Let's make DOMINIA in 5e!

Mort can also be a fun NPC to carry through the mists in future adventures

I never even clocked the alteration of Dominia to replace the "lunatic running the asylum" to studying the regrets of an unnatural long life. A little like trying to blend him and Soth's torment

Yay! One of my favorite Domains! I really like the use of the heist to free Prisoner/Clone 13 as the main story structure. Figuring out what the character should do in Dominia has always been a struggle. Now I have your suggestions! A cool aspect that could either replace or enhance elements of your version is the use of the Elder Oblex stats and memory draining abilities. One of the horror elements that Dominia evokes is a loss of self. Heinfroth, alone with himself, begins to lose his memories as his cloned selves multiply and are devoured. This could work just like how the Elder Oblex must consume memories, but then splits and loses some of these subsumed identities as it produces more oblexes. I also just really like oblexes. Well done on another great video!

I... really need to read more pieces of literature. I envy your talent, Dr. Bower. When I was looking over these island Domains, I could not figure out how they could possibly be ran with such little information. But you managed, with what seems to be little difficulty, because you have read so many pieces of literature. Bravo.

I love that you reference Noel Carroll in multiple videos! He's authored some of my favorite essays I've read for a dissertation. His writing comes across as both unpretentious and engaging.

Essentially the Darklord is like a vampire version of Mr. Sinister from X-Men.

Ravenloft so delightful to play and even better to know

The first campaign I ever played was a ravenloft campaign that started with Bleak House and Dominia, and then I played that adventure again a few years later. The Dominia part is a real kick in the teeth! I never made the connection that (probably for the best) 5e version of Dominia still lets you explore psychological horror and that core division of you an other. A game where you hint that the PCs are clones with memory implants as part of an experiment could be pretty bleak and intense. Thanks for the great video!

TWO VIDEOS AT ONCE!!?! IS THIS XMAS?!!? omg, thanks alot Dr Bowers!!!

That introduction went so hard man

FEAR AND HUNGER MENTIONED ❤

Could this be a good adventure to use the Mirror Zone rules from Tasha's Cauldron? Might be a good way of making that identity based horror more personal for the characters if their own reflections become a potential threat. Another idea that occurs to me is if this is run as a one shot, it might be a darkly fun twist to make one or more of the characters slowly realize they look a lot more like the good doctor and his clones than they first thought. This could be a twist reveal that they too are a clone, a horrific transformation from spending too long in this domain, a delusion picked up by their mind from the horrors they experienced, or even could be left vague and up to interpretation.

One thing I think has been lost among these different videos is that each of the dread domains is meant to be as much a place of power as it is a prison. I tend to focus more of why the prison has the shape it does for who it does.

I guess now I have to like all the videos in this playlist with this account as well :-P

another good video first, it wasn't put there in 5e but I think in 2nd? certainly by third it was in the sea of sorrows. One thing that I think would be neat to tie Domina to other games, particularly a Barovian Game is that Domina killed Duke Gundar during the Grand Conjunction and brought parts of Gundark into Barovia; the other parts went to Invidia. Duke Gundar was a nasty sadistic Vampire who is now a patient. I am not sure on the whole clone element, I like having other patients who are victims or kept there like gundar. Though it would need to be addressed in a session 0. That said I do like some parts of the clone stuff. And the adventure as described was neat. In terms of media or things for inspirational maps, I would suggest Pathfinder Adventure Path Strange Aeons; the Lovecraftian Adventure Path and the first one is set in an Asylum and has some other maps to use.

I would have a clone hit squad, show up another point in the campaign. Just the hell of it .

WARNING! Not only is the mortuary level from ToFW very zany, meaning it might clash with the tone of the latter part of the adventure, it is also designed to kill the PCs (for reasons I won't get into to avoid spoilers, but it is very much intentional)!! A few encounters would have to be modified, and you definitely need to get rid of the demilich (yep).

Two videos at once?!

I really like your videos and ideas, specially the inspirational media for each of your adventures. I was wondering, since sometimes the adventure ideas are for characters of level 8, for instance, I feel like 5e characters are too resourseful to be scared at times. Do you have any house rules to keep players a little vulnerable? That said, the adventure ideas fit very well in a shadowdark game. Thank you, curious to see the next one!

City of Lost Children is so cool