Most importantly, they are no longer subjugated by one of the game’s most powerful villains. While the Vistani keep their covered wagons and their nomadic lifestyle, their visitations across the many realms of the D&D multiverse are now celebrated, rather than greeted with near-universal suspicion. In addition, their culture is redefined as one steeped in tradition, but also one that looks with hopeful eyes toward its own future. Their own magic is now clearly connected to the other forms of magic in the world of D&D. They are described without the primitive veneer of superstition that formerly accompanied them. Those who open up Van Richten’s Guide on May 18 will find a very different version of the Vistani. Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft is the biggest, best D&D book of this generation Wizards also came out with new rules for dealing with the concept of race, which were later formalized in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. Ezmerelda’s prosthesis was no longer a dark secret that she hid from others, but an adaptation that doesn’t slow her down. In 2020’s Curse of Strahd Revamped, Wizards fleshed out the Vistani and imbued them with a greater sense of free will. In 2020, amid the wide-ranging cultural movement that included the Black Lives Matter movement, Wizards formally apologized for these and other missteps in its materials and vowed to take action. Ez D’Avenir as portrayed on the alternate cover of Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft. Wizards also gave her a prosthetic leg and called it her “secret,” making it something she actively hides from the world. Ezmerelda’s own backstory even alluded to Vistani participation in human trafficking. Curse of Strahd originally portrayed the Vistani according to real-life harmful stereotypes about Roma people, depicting them as inherently evil and untrustworthy the Vistani were also aligned with the module’s villain, Strahd von Zarovich. Wizards included her among the Vistani, a group of people in the game’s fiction that fans have often interpreted as an allegory for the Roma people. The character in question was named Ezmerelda D’Avenir she was a skilled monster hunter with a tragic backstory. The book fully retcons a key character from Curse of Strahd, and the result is something genuinely uplifting.
But with its next product, Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft, the publisher is going a step further. As a result, Wizards of the Coast formally revised the original material with Curse of Strahd Revamped in 2020. Players have bemoaned that fact since it was first published in 2016. One of the most popular adventures in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, the gothic horror classic Curse of Strahd, is known for containing several harmful stereotypes.
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