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	'''Inferno''' is ~~an upcoming~~ setting for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] by the Italian gaming company Acheron Books. Advertised as "the world's first ever Dantesque Campaign Setting", Inferno is a setting that attempts to take Hell as described in La Divine Commedia, the epic poem trilogy by Dante Alighieri, and convert it into an adventuring setting whilst still remaining as close to the original lore as possible, as opposed to just diving into the pop-culture version of Hell you might see in the likes of [[Baator]].		'''Inferno''' is a setting for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] by the Italian gaming company Acheron Books. Advertised as "the world's first ever Dantesque Campaign Setting", Inferno is a setting that attempts to take Hell as described in La Divine Commedia, the epic poem trilogy by Dante Alighieri, and convert it into an adventuring setting whilst still remaining as close to the original lore as possible, as opposed to just diving into the pop-culture version of Hell you might see in the likes of [[Baator]].

	In a campaign of Inferno, players take on the role of '''Lost Ones'''; living souls somehow displaced from their mortal bodies and fallen into Hell, where their prominent sins are catalyzed by the dark energies of that dreary netherrealm, forcing them to assume an '''Archetype''' that indicates their ruling sin and which part of the Inferno they will be damned to upon their death. The goal of the Lost Ones is to cling to their precious Hope whilst traveling into the deepest depths of Hell, where they will find the only gateway to escape back to the world of the living; should they lose all Hope, then their soul is lost and they will be trapped in Hell like any other sinner for all eternity.		In a campaign of Inferno, players take on the role of '''Lost Ones'''; living souls somehow displaced from their mortal bodies and fallen into Hell, where their prominent sins are catalyzed by the dark energies of that dreary netherrealm, forcing them to assume an '''Archetype''' that indicates their ruling sin and which part of the Inferno they will be damned to upon their death. The goal of the Lost Ones is to cling to their precious Hope whilst traveling into the deepest depths of Hell, where they will find the only gateway to escape back to the world of the living; should they lose all Hope, then their soul is lost and they will be trapped in Hell like any other sinner for all eternity.

			Having succeeded in publishing it, Acheron Books has announced their plans for a spiritual successor called [[Apocalisse]], which will take place on Earth in the throes of the Biblical Apocalypyse.

	==Splatbooks==		==Splatbooks==

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	Virgilio's Other Tales offers three alternative races to the Lost One in the form of the '''Indifferent Angel''', the '''Malebranche''' and the '''Noble Soul'''. Because these Hope-imbued spawn of the pit are a very different breed to the Lost Ones, they don't use Archetypes in the conventional sense, but rather they function as both race and class in a single package, with a set of specific racial traits followed by level-based class traits. Like Archetypes, each pit-spawn has Emblems that embody their spiritual aspect, empowering these as they level up.		Virgilio's Other Tales offers three alternative races to the Lost One in the form of the '''Indifferent Angel''', the '''Malebranche''' and the '''Noble Soul'''. Because these Hope-imbued spawn of the pit are a very different breed to the Lost Ones, they don't use Archetypes in the conventional sense, but rather they function as both race and class in a single package, with a set of specific racial traits followed by level-based class traits. Like Archetypes, each pit-spawn has Emblems that embody their spiritual aspect, empowering these as they level up.

	The '''Indifferent Angel''', also known as the '''Angel of the Indifferent Choir''', represents a fallen angel from the ranks of those who chose not to pick sides during the great war in Heaven, and thus were cast down to Antinferno to suffer. Though they still appear as towering, majestic humanoids of great beauty and bearing white-feathered wings, their features are forever shrouded by immovable veils, their wings pierced with bracelets, rings and chains that make them useless, and their forms covered in mud and crawling insects. Their emblems are the '''Veil of Indifference''', their ''Haunting Insects''', and the '''Shield of Indifference'''. They can spend 2 points of Hope to regain all of their spent Indifference Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.		The '''Indifferent Angel''', also known as the '''Angel of the Indifferent Choir''', represents a fallen angel from the ranks of those who chose not to pick sides during the great war in Heaven, and thus were cast down to Antinferno to suffer. Though they still appear as towering, majestic humanoids of great beauty and bearing white-feathered wings, their features are forever shrouded by immovable veils, their wings pierced with bracelets, rings and chains that make them useless, and their forms covered in mud and crawling insects. Their emblems are the '''Veil of Indifference''', their '''Haunting Insects''', and the '''Shield of Indifference'''. They can spend 2 points of Hope to regain all of their spent Indifference Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.

