Ravenloft: Prisoners of the Mist

Public (OOC) => Announcements, Updates and Status => Topic started by: Knas on April 21, 2008, 04:27:17 AM

Title: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Knas on April 21, 2008, 04:27:17 AM
As the topic suggest, this thread will be for giving out teasers, trailers, screenshots, adventure hooks or just hinting of what might just be coming your way.

As it was the screenshots posted in another thread that sparked the idea I'll just go ahead and quote them in here for all to see, all creds to EO for building & Eraldur for his screenshot-prestige!
Spoiler: show

Props to EO for these screenshots, Meant as a Sneak Peak  for what he has been working on for a while now; looks amazing; a good day to have a character from Dementlieu.  :mrgreen:
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Armand sits at the Broken Bell, telling a drunken Barovian of his homeland...

Dementlieu - Port-à-Lucine  - LeBarthe SR. 32 Years ago.

"Well friend, life does not always shine in Dementlieu - I remember when young garçon, my father always made a stop to check on his business by docks; he had me wait outside, I remember the smell being heavy even from the doorway, I understood much later on why, as I saw it with my own eyes; that any sort of vice can be assuaged for the slightest amount of solar at the Mutined Sailor."

The Mutined Sailor
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"If you believe the Tigan's rest offers poor quality rooms, well let me tell you my friend, that in certain niches in town, that would be considered as high Luxury"

The Mutined Sailor - Second Floor
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"Although, I will not lie to you when I say that the Blue Water inn; would be considered as second or third class nobilty amongst Dementlieu's finest in terms of establishment, L'Hôtel des Gouverneurs, that is First Class, L'Ami, it would cost you an arm, and a leg, The Penthouse rental for a Night, is worth a years' salary for those that live here, splendid it is with its high ceilings, its Chandeliers made of crystals"

L'Hôtel Des Gouverneurs (Governors Hotel)
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"But to really witness beauty in its essence, a tour to the Grand Opera Nationale would take your breath away, Puits D'Orchestre, or La Maison de Cire and Le Muse Du Port-a-Lucine; Art to its finest beauty such as you've likely never had the chance to see"

Musée du Port-à-Lucine
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"It is there, I had a first encounter with your lands, the rawness of your art is found apealing in certain circles"

Musée du Port-à-Lucine - Barovian Gallery
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"There, you can admire the finest pieces of the Core's known civilizations and beyond"

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/Museum2.jpg)

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"I would lie to you, if I said all smells of Rose, mon Ami, for it does not. Poverty is omnipresent in the lower Quartiers, overwhealming poverty. I always donated when I could, it is what I always did, and will continue to do"

Pawn Shop - Poor service Counter
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Poverty - Wharehouse of the Poor
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"Thankfully, many hospices can be found throughout the City, alas, they do not suffice to the high demand, and the Soeurs are overwhealmed, often times."

Hospice of Hala
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"Impressive the Sights of Baratak you have here, have I told you of Cathedrale Sainte-Dame-des-Larmes? It is our highest peak in Port--a-Lucine, a sight to behold which has seen many faithful walk its hall"

Sainte-Dame-Des-Larmes
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"A Place of untold Mysteries, Mon ami; knowledge, discovery and progress, if you could only see the amounts of books; beyond your wildest imagination"

Somewhere in Dementlieu
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"Hé voilà, have another Ale on me, Monsieur Samvel! Another round for this Brave Barovian!"

More Dementlieu Teasers!: Many of the places here are featured in the Gazeteer III.




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Dementlieu - Port-a-Lucine - Governors Hotel
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Port-a-Lucine - Governors Hotel - Penthouse
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Port-à-Lucine - Quartier Ouvrier (don't mind the fog on the day shots, wont be like that once EO fixes the fog)
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Port-à-Lucine - Quartier Ouvrier (At Night)
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Musée de Cire - Alanik Ray
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Musée de Cire - Van Richten
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Musée de Cire - Alexandre de Cire
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Musée de Cire - Vlad Drakov
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Musée de Cire - Wyan Of Viktal
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Musée de Cire - Lord Soth
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Puits D'Orchestre
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Pawn Shop
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Port-à-Lucine - Docks - Mutined Sailor
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Port-à-Lucine - Sainte-Dame-Des-Larmes
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Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on May 21, 2008, 12:24:45 AM
Some Evil Teasers to Water your mouth - Random Locations from Port-a-Lucine - Note, that some are even drafts, meaning they will get better once EO finishes them/polishes them.
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Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on June 10, 2008, 10:44:43 AM
The Fifth Heresy
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“Only by allowing the Darkness its place can Ezra destroy the seed that lurks in all but her sainted Apostles.”

-An unknown Radical Inquisitor

A plot by Heretic
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on June 20, 2008, 11:09:03 PM
Jean-Paul LaRochenoire
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/LaRochenoireMoon.jpg)


"To use an heretic or daemon sword is not to be a 'daemon lover', it is to be a daemon user to further the cause of the Grand Scheme. But we should never kill a Witch or an Heretic out of hate. We are tools, we are here to do the work in the name of Ezra. We rise above hatred, and the truly great Inquisitors kill not for hate, but because it is their duty. Those who cultivate needless hate such as most Puritans and use it as an excuse are not doing their duty. They are destroying the enemies of the church of Ezra and mankind not for *Her* sake, but for their own petty emotions."

