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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7692108" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>I'm excited. And worried. Ravenloft is my favourite setting. Curiosity over the setting helped get me interested in D&D. The Ravenloft Red Box was the fourth D&D product I ever bought.</p><p>As much as I enjoy the adventure, it has a lot of problems and is really just a giant dungeon crawl. First and foremost I love the world and what as built upon the adventure.</p><p></p><p>It's a different look for Strahd. Okay, it works. It keeps the pendant and black cloak and the red vest adds a splash of colour. He still has longer hair, but it's not quite so Louis de Pointe as in 3e.</p><p></p><p>I'm a little worried about the plot. </p><p>I have Castle Ravenloft. And the campaign setting retelling House of Strahd. And the 3e mini-campaign Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. (There's also the board game, Silver Anniversary reprint, and video game.) Do we need it again? A re-re-retelling. Does it need a bunch of filler at the start designed to get people from level 1 to level 5 where they can actually begin the true adventure?</p><p>I hope they'll surprise us and Strahd's schemes will be grander and different, the climax more than just roaming through the castle hunting Strahd. Acknowledging that the first adventure happened, Strahd survived, and his ambitions now are beyond seeking the reincarnation of his lost love. </p><p>(That said, one improvement would be a complete overhaul of the castle to make it designed like an actual castle, with a logical layout. The original really doesn't seem like the place a vampire has lived in for 300 years, and is somewhat of a nightmare to navigate.)</p><p></p><p>It's neat that they brought in Hickman, a nice nod like involving Ed Greenwood on Realms changes. But… part of me also remembers Hickman has a so-so hit:miss ratio and was not a fan of the setting. It sounds like they're going with his ideas for expanding Barovia and the countryside. But… the Ravenloft campaign setting already did that over multiple products with the licensed 3rd Party Gazetteer I being an excellent compilation with 30 pages on the nation of Barovia. I'll be really upset if they just dump that content, jettison the entire established campaign setting. </p><p>I can't imagine the reaction from fans if they did that to the Realms or Eberron. If they didn't just nuke the Realms but erased everything following the Grey Box from canon...</p><p></p><p>But we'll see. Maybe they'll expand on the Barovia of the campaign setting and give us a twist on the Strahd story. I could be concerned for nothing...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7692108, member: 37579"] I'm excited. And worried. Ravenloft is my favourite setting. Curiosity over the setting helped get me interested in D&D. The Ravenloft Red Box was the fourth D&D product I ever bought. As much as I enjoy the adventure, it has a lot of problems and is really just a giant dungeon crawl. First and foremost I love the world and what as built upon the adventure. It's a different look for Strahd. Okay, it works. It keeps the pendant and black cloak and the red vest adds a splash of colour. He still has longer hair, but it's not quite so Louis de Pointe as in 3e. I'm a little worried about the plot. I have Castle Ravenloft. And the campaign setting retelling House of Strahd. And the 3e mini-campaign Expedition to Castle Ravenloft. (There's also the board game, Silver Anniversary reprint, and video game.) Do we need it again? A re-re-retelling. Does it need a bunch of filler at the start designed to get people from level 1 to level 5 where they can actually begin the true adventure? I hope they'll surprise us and Strahd's schemes will be grander and different, the climax more than just roaming through the castle hunting Strahd. Acknowledging that the first adventure happened, Strahd survived, and his ambitions now are beyond seeking the reincarnation of his lost love. (That said, one improvement would be a complete overhaul of the castle to make it designed like an actual castle, with a logical layout. The original really doesn't seem like the place a vampire has lived in for 300 years, and is somewhat of a nightmare to navigate.) It's neat that they brought in Hickman, a nice nod like involving Ed Greenwood on Realms changes. But… part of me also remembers Hickman has a so-so hit:miss ratio and was not a fan of the setting. It sounds like they're going with his ideas for expanding Barovia and the countryside. But… the Ravenloft campaign setting already did that over multiple products with the licensed 3rd Party Gazetteer I being an excellent compilation with 30 pages on the nation of Barovia. I'll be really upset if they just dump that content, jettison the entire established campaign setting. I can't imagine the reaction from fans if they did that to the Realms or Eberron. If they didn't just nuke the Realms but erased everything following the Grey Box from canon... But we'll see. Maybe they'll expand on the Barovia of the campaign setting and give us a twist on the Strahd story. I could be concerned for nothing... [/QUOTE]
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