	The '''Malebranche''' is a low-ranked devil normally assigned to drudgery, such as the tormenting of the damned. But, every so often, one manages to embrace the Divine Hope and seek redemption. They appear as winged devils with curving horns, bat-like wings, and skin like smoked glass; black and dull at a distance, but translucent enough to reveal their muscles and golden bones up close. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their '''Weapons of Damnation''' and their '''Wings of Sin'''. They can spend 2 Hope points to recover all spent Damnation Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.		The '''Malebranche''' is a low-ranked devil normally assigned to drudgery, such as the tormenting of the damned. But, every so often, one manages to embrace the Divine Hope and seek redemption. They appear as winged devils with curving horns, bat-like wings, and skin like smoked glass; black and dull at a distance, but translucent enough to reveal their muscles and golden bones up close. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their '''Weapons of Damnation''' and their '''Wings of Sin'''. They can spend 2 Hope points to recover all spent Damnation Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.

	The '''Noble Soul''' represents the elite of Purgatory; the spirits of heroes, warlords, poets, philosophers and other virtuous beings condemned to never reach heaven for being pagans or heathens, now waiting for Judgement Day and hoping to be accepted into God's grace.. They resemble living statues; men and women with marble-white skin, like an ancient effigy come to life, and with cracks in their flesh revealing hints of their golden bones beneath. Their ancient wisdom and eons spent in Hell grant them the power to wield magic, and they can spend 2 Hope Points to cast any 1st level or higher spell without spending a spell slot. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their very appearance of being a living '''Stone Effigy''', and their ''Ancient Relics'''.		The '''Noble Soul''' represents the elite of Purgatory; the spirits of heroes, warlords, poets, philosophers and other virtuous beings condemned to never reach heaven for being pagans or heathens, now waiting for Judgement Day and hoping to be accepted into God's grace.. They resemble living statues; men and women with marble-white skin, like an ancient effigy come to life, and with cracks in their flesh revealing hints of their golden bones beneath. Their ancient wisdom and eons spent in Hell grant them the power to wield magic, and they can spend 2 Hope Points to cast any 1st level or higher spell without spending a spell slot. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their very appearance of being a living '''Stone Effigy''', and their '''Ancient Relics'''.

	==Archetypes==		==Archetypes==

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	The default race in a game of Inferno is the '''Lost One''', the displaced, sin-warped soul of a living being. Neither alive nor dead, Lost Ones have a chance to redeem their sins and escape Hell, but not the certainty of doing so.		The default race in a game of Inferno is the '''Lost One''', the displaced, sin-warped soul of a living being. Neither alive nor dead, Lost Ones have a chance to redeem their sins and escape Hell, but not the certainty of doing so.

			Virgilio's Other Tales offers three alternative races to the Lost One in the form of the '''Indifferent Angel''', the '''Malebranche''' and the '''Noble Soul'''. Because these Hope-imbued spawn of the pit are a very different breed to the Lost Ones, they don't use Archetypes in the conventional sense, but rather they function as both race and class in a single package, with a set of specific racial traits followed by level-based class traits. Like Archetypes, each pit-spawn has Emblems that embody their spiritual aspect, empowering these as they level up.

			The '''Indifferent Angel''', also known as the '''Angel of the Indifferent Choir''', represents a fallen angel from the ranks of those who chose not to pick sides during the great war in Heaven, and thus were cast down to Antinferno to suffer. Though they still appear as towering, majestic humanoids of great beauty and bearing white-feathered wings, their features are forever shrouded by immovable veils, their wings pierced with bracelets, rings and chains that make them useless, and their forms covered in mud and crawling insects. Their emblems are the '''Veil of Indifference''', their ''Haunting Insects''', and the '''Shield of Indifference'''. They can spend 2 points of Hope to regain all of their spent Indifference Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.

			The '''Malebranche''' is a low-ranked devil normally assigned to drudgery, such as the tormenting of the damned. But, every so often, one manages to embrace the Divine Hope and seek redemption. They appear as winged devils with curving horns, bat-like wings, and skin like smoked glass; black and dull at a distance, but translucent enough to reveal their muscles and golden bones up close. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their '''Weapons of Damnation''' and their '''Wings of Sin'''. They can spend 2 Hope points to recover all spent Damnation Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.

			The '''Noble Soul''' represents the elite of Purgatory; the spirits of heroes, warlords, poets, philosophers and other virtuous beings condemned to never reach heaven for being pagans or heathens, now waiting for Judgement Day and hoping to be accepted into God's grace.. They resemble living statues; men and women with marble-white skin, like an ancient effigy come to life, and with cracks in their flesh revealing hints of their golden bones beneath. Their ancient wisdom and eons spent in Hell grant them the power to wield magic, and they can spend 2 Hope Points to cast any 1st level or higher spell without spending a spell slot. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their very appearance of being a living '''Stone Effigy''', and their ''Ancient Relics'''.