-Jean-Paul LaRochenoire mentoring a young Inquisitor, Levkarest 749 BC
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Knas on August 10, 2008, 07:19:16 PM
Enter G'henna

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Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Kung Fu Orc on August 10, 2008, 07:32:34 PM
It's NWN. It's just got some awesome depth of focus going on.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Ric on August 10, 2008, 07:40:23 PM
:thumbup:
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: DM Macabre on August 11, 2008, 02:19:16 AM
:rock:
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on December 24, 2008, 12:13:39 AM
New Domain: Blaustein
(http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images2/oct26_bluebeard_dore.jpg)

Many storytellers can relate the tale of a man called Bluebeard. Some believe they spin only a yarn, designed to keep young brides obedient to their husbands. Others think perhaps they tell of someone whose flesh has long since crumbled into dust. But Bluebeard and the atrocities he committed were not fiction, nor did death remove him from other worlds. Ravenloft did...






Bluebeard - His Castle - His Subjects
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His Land: Blaustein
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Piracy: The Sea Of Sorrows
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Next Teaser: The Splendor of Castle Blaustein - Stay Tuned

Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on October 03, 2009, 12:08:13 AM
The Sacrifices Of Forgotten Martyrs Are Remembered Always
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Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Lockleed on September 30, 2010, 02:11:06 PM
The Sands of Har'Akir

Long ago, Har'Akir was a realm of prosperity, reaching the length of the Abal River Valley.  Its Pharaohs, the link between man and god, ruled the realm and kept the ancient balance of Ma'at.  Until the reign of Anhktepot came...

Now, Har'Akir is little more than a desolate wasteland.  The sands of the desert claim all, and the once mighty temples of the Great Ennead lay in ruin.  Scavengers prey on the unwary across its length, and deep beneath the sands, ancient evils await.  It is a realm so damned that only Ravenloft would draw it in...

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Har'Akir, a land of desert sands and forgotten tombs, forsaken by the gods.

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The Village of Muhar, the last vestige of civilization for the Akiri people.

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The Oasis of Muhar.  The lifeblood of the scattered souls of Muhar.

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The Bazaar, where the strange and exotic are traded.

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The Slaves Quarter.  Misery and labor are the fate of those who are condemned to it.

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Despite its desolation, dangerous predators still stalk the dunes of Har'Akir, seeking prey.

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Beneath the desert, ancient dead slumber fitfully, beholden to the Gods of the Underworld.

Coming soon...
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on April 19, 2011, 09:05:58 PM
The Forsaken Tower

The frozen wastes of the north are a realm of death and stagnation. Only the mad would dare to seek its truths.

Yet there must always be the fool - One willing to challenge legend for a better throw of the coin.

Endlessly have they marched implacably into the gloom of the mountains. Men which fancy themselves conquerors of the darkness and its horrors.

Only to be forgotten. A fleeting whisper of vain ambition spoken amongst countless others.


Evil is only a word. What festers within the heart of the north cannot be defined by a word, by it.

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It awaits. The tower slumbers beneath a necropolis of ice.

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The imperfections of flesh will be liberated.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Elketh_Portal.jpg)

Forbidden magics awaken to the beckon of their master.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Elketh_Preview3.jpg)

The veil between the reality of truth and the reality of dream have been rent.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Goth_Woods.jpg)

The insects will know only death.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Elketh_Some_Assembly_Required.jpg)

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Elketh_Some_Assembly_Required2.jpg)

Evil is only a word. No more.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on May 12, 2012, 09:15:44 PM
"The Time of Unparallelled Darkness falls fast upon the Land; we live in days of dying light! Signs and portents surround us, and only those who admit Ezra's light shall be spared."

-Bastion Teodorus Raines, 4th Sect

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/lastredoubt.jpg)


----------------

''Tenors are noble, pure and heroic and get the soprano, if she has not tragically expired before the final curtain. But baritones are born villains in opera.''

-Leonard Warren

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/operaingame3.jpg)

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/operaingame2.jpg)




*Subect to change, still in beta phases.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on July 14, 2012, 07:10:35 PM
Time fades even legend.

Yet prophecy is abhorrent to it.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/3.jpg)

Such is the proclamation of defiance.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/2.jpg)

Are all silent beneath Nuitari's lurid illumination. Yet not the castle which stirs from its doldrum.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/4.jpg)

The land itself was shaped by his will - rent into a parody of macabre beauty by a man's desire.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/5.jpg)

No more are its secrets hidden. No more dare the shadows slumber.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/6.jpg)

For fear of what rests beneath...

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/1.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on November 08, 2012, 10:03:08 AM
''I formally release you and others from my service. I ask that you attach yourself to Lord Victor's house, to protect and serve him as loyally as you have served me."

