the PlayStation game Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft (1996) and can be unlocked as a playable character via a secret code. 3rd and 3.5 edition In 2001, White Wolf published the 3rd edition Ravenloft Campaign Setting which included a detailed timeline of Strahd's history. Dragon #315 (January 2004) featured a 3rd edition stat block for Strahd. Expedition to Castle Ravenloft (2006) was released after the Ravenloft publishing license reverted to Wizards of the Coast. This 3.5 edition update of the original Ravenloft module featured Strahd "front and center in the first chapter". 4th edition In 2010, Strahd made his board game debut in Castle Ravenloft Board Game. While a 4th edition update to the Ravenloft setting was announced at Gen Con 2010, the product was never released. Strahd's appearances were limited to official magazine articles, such as, Dungeon #207 "Fair Barovia" (October 2012) and Dragon #416 "History Check: Strahd and Van Richten" (October 2012). 5th edition Strahd returned as the featured villain in the 2016 adventure module Curse of Strahd for D&D fifth edition. On Strahd's role as the module's villain, Chris Perkins said, "in Gothic horror fiction, the villain’s torment is often self-inflicted; the villain becomes, ironically, a victim of their own monstrous nature and horrible acts. [...] He is a malignant narcissist trapped by his malignant narcissism – forever alone, forever feared and unable to change. He must be destroyed because salvation is beyond him. [...] In horror fiction, the villain is framed as inhumanity personified, often serving as a cautionary tale: once you lose your humanity, you can never get it back. Other fantasy villains aren’t usually burdened with that kind of terrifying reality". On the module's development process, Perkins said, "the Hickmans envisioned Strahd differently than he’s depicted in the original Ravenloft adventure. Their image didn’t match the Bela Legosi vampire quite so much. Tracy found an old daguerreotype [an early type of photograph captured on a silvered copper plate] that captured the look of Strahd in his mind, and we used that image as a reference to create a new look for the vampire". One of Tracy Hickman's objectives when working on Curse of Strahd "was to bring vampire folklore back to its roots". Tracy Hickman said, "Vampires have strayed from their original role in cautionary tales, which warned women about monsters and thereby empowered them. Strahd is a classic abusive monster who is,