Then draw the top two cards from the high deck and lay them face down in the 4 and 5 positions, as shown: Draw the top two cards from the common deck and lay them face down in the 2 and 3 positions. Draw the top card from the glyph deck and lay it face down in the 1 position. Then shuffle the remaining cards as the common deck, keeping the three decks separate. Remove the ten cards with the glyph icon and shuffle them, creating the glyph deck. When you’re ready to begin the card reading, remove the fourteen cards with the crown icon and shuffle them. When you perform a card reading before assembling your adventure, write down the results for later reference. When Kayalithica shows up in the adventure, she appears to have a number of moaning visages peeking out from her body.Īs in all things related to Ravenloft, this one-shot adventure begins with a Tarokka reading from the Vistani seer, Madam Eva. She has removed the heads from those petrified unfortunates and incorporated them into her torso. By the time the characters show up, the thane has already slain a number of humans from the Uthgardt tribe that dwells in Deadstone Cleft. When playing this version of Deadstone Cleft, use a stone giant dreamwalker instead of a standard stone giant when running Thane Kayalithica. This new creature (along with many others) makes its official appearance in the upcoming Volo’s Guide to Monsters.
This article provides information regarding a new kind of stone giant referred to as a dreamwalker. You’ll want to read chapter 6 of the adventure, “Canyon of the Stone Giants,” before you begin to incorporate these elements, so that you can see where the horror experience diverges from what is written in the adventure itself. This particular one-shot takes place around Deadstone Cleft, an area in the adventure that is populated largely by stone giants and their allies. If that is the case, and if you’d like to incorporate some horror elements into your game without completely exiting from the adventure, here’s an option for a one-night jaunt into the dread realm of Ravenloft that uses content available in Storm King’s Thunder. Hopefully, you’ve had an opportunity to pick up a copy of Storm King’s Thunder, and are perhaps in the midst of that story right now. It’s a great time for horror movies, and for one-shot games with elements of that fan-favorite genre.
Christopher Lindsay offers a Ravenloft-style card reading.but one that hints of a giant-sized encounter.įall has arrived, and Halloween is almost upon us.
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