Item : Potion of mist walking

[Dhark]

Ive noticed a fair bit of gripeing about lack of horses , teleportation spells & the length of time it takes to travel anywhere recently, its struck me that apart from never willingly wanting to hand over your teleportation chances to the DPs, there is an existing method of travel in Ravenloft I haven't yet seen here ....the mistways .

I had in mind a potion , much like the Vistani sell outside of Barovia village with two possible functions ..

1) to gaze through the opaque bottle & its contents in order to know where the mists will lead you to  ( if the location changes every game hour to the start locations [those usually next to the Eztite shrines])

2) To drink the potion , when consumed & a mistway is entered the drinker , instead of being forced back , as currently happens will exit the mistway at that hours given location


Of course where to obtain this potion , possible side effects & cost ect, is all down to those nasty Dark Powers

Just a suggestion , quite outlandish , so get +4 to saves 

[LawfulJoe]

Sounds cool to me I will tell you, I have heard of all kinds of different places to travel to, and to be honest, I have no Idea, IC or Out how to get there

[Delphinidae]

Mistwalking does happen (through DM intervention), but it's usually A LOT more dangerous than walking over there. Ask all those who've taken their chances in the mists. Walking among the mists is one of the most dangerous things you can do. Even Vistani or anchorites (mist domain and several mist related abilities in Ravenloft PnP) aren't completely safe in there.

If anything, I see the use of mistways to travel through the domains, but I feel that by simplyfing something that nobody truly understands (the mists) into a potion that lets you see where it could lead you kind of kills that mystery.

[Heretic]

Nice suggestion, but yes. Bottling one of Ravenloft's biggest mysteries would dumb it out. I miss mist walking, ran a lot of scenes in the mists, anchorites or Vistani and usually the latter comes at a price.

[Iconoclast]

Nice suggestion, but yes. Bottling one of Ravenloft's biggest mysteries would dumb it out. I miss mist walking, ran a lot of scenes in the mists, anchorites or Vistani and usually the latter comes at a price.

My thoughts and feelings as well.  Don't want to make mists walking mundane and common. 

[Dhark]

  Damn those +4 saves

Seriously , thanks for the feed back .

[Aran]

you dont wanna be mistwalking

ya never know where you ends (or what evil ideas the dms have for ya  )

:-)

aran