-Strahd von Zarovich I to Lieutenant Tatra, second in command to the fell Commander Alek Gwilym of the von Zarovich army - making him the 1st Wachter Guard Captain - 351 BC - Massacre day

Source: Strahd I

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/Siggy/Wachter_Estate_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on November 13, 2012, 03:23:13 AM
''For Ezra's sake...''

''The...executioners' swamp, domn. Centuries of murder and executions by the ruined von Zeklos family...''

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/Siggy/VZ_1.jpg)

''Sickness and plague... sickness and plague. Bodies, Fishing bodies...''

''Then keep piling them heathen. The fires of Ezra will burn bright this Old Night..for only the fires of righteousness lit in her name can truly purge and cleanse this darkness..."

Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on May 11, 2013, 07:03:42 PM
"And so I've dreamt of darker places where others dare not go."

"Where nameless, faceless things of old now dwell."

"Unto I, the dreamer, one did speak the riddle of this hell."

"Quietly ever pray I to be left of this gift like better times ago."

The Rhyme of Moil - The Scriptures of Noll, a tome rotting in Har-Thelen's library

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Aurelius_zpsadc0fbb8.jpg) (http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/QuiescentShade/media/Aurelius_zpsadc0fbb8.jpg.html)

הירח האסור יהיה ידוע מחדש כאשר האביר השחור צועד על הקרקע.

Spoiler: show

The Forbidden Moon will be known anew when the black knight walks the land.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Bad_Bud on November 24, 2013, 08:58:41 PM
Some spell changes (http://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=2173.msg436903#msg436903)

The link above holds the new spell descriptions.  A brief overview of what's actually changing is below.  You should expect to see these changed in-game at some point in the near future.

Aura of Vitality: Changed duration from 1 round + 1 round / level to 1 turn + 1 turn / level.

Crumble: Changed damage progression to 1d8/level (max 10d8) from 1d6/level (max 15d6), making the spell more useful at lower levels.  Crumble will now work on inanimate objects (placeables and doors) in addition to constructs (D&D 3.5).

Divine Power: The "casters gains the difference between his strength and 18" has been changed to "caster gains +6 strength" (D&D 3.5).

Drown: Drown now brings a target to -1 hit points, rather than dealing 90% of the target's current hit points.  Target is incapacitated for one round before drowning (D&D 3.5).

Flame Lash: Changed damage progression.  Removed reflex saving throw.  Added a melee touch attack that must hit in order to deal damage.

Keen Edge: Can now keen any weapon type, rather than only slashing.

In addition, Flame Strike and Fire Storm now only have one reflex saving throw, (before they had individual saving throws for the divine portion and the fire portion).
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on November 28, 2013, 08:01:46 PM
Finally, at last. For the very first time on PotM, on the bleak premises of the Wachter Estate serfdom...

Drum roll...

Spoiler: show
PotM's 1st, ever Outhouse area.

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/Siggy/Ravenloft---Prisoner_0000y_zps5e92ac0b.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Heretic on January 03, 2014, 02:47:48 PM
The Wachter Estate & Serfdom

At the moment of this post, the areas are not in yet, but at last, here it is : The Wachter Estate.

Game purpose: To offer an immersive, dynamic experience in which characters will be able to witness and be part of Barovia's history, allowing a wide range of stories to be told and roles to be played within and around Barovia's oldest noble family : The Wachter.

PC concept opportunities that will open in the future include & are not limited to:



..
...
....


(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/Siggy/wachter_manor1_zpse21d841b.jpg)

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/Morefizzle/Siggy/wachter_manor2_zps726af171.jpg)


Credits : A huge thanks to those who helped in this project, starting by my developer peeps who answered a lot of my annoying questions and the players who inspire us to tell stories. Here's a list of people in particular that have contributed significantly.

Collaborators :

Talek - co-builder of dungeons.
Strigoi - inspiration for Estate interior aesthetics
Holy_rage - for a NPC.
Stygian Witch - for a NPC contribution.
Vengeful Seraphim -  Oleg Wachter NPC concept collaboration.

Inspirations :

Rachel - inspiration for Wachter crypts & Mausoleum.
Oculus - inspiration for serfdom feel.

Testers & bug finders :

herkles, dutchy, Bluebomber, EO, Vinculum, Macabre, Oculus, Nocturne, puckwolf, Geiger & more I can't remember.

Last and not least, a huge thanks to Soren for compiling & designing the systems that make the magic happen!
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on December 27, 2014, 02:51:42 PM
They thought my essence scattered -- the glory of my vision and will only a memory.

I HAVE ENDURED.

Where once existed dissonance, there is now only clarity. A divine conciseness of purpose.

I HAVE DREAMED.

Of the dark offerings which the old masters now proffer. I am thrall before none.

I HAVE RETURNED.

Yet it is hardly I which inspires terror within their antediluvian hearts.

