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Keith Baker has written 5E Eberron! Now who would you choose to write the other Classic D&D Worldbooks?
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<blockquote data-quote="Pauper" data-source="post: 7469512" data-attributes="member: 17607"><p>One of the nice things about Ravenloft is that it avoided the 'rockstar designer' trope by cloaking its developers in the shadows, metaphorically. The TSR/WotC team responsible for approving line materials became known as the Kargat, while the largely freelance development staff writing the materials took up the mantle of the Kargatane. This was super-fruitful, not least because the Kargatane were all motivated folks, but also because, as a team, they could divide the work amongst those who were most excited about it -- I might not care much for Souragne or Odiare, but I can hand off work on adventures in those domains to teammates who are more passionate for the settings while I focus on an adventure set in Nidala, for example.</p><p></p><p>For that reason, I'd probably want to recruit a new Kargatane, with knowledge of the history of Ravenloft and the Dread Realms, but motivated to updating that history to reflect the different design aesthetic of 5th Edition. (And the new aesthetic is not all hostile to classic Ravenloft -- consider that there is no canonical way in 5E to determine a character's alignment, or if creatures other than fiends, undead, or celestials are good or evil.)</p><p></p><p>I'd probably start the new Kargatane with Ken Hart, the author of the Season 4 AL module "<a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/182769/DDAL0406-The-Ghost-5e?src=hottest_filtered&filters=0_0_0_0_45359_0_0_0" target="_blank">The Ghost</a>" and a contributor to the <a href="http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/" target="_blank">Fraternity of Shadows</a> fansite, and <a href="https://ken-of-ghastria.livejournal.com/119773.html" target="_blank">by all accounts</a> a tremendous Ravenloft fan and booster. Not sure where we'd go from there, but I'd hope Ken had some ideas.</p><p></p><p>--</p><p>Pauper</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pauper, post: 7469512, member: 17607"] One of the nice things about Ravenloft is that it avoided the 'rockstar designer' trope by cloaking its developers in the shadows, metaphorically. The TSR/WotC team responsible for approving line materials became known as the Kargat, while the largely freelance development staff writing the materials took up the mantle of the Kargatane. This was super-fruitful, not least because the Kargatane were all motivated folks, but also because, as a team, they could divide the work amongst those who were most excited about it -- I might not care much for Souragne or Odiare, but I can hand off work on adventures in those domains to teammates who are more passionate for the settings while I focus on an adventure set in Nidala, for example. For that reason, I'd probably want to recruit a new Kargatane, with knowledge of the history of Ravenloft and the Dread Realms, but motivated to updating that history to reflect the different design aesthetic of 5th Edition. (And the new aesthetic is not all hostile to classic Ravenloft -- consider that there is no canonical way in 5E to determine a character's alignment, or if creatures other than fiends, undead, or celestials are good or evil.) I'd probably start the new Kargatane with Ken Hart, the author of the Season 4 AL module "[URL="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/182769/DDAL0406-The-Ghost-5e?src=hottest_filtered&filters=0_0_0_0_45359_0_0_0"]The Ghost[/URL]" and a contributor to the [URL="http://www.fraternityofshadows.com/"]Fraternity of Shadows[/URL] fansite, and [URL="https://ken-of-ghastria.livejournal.com/119773.html"]by all accounts[/URL] a tremendous Ravenloft fan and booster. Not sure where we'd go from there, but I'd hope Ken had some ideas. -- Pauper [/QUOTE]
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