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Amazing job! I'll be using this to double check Mistipedia for anything missing... :) A few nitpicks: Unhallowed 11/60: Van Richten If I'm not mistaken, this mini is called "Vampire Hunter" and isn't Van Richten. Not directly Ravenloft related, though it would be fine for use in Ravenloft...

Wow, you forget about a thread for a week and it all goes spiraling off into the weeds. :) My apologies if any of my posts sent us in that direction. My goal was to clear up what I saw as some misunderstandings of the setting, and the "limitations" thereof. Since my "core story" of...

As I mentioned, I would argue that being part of Barovia is better than being part of Gundarak. Strahd is at least protective of "his land" rather than being strictly predatory like Gundar. Yup, and most likely that would be an island of terror no one noticed, or another "pimple" on the Core or...

I can't believe anyone living in this world would really fear black people or Jews or homosexuals, but it happens. I'm not going to get into a huge historical weapons technology debate, but just based on rules alone, the early firearms depicted in Ravenloft are in no way inherently superior to...

Now we're drifting from "the problem with Ravenloft is you can't win" to "the problem with Ravenloft is it's an artificial world." Different argument, but I'll still take it on. :) IMHO, Ravenloft's artificiality is one of its strengths and adds to its uniqueness as a game world, and it's...

Yes, that's true. But there we have the true nature of the Red Death showing itself. It's just as much a plot device as the Dark Powers are, meant only to provide an in-game justification for why the game world fits the genre. (BTW, Author William W. Connors confirmed in an interview that...

Oh absolutely! But we all know the difference between players and characters, don't we? For a good, long-term Ravenloft campaign, you need players that are on board, and they need to know the genre they'll be playing in. (This is why I disagree with Moniker's plan of tricking the player's...

See, here's where I disagree. First, you're making the assumption that the Dark Powers exist to be defeated, or at least to be pitted against the PCs. They don't. They exist as a plot device to allow for a world where all the horror archetypes exist side by side. It's deliberately not even...

A lot of great responses so far, but I'll add my thoughts anyway. As DarkKestral said, Ravenloft isn't any one core story. Every domain has a darklord, but not every story in the domain is about that darklord. And every darklord influences the "flavor" of his domain, but not every adventure in...

And there we go with the misperception again. Of the three you mentioned, only Adam is close to being stolen, and his case is more of a "What If?" twisting of the story. (i.e., what if Frankenstein's monster WAS evil, not just misunderstood.) Van Richten bears little little resemblance to...

Ain't broke, don't fix it. Have your cake, eat it too. What is Ravenloft at it's core? (forgive the pun) Gothic Horror D&D. With that in mind, all the funky stuff some people seem to want to chuck out (the demiplane, domains, darklords, the patchwork world) are vital DM tools to allow the...

(originally posted this on the WotC boards and didn't get much response. Trying here instead.) Hey there, d20 rules experts, I need some help. I came up with a unique weapon special ability for my Ravenloft campaign, and while I've got the flavor down, the crunch is giving me headaches...