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Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft: An In-Depth Review
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<blockquote data-quote="TheIdeaOfGood" data-source="post: 8279881" data-attributes="member: 6888735"><p>Now having the book in my hands, I am really pleased with it. The safety tools...well, I skipped over them because I play with my friends and know them well enough (to not use spiders as enemies. Like, ever <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> ) and when I run games at a convention I avoid things that I know to be minefields (violence to children, sexual violence, torture on the PCs, those things) and have never had problems in my 20 years of gaming.</p><p>Those who know me know it can get pretty dark but I try and not overdo it.</p><p>But, to each their own.</p><p>I enjoy the creatures, though I am not too happy with WotC now avoiding alignments in EVERY statblock, even for undead etc. Seems a bit much. Good idea to include the proficiency bonus in every statblock, though. Makes it much easier to " advance" creatures on the fly (4 more HD =+1 Proficiency, also increases the DCs etc.). Thanks a lot for that.</p><p>I loved the old Ravenloft stuff, I have the wonderful old Van Richten's Guides as well as all the Sword & Sorcery Ravenloft stuff for 3rd. But, and maybe that's just me, I am not too attached to the old domains. I'd make some of them a little larger but I think the writers did a really neat job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheIdeaOfGood, post: 8279881, member: 6888735"] Now having the book in my hands, I am really pleased with it. The safety tools...well, I skipped over them because I play with my friends and know them well enough (to not use spiders as enemies. Like, ever ;) ) and when I run games at a convention I avoid things that I know to be minefields (violence to children, sexual violence, torture on the PCs, those things) and have never had problems in my 20 years of gaming. Those who know me know it can get pretty dark but I try and not overdo it. But, to each their own. I enjoy the creatures, though I am not too happy with WotC now avoiding alignments in EVERY statblock, even for undead etc. Seems a bit much. Good idea to include the proficiency bonus in every statblock, though. Makes it much easier to " advance" creatures on the fly (4 more HD =+1 Proficiency, also increases the DCs etc.). Thanks a lot for that. I loved the old Ravenloft stuff, I have the wonderful old Van Richten's Guides as well as all the Sword & Sorcery Ravenloft stuff for 3rd. But, and maybe that's just me, I am not too attached to the old domains. I'd make some of them a little larger but I think the writers did a really neat job. [/QUOTE]
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