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I find levels 3-5 to be the sweet spot for 5e (either version). And I don’t want to just start in the sweet spot, because then the game...

I don’t think The VVitch ever really gets scary, though I suppose I probably would find it much scarier if I was a Puritan settler in...

I mean to each their own, but the thing is it NEVER gets scary. it does not slow burn toward anything horrifying. At least IMO. Not like...

My own take on Ravenloft borrows a lot from the final season of The Magnus Archive. The Dark Powers are very much like the Fears, and...

I don't know a lot about Ravenloft beyond what is in the 5E setting book, since we never really played it back in the day, but I do like...

I gotta disagree with you there. It’s a slow burn, but many of the best horror stories are.

Death of the Author is one thing, but also his beliefs are deeply ingrained into is writing. And I’m not just talking about Rats in the...

Is there a more overused thing in TTRPGs than Cthulhu?

My own Ravenloft head canon is that they are avatars of the Dark Powers; not them but speaking on their behalf. The real powers are...

I think part of issue is whether or not Chthulu in Ravenloft is supposed to be the actual Chthulu (as in, the actual same one from...

Pastiche means to imitate the style of. Putting Cthulhu in D&D isn’t imitating the style of HP Lovecraft, it’s just crossover. I really...

Putting Cthulhu in Ravenloft is pastiche? I think you need to double check what that word means. Ok? D&D can be silly, but it is not...

The Amber Vestiges are never explicitly confirmed to be the Dark Powers. Perkins and his team (wisely, IMO) left it ambiguous enough...