The Crooked Moon is a folk horror supplement and setting for D&D 5e created by actual play group Avantris Entertainment. It’s been released for both D&D 2014 and 2024 and is available on D&D Beyond.
Here at Dungeon Mister, we’ve been digging into The Crooked Moon Handbook to analyse what it has to offer, how good it all is and whether it’s worth your money.
What is The Crooked Moon?
The Crooked Moon is a 624 page supplement for D&D 5e from 3rd party creators Avantris Entertainment. It’s set in the horror-filled land of Druskenvald and contains character options, a setting guide an adventure and everything you need to run a campaign in the Crooked Moon setting. This is one huge book giving you everything you need for this setting.
Character options
The Crooked Moon has a really solid number of folk horror themed character options to sink your teeth into. Many translate easily to other settings too while some are built specifically with the Crooked Moon setting in mind.
There are:
- 13 species
- 15 subclasses
- 13 backgrounds
- 14 feats
- 40 spells
- 13 dark bargains
Dark bargains are the things most D&D players will be unfamiliar with. They are a Crooked Moon invention and provide abilities a bit like feats a player can receive but are gained independently from level progression. Instead, they can be gained when making a deal with a powerful, sinister entity.
You can read our guides to the various Crooked Moon character options below:
The setting
The Crooked Moon is set in the land of Druskenvald, a demiplane that exists outside of the mortal realms. In fact it is a place somewhere between mortality and the afterlife.
It’s a place easily recognised by its grinning witch moon (the embodiment of the crooked moon itself). The moon is ever present and the land never truly bathed in the warmth of the sun. Instead, a few hours at dusk provide an orange glow of partial light before darkness consumes the land again.
Druskenvald is perhaps most like a dark fey land like Tepest, one of Ravenloft’s domains of dread.
Adventure
The Crooked Moon is also the name of the adventure players can play in. It begins with the players embarking on the ghostlight express, a one way ticket to the afterlife. Only for them to end up in Druskenvald where they must navigate a complicated web of evil groups seeking to bring back the former glory of the imprisoned Crooked Queen.
Everything else
There’s a bunch of other goodies too including:
- 52 Monsters
- 19 legendary monsters
- 13 familiars
- 26 Magic items
- 13 Cursed curios
- 13 paranormal potions
- 156 curses