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Hi, my name is Robert Lamb, and this is The Monster Fact, a short form series from stuff to blow your mind focusing on mythical creatures,

ideas, and monsters in time.

As a lifelong horror movie and Dungeons and Dragons enthusiast, I'm of course a devoted

fan of the Ravenloff campaign setting, which entails the various domains of dread,

pocket dimensions separated by supernatural myths, each a prison for a different dark lord,

and each a different shade of fantasy-fueled horror, from Gothic to folk, from body to cosmic, and so forth. The latest

Ravenloft gaming book just came out, Ravenloft, the horrors within. So I thought I'd do an episode

to run through some of the creatures, monsters, and entities in this particular volume.

The book's bestiary includes various updated creatures from past Ravenloft installments,

and some creatures I've covered on the Monster Fact before.

For instance, there is the Nosferatu vampire, based of course on the tradition of ghastly,

cadaverous blood drinkers that springs initially from the 1922 silent film. As scattered out in the

horrors within, the Nosferatu vampire blood fiend quickly flies into a frenzy at the

slightest drop of red and can emit a disgusting blood spew, previously called a blood

disgorge in previous editions, to attack anyone that is

getting a little bit too close and a little bit too player charactery for its own well-being.

This will enable the creature to emit a 15-foot cone of spray.

It is the necrotic contents of its own stomach.

Now, as I mentioned in a past episode of the Monster Fact, this attack suggests both a vultures meal disgorgement,

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