Dark Gifts

General
Class	Dragonmark	(General)	Favor	Inherent	Metamagic	Racial	Deity	Dark Gift
Epic			Past Life				Appearance
Epic	Destiny	Legendary	Heroic	Racial	Epic	Iconic	Cosmetic

Dark Gifts are a category of feats introduced with the Chill of Ravenloft expansion (Update 74). They represent a bargain you've made with the Dark Powers. They're based on the Dark Gifts in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft.

They are intentionally stronger or more flexible than many standard feats. However, being a pact with the Dark Powers, each of them comes with a significant, relatively unavoidable, and never-negatable drawback.

• Dark Gift feats are all ML1.
• A character may only have one Dark Gift feat (with one exception, detailed in the next section.)

Obtaining and upgrading Dark Gifts

• By default, obtaining a Dark Gift requires ownership of any edition of The Chill of Ravenloft. In order to obtain a Dark Gift, a character must obtain an Offering to the Dark Powers from completing the expansion's heroic or legendary Saga.
• Once they have the Offering, the character must find the Shrine of the Mists in the Land of Lamordia wilderness (located on the Southeast edge of the map, near the entrance to The Wish.) They may then select a Dark Gift from the Shrine. This is a free feat that resets on reincarnation.
  • A character may change their Dark Gift with another Heroic Offering, or remove their Dark Gift altogether by selecting to refuse the Shrine's gift. This causes the character to take an immediate death penalty, which lasts for five minutes - it may be easier, if you decide you no longer want any particular Dark Gift, to switch to Minion of the Eldritch, as this feat is Active and therefore has no associated permanent penalty (indeed, its upgraded form, uniquely among the selection, provides a small permanent benefit with no drawbacks.)
• A character with a Dark Gift from the Shrine may gain an Upgraded Dark Gift by obtaining a Greater Offering to the Dark Powers from completing the legendary Saga and turning that into the shrine - this grants an additional feat based on their current Dark Gift. Upgraded Dark Gifts typically provide a small permanent buff and/or mitigate the associated negative effects of their base feat. Changing or removing your base Dark Gift after upgrading it will result in the Upgraded buff being lost - if you choose to switch your base Dark Gift, another Greater Offering is required to upgrade it.
• Only Dhampir Dark Bargainers can have more than one Dark Gift - they select a single Dark Gift on character creation, and may select another from the Shrine later. Dark Bargainers cannot remove or upgrade their original Dark Gift using the Shrine, only the Gift they selected there - as such, if they intend to take two Dark Gifts it is advisable that they identify which feat they want to upgrade and select the other one during character creation. A Dark Bargainer can't select the same Dark Gift at the Shrine. Playing a Dark Bargainer is the only way to unlock a Dark Gift without owning The Chill of Ravenloft, although this will preclude you from upgrading it.

List of Dark Gift feats

Icon	SortKey	Feat	Type	Description	Prerequisites
	Echoing Soul	Echoing Soul	Passive	Your soul is fractured, shifted, or connected to another in some way. Perhaps your past or future is affecting your present soul, or perhaps some other entity is inextricably linked with you. In any case, it manifests in knowledge and fears that aren't your own. +3 to all Skills plus an additional 1 for every 2 Character Levels you have +1 to all Saving Throws, plus an additional 1 for every 3 Character Levels you have When you get hit with Melee or Ranged attacks, there is a very small chance your Echoing Soul will cause you to become Afraid, Blinded, or Immobilized for six seconds with no save. Immunities to these conditions do not apply to this effect.
	Form of Pain	Form of Pain	Passive	Your body is cursed to be prone to all manner of damage, but with the ability to withstand it. +5 PRR/MRR When you take damage your body changes and you gain the Form of Pain effect which grants +2 PRR/MRR but also reduces movement speed and increases spell costs by 1% as the pain distracts you. This can stack 10 times, with one stack being removed every 3 seconds.
	Living Shadow	Living Shadow	Passive	Your Shadow extends your reach, acting out your dark impulse. A small chance when you critical hit a target, reduces your damage by 15% for 6 seconds. This can only occur once every 30 seconds.
	Minion of the Eldritch	Minion of the Eldritch	Active	Your soul has touched something beyond the planes, and a connection has formed there. Activate: You gain +5 Spell Power per 2 Character Levels, and 1% Spell Critical Damage for every 2 Character Levels you have for 12 seconds. 2 minute cooldown. When you use this ability, there is a chance the Eldritch Being you reach out to you will grow tired of your petitions and decide to punish you instead. This chance increases each time you use this ability between rests.
	Mist Walker	Mist Walker	Active	Cooldown: 15 seconds You have learned how to navigate the Mists with time and a little luck. Activate: Dash forward, and briefly gain a +5 bonus to Reflex Saves and a stacking 20% bonus to Incorporeality defense. On Activate: there is a small chance you will become Exhausted for 6 seconds, -50% penalty to movement speed, -6 to strength and dexterity and cannot tumble. Normal immunities or remedies to exhaustion will not protect against this.
	Touch of Death	Touch of Death	Passive	Every touch causes life to wilt, but you can use this power if you know the way... +3 Negative Spell power and Negative Healing Amplification per Character Level. -5 Positive Spell Power and Healing Amplification per Character Level.
	Web-Touched Wretch	Web-Touched Wretch	Passive	You've become entwined with a great cosmic web, which occasionally becomes coterminous with reality. Your offensive spells, melee and ranged attacks occasionally cause strange spectral webs coat your enemies either slowing them or entangling them for up to six seconds with no save. When you get hit with a Melee or Ranged attacks, there is a small chance the webs turn on you, applying a slow effect which lasts 6 seconds. Spells/Immunities like Freedom of Movement do not prevent this.

List of Upgraded Dark Gift feats

Icon	SortKey	Feat	Type	Description	Prerequisites
	Enhanced Echoing Soul	Enhanced Echoing Soul	Passive	You have learned to handle the outbursts of your echoes better. When afflicted by Echoing Souls the duration only lasts 3 seconds instead of 6.	Echoing Soul
	Enhanced Form of Pain	Enhanced Form of Pain	Passive	You passively gain another 10 Physical and Magical Resistance Rating.	Form of Pain
	Enhanced Living Shadow	Enhanced Living Shadow	Passive	You feel your spirit weakened for a moment but also twist your body out of harms way. Fickle are the Dark Powers. A small chance when you critical hit a target, reduces your damage by 15% but you gain 15% uncapped Dodge for 6 seconds. This can only occur once every 30 seconds.	Living Shadow
	Enhanced Minion of the Eldritch	Enhanced Minion of the Eldritch	Passive	Your eldritch lords punishment now only lasts 12 seconds. Passive: You gain 5 Universal Spell Power.	Minion of the Eldritch
	Enhanced Mist Walker	Enhanced Mist Walker	Passive	Your Mist Walker ability's Reflex save and Incorporeal buff increase to +8 and 30% stacking incorporeality respectively and now linger for 6 seconds, assuming the mists don't catch you.	Mist Walker
	Enhanced Touch of Death	Enhanced Touch of Death	Passive	You benefit from Deathblock in addition to Touch of Death's other effects.	Touch of Death
	Enhanced Web-Touched Wretch	Enhanced Web-Touched Wretch	Passive	You gain Web Immunity though your own webs can still bind you, but only for 4 seconds now instead of 6.	Web-Touched Wretch

See also

• Lamannia preview
• PnP info: https://www.thegamer.com/dungeons-dragons-dnd-dark-gifts-ranked-van-richtens-guide-to-ravenloft/
• Guide to Dark Gifts