Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
My issue with this is it just makes the setting feel small and meaningless to me. It makes everything about the player characters and the domain lords if you do this
D&D General Ravenloft: Monsters vs Darklords
- Thread starter Remathilis
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My issue with this is it just makes the setting feel small and meaningless to me. It makes everything about the player characters and the domain lords if you do this
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
I think too, as the line evolved it just became a bit natural to bring in other flavors of horror on occasion. Like I said, the Guide to the Created actually did a very good job of bringing slasher into it in a workable way. I think part of it is doing it in a way that fits the setting. I wasn't a fan of the multi-horror genre approach they took with the new book, but that doesn't mean you have to be locked into all pure gothic influences either
Voadam
Legend
Could be, I completely left Dungeon for a friend to be his source of adventures for our group in the 2e era when he DMd and did not see any of them myself, sticking to Greyhawk and Ravenloft modules.
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
Just another thought on this subject. I never saw this used at a table either, and never ran it myself. I didn't have a problem with he flavor of it but I don't remember ever finding a way to use it in my own campaigns. There were a lot of monsters in the monstrous compendium . I had I-III and some of the entries I found useful but I often found standard monsters modified using the Van Richten books to be more useful. I don't think that was due to the flavor. I think it was due to some of the entries in these monster books maybe not having enough time to germinate before publication. They did come up with some cool posters for the line though.
Bedrockgames
I post in the voice of Christopher Walken
The only Dungeon adventure for Ravenloft I remember playing was one set in Valachan (which I found useful for setting material info more than the adventure itself)
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Except in the Matrix, nearly everyone was human.
Shardstone
Hero
Its an analogy man cmon, u got the point
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Ok, soulless is quite different from that to me, so the analogy doesn't really work. In any case, the most reasonable (to me) way to take that analogy is to see it as a call for PC specialness, which doesn't really work for me either.
Remathilis
Legend
It's not just PCs though. All major heroes (like Van Ricten) and villains (including Darklords) have souls. It's the common farmers, craftsmen, and merchants that have a chance of not having a soul.
Voadam
Legend
True, just a 90% chance of not having a soul.
"Barovians are made of flesh and blood. They are born, they live, they age, and they die. But not all of them-only about one in every ten-have souls."
