Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft

That's pretty good.

Basically, this idea that comes from, certainly through the Van Richten's book, it talks about the idea that life is cheap here.

As far as the land's esteemed scholars are concerned, the spark that animates Fludge is merely the result of chemical accents and proper formulas.

And then it talks a little bit about golems, homunculi, and other constructed beings grown into life to support the populace desperate to survive this frigid realm.

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yes yes she basically was they were working together to discover things and then when she found out elise was wasting away was dying she started to increase her research and so it wasn't just dead bodies she was going out and getting people to get you know anyone she wanted to reanimate because she was like desperate at this point so that desperation to ensure that her love carried on living for whatever means necessary and presumably it's very Victorian so of course no one ever expresses their feelings it's all sort of undercurrent so that desperation and yet just as she places the heart in and does the like it's alive moment the constable's breaking and going like you're a murderer and also body snatching is not cool it's exactly the same story in Van Richten's I will say the only difference I bet there's more.

No, no, no, it's exactly the same.

So yes, absolutely.

And yes, as you pointed out, the Ravenloft Horrors Within is almost like a reboot or a revamp of Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, which came out a couple of years ago.

And I will say at the time, it was one of my favorite books.

I hadn't read it all entirely, but it was one of those things where I was like, oh, this is exactly what's right up my street as Spooky McGee over here.

Yeah, I often wonder if maybe the domain sees something in you, like, oh, you're just exactly like this Dark Lord, and you've got flaws exactly like him, so you should belong here.

This is a prison for you, you know, that sort of thing.

And certainly in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, for each plane, they talk about, like, what if your character is from here, and asks you some questions about it, which I think is great, and it's my early criticism, they don't have that in Ravenloft.

Oh, that's good.

you almost have a couple of times Megan both both Charlie and I want to say Dan thought about this long and hard Charlie ended up playing Hexblood instead but uh but we almost saw this and I'm like yeah that makes sense these guys would freaking thrive in Vampire the Masquerade

oh yeah absolutely well I mean they came in from like Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft and like you know like as like a first playable species so it makes sense

Yeah.

But, but yeah, no, I've never, I've never played one and I have never been at a table with one before.

So a little bit of quick history here.

The Dom Pure was first kind of introduced, I believe, back in the third edition as just kind of a creature stat block, not necessarily as a playable species.

It wasn't until 2021 when they came out with Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft when it came out as a playable race for the first time.

Which, again, now has been rewritten again.

I did have a hand in a bit of that.

I worked on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

So, you know, conflict of interest disclosure there.

So cool.

Authors.

Which is the greatest addendum? Yeah.

Van Richten's Guide.

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