Reviewing Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft for Players and DMs: A Mastering Dungeons Index
On the Mastering Dungeons podcast, Shawn Merwin and I examined what Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft offered to players and Dungeon Masters. From fantastic guidance for running horror games, to the included adventure, to subclasses and Dark Gifts for players, we break down the design and how to make the most of it in your games. You can also find my review on how Roll20 implements the book.
On our podcast we review the news, then cover Van Richten’s. We started with Chapter 4, since it does such a good job of establishing how horror should be run. Here the table of contents, along with a link to the episodes.
| Introduction Ch. 1: Character Creation Haunted Heroes New Lineages Dark Gifts Subclass Options Backgrounds Horror Trinkets | July 1, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-4/ |
| Ch. 2: Creating Domains of Dread Creating a Darklord Creating a Domain Genres of Horror | July 8, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-5/ |
| Ch. 3: Domains of Ravenloft Nature of Ravenloft Domains of Dread | July 15, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-6/ |
| Ch. 4: Horror Adventures Preparing for Horror Running Horror Games | June 3, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-1/ |
| Tarokka Deck / Spirit Board Horror Toolkit (Curses, Fear and Stress, Traps, Survivors) | June 11, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-2/ |
| The House of Lament (Adventure) | June 17, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-3/ |
| Ch. 5: Monsters of Ravenloft Horror Monsters Bestiary | July 29, 2021: https://masteringdungeons.podbean.com/e/mastering-dungeons-%e2%80%93-van-richten-s-7/ |
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