 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing the gift

@kathyevans3251 3 года назад

I just got my book today. Thank you for doing this video.the overview was great.

@lucasmarquesdecamargos4298 3 года назад

I think it is soooo toned down and super heroic, that to my taste, it is better to use setting information of AD&D and make adaptations if you want to use 5e (or just use the previous rule sets or retroclones, that can work perfectly too)

@GREENSP0RE 3 года назад

Highly recommend Mothership for space horror.

@christianthatcher9644 3 года назад

If you want a horror rpg: Call of Cthulhu or Shadows of the demon lord.

@maxpower3050 3 года назад

Awesome, thanks.

@petespanchos 2 года назад

Lot of “Old Man Yells at Cloud” in this comment section.

@WASD20 2 года назад

Right? Lol.

@ectofrost 3 года назад

I love all the focus on different kinds of horror. This seems like a neat book.

@seanathaalexand 3 года назад

I literally just ordered this book in the middle of watching this video.

@razorboy251 3 года назад

I wanted to echo Alien and Mothership RPGs both of which feature better horror mechanics and are more suitable to running a horror game. Also, some of the OSR games like B/X, Five Torches Deep or Old-School Essentials are definitely better suited to horror than 5e given how much more fragile and less powered the player characters are. Of course the default New World of Darkness where you played mortals, rather than vampires, Prometheans, etc., is also better suited to a horror game.

@jamiebroughman5626 3 года назад

is there a special edition of this one? looks really good horror 5e solo sounds right

@WASD20 3 года назад

There is an alternate cover that’s pretty cool. The insides are the same though.

@iamcoolalot 3 года назад

thank you, very informative

@grzegorzcaputa 2 года назад

Super!

@christopherdavis4136 2 года назад

Would this be a good campaign setting for a brand new DM or what would be better?

@WASD20 2 года назад

It could work. I would actually recommend one of the adventures that comes with the starter set or essentials kit. However, those are not settings, but rather adventures set in the forgotten realms. If you are looking for a setting, this one is fine if you like the flavor and feel of it. But it’s definitely unique. Would not necessarily make for a standard D&D game.

@AlexandreGomes-fc2qw 3 года назад

Please more map content!!!!

@AlexandreGomes-fc2qw 3 года назад

You are the best mapper out there

@johnstewart1266 Год назад

I liked it better when Ravenloft was Count Strahd's castle. Opps old man vibes pecking through.

@Ghastly_Grinner 3 года назад

Oh its in the shadowfell i was worried they renamed the plane

@techpriest8965 3 года назад

They did not print out a Spirit Board. Missed opportunity right there.

@supermanio1870 3 года назад

Make a review for rise of Tiamat

@MsGinahidesout 3 года назад

How much does the book discuss the Vistani?

@WASD20 3 года назад

It has a page or two in chapter 2 or 3 I think.

@WASD20 3 года назад

I checked again. 2 pages in the “travelers in the mist” at the end of chapter 3.

@sonic064 3 года назад

I like your review, GOOD JOB!! And the book... well... is ok but a disappointment (specially if you compare to the original one), also not fan of the Scooby-Doo feel of the book(compare to CoS Gothic horror, is day-night comparison).

@dangarthemighty0980 3 года назад

Definitely I love Ravenloft ever since 2nd edition and they have changed so much and removed so much it's nothing like the original but I do feel that I can use it to convert the original easier now then before this came out there fore reducing the work I would have to do.

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 2 года назад

Sounds a lot like blade in the dark to me not a bad thing love the setting but I would run a Domon slayer style horror game. 4 level 10 paladins sent by the good gods to tear up this place! Put fear into the horror!.

@ruthhead1810 3 года назад

Awesome video! Would you recommend getting this for someone who just wants to read and learn, not DMing a campaign? Thank you!

@WASD20 3 года назад

I think chapter 3 could definitely provide some entertaining reading! The domains of dread are all quite varied and interesting.

@Ziggerastika 3 года назад

I was at the world premiere!!

