The Wonderful World of Darklords

A monthly podcast converting Disney movies to Ravenloft domains of dread

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The dead speak! A Sith cult within the Unknown Regions has heard a mysterious whispering in their minds, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late EMPEROR PALPATINE.

Meanwhile, the brave RESISTANCE dispatches secret agents to gather intelligence, training for battle against the diabolical FIRST ORDER.

Supreme Leader KYLO REN builds his army and rages against the Resistance, determined to destroy any threat to his power...

Look, say what you will about the sequel trilogy (just do it somewhere other than here), but one thing is indisputable: Kylo Ren is grade-A darklord material. Topics discussed include:

How we managed to have Kylo Ren in this timeline, seeing as how we killed off Luke and Leia in utero;

Why the first hour or so of The Force Awakens is the most dramatically interesting time for this setting, offering plenty of story opportunities other than "hey look, it's the Empire but not as cool";

Hidden Sith cults, secret treasures, magic knives, and other things that make Rise of Skywalker a D&D McGuffin hunt;

An AU that allows you to make Sidious the darklord of the entire Stellar Archipelago;

and more!

The full write-up for the Unknown Regions is available for free on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/579535/a-ravenloft-far-far-away-supreme-leader-reylo?preview=1

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

16:26 The Lord

47:04 The Land

1:10:28 Dread Possibilities

1:43:06 Parting thoughts

2:03:43 D’s Parting Thoughts

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Draeseke Agnus Dei and Requiem Aeternam (Maul's theme), unknown performers (Creative Commons attribution 3.0)

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself @darklordazalin

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find @halite-jones or on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

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In one week: the Guys, Please Be Normal About These Movies Challenge.

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so if Anakins kids are dead, does that mean Ray is the dark lord for the sequel era. Please say yes. she’d be literally seed of the devil, she clams thangs that don’t belong to her, thinks she is the hero.

Kylo Ren is our darklord--he is just too pathetic to resist. We hope you'll like the way we make him exist in a world without Luke and Leia!

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If you enjoy both D&D and the Hadestown pro-record, please also enjoy our discussion of Hades as a Ravenloft darklord. (We normally do Disney villains, but we'd just recorded our episode about Disney's Hades and we couldn't resist)

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Maul Shadow Lord e8 has had me in a chokehold for weeks so I decided to do a thing

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I can fix him, I swear

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In which D explains what really happened on Dathomir.

Content Advisory (details on content advisories can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon)

Grooming (major), death (major), abusive relationship (moderate)

All music recordings are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela (public domain mark 1.0)

Granados Twelve Spanish Dances, Op. 37, II. - Oriental (Letter to Binx theme), performed by Monica Alianello (public domain mark 1.0)

Draeseke Agnus Dei and Requiem Aeternam (Maul's theme), unknown performers (Creative Commons attribution 3.0)

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find on Tumblr and Instagram: https://www.tumblr.com/halite-jones and http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

Contact us on:

Gmail: [email protected]

Facebook: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Tumblr: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Patreon: www.patreon.com/WonderfulWorldofDarklords

YouTube: @wonderfulworldofdarklord

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Death and destruction! Maul, along with whatever poor saps he's drawn into his ruinous orbit, spreads chaos as he descends upon the Outer Rim. After clawing his way back from the grave, Maul murders and pillages at every turn. Fueled by rage and vengeance, he searches for meaning among warring crime syndicates as rumors of his brutal attacks spread across the archipelago...

Look, guys, the Phantom Menace opening crawl was no help at all and Maul: Shadow Lord doesn't have any opening narration. Thank the Force for Clone Wars newsreels! Topics discussed include:

A quick summary of Maul's whole deal for those of you who have only seen the movies and don't want to watch twelve hours of cartoons (Rachel sees and validates you);

What makes Maul unique among our Star Wars darklords, from his political status (or lack thereof) to the way he closes the borders;

The glorious potential of a domain that combines the Wire with the wild west, and also lightsabers;

Why this is one of the domains where your PCs can have the biggest impact, for better or worse;

and more!

The full write-up for the Outer Rim is available for free on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/572307/a-ravenloft-far-far-away-malice-the-shadow-lord?preview=1

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

10:29 The Lord

46:04 The Land

1:09:35 Dread Possibilities

1:38:18 Parting thoughts

1:53:47 D’s Parting Thoughts

Content Advisory for D's Journal (details on content advisories can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon)

Abusive relationship (major), spiders (moderate)

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Granados Twelve Spanish Dances, Op. 37, II. - Oriental (postscript), performed by Monica Alianello

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: @darklordazalin

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find @halite-jones or on  Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

Contact us on:

Gmail: [email protected]

Facebook: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Tumblr: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Patreon: www.patreon.com/WonderfulWorldofDarklords

YouTube: @wonderfulworldofdarklord

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At last we are back from vacation.

At last we will have our revenge.

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Hi all!

We're on vacation and our wi-fi is going to be spotty at best until we get back. If you're leaving us comments here or on our other socials and we're ignoring you, that's why. We'll be back before Maul drops! Until then, don't go putting beans up each other's noses.

[quettzals]

not going to tag this too much considering it's just a palette... correction. and just painting over that. but i did do this a day or two after getting to book

if i keep this image in my mind i feel a bit better about looking at him but still not Happy 😭 i did keep the chains though bc of darkonian #swag

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The PCs have traveled to another region of the Stellar Archipelago in an attempt to rescue its people from the clutches of the vile archdevil Sidious..

