By all accounts, Ravenloft: The Horrors Within is the first step into D&D’s future, but it’s also a weird one: Rather than open with brand-new content, the first season of D&D 5.5e launches with a remake of one of the best 5th edition products, 2021’s Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, reusing a lot of that same material. The result is a worthy companion book, with some great additions but also some unfortunate drawbacks, and some sections suffering from the comparison with its excellent predecessor.