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/9fb6ae89-6cd4-45d6-a6d4-138885d5a52c_zpsa7e70ba0.png) (http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/QuiescentShade/media/9fb6ae89-6cd4-45d6-a6d4-138885d5a52c_zpsa7e70ba0.png.html)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on March 09, 2015, 10:28:40 AM
Why is it in these times of coming darkness, you look always to the future and to the past and yet never below for the answers you seek?
Is it that you fear to learn what has forever been waiting in such places or that in knowing them, you can no further suffer them as a lie?

~The Bleak Prophet, Meditations

(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/Pre_PREVIEW_1_zps74gcmukg.jpg) (http://s1188.photobucket.com/user/QuiescentShade/media/Pre_PREVIEW_1_zps74gcmukg.jpg.html)

Consumed by it, the weak endeavour only to become weaker. I have glimpsed what is to come and yet for all of my cunning, is yet never enough.
However inevitable my demise, it is my last act to offer them the chance I've never had. A dark and unfulfilling taste of that most bitter illusion -- hope.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Dread on March 30, 2015, 06:01:45 PM
Every magic trick consists of three parts, or acts.

Spoiler: show
(http://i.imgur.com/b6DJIGu.jpg)


The first part is called the pledge, the magician shows you something ordinary.

Spoiler: show
(http://i.imgur.com/0ydx9uT.jpg)


The second act is called the turn, the magician takes the ordinary something and makes it into something extraordinary.

Spoiler: show
(http://i.imgur.com/aWdKsI0.jpg)


But you wouldn't clap yet, because making something disappear isn't enough. You have to bring it BACK.

Spoiler: show
(http://i.imgur.com/lddQErI.jpg)


Now you're looking for the secret. But you won't find it because of course, you're not really looking. You don't really want to work it out.

Spoiler: show
(http://i.imgur.com/p1NTyHX.jpg)


You want to be fooled.

Spoiler: show
(http://i.imgur.com/A7iuNZp.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: A normal snake on March 30, 2015, 06:21:45 PM
Hurry up and add this!
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: EO on April 13, 2015, 11:30:30 PM
Coming soon...

(http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee254/King_EO/spoiler.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Bad_Bud on July 01, 2015, 01:30:16 AM
Since people have been asking, this is the list of new spell names as it currently stands.

I'm not going to describe everything or who gets what, these are just names.

Spoiler: show

Abyssal_Might
Acid_Storm
Amanuensis
Anger_of_the_Noonday_Sun
Augment_Undead
Baleful_Polymorph
Bane_Bow
Benediction
Big_Sky
Blade_Weave
Blast_of_Sand
Boreal_Wind
Call_Lightning_Storm
Cast_in_Stone
Circle_of_Doom_II
Circle_of_Doom_III
Circle_of_Doom_IV
Claws_of_the_Savage
Coma
Cone_of_Dimness
Corrupt_Weapon
Creeping_Cold
Crushing_Despair
Curse_of_Impending_Blades
Daze_Animal
Deadly_Lahar
Deep_Slumber
Delusions_of_Grandeur
Demonflesh
Detect_Poison
Detonate
Diminish_Undead
Disintegrate
Disrupt_Undead
Energy_Vortex
Erupt
Faerie_Fire
Feign_Undeath
Fine-tuning
Fire_Seeds
Freeze
Frost_Breath
Frost_Weapon
Glibness
Good_Hope
Greater_Creeping_Cold
Greater_Heroism
Greater_Mage_Armor
Gutwrench
Halt_Undead
Hawks_Flight
Healing_Circle_II
Healing_Circle_III
Healing_Circle_IV
Heart_Ripper
Heroism
Ice_Flowers
Improved_Invisibility_Sphere
Insight
Iron_Bones
Languor
Light_Step
Lionheart
Lions_Roar
Longstrider
Lucent_Lance
Mass_Aid
Mass_Barkskin
Mass_Bears_Endurance
Mass_Bulls_Strength
Mass_Cats_Grace
Mass_Contagion
Mass_Curse_of_Impending_Blades
Mass_Death_Ward
Mass_Drown
Mass_Eagles_Splendor
Mass_Foxs_Cunning
Mass_Hold_Monster
Mass_Hold_Person
Mass_Longstrider
Mass_Mage_Armor
Mass_Negative_Energy_Protection
Mass_Owls_Wisdom
Mass_Protection_from_Elements
Mass_Resist_Elements
Mass_Restoration
Mass_See_Invisibility
Mass_Shield_of_Faith
Mass_Spell_Resistance
Memory_Rot
Natures_Avatar
Open/Close
Polar_Ray
Power_Word_Blind
Power_Word_Daze
Predators_Cry
Prismatic_Ray
Radiant_Assault
Rainbow_Beam
Rams_Might
Ray_of_Clumsiness
Ray_of_Hope
Rheumatism
Righteous_Fury
Sacred_Haven
Seed_of_Life
Seed_of_Life_Cure
Seed_of_Life_Regenerate
Shackle
Shadow_Binding
Shillelagh
Shocking_Grasp
Shockwave
Slashing_Darkness
Solipsism
Sonic_Weapon
Sound_Lance
Spider_Poison
Sticks_to_Snakes
Stop_Heart
Thalassemia
Thunderstroke
Torrent_of_Tears
Touch_of_Idiocy
Unyielding_Roots
Vision_of_the_Omniscient_Eye
Wall_of_Dispel_Magic
Wall_of_Greater_Dispelling
Water_Breathing
Weapon_of_Impact
Withering_Palm
Word_of_Balance
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: MAB77 on October 27, 2015, 02:39:46 PM
Soon in a critter's lair near you...

