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Van Richten's Guides: Ravenloft Campaign Accessories: (Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition) #7
Van Richten's Guide to Fiends: Ravenloft Accessory RR10:
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There are realms and realms incomprehensible to the puny mortals who dwell within this cage that they term the Land of the Mists!
-The Madrigorian, Book I, Chapter I
Fiends have come forth from the Abyss and into Ravenloft!
Masters of deception and manipulation, these ancient evil beings stalk the Lands, roaming freely in pursuit of their foul ends, and warping the very Land around them to suit their needs.
Dr. Rudolph Van Richten has set himself on their trail and presents here his preliminary findings and theories on these beings from places of unimaginable horror.
Dr. Van Richten exposes the nature, origin, stengths and weaknesses of the Fiend, and how it reaches the Land of the Mists.
He explores the character of these beings, and their connections to the people and the Land itself.
In the ultimate irony, these awesome creatures are as trapped by the Land as any mortal, seduced by prospects of power and glory!
Beware the Fiend! For those caught in the web of a Fiendish plot, nothing is as it seems.
To defeat a Fiend, a quick wit and a strong heart are more important than a strong arm or flashing blade!
Summary of content:
Introduction
1. Entering the land (transposition, summoning)
2. Observed powers
3. Fiends and the land (reality wrinkle)
4. Fiends and the people
5. Fiends among us (the Black Duke, Drigor, Elsepeth, Inajira, Whistling Fiend)
6. Battling Fiends
Appendix: creation of fiends, fiend adventure
There are realms and realms incomprehensible to the puny mortals who dwell within this cage that they term the Land of the Mists!
-The Madrigorian, Book I, Chapter I
Fiends have come forth from the Abyss and into Ravenloft!
Masters of deception and manipulation, these ancient evil beings stalk the Lands, roaming freely in pursuit of their foul ends, and warping the very Land around them to suit their needs.
Dr. Rudolph Van Richten has set himself on their trail and presents here his preliminary findings and theories on these beings from places of unimaginable horror.
Dr. Van Richten exposes the nature, origin, stengths and weaknesses of the Fiend, and how it reaches the Land of the Mists.
He explores the character of these beings, and their connections to the people and the Land itself.
In the ultimate irony, these awesome creatures are as trapped by the Land as any mortal, seduced by prospects of power and glory!
Beware the Fiend! For those caught in the web of a Fiendish plot, nothing is as it seems.
To defeat a Fiend, a quick wit and a strong heart are more important than a strong arm or flashing blade!
Summary of content:
Introduction
1. Entering the land (transposition, summoning)
2. Observed powers
3. Fiends and the land (reality wrinkle)
4. Fiends and the people
5. Fiends among us (the Black Duke, Drigor, Elsepeth, Inajira, Whistling Fiend)
6. Battling Fiends
Appendix: creation of fiends, fiend adventure
96 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1995
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October 8, 2017
Another fantastic guide to the more insidious, yet poorly portrayed creatures of D&D: fiends. But first, you have to have the Planescape Monstrous Compendium I to even have a clue of what the guide is about. Then, the important: how to really portrait this creatures of pure evil like they are portrayed in the best horror literature: corrupters, deceivers, tempters. Last, it introduces some very Ravenloft-specific mechanics that might or not qork on a campaing, depending of the tone.
Taking aside the dependency of other game accesory and the dubious mechanics, the book is great. It eliminates the pure-killing-statistics of the MM and gave them meat and soul as antagonists.
Taking aside the dependency of other game accesory and the dubious mechanics, the book is great. It eliminates the pure-killing-statistics of the MM and gave them meat and soul as antagonists.
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