Explore Barovia, For Real! (Silver+) (Patreon)

It's not often a project comes along that gets me super excited and causes me to cheer it on, full force. Hugo Bonin has spent the last two years of his life building THE BAROVIA PROJECT, and now WE get to stand in the shadow of Castle Ravenloft and experience the atmosphere of Strahd's domain.

Included in this post is a slew of screenshots that I took inside of The Barovia Project. They'll make great screenshots or splash screens for your campaigns!

If you want to take screenshots like this, the first step is to download not only The Barovia Project, but also a little program called Reshade. Install The Barovia Project first, and then Reshade (choose as many shaders as you like during this process, or get them all). When prompted for which game you want to run it with, browse to The Barovia Project's executable file. Then in game, follow the Reshade tutorial that pops up.

I made significant use of the Cinematic Depth of Field shader, along with the Tilt Shift and Levels shader. Once you've got things looking good and you find an angle you like, press the Print Screen button to take a screenshot! The image will be saved to your computer, and the path shown briefly at the top of the screen.

Flying

Now for the flying lessons!

In order to take really great screenshots here, you'll need to get off the ground. There's no way to do without cheating, however. You'll need a special saved game file that I created, that you can download below. Follow these directions to get started!

1. Download The Barovia Project

2. Download the BaroviaSave.sav file attached to this post

3. Copy the file to %LocalAppData%\BaroviaProject\Saved\SaveGames

4. Launch The Barovia Project

5. Click Continue (do not click Start, as that will overwrite the save game file)

6. Enjoy!