#vistana

[aqours]

pssst you! yeah you!!! person who is probably seeing this through looking up Ravenloft related tags!

do you like the Vistani? do you want to expand on the Vistani but also you aren't sure of what to change other than the Obvious Really Bad Problems They Had To Errata And Still Didn't Fully Fix It? not 100% satisfied with the direction they went in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft? want to expand on Vistani culture and ideas but not 100% sure if you want to create a ton of homebrew or not? you interested in seeing Van Richten's 2E character growth where he was a prejudicial man who was a victim of a horrible crime but realized he can't just blame an entire ethnic group for it and gradually learned to overcome that prejudice into becoming a better man?

please consider giving Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani a read, and here's a free link! consider it me just sharing the pdf given i bought it legally so even if you for some reason don't like piracy i'm just sharing what i bought!

it's an old 2E supplement that's completely about fleshing out the Vistani. it's not a perfect guide: it's for 2E so pretty much anything it adds gameplay wise doesn't work with 5e/5.5's mechanics, some of it is still pretty dated (it says gyp*y a few times still). but it still delves a lot into Vistani culture and stories (including some of their origin stories they claim is responsible for the Vistani becoming who they are), and the Tasaques: essentially the three large ethnic clans among the Vistani and the tribes that make up said Tasaques (i say the main group of Vistani in Barovia during CoS are Kaldresh Vatraska), and some other stuff!

nothing's perfect, but if you're looking for a step 1 for fleshing out the Vistani more and you don't want to do a complete homebrew from scratch route, consider giving it a read and see if you can build off of it if you want!

[akpaley]

K: Here and alone I would eventually retain nothing. Not Issanar, not Iokhar, not my colleagues or my siblings or my values or my son. // V: You can’t fight change, whatever kind it may be. I think I chose it before I ever set foot in this city, though I don’t think I realized it then.

Forgetting.

[c-cloudyy]

Fanepov! Fanepov! Fanepov! What if they held hands?!

Karpov is @azrithart ‘s!

[hikarinokusari]

Somehow I managed to draw the portrait of Ezmeralda for my game, now that my players won’t see her again before a while. I was supposed to draw the men of Ravenloft, but I kinda lack motivation, so I've decided to clean the sketches I have for Ez.

I tried to stick to a canon-friendly appearance for the portrait, but as her mentor, I don't understand how to properly draw the split-shoulder part. I didn't like the orange hue as well, so I opted for the crimson one she wears on 5e VGtR's cover.

Feel free to use in your own game

[wodnesse]

ive been drawing ofc here are some of my new dnd character Juno Corvara-Cadar, a vistana sailor & smuggler.

[nakitacatart]

I, a foolish mortal- unsatisfied with an Eberron and Strixhaven campaign.

“Can we please run Curse of Strahd”

[baroviablues]

Hey. Tell me about your interpretation of Arrigal Curse of Strahd. One of my players is determined to romance him after meeting him in the tavern, and unfortunately I’ve become moderately obsessed

[generic-cleric]

A little birthday gift I made for Okrin's player. Arabelle and Okrin in that scene from The Pacifier! because she's a rascal and he's STACKED.

[xyanmajor]

What my PCs has done in our Curse of Strahd campaign is ok for him.

He regrets nothing of what he did (except maybe the poor and innocent girl he "hunts") and he will be proud of all the way he has achieved for now.

He does not regret helping Lord Strahd to have his tome back.

He does not regret stealing it from his former group of adventurers.

He does not regret his choice becoming the nzw puppet with a collar of the Ancient (he is his new warlock)

He helped her soulmate to be free. He helped himself into not drowning deeper in the abyss he fell and he even made a real friend.

I think his formers companions will kill him if they know all of that. But I think in a way he doesnt care.

He makes his own choices with pride. He will be pride of his own path until the very end. Dare said its not true and he will stab you to death.

#I said.

[mclaugh]

December came and went! Am & Grandpa, scuba in the EPCOT aquarium Liam with some buds at UBS One of Am's JV bball games #lgi #epcot #vistana (at EPCOT) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnTGshLOm2_118wH28UsSn1FJ41QFt6-RzULNg0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[xyanmajor]

Absolute fan too.

Thats a game that never end.

im an absolute fan of when characters have their own twisted perceptions of love. like holy shit that guy thinks inflicting pain is affection! woah this silly man believes love is a form of ownership! give me more.

[akpaley]

D&D party for the new game I'm in! These were a lot of fun to do.

Top image, left to right: Dextro (@fantasy-creatures-rated), Fin (@you-mustbeliving), Vistana (@somnolentreader), and Kaijja (mine).

[c-cloudyy]

Fanepov sketch log no. 8939373759

including future AU headcanons where they finally live a peaceful, happy life. And bonus Lupei family concept (Fane is the squishy little bebe!)

Fane is mine, Karpov is @azrithart ‘s - from a curse of strahd campaign.

[hikarinokusari]

apparently doing my own Strahdtober so it’s my entry for day#8

Keeping up the fake illustrations ft M. Drama king and @xyanmajor's character again. Aka the foolish Vistana who thought it was a good idea to visit Ravenloft uninvinted to get answers and give news to a very angry / hungry vampire dreadlord. Then, Strahd proceeds to give a Johnatan Harker kinda stay to his guest at Castle Ravenloft for a week-straight.

( At some point Strahd charmed the Vistana just to show freewill is an illusion. People live freely only because He decides to let them to, according to his not very humble opintion. Their freewill is bound to his own whims. In his little drama king head. This is obviously false, he can't mass charm but the character doesn't know)

Adding this to the pile of “things I’d have to draw correctly in the future and do real illustrations of”. I’ll polish these piles of wips one day ._.

[xyanmajor]

@hikarinokusari this scene has a little vibe of "i will be teaching you :) " ...if you know what i mean 👀

BALDUR'S GATE 3

[calebisdrawing]

Arabelle the Vistana (her stuffed saber-tooth’s name is Ramses).

Feel free to use in your game if you like!