Laura and I launched into researching the mythology and folklore surrounding the vampire. Strahd would be no afterthought-he demanded his own setting, his own tragic history. That was when Strahd von Zarovich was born. When I came home from that game, I told all these thoughts to Laura. This was a creature who deserved his own setting and to be so much more than just a wandering monster.

I remember thinking at the time, What are you doing here? This creature seemed completely out of place with the kobolds, orcs, and gelatinous cubes we had seen thus far. Not a Vampire with a capital V, but a so-many-Hit-Dice-with-such-and-such-an Armor-Class lowercase vampire. Now we were face to face with random encounter number thirty-four: a vampire. It was all about exploring a hodgepodge collection of rooms connected by dungeon corridors, beating up the monsters that we encountered, searching for treasure, and gaining experience points. It was being run by a friend I had known in high school, John Scott Clegg, and it was typical of the type of adventure that people played in those days. It was 1978, and I was playing in one of my first dungeon adventures. WE TURNED THE CORNER, AND THERE WAS a vampire. In the mean time, our ask is open if you've got questions or comments! We look forward to receiving your applications and to working with you! It will be released October 31st, 2021.Īdditionally, any level of familiarity with Ravenloft is accepted! If you only know the 5e lore, that's perfectly alright-there's still plenty to go off of there.

The zine's going to have a rating somewhere between PG and MA, as violence is an implicit part of the demiplanes. All skill levels are welcome, and anyone is welcome to apply. We will be opening zine apps May the 1st, and we'll be accepting writers and visual artists. Mistified is a zine about the Demiplanes of Dread-from the Darklords to the common people, myths, monsters, anything and everything. With the new setting books coming out, though, the time felt right to start a Ravenloft-themed project. Up until recently, all we had to go off of in 5e was the Curse of Strahd module. The Ravenloft setting has been a source of inspiration for me, the admin, ever since I learned about it.

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