Quote
Amulet of the Ravenous Wolf
Amulet of the Red Apprentice
Bachelor's Leather
Belt of the Vengeful Akiri Trap-Master
Blade of the Northern Winds
Boots of Striding
Bottled Spores of Debilitation
Cavalry Saber
Chains of Resilience
Darkest Night
Gnomish Commando Gauntlets
Goblyn Spear
Greataxe of Demise
Harkon's String
Lamellar Cuirass
Powerful Sedative
Rajian Bagh-Nakh
Redwood Longbow
Ring of the Obstinate Diviner
Robes of the Guardian
Shackles of the Inquisitor
Staff of Scientific Wizardry
Stylish Breastplate
The Dark Emissary
The Dramaturge's Quill
The Mutin's Cutlass
The Scrolls of the Gods
Thunderous Trident
Twirling Mace of the Caliban Tireuse
Vorostokite's Helm of Winter
Whip of the Iron Inquisitor
Witches Cauldron

Collect them All!
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Bluebomber4evr on March 03, 2016, 02:36:45 AM
Seven years ago, Count Strahd von Zarovich struck down the Von Zeklos family, eradicating their bloodline from Barovia entirely. With the fall of the Von Zeklos family, the keep came under the control of Ivan Wachter, who, in his political overreach, ceded day-to-day control of the keep to a sect of Darkonian Ezrites to deal with the evil within the keep and cleanse it in his name. The Ezrites renamed the keep "Raduta" ("redoubtable" in Balok). Despite their best efforts (and, according to some, because of their efforts), the keep remained sealed.

For although the Von Zeklos were a wicked family, the keep had been under a curse long before their degenerate bloodline claimed it as their own, and it would take more than the slaughter of that family to cleanse the keep of its evil. For seven years, the damaged keep lay empty. Dormant. Waiting.

But now, the spirit of the keep has reawakened. The doors have unsealed, and no amount of heretical acts by Darkonese zealots can reseal the evil within.

Raduta Keep beckons you...

(http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee65/Bluebomber4evr/Ravenloft%20-%20Zeklos%20Keep%20Preview_zpswkvddfzx.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Arawn on May 01, 2016, 06:19:45 PM
On the banks of the Gundar River, where that ancient, slow waterway winds through the subjugated lands of Gundarak-that-Was, there lies the city of Zeidenburg.

Quote from: Adapted from 2nd Edition adventure 'The Evil Eye'
4 Oct: Moored in Zeidenburg. Offloaded the wine. Took on four crates of muslin and two passengers, M. and R. from the
factory.
9 Oct: Reached Teufeldorf before nightfall. Off loaded the muslin; M. and R. paid handsomely for the speedy passage. Took
on all the brandy she would carry.
16 Oct: Zeidenburg again. Took on three passengers, D. and her sons. They are desperate to reach Karina for the festival!
20 Oct: Reached Karina. Unfortunate we had no passengers on this trip.

(http://i.imgur.com/0bwy3Xl.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/0Bi1m5D.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on November 05, 2017, 07:24:21 PM
The Tower of Har-Thelen

"Archmagistress, we do not seek to question your wisdom.. but this thing we have summoned.. It is an affront to our very existence."
(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/phase_3_a_zpsemdvaox2.jpg)

"While its words have proven true and all has progressed as it has said.."
(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/phase_3_b_zpscjtoscwy.jpg)

"..What becomes of our work, our very existence if it so decides our order of no further use?"
(http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z402/QuiescentShade/phase_3_c_zpsnsxwekmy.jpg)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: EO on December 11, 2017, 09:48:31 PM
Upcoming Prestige Classes....

Monster Hunter
Spoiler: show
Known to the folk of Ravenloft as monster hunters, these men and women are scholarly adventurers who research dangerous creatures seeking their weaknesses in order to eliminate them more easily. Monster hunters generally prefer to defeat their foes using knowledge, guile and superior tactics rather than brute force. Monster hunters learn to cast a few spells to assist in their hunt. A few have been mistaken as witches due to this ability. Monster hunters are generally of good alignment, but some become too zealous or fall into the trap of taking on their foes' tactics or worldview, usually without realizing they have done so. Evil monster hunters usually still believe themselves to be good, but may overlook a few mistakes or a too-forceful questioning of innocents in their pursuit of their foes.


