Playable Monster Races from D&D Beyond's New Setting - Crooked Moon
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In the sun-starved realm of Druskenvald, the moon crooks just enough to twist folk tales into nightmares...
Hey adventurers! Today on Eternity TTRPG, we’re diving back into The Crooked Moon, a brand-new folk-horror campaign for D&D 5e that drenches your sessions in superstition, creepy rituals, and six terrifying new playable monsters.
Today, I wanted to share with you some of the cool and exclusive playable monster races that you can expect to see in the campaign world, and even experience for your own character:
Curseborn – Human‑wolf hybrids with thick fur, claws, and a lupine posture. They’re your werewolves, basically. Their unarmed attacks allow you to curse your targets, giving them disadvantage on rolls, and causing them to emit wisps of fog.
Graveborn – Corpse‑like humanoids with snouts and bone‑devouring jaws. Your classic ghoul-like undead. With their “Infused Drakkonite” ability, they can ignore resistances when attacking, and deal necrotic damage.
Relicborn – Skeleton‑like beings with glowing pattern‑filled bones and rocking hairstyles. These are more like your lich-undead, kind of. But really, more like rock-n-roll lich, or something. They actually get bonuses to performance skills, and can take “long rests” by enjoying revelry – so partying.
Silkborn – Arachnid humanoids with carapace skin, extra limbs and 250–800-year lifespans. Of all the races, this one is probably my least favorite. Though I know a few people who will love these. They can basically do spider stuff like climb walls, and create webs. Nice.
There’s also a couple other playable monster races I’ve already covered in my previous video (which you should check out), like the:
Harvestborn – which are scarecrow-like constructs embodying agricultural cycles with healing and “culling” powers.
Plagueborn – Rat-folk immune to poison, who spread disease magically.
If you aren’t familiar yet, the Crooked Moon campaign book also includes: 15 horror‑themed subclasses (like Wicker Druids and Pestilent Haze Monks), 13 lineages for your character’s roleplaying background, new spells, 85 monsters (in total), 11 boss fights, 156 curses, and the Fateweaving system which I covered in a recent video.
I like Crooked Moon because it brings a fresh, horror‑focused twist to 5e—bigger than Curse of Strahd even, or Drakkenheim. Any time of the year I can experience Halloween, I’m basically in.
Even if you haven’t seen my previous videos on it, the Crooked Moon is a 632-page, two‑part campaign launched just a couple weeks ago, digitally on D&D Beyond. Print copies are coming this fall.
As I’ve explored this topic more myself, I’ve also learned more about how it began. Crooken Moon was adapted from Edge of Midnight.
Edge of Midnight is the actual-play series by Legends of Avantris that laid the foundation for The Crooked Moon. It’s a dark, folk‑horror D&D campaign that aired on Twitch and YouTube starting in September 2021, set in the same eerie realm of Druskenvald.
The team behind Avantris used this homebrewed saga as the prototype for The Crooked Moon. Their player characters and NPC allies from Edge of Midnight—many of whom take on twisted, villainous forms—were woven into the book’s lore and boss encounters.
By bridging the actual‑play world with a full 600‑page customizable campaign, The Crooked Moon lets players experience that same haunting atmosphere—while also giving DMs the tools to craft new tales or replay the story arc live audiences already love.
If you’re craving eerie tension, unforgettable characters, and creeping dread in your next campaign—The Crooked Moon delivers. It’s available now on D&D Beyond, with physical books coming this Fall.
That’s it for today! Hit like if folk-horror is your jam, drop a comment with which monster races you'd play, and subscribe for more D&D scoop!
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