@joshualichkay7047 3 года назад

Cool, I would like it with psychopathic murderers. I think that would be cool. I wonder if they could create a D&D game set up simular to how Dragon Ball Z is story wise. That would also be cool.

@simonfernandes6809 3 года назад

This new 5e Ravenloft reworks the setting into something almost unrecognisable. If you are a fan of 2e and 3e Ravenloft and have those materials, then you'll want to stay far away from this new 5e version.

@hawkthetraveler6344 3 года назад

How do you figure?

@nordicmaelstrom4714 3 года назад

@@hawkthetraveler6344 This new edition isn't Ravenloft. Its a garbage wizards politically correct reshaping of a classic setting for political reasons.

@vigorouslethargy 3 года назад

I'm actually reading through a pdf of 2e's Domains of Dread that everyone lauds, and I'm most of the way through the Domain descriptions and I really don't see much that stands out yet. Necropolis doesn't even have a stated Darklord and Dimentlieu is unremarkable altogether. The Darklord's curse is "the women he finds attractive see him as repulsive" and he seems more of a jerk than truly evil. It seems like the biggest difference lies in the later parts of the DoD book with Fear/Horror/Sanity checks, but those are vastly just tables and modifiers, focusing more on on how to interpret a character's reaction to spooks into various debuffs, but so far I haven't come across anything that helps show great ways of evoking fear or creating good horror scenarios.

@irontemplar6222 3 года назад

@@vigorouslethargy the 5e book breaks the ravenloft setting, and doesn't even give stats for the darklords. The 2 edition book is far superior to this one in nearly every way.

@vigorouslethargy 3 года назад

@@irontemplar6222 I'll concede on the Darklords not having stat blocks. That's kinda dumb, although most give at least a "treat them as x creature" to give reference. After finishing the 2e Domains of Dread book I can say in my opinion that it really isn't leagues above this. While some of the detailed domains in 2e are cooler than the 5e ones, there's also some pretty lame ones as well. The "Curses" section in 2e is detailed, but it's overly wordy for what the end result is and takes sittitng down and using your class, alignment, background, emotional state, justification for the curse, power of the curse, and wording just to work out a percentage of success. To be honest I don't think either version do a great job of distilling a good procedure to make a horror campaign fun and exciting, but the 5e breakdown of different horror genres I found much more valuable than the "Tenets of Terror" chapter from 2e.

@Galvamel 3 года назад

This was awesome, but how does the book compare to The Curse of Strahd? Do they duplicate any part of that book? There is only one other 5e horror book, I would have loved to know if the two books compliment each other?

@drowningin 3 года назад

There is one that is like western horror. It has like skeletons still decaying with cowboy hat and gun on the cover. Its only an ebook I think, I read it a few years ago it was pretty good

@drowningin 3 года назад

Old Gus errata: Tales from the weird west it was called. There's a player handbook & monster manual

@WASD20 3 года назад

Curse of Strahd is a full adventure book, whereas this is setting guide. This book does have one short adventure in chapter 4, but Curse of Strahd is pretty much all adventure. One big storyline. Someone can feel free to correct me (because I haven't read the whole thing) but I think CoS takes place only in one domain of dread: Barovia. Van Richten's Guide includes many domains and therefore will give a DM the ability to create their own Ravenloft adventures that have very different tones, themes ,etc.

@CarlBeer-cd6ec 22 дня назад

Excellent source book all u need ìs in this book so many ideas for dms

@VMSelvaggio 3 года назад

Hey Nate! Have you ever encountered the problem where you've created a villain, and your players agreed to join him/her rather than loathed to them to the very core?

@samuelrodriguez9801 3 года назад

Why are there no Goblyns in it! AAAAAAAAAAH!

@Liodegrance 3 года назад

Did you get a review copy, or pay for it?

@WASD20 3 года назад

I paid for it

@anecromancersperspective9309 3 года назад

I feel bad for your icewind dale party ten towns goes boom

@darkagesvampire6926 2 года назад

World of darkness if you like horror

@cobragamer7798 2 года назад

i hate that at the monsters there are no alighments idk why

@lukebatchelor717 2 года назад

My understanding is that it's become unpopular to say something is good or evil just based on its race, including creatures, so I think they have just scrapped it, LOL!

