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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    Okay. Very clever.
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    Who said it was a happy ending? It is very much not. Nice assumption though. Sheesh.
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    Some third party publishers do just that, but . . . most don't. And the reason is obvious, folks like options instead of restrictions. Folks like the classics being available, perhaps with a twist, but also enjoy new options.
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    There are sci-fi games that do something similar, allowing players to create their own alien species. I wouldn't mind such a thing in D&D as an option, but not a part of the core experience. D&D fantasy races give players the, well, fantasy of being an elf, dwarf, or hobbit, plus the races...
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    There is a lot of weird energy in this thread, isn't there. :(
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    I don't remember from your earlier posts . . . have you read the book? It is a horror book with horror moments and themes. How horrifying the narrative is, well, YMMV. The initial scene just after the group meets is pretty horrifying, IMO. And when the party travels to Lamordia on the macguffin...
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    "Demonization of white American males"?? Okay.
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    Eh, I don't see it that way, but I suppose you see what you want to see.
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    For blurred spoiler text: Click on the first "More options" button which opens a submenu. On the far right is "inline spoiler" which looks like a domino mask kinda. You can also surround your text with HTML codes "ISPOILER" Does the novel retcon Strahd's curse? No, I don't think so.
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    Dragon Delves Dedicated to Chris Perkins

    The dedication reads, "Perkins led us for decades, then abandoned us. He is dead to us now."
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    First, this isn't a "monster party". Drow, tieflings, orcs, and kenku haven't been "monsters" for a while now. They are people. That's a shift some folks aren't happy with, but . . . oh well. IMO, this party in "Heir of Strahd" and also the party in "The Fallbacks: Bound for Ruin", the party...
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    Kinda but not really. Tieflings, orcs, and drow are traditionally "evil" races in D&D, but we left that toxic trope behind quite a while ago. Kenku have never been an "evil" race, to my knowledge. None of these characters are portrayed as evil in the story. The tiefling is angry and bitter...
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    Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft: Heir of Strahd Review

    In the novel, things go sideways pretty much immediately and the party starts out distrustful of each other and at each other's throats. The character in the top left is Fielle the artificer, and she is initially portrayed as a sweet, doormouse, always-trys-to-see-the-good type of character ...
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