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…
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…
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 Source Analysis and Speculative Reconstruction of I10 Ravenloft II
Author’s note, April 2026: Revised for accuracy after re-reading I10’s primary material. The argument is unchanged. The first part of this series established what I6 Ravenloft actually contains: a carefully constructed horror-tragedy whose central figure is not a condemned prisoner…
A Source Analysis of I6 Ravenloft and Vampire of the Mists
The Peculiar History of the Kingdom of Barovia. I6 Ravenloft, written by Tracy and Laura Hickman and published by TSR in 1983, is one of the most celebrated adventure modules in the history of Dungeons and Dragons. More than forty…