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    D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

    Curious why no on the name - because it refers to a real-world group? Vampire has had Brujah as bloodline since forever, I think they're derived from the same.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

    "10 domain denizens for your party to encounter" - so like Van Richten, the Weathermay Twins, Alanik Ray and such? That'd actually be nice, especially if they can be advanced with the sidekick rules to follow the PCs on their journeys. As far as creatures, maybe we'll get the actual stats for...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Ravenloft: The Horrors Within preorder page lists the book's contents

    Why not both? A lot of this sounds like it's likely going to be a rehash of Van Richten's in the genre & domains, so I'm not so sure I'm going to end up picking this up. For me, It'll come down to what monsters it's going to have (including Dark Lord stat blocks ....). The fewer overlap on...
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    D&D General 1979 AD&D coloring album art sells for $57,500

    Weapons and Warriors? Was that like Crossbows & Catapults or a D&D thing?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Additional spell resources?

    I could see some old Suel Lich when confronted by a PC: "Bah, you kids and your 'safety valves' for magic. Back in my day, fireballs expanded to fill their volume, lightning bolts bounced and you could stack spells 'til you fell over from encumbrance! And mind you, you didn't get 'em for free...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Additional spell resources?

    Just a note, both of those are concentration spells, so unless one of the two is coming from another player or magic item, I don't know of way to have both up at the same time.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Additional spell resources?

    There’s a ton of 3rd party books of spells from a variety of companies. Some of the ones I own are Tome of Heroes (lots of player options, including spells, by Kobold Press) Deep Magic (several volumes, unusual spells and new casting classes/subclasses, another Kobold Press book) The...
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    D&D General 1979 AD&D coloring album art sells for $57,500

    I never saw those yellow bundles, but I do remember picking up several Spelljammer box sets ( Astromundi & War Capains) in Kay-bees in the 90’s for a quarter of the normal price.
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    D&D General 1979 AD&D coloring album art sells for $57,500

    @GreyLord , if you haven’t read this about the WotC acquisition, it’s very interesting and talks about the warehouse of old stock. Perhaps the most relevant part: Of note, this was before 3E was even a glint in the eye, before the idea of OSR and at a time 2E was in decline (and 1E was around...
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    D&D General 1979 AD&D coloring album art sells for $57,500

    Hate to tell you this, but those purges happened long before WotC was around (both in the 80's and early 90's). Though I do remember that Peter Adkinson(?) talked about purging a warehouse full of 1E product still sitting on pallets.
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    D&D General People make amazing D&D Art

    Based on the picture in the Fiend Folio (and its association with Beholders), I always thought the gorbel could fly/levitate. That doesn't appear to be the case, though - which makes it fit the "alien beach ball" from Dark Star even closer.
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    D&D General 1979 AD&D coloring album art sells for $57,500

    Wow! I had, and colored in that old album back in the day* and ended up getting another copy to keep in pristine shape. Also, the mini-game in it was actually pretty difficult! * my preacher actually got it for me for my birthday - this was back in the early 80's!
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    D&D General Ideas for minions of a vampire

    I've always been partial to "blood hounds" - wolves, wargs or mastiffs that have been fed vampire blood to give them a little bit of an oomph. They make great daytime guardians over a sleeping vampire and for stats you simply use the base creature and slap one or two spell-like effects onto...
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    Dungeons & Dragons releases Villainous Options playtest

    Everyone keeps saying this is “Book of Vile Darkness” stuff, but I feel like this is material we’ll see in the Ravenloft book this fall.
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    D&D General What's the least spookiest Wizard Subclass?

    Order of Scribes? Bunch of dang librarians!
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