Little do the PCs know that the IMPERIUM has secretly begun construction on a new floating fortress, the dreaded BLACK CITADEL.

When completed, this ultimate weapon will spell certain doom for the small band of heavily armed transients struggling to restore freedom to the domain...

It's the man himself: DARTH VADER! Topics discussed include:

How to adapt the most iconic villain and the most iconic setting in all of Star Wars into D&D terms so that your players don't wonder why they aren't just playing Star Wars;

The perfect stat block for Vader, and how that led to one of our biggest scifi-to-fantasy changes to the source material;

Some of the iconic NPCs of this period, both villainous and heroic, and the role they can play in a Star Wars Ravenloft game;

The scariest fantasy horror version of the Death Star we could come up with, complete with a fate worse than death for the Jedi;

And more!

The full write-up for the Imperium is available for free on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/569605/a-ravenloft-far-far-away-lord-invader?preview=1

The poll for our next Book Club of Dread After Dark is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-for-book-of-159301758?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

12:03 The Lord

40:12 The Land

1:17:42 Dread Possibilities

1:45:34 Parting thoughts

2:05:09 D’s Parting Thoughts

Content Advisory for D's Journal (details on content advisories can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon)

Slavery (major), incarceration (major), vomit (moderate)

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: @darklordazalin

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find @halite-jones or on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

Contact us on:

Gmail: [email protected]

Facebook: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Tumblr: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Patreon: www.patreon.com/WonderfulWorldofDarklords

YouTube: @wonderfulworldofdarklord

[darklordazalin]

they fucked your shit up my lord 😔

These coastal self-named ‘wizards’ must have been commissioned by Von Zarovich to publish this slander of my person. Falsehoods of my origins and rather questionable artist license in rendering my ‘likeness’. Bah! I know my own reality and this is not it.

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I'm just imagining that the next time D walks into Azalin's throne room, he looks like that.

Stops. Heavy sigh. "Master, if you're not going to take this seriously, I'm going home."

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In six days: the Byronic garbage fire we're all here for.

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D and Nebula wish you a happy Pride. Be gay, do crimes, and crush the patriarchy.

...okay, never mind, Nebula's too busy trying to crush one specific patriarch to care about Pride month. D is probably going to send her some cute rainbow stuff anyway, though.

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Welcome to Wonderful World of Darklords! Our generous listeners donated to the Capital Area Food Bank and voted for their horror movie minisode of choice, so here we are with Repo! The Genetic Opera. This was our first time watching it, and we're going through the Rotti Largo highs and the Luigi Largo lows to bring you a splatterpunk gothic dystopia. With uncensored F bombs. You have been warned. Topics discussed include:

How to bring your PCs into a movie that, at its heart, is a personal story about a handful of people making their tragic backstory everyone's problem (but then, isn't that Ravenloft in a nutshell?);

The possibility of a heroic faction in a movie where pretty much everyone is awful;

The gloriously weird and RPG-friendly potential of genetic modifications;

An old-school domain we've never talked about on mic before that gives a model for killing Rotti without freeing him from his torment;

and more!

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

3:43 The Lord

22:14 The Land

36:58 Dread Possibilities

48:26 Parting thoughts

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find on Tumblr and Instagram: https://www.tumblr.com/halite-jones and http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

Contact us on:

Gmail: [email protected]

Facebook: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Tumblr: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Patreon: www.patreon.com/WonderfulWorldofDarklords

YouTube: @wonderfulworldofdarklord

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General Grievous is effectively the lord of blades, and yes he has a stat block in Ebberon:Rising from the last war. He is specifically a Construct Though, and yes Warforged don’t eat,drink, or sleep.

Lord of Blades statblock confirmed!

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War! The Republic is crumbling under attacks by the ruthless darklord, Count Dooku. There are heroes on both sides. Evil is everywhere. (You know, because it's Ravenloft.)

In a stunning move, Count Dooku has delved into the secret archives of the heretical Sith and summoned Sidious, the archdevil at the heart of their cult.

As Dooku and his fiendish patron play both sides of the war against one another, a group of heavily armed transients must decide how best to tip the scales...

Yes, we are kicking off Star Wars Summer with COUNT DOOKU! Topics discussed include:

The animated shorts you need to watch if you have no idea why we thought Sneery McSneers-A-Lot would make for a compelling darklord, and a summary of them if you don't have time to check them out;

The D&D versions of the droid and clone armies (no, the clones don't involve the clone spell, although we did think about it);

An AU if you would rather make Dooku the center of a paranoid political conspiracy thriller than a war story;

Our greatest challenge yet for incorporating the older material;

and more!

The full write-up for the Midrim is available for free on DM's Guild: dmsguild.com/en/product/567128/A-Ravenloft-Far-Far-Away--Count-Drakul?preview=1

Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

8:17 The Lord

37:44 The Land

56:13 Dread Possibilities

1:19:21 Parting thoughts

1:35:51 D’s Parting Thoughts

Content Advisory for D's Journal (details on content advisories can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon)

Death (minor), slavery (minor)

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself @darklordazalin

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find @halite-jones or on Instagram at http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

Contact us on:

Gmail: [email protected]

Facebook: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Tumblr: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Patreon: www.patreon.com/WonderfulWorldofDarklords

YouTube: @wonderfulworldofdarklord