Van Richten's Guide to the Created

Van Richten's Guide to the Created is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.

Van Richten's Guide to the Created

Genre	Role-playing games
Publisher	TSR

Contents

Van Richten's Guide to the Created discusses the manufacture of golems in detail, touching on material procurement, mental development, and brain transplants. A section on "Body Parts and Decay" tells how long it takes a corpse to rot under various climatic conditions; for example, a brain kept indoors should stay fresh for a couple of days. The "Nutritional Requirement" rules advise that a thoughtful master should feed his golem a suckling pig at least once a week.^[1]

Publication history

Van Richten's Guide to the Created was written by Teeuwynn Woodruff, and published by TSR, Inc.^[1]

Reception

Rick Swan reviewed Van Richten's Guide to the Created for Dragon magazine #207 (July 1994).^[1] He reviewed this book with the adventure Adam's Wrath, and commented that the "AD&D game meets Frankenstein in these first-rate supplements for the Ravenloft setting."^[1] He commented on the "lurid detail" on golem creation: "What makes this the most memorable entry in the Van Richten's line is Woodruff's gleeful commentary about the, er, visceral consequences."^[1]