Editorial note. This guide works from I6 itself. Where it reaches beyond the module, it says so. The itinerant clan the module calls “gypsies” is named Rhenari throughout, following the convention set out in Part I Section 2. Direct quotations…
Population Analysis · Module I10: Ravenloft II · TSR Inc., 1986 A Census of the Habited The Population of Mordentshire and the Mechanism of Its Capture ❧ ✦ ❧ Mordentshire is not empty. That is the horror. Its houses are…
Mysterious Alchemical Device of Mordentshire
A Source Analysis of I10 Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill The Apparatus of Gryphon Hill is treated in almost every discussion of I10 as a plot device: the thing the players must locate and activate to defeat the…
The Opening Act, the Valley’s Registers, and the Svalich Woods.
Editorial note. This guide works from I6 itself. Where it reaches beyond the module, it says so. The itinerant clan the module calls “gypsies” is named Rhenari throughout, following the convention set out in Part I Section 2. Direct quotations…
Economic Analysis · Module I6: Ravenloft · TSR Inc., 1983 An Account of the Damned The Closed Economy of Barovia: I6 as a Single-Actor Extraction System ❧ ✦ ❧ The villagers are not poor because the economy failed. They are…
I6, I10, and the Foundation the Black Box Inherited.
A Source Analysis of the Black Box. Realm of Terror and What It Did to the Foundation Part 1 of this series closed at the threshold of 1990. Two modules existed. Between them, I6 and I10 had established four things…
Statistical Annals · Module I6: Ravenloft · TSR Inc., 1983 A Census of the Damned The Complete Population of Barovia: Living, Dead, and Knowing ❧ ✦ ❧ The valley of Barovia has been sealed for centuries. No settled population has…
Campaign Placement, Party Composition, Strahd, and the Fortunes of Ravenloft.
Editorial note. This guide works from I6 itself. Where it reaches beyond the module, it says so. The itinerant clan the module calls “gypsies” is named Rhenari throughout, following the convention set out in Section 2. Direct quotations from the…
A Source Analysis of the Foundation Modules.
I6, I10, and the Foundation the Black Box Inherited. The Ravenloft setting most readers know begins with the 1990 Realm of Terror boxset: the Demiplane of Dread, the Dark Powers, the domains, the darklords, and the 735 BC framework. But…
A Speculative Commentary.
The Peculiar History of the Kingdom of Barovia What follows is not history in the sense that the preceding account is history. That account rested wherever possible on stone, on independent witnesses, on the logic of physical evidence that cannot…