Grimetrekker
Spoiler: show
Though a sewer system enhances the quality of life for city residents, it also provides ample shelter for the most loathsome creatures of the night. Those hunters who are willing to venture below to root out these evils earn praise for their courage. Hunters who spend too much time in the lightless tunnels, however, tend to acquire an unsavory reputation. Pale skin, ragged garments, and a revolting odor easily distinguish these haunted souls, colloquially termed grimetrekkers. Ultimately, grimetrekkers are more comfortable below than above, and few folk notice when they vanish for weeks at a time into the wilderness beneath the city.

Nearly all grimetrekkers begin their careers as rangers with an atypical knack for urban or subterranean tracking. Fighters and rogues have also been known to turn to the path of the grimetrekker when provoked by vengeance against sewer denizens. Though they are rare, caliban barbarian/grimetrekkers are not unprecedented. City folk often tell tales of malformed people living beneath their streets, surviving on the refuse of civilization. Many grimetrekkers cut their teeth in the sewers of Richemulot, though others hail from Dementlieu, Darkon, or the fabled twilight city of Nosos.


People’s Champion
Spoiler: show
In every land, there are nobles who misuse their positions of privilege. The people’s champion rises to the defense of commoners who suffer under the excesses of abusive nobles and their hirelings. The champion has no desire to overthrow the existing social order, but is instead motivated by a desire to see that justice is done within its confines.

Characters belonging to this class are invariably former clergy or church warriors who turned their backs on the organized churches of Ezra or the Lawgiver. This was due to what they perceived as corruption, abuse of authority for personal gain of the clergy and exploitation of the masses of faithful in favor of the rich and powerful.

Some members of this class remain within the church hierarchy, where they work to root out corrupt church leaders and their toadies, but others take to the streets to defend commoners against nobles who lack nobility. Interestingly, although these champions have invariably turned away from the structure of their faith to a greater or lesser degree, they remain strongly devoted to the belief in their deity. In turn, the god or goddess clearly favors the character’s efforts, as they continue to answer his prayers for spells and to grant him other supernatural abilities.


Crypt Raider
Spoiler: show
Many cultures have no title that carries greater shame, or summons up deeper revilement than the grave robber. The crypt raider, however, brushes aside such concerns with the nonchalance gained from years of experience. Whether for the sake of knowledge, righteousness, or old-fashioned avarice, the crypt raider has dedicated his life to breaching the resting places of the dead. Many crypt raiders are indeed motivated by greed; the riches of the past can be a tempting hoard no matter what lethal traps and horrors may guard them. But many crypt raiders hunger just as deeply to destroy the living dead that inevitably guard such caches, and their plunder is merely a fringe benefit. Still other crypt raiders are genuine idealists and academics, devoting themselves to bringing the past into the light of day, so that others might benefit from the lessons and the mistakes of those that have gone before.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: EO on April 08, 2018, 05:26:05 PM
Hallowed Witch...
Spoiler: show
Devotees of Hala often speak of the Weave, a hidden web of magical power which flows through the natural world. The magic of the Weave is not arcane or divine, but something wholly different, the mystical pulse of the land and all its living creatures. Hags have learned to tap into the Weave and corrupt it to their whims, tangling it like a cat's cradle on their wicked talons. For those who are pure of heart and wise in the ways of magic, however, the Weave can open up new realms of magical power, brimming with all the fury of nature Herself. These are the hallowed witches, spellcasters who have seen the pattern of the Weave and made it their ally, tool, and weapon. Their art is known as witchcraft, and in its pursuit they gather together in covens to fortify their power.

The hallowed witches (or warlocks, if male) are always drawn from Hala's worshippers, though they need not be members of the priesthood. A hallowed witch's divine spellcasting class is often cleric, but druids and rangers are also accepted into covens.

Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: EO on November 26, 2018, 08:28:59 PM
Dirgist...

Spoiler: show
Bards follow many paths in these lands. Some fill the traditional role of the wandering troubadour, singing of their own harrowing adventures in the Land of Mists. Others are tortured artists, madly attempting to realize the perfect song that echoes in their minds. A haunted few pursue a darker path still, one that draws them inexorably towards places of the dead. Such bards are obsessed with death, and often feel most at home (if not entirely at ease) in crumbling graveyards and dusty vaults. These dirgists are not necessarily evil. Indeed, they have been profoundly touched by death, and feel the pain of mortal loss more deeply that others. Their songs speak of the sorrow of youth cut short, old age wasted, and the numbing finality of the fate that all men share. Such is the dirgist's closeness to the grave, that it is rumored that the dead whisper their secrets to him while he sleeps.

Since the ability to weave song into magical power is necessary for the dirgist's path, all dirgists are bards. Although multiclassed dirgists are unusual, it is not unheard of for bard/clerics, bard/rogues, and bard/wizards to pursue this prestige class. Some tales even speak of barbarian/bards who lament their fallen ancestors with gruesome war ballads.
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: EO on July 07, 2019, 02:23:29 PM
Upcoming Monstrous Templates...

- Red Widow (https://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=4887.msg626063#msg626063)
- Death Knight (https://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=4887.msg626414#msg626414)
- Werecrocodile (https://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=4887.msg626061#msg626061)
- Vassalich (https://www.nwnravenloft.com/forum/index.php?topic=4887.msg128096#msg128096)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: Strigoi on October 09, 2021, 06:42:27 PM
Something evil this way comes...

