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https://i.imgur.com/82Ks8Df.png The Town of Vallaki is a long entry, and given the settlement’s prominence in Barovian politics this is hardly surprising. Instead of having 25% of the houses containing swarms of rats, the Gazetteer decided to make the town virtually at full capacity due to rural re...

https://i.imgur.com/WC35rGy.png Product Link Product Type: DMing Tools CoS-Required? Yes Just about every official megacampaign has online guides for how to optimally run it. Curse of Strahd’s popularity means that it has quite a number of such guides. The r/curseofstrahd subreddit has two notable ...

https://i.imgur.com/MIGVvzr.png Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No, but can tie into it. Curse of Strahd is one of the most well-known modules for 5th Edition, and the Death House introductory adventure is almost as well known among hapless newcomers. It is also a highly lethal a...

Nice review, as usual! I am coming away very surprised at how decent the material looks, but I reckon I'd never touch it due to the baggage of the source material. Sad that their talents weren't aimed elsewhere as this was the first 5e product to pique my interest. Indeed. The book alone is a great...

DM's Guild Ravenloft Sourcebooks by Libertad

https://i.imgur.com/ZVLaokn.jpg Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? Sort of (takes place in a timeline where the PCs failed) The Devil’s Brides is a special kind of adventure, one meant to take place after a failed Curse of Strahd campaign. In it, the players take control of the Brid...

Wowzers, now that's a stat block! I like your personalized notes sprinkled throughout. Brute Sphere - Brutal Shove -Whenever you shove a creature, you can move the target an additional 5 feet per 5 points they fail the contested check by, even if you chose to knock them prone instead of moving them....

https://i.imgur.com/u1iiFke.png Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No Here we have an adventure taking place in the domain of Carnival, optimized for 3rd to 6th level characters. But the Dark Carnival isn’t like other adventures; it can be run as a multi-table event, where multiple ...

I'm really glad to hear that you're enjoying this book.

If it's not too much trouble, care to share some of these character builds?

https://i.imgur.com/08Qp6oj.png Chapter 5: Bestiary and NPC Gallery gives us a whopping 24 new creatures, 13 of which have unique stat blocks and 11 of which use stat blocks of existing official monsters but with altered traits. In the latter case I will put the original stats in parenthesis. Surpr...

https://i.imgur.com/Ii7av7W.jpg Product Link Product Type: Location CoS-Required? No The Red City is one of our larger sourcebooks, a clean 102 pages plus two map handouts as image files. It is a detailed rundown on a new Domain of Dread that is a Russian-themed realm of forests and a capital city,...

This would be a book that I would buy just from the discussion of magic stuff and setting interaction. My nephew has recently been actually playing DND so this might be in the running for a Christmas gift. My only question is about the balance this has with 5th ed. You say that they have numbers an...

https://i.imgur.com/XCN7cm1.jpg Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No, but it can lead into it. Content Warning: adventure background deals with suicide Designed for four characters of 5th level, the adventure’s title isn’t about a character so much as a monastery named after the ch...

https://i.imgur.com/0WaDbdf.png Product Link Product Type: Character Options, Bestiary, Locations CoS-Required? No One of Ravenloft’s strengths is in the concept of domains. The ephemeral nature of the Demiplane of Dread’s geography is friendly to homebrewers in that one could drop a whole new regi...

https://i.imgur.com/JqZhoyT.jpg Product Link Product Type: Adventure CoS-Required? No When Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft released, it had a host of new and altered domains, some well-detailed and others confined to a few paragraphs at most. One of the latter examples was the Cyre 1313, aka the M...

https://i.imgur.com/MiFuGr7.png Product Link Product Type: Character Options CoS-Required? Yes Generations of gamers have experienced Barovia in all of its gothic glory. PCs from all manner of campaign settings, from the fertile heartlands of Solamnia to the bustling marketplaces of Waterdeep, have...

Are they turned into another one of the monster, or do they replace the exist monster? Also, that pic which various words with the white background makes it look like it was generated by mad-lib, which probably wasn't what they were going for. (How do towns survive if this sort of thing goes on eve...

https://i.imgur.com/jen4SS8.png Product Link Product Type Locations CoS-Required? No. Named after a riverboat captain and necromancer whose voyage has taken her to many realms of Ravenloft, Captain Snowmane’s Guided Cruise Through the Domains of Dread is a multi-author collaboration effort detailin...

https://i.imgur.com/LM4ja2T.png Product Link Product Type: Adventure Cos-Required? Yes Duskwalker is a short, 33-page adventure meant to be used as part of the greater Curse of Strahd campaign. Upon opening this book, it has a distinctly different outline and art style, and looking up the author’s ...

https://i.imgur.com/ul1OYEC.png Product Link Product Type: Character Options, Bestiary, Adventure CoS-Required? No, but the adventure ties into it Barovia is famed for its immortal ruler, the monsters that stalk the night, and its foreboding wilds. But often overlooked are the boons and banes that ...

https://i.imgur.com/raqoASS.png Product Link: Product Type DMing Tools/Bestiary CoS-Required? Yes History literally repeats itself in the nightmare domain of Barovia. Strahd Von Zarovich has lived a thousand lives and perished a thousand deaths, his existence played out like a demented opera for th...

https://i.imgur.com/Y8IXWcR.jpg It’s been nearly seven years since the highest-rated 5th Edition adventure was published. Continuing a proud tradition nearly 4 decades in the making, the iconography of the Devil Strahd and his doomed obsession with Ireena is now something D&D gamers of all gene...

Spheres of Power & Might by Libertad Unbreakable Volume 1 by Libertad Legacy of Mana by Libertad Freedom City: Every Edition by Libertad 5e Minigame and Subsystem Sourcebooks by Libertad Keep of the Kobold Queen by Libertad Coyote and Crow by deaddmwalking Testament by deaddmwalking The Adventu...

Since it's been asked elsewhere and for other books I've reviewed...

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Thanks for this review, Libertad! This is clearly the work of devoted madmen, so I'm pleasantly surprised by the depth of historical context dedicated to the factions and the region. Also by the functional sandbox. Still, I can't imagine a group of pcs that would want to play act the crucifixion. H...