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TTRPG Fan Project - Ravenloft 3e/3.5 Compendium

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 And now for something completely different!  Friends, I am extremely excited to share one of the longest fan ttrpg projects I have ever done.       In case you didn't know, my favorite campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game is Ravenloft .  Ravenloft is the gothic horror and fantasy setting, made famous with D&D modules like Curse of Strahd and characters like Strahd von Zarovich !  And my favorite era of the setting, as I am sure you can guess, is the D&D 3e/3.5 era by Sword & Sorcery Studios !     S&S took all the amazing lore and character options from previous incarnations of Ravenloft, and updated-slash-expanded on them with the storytelling mechanics and themes of 3e/3.5 edition.  This was all done from 2000 to 2008.  As with any campaign setting of D&D, it has had a rabid fanbase for decades since its inception--Ravenloft was not afraid to test the limits of gothic fantasy, ...

D&D Homebrew Monster Classes - The Hebi-no-onna / Snake-armed Women

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    Beware beautiful figures who enthrall you with a look and eagerly wish to embrace you... Beneath their alluring smile and shimmering sleeves, glinting eyes and venomous fangs lay coiled, ready to strike!      A monster class for  Dungeons & Dragons  3e/3.5 , inspired from the Sword & Sorcery Studios' bestiary for the Ravenloft campaign setting,  " Ravenloft: Denizens of Darkness" and its 3.5 edition update "Denizens of Dread ".     The configuration for this specific monster class was  created by  Aboleth Eye !      As always, though this was made with  D&D  3.5 edition  in mind, with a few tweaks you can absolutely use this material with  Pathfinder  1st edition ! --  Aboleth Eye "We are wise women, we are giggling girls.  We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased,  We both carry a switchblade in our sleeves." Ani DiFranco , songwriter , in her song ...