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/756593601835958342/896527844597973002/unknown.png)
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on August 11, 2022, 08:59:51 PM
'Seven years, Jodoh? Seven years meandering a forest? You exceed my others in but -one- way: uttermost worthlessness.. An hourglass in the sky? The Meridian? Gather yourself and utter sense, imbecile.'

'How hadn't I unearthed this before? To think I mocked Jodoh for it. The architecture is distinctly.. human. I'll endure my revulsion for my wandering fool's sake.'

(https://imgur.com/TvWfOlp.png)

'Mortals and their silly love of myths. A work of men, rife with inexcusable vagary.'

(https://imgur.com/jvFIQ0L.png)

'That -putrescent- Vistani usurper. Blithely possessed of the thought this isn't -all mine-.'

(https://imgur.com/DYDVx25.png)

'A fortress long moldering in quiet? -Original-. Absolutely.. original. The design isn't Solamnic. Then what?'

(https://imgur.com/GJZ351V.png)

'The heraldry eludes me.. but only for so long. Rot? An inkling of it evidenced by the war machines. Their unusual preservation offers insights.'

(https://imgur.com/3YQF7sT.jpg)

'Too long separated from their animus to endure revivification. Besides, I do so loathe dialogue with the races of men.'

(https://imgur.com/Jl1BN2O.jpg)

'Yet -more- reliefs.. and the stripling. If there is meaning to -any- of these displays, they forget that stones too lie.'

(https://imgur.com/uoCP8Bv.png)

'The retinue of one whom hasn't decided it prudent to reveal themselves. Unlike the fortress, these statues are inarguably Solamnic.. yet not. Like those below.'

(https://imgur.com/xdHNZAY.png)

'I shall reward Jodoh's uncharacteristic achievement with the gift of his continued existence. Until I tire of him anew. I believe that I shall borrow of his miserable ranting..'

'So it is named the Twilight Meridian.'
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on August 18, 2022, 01:40:09 AM
'For those who sought its truth, the Meridian blithely proffered its miserable revelations. Was all my work for not?'

(https://imgur.com/c3QkOn3.jpg)

'And so I returned to the sanctuary of my enemy - the fortress of Nedragaard. Deemed impossible for any man to penetrate.. (chuckle) Impossible for any man.'

(https://imgur.com/CqV5VWe.jpg)

'Deep within its walls, my answers surely awaited. I discovered his artifacts of war... all gathered in haste.'

(https://imgur.com/eP4vOqT.jpg)

'Reliefs of history lost and forgotten to all but -him-. Kept immaculate as the decaying walls of the keep crumbled about them.'

(https://imgur.com/48LvshM.jpg)

'The substance of the keep had abandoned its tenuous connection to reality; now a dream of impossible things. Lies wrought into the tapestry of matter.'

(https://imgur.com/rvJbsoV.jpg)

'Its path did beckon me hither into the precipice of its lunacy. Had others dare trespassed this nightmare before I, Jodoh? Might've I misinterpreted all the signs..?'

(https://imgur.com/llUWTVm.jpg)

'The gift of vision afforded to me.. which swept away the most bitter of my carefully kept truths -- hope. I would -not- allow it, Jodoh!'

(https://imgur.com/ZwbihNU.jpg)

'We are -all- of us so pathetically myopic and only now am I allowed to -know- the future which awaits us. There is yet time.. There -must- be time... If not, I shall make it!'

(https://imgur.com/AFaqBJh.jpg)

'The brand is yet -mine-. This vision.. clarity. I've beheld one that devours our dreams - the cessation of our pitiful ambitions - I must not despair.''

(https://imgur.com/6GCBKgD.jpg)

'The future will be our own to author. No matter the price we must pay.'
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on October 06, 2022, 01:22:34 AM
'It was from the beginning a trap; the Meridian built a prison of our own hubris. It all too eagerly offered its secrets.'

(https://imgur.com/FCqTRkw.png)

'I was a fool to imagine myself above its scheming. Hardly a fool alone. It has surely invited others to trespass upon its truths.'

'What words may ever convey the gifts it imparts? It sights - endless fields of bone and putrescence. In which its undying slaves toil.'

(https://imgur.com/J4Gu4Ps.png)

'Visions of my wretched home pressed their way into my mind. At first I thought it mockery but the lecturing of the bastard magus in his library at last set in.'

(https://imgur.com/UQfhkUZ.png)
(https://imgur.com/SicBGlA.png)

'The river of time flows unchallenged, its paths divergent and many. Never was it -whence-. Not any of it a -lie-. Always -when-.'

'I -hid- as of the last of its torments took shape. Beneath the ocean of bones, where the lost and forgotten like I quietly languished.'

(https://imgur.com/L5RT0am.png)

'The Meridian bid that I join the absent world it wished to author. To become one in its procession to the grave. All too eagerly did I ponder submission. By merest fortune did I find escape.'

