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Looking for a little more horror with your Dungeons & Dragons campaigns? You’ll be excited to learn about The Crooked Moon, a new horrifying folk-horror campaign designed for 5th Edition D&D. Dungeon crawls are going to look a little different here, especially when it comes to what lurks around the corner and the rituals you may encounter on your quest.
Read the full description for the new campaign below:
The Crooked Moon is a 600+ page folk-horror setting for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition that casts players into the sun-starved realm of Druskenvald. Adapted from Legends of Avantris’ acclaimed folk‑horror actual‑play series Edge of Midnight, The Crooked Moon, written for the new fifth edition 2024 core rules, and fully compatible with your 2014 content, brings the folk‑horror genre into 5E, replacing routine dungeon crawls with tales driven by superstition, social tension, and ritual.
We’re excited to reveal four of the playable monsters that are part of The Crooked Moon! If you love creature features, then you’ll especially love what they’re cooking up for this new campaign.
Curseborn
Covered head to toe with thick fur and bearing sharp teeth and claws, this lupine species evokes the hallmarks and appearance of wolves but with clearly humanoid physiology.
Graveborn
Appearing as the corpses of twisted Humanoids, graveborn have powerful snouts and jaws with elongated teeth and tongues that assist in the devouring of flesh
and bone.
Relicborn
A skeleton-like species decorated with a wide array of vibrant colors, patterns, and styles, and their bones are encased in a translucent, glowing substance that provides them with a similar mass and shape to other Humanoid species, allowing them to comfortably wear clothing and armor. Some relicborn can even grow hair from their skulls, which is often shaped into bombastic styles.
Silkborn
While this species has humanoid proportions, they have arachnid features—hardened carapace skin, numerous eyes, segmented limbs that grow from their backs, and mandibles that sprout from their mouths. They generally live for 250 years, but those at the higher echelons of their civilizations have been known to live nearly 800 years.
The digital edition of The Crooked Moon, now available to pre-order on D&D Beyond, includes:
- 350‑page adventure path set in Wickermoor Hollow (levels 1‑13)
- 15 folk‑horror subclasses, 13 lineages, new spells, rituals, items, and Fateweaving rules that bind characters to folkloric consequences
- 85 folkloric monsters plus 11 multi‑phase boss fights
- Pre-order bonus exclusives
The campaign comes to D&D Beyond digitally on June 16, 2025, with physical copies hitting shelves this fall. Pre-orders are now available on DND Beyond.
The Crooked Moon – Part 1: Player Options & Setting Guide is on sale for $39.99, with The Crooked Moon – Part 2: Bestiary, Treasury, & Adventure Campaign priced at $39.99. The full Crooked Moon Bundle can be purchased for $69.99.
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