@MarkLewis... 3 года назад

Horror (in small doses) is great, but imo as a long campaign is defeatist. The horror aspects of DnD needs to be a varying rollercoaster ride and not a long race at a sprint. At times inject horror, but at various and infrequent moments. That heightens the horror, such as in (older) 2 hour horror movies. You need light to show dark, but dark all the time, as everything is now... SUCKS! (pun intended) This is why I feel (imo) CoS is way too long. So, I took Ravenloft and converted it to an annual "one-shot" my group plays each Halloween. But... to each their own.

@WASD20 3 года назад

Well said!

@joe7176 3 года назад

This is why I don't run CoS, a long horror campaign would kind of get old. Maybe a horror adventure injected in the middle of a longer campaign would be better, that's why I like this book so much.

@vigorouslethargy 3 года назад

I'm actually in a CoS campaign for the first time right now, level 5, and having a blast. I don't know what (if any) aspects our DM is tweaking from the book, but we've felt a consistent sense of survival being the name of the game. We've had to think critically in order to overcome encounters or find ways of escape when out of our league. And we haven't found a single gosh-darned healing potion as of yet. All in all, it really comes down to the basics in ttrpgs: how much the DM immerses you, and how much the players feed back into it via their characters.

@MarkLewis... 3 года назад

@@vigorouslethargy (spoiler free but comments) I'm glad you like it... now, but chances are it's going to get repetitive and frustrating. I'm pretty confident your DM is going to nerf, shorten, and change things in the fear that, if they don't, the players will (soon or sooner) lose interest, as well as for the DM to lose interest to run. Kind of like the initial excitement everyone gets in starting "Tomb of Horrors" but then, actually playing it, most everyone HATES it! I DM and play in a group with 2 other DMs, and the 3 of us, (all different styles) take turns DMing. I plan my own (Homebrew) campaigns, as well as run pre-gen modules, (Icewind Dale, Phandelver, Tiamat, etc...) with my converted (original) Ravenloft being one as well. I plotted out what a full CoS campaign progression would be, (Death House and all) and quickly realized there's just too much to coordinate for just 1 enormous campaign of (not cat, but) "bat and mouse" repetition. Put apropos... It will be exciting and even funny at first, but then will quickly, over and over, slowly drain the blood out of you... drop by drop... in enervating frustration, for 2 or more years! If your group does somehow complete the CoS module... Congrats... but tell me if the ending payoff was worth all you went through? Anyway... I hope CoS is awesome start to finish for you!!! Hear from you in 2 years! 🧛‍♂️

@awaytoanywhere699 3 года назад

What about Tim Burton Horror? Dark, steamy sewer horror...

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

Just an heroic rpg with badly written horror flavour, the original book was actually pretty damn good, not even comparable to this thing, but I guess 5e is what it is and have the designers it has...

@drdave2020 3 года назад

It's interesting, but has issues. Honestly, in order to enjoy this, you cannot read the older editions. If we keep in mind that this is a reboot, essentially wiping the slate clean, then we have a decent supplement that introduces new campaign ideas in a realms where doomed personalities rule and are tormented at the same time. That being said, it's severely lacking compared to the original 2e and 3e material in world building and background. Perhaps this will change in future supplements, but for now, its as deep as the Dungeons and Dragons 80's cartoons is to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. The gender swapping of a few darklords may seem a bit peculiar to fans of the older editions, but it does not really spoil the environment or setting. Of greater damage is that a lot of these darklord's tragic and horrific stories have been replaced with new backgrounds that don't have the same impact as the original. Some are so bizarrely low on the horror scale that you wonder how they got drawn into Ravenloft in the first place compared to various villains from Greyhawk or Toril. They should have just introduced these new characters as new darklords with new domains.