'I regarded it as an anachronism.. Sithicus' nonsense history. The ramification of the death knight's neglect. Instead, -we- are the anachronism. Fettered by the illusion that the world we share is the origin of this pitiful realm.'

(https://imgur.com/O2Oy782.png)

'The last of what I was made witness. An hourglass in the sky, hung above a barren world of eternal night. Where death is the beginning of one's eternal labors.'
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: DM Erebus on October 16, 2022, 02:19:33 PM
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Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: DM Erebus on October 17, 2022, 04:37:37 PM
“But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.”

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Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on December 29, 2022, 01:00:16 AM
"Soddin' elves said 'er rules be changin'. Was thinkin' maybe I start blastin'. Bastards said rot with the vagrants..'

"I ain't be likin' this rotten hovel.. Its smug aura's mockin' me."

(https://imgur.com/QE3o7mu.jpeg)

"Where's the party 'em arses promised? Ain't they think to clean up 'er mess?"

(https://imgur.com/NsIXXAQ.jpeg)

"Why's it always gots to get slaggin' freaky with 'em knife eared sons of bastards?"

(https://imgur.com/TArMnnk.jpeg)

".. And ere's a leak. 'Course they left 'emselves a leak."

(https://imgur.com/dmf2tqI.jpeg)

"Huh.. that's an enigma, ain't it? Took 'er tunnel and now I'm drownin' in mopey grey dimwits."

"Boss' note is sayin' there's -eighteen- blightin' places showed up? -Of course- it's me job to sort it out.. When it's done, ye?"

Coming soon to Sithicus (TM)! 18 NEW AREAS!

The Twilight Meridian (12 area end game dungeon)
The Black Omen (the abandoned mage's residence)
Alaric's Vault (the underbelly of Har-Thelen)
Handsome Jack's Emporium (a merchant of all things very handsome)
The Wailing Banshee (an inn complete with its own chain-smoking banshee)

-The "introductory area", The Standing Stones restored via the ferry! Talk to Merethyl. Suffer peerless condescension!
-The extinction of awfully translated Welsh! All areas in Har-Thelen renamed for GREATER edge!
-The Mourning Gates locked to filthy outsiders? Supervised visitation? A way for outcasts to get inside..?
-Salt Shadows reduced in CR!? Iron Golems everywhere DESPAIR!
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on May 31, 2023, 07:55:23 AM
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"The clod insisted the 'hour is at hand'; that I 'look below' for the answers I seek. For 'truths written in stone', was it? I discovered an inkling of his 'truth' hidden amidst that imbecilic hyperbole. All of it's changed. My maps lead me astray.. my safeguards merely vanished. My venture outside the chasm has illustrated its costs. Though hardly without gain. It -waited- for my absence and now, at last, the hands of the prime mover are revealed. Folly to play one's hand too early."
Title: Re: Upcoming in Ravenloft - Previews!
Post by: The Prophet of Misinformation on September 13, 2023, 12:59:37 AM
Sithicus v 2.1

The Twilight Meridian (13 area dungeon for 18+) [see Hourglass & Sepulchre above for a teaser)
Explore the wretched history of Sithicus and it's macabre origins. Discover the truth of the Swordsman.
Multiple scripted sequences and gimmicks to encounter! Become your worst self. Live out the remembrance of another.

Har-Thelen
The Howling Banshee Inn & Handsome Jack's Emporium (3 new areas).
Waypoints have been added to every zone.
Area names have been restored to their properly grim English names.
Creatures have been restored to their properly cliché English names.
Quiet visual refresh applied where possible.
The gates of Har-Thelen are first locked to outsiders. They must pledge their obedience.
The ferry has been reduced to 50 gp. PCs, when travelling to Har-Thelen, are first dumped alongside the Musarde

The Tower of Midnight (Formerly the Tower of Har-Thelen)
A new floor has been added and the existing areas heavily redone (see the Tower of Midnight above)

A taste of OCR to come
The ill tempered elves have only so much patience for the barbarians invading their decomposing homeland.
An alternate route to Har-Thelen for high OCR characters and outsiders in general is discovered!
The Black Omen (2 areas) - Unearth a rebellion from within the tower's ranks.
Alaric's Vault (1 area) - Dig into the history of the Black Knight and easily overcome a simple puzzle.
The Dreaming Halls of Dargaard (1 area)  - Another Drain? No one asked for it but I built it anyway.
Nuitari's Well (1 area) - Trespass the scars of an ancient war. Learn the truth of Mason. Ask does he build anything that isn't red?

(OCR isn't being implemented in this update. This is the skeleton for its implementation.)

The Standing Stones
The Standing Stones is an introductory area (bypassing the treacherous mega dungeon that is Sithicus).
It allows direct access to Har-Thelen and allows for the user to communicate with a plot important NPC.
It's been around for 6 years but at some point it was broken. I've restored it.

There's more to it but those are the major points. When? I'm done at the end of September as I have other projects to move onto.

Several minutes of mind-bending tedious are hosted on the PotM if you're so inclined to melt your brain.