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	Whilst Pagans sport a variety of bestial features, their Emblems are rooted in the items they carry; a '''Mythic Amphora''' filled with spirits and monsters born of their false beliefs; a '''Crosier''', or pastoral staff, the symbol of the false cult, and a '''Silvered Robe''' that embodies the virtues of their life, despite their fateful misbelief, and shields them from the fiends of Hell.		Whilst Pagans sport a variety of bestial features, their Emblems are rooted in the items they carry; a '''Mythic Amphora''' filled with spirits and monsters born of their false beliefs; a '''Crosier''', or pastoral staff, the symbol of the false cult, and a '''Silvered Robe''' that embodies the virtues of their life, despite their fateful misbelief, and shields them from the fiends of Hell.

	Druids on the Circle of the Pagan embrace nature's savagery. As well as being imbued with the power of the '''Guardian Shape''', which allows them to become a hellish Dark Forest Panther, a Minotaur, a Fury or a Medusa, their powers revolve around the ability to freely slip from man to raging beast. First comes the blessing of the '''Wild Reaction''' at 2nd level, followed by the '''Strength of the Infernal Guardian'' at 6th level. From 10th level, the blows of their beast forms can be imbued with the strength of a frightful '''Retribution''', whilst from 14th level, ~~ithey~~ can shrug off a mortal blow by invoking the '''Fury of the Wild Shape'''.		Druids on the Circle of the Pagan embrace nature's savagery. As well as being imbued with the power of the '''Guardian Shape''', which allows them to become a hellish Dark Forest Panther, a Minotaur, a Fury or a Medusa, their powers revolve around the ability to freely slip from man to raging beast. First comes the blessing of the '''Wild Reaction''' at 2nd level, followed by the '''Strength of the Infernal Guardian''' at 6th level. From 10th level, the blows of their beast forms can be imbued with the strength of a frightful '''Retribution''', whilst from 14th level, they can shrug off a mortal blow by invoking the '''Fury of the Wild Shape'''.

	When a Pagan Embraces their Sin, they can use Wild Shape without expending a usage by spending 2 Hope.		When a Pagan Embraces their Sin, they can use Wild Shape without expending a usage by spending 2 Hope.

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'''Inferno''' is an upcoming setting for [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] by the Italian gaming company Acheron Books. Advertised as "the world's first ever Dantesque Campaign Setting", Inferno is a setting that attempts to take Hell as described in La Divine Commedia, the epic poem trilogy by Dante Alighieri, and convert it into an adventuring setting whilst still remaining as close to the original lore as possible, as opposed to just diving into the pop-culture version of Hell you might see in the likes of [[Baator]].

In a campaign of Inferno, players take on the role of '''Lost Ones'''; living souls somehow displaced from their mortal bodies and fallen into Hell, where their prominent sins are catalyzed by the dark energies of that dreary netherrealm, forcing them to assume an '''Archetype''' that indicates their ruling sin and which part of the Inferno they will be damned to upon their death. The goal of the Lost Ones is to cling to their precious Hope whilst traveling into the deepest depths of Hell, where they will find the only gateway to escape back to the world of the living; should they lose all Hope, then their soul is lost and they will be trapped in Hell like any other sinner for all eternity.

==Splatbooks==
Inferno will consist of two splatbooks; ''Dante's Guide to Hell'', which is the basic Player's Handbook of the setting and covers the Lost One race and the basic Archetypes, and ''Virgilio's Lost Tales'', a combination Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's Guide which also has optional player content hidden inside of it.

==Races==
The default race in a game of Inferno is the '''Lost One''', the displaced, sin-warped soul of a living being. Neither alive nor dead, Lost Ones have a chance to redeem their sins and escape Hell, but not the certainty of doing so.

==Archetypes==
Taking the place of classes, '''Archetypes''' represent the specific governing sin that defines a Lost One's soul. Those Archetypes available in ''Dante's Guide to Hell'' consist of the the [[Barbarian|Beast]], [[Bard|Jester]], [[Cleric|Vicar]], [[Druid|Pagan]], [[Fighter|Tyrant]], [[Rogue|Serpent]], [[Wizard|Illuminatus]], [[Monk|Slave]], [[Paladin|Saint]], [[Ranger|Exiled]], [[Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons)|Heresiarch]] and [[Warlock|False Prophet]]. Obviously, [[multiclassing]] is forbidden in a traditional game of Inferno.

Each Archetype embodies a specific sin, and is thus destined to end up in a particular region of Hell should the Lost Soul die or lose all Hope.

==Crossovers?==
There is some discussion to the idea of integrating Inferno into different settings, such as having it be tied to a more "conventional" Dungeons & Dragons world. However, not a lot of time is spent talking about this in ''Dante's Guide to Hell'', and there are some obvious issues, namely the existence of the Pagan Archetype, which doesn't make sense in an inherently polytheistic cosmology as opposed to the monotheistic, Christian-inspired setting of the Inferno.