@dennispatel3188 3 года назад

I read the book and it feels like an episode of Scooby Doo, What ever happened to the fight between Good vs. Evil?? for me it feels like WOTC wants you to like being a bad guy and that being a bad and good guy is the same. SPOILER: They are not! and so VAMPIRES are making out with normal people? HAGS also? disappointing to say the least

@yanickmonet1165 2 года назад

I've been playing Ravenloft since 2nd and 3rd édition and LOVED the continuation of the story so far ..... 5th as it's moments, but seriously, why change some of the original dark lords as though they never existed, instead of creating new ones, new lands and, best of all reasons why original characters might have been replaced, changed or killed by new current dark lords ? Now I have nothing with being inclusive, but not at the expense of what came before !

@nordicmaelstrom4714 3 года назад

What is inside? A cheesed version of the Demiplane of Dread where its now the demiplane of flowers and kittens. So sick of wizards and their garbage. So glad I sold off all my wizards of the coast "dungeons and dragons" books and got the books for the last real Dungeons and Dragons game Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E.

@christianthatcher9644 3 года назад

2nd edition Ravenloft was awesome..this seems...not so.

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

I'm sorry for the one that purchased the book, the way that this classic was treated is just sad and unrespectfull of the quality of the original product, it's unjustifiable, it make me feel filthy, it's not even horror, they literally say not to scare players (wtf if you play horror you want to be scared and all that), it feels uninspired and bland with the only ecception being the things you can find in older books, it's just bad d&d with a slight horror flavour (without anything of what actually makes horror horror) This book is just pathetically bad, if you want to see an in-dept review I think one dude named grim actually made it, for sure more people here on youtube are talking on how bad this module is

@seanathaalexand 3 года назад

I mean, I think they’re encouraging you to not scare your players too bad. You want them to still have fun and not be so scared that they don’t come back. I’d hate to scare a player to the point of them not wanting to play with me again.

@WASD20 3 года назад

I don't see anything about not scaring your players as much as a see encouragement to set expectations to begin with. There's material for some very frightening in-game stuff here if you want it. But I realize that's subjective and it's fine that you disagree!

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

@@seanathaalexand well, if your players are afraid to this kind of things welp, don't play horror games cuz like telling horror stories that's practically the deal, being scared and feeling uncomfortable is the deal: you are living horrifying misfortune and that's horror in rpgs and should be true even in stupidly heroic rpgs because it's still horror

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

@@WASD20 watch aaron the pedantic stream, I think it break it out nicely But you kinda get it just reading the book too: it's not like the stuf we were used to in the past they are just afraid to scare the players and designers are just inspired pussies, 5e quality in general is getting worst the more the time passes the quality of the art and presentation in general is really damn good but if we are talking about writing and the actual quality... Look, for me and other more experienced players that played 10+ different games have read tons of different adventures with all sorts of themes that's like obvious, I usually play old school and for sure the quality of the stuff I buy is known to set an higher standard compared to the ones that, well, are used to the fifth edition, yep, I'm kinda sorry but that's just a fact and I loved 5e too with it's flaws but it's getting unbearable

@bradjobson3206 3 года назад

The reason for discussing the what to expect and getting consent is sometimes dms can mistakenly go to far. I dont think you need to use your imagination too much to think of scenarios where horror can go to far for some people. The cannibal holocaust version of a dnd setting may be fun for some, but very upsetting to others.

@francoiscolin6692 2 года назад

Why D&D's art looks more and more like Disney's???

@lukebatchelor717 2 года назад

Because disney is afraid of offending people and getting cancel groups coming after them. D&D is following this example. They are afraid a setting like this might scare people away, LOL, a HORROR setting!!!

@flextapeboat6754 3 года назад

The people who disliked this video were so scared they hit the wrong button😂

@Stone_Orchids 3 года назад

Are you 4 real? The "scary level" of this book is like pussy cat It's just some cool or silly monsters and bad copy-paste content from the original books (but actually less spooky cuz 5e people don't like to be scared uwu)

@Aenarion28 3 года назад

Content warnings are a fing joke. In real Ravenloft, the heroes have limitations. The place is literally a "Sinkhole of Evil" Some spells are limited or weakened and others, specifically evil spells are enhanced. Villains and